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Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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Re: Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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It doesn’t suck for the majority of people in the country. For them, it’s what they’d love to see. Funnily enough, comments like yours are also what they’d love to see. Seeing leftists in tears over the policy changes we’re going to see is a great form of entertainment for many people.

It will suck soon enough for those thick enough to be gleeful about it now.

Are you a betting man? I’d be happy to have a large wager with you about that.

Re: Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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The straight-line performance is exactly what makes it dangerous.

> A focused, alert driver I dislike how tesla kills situational awareness. It is the central touchscreen. The model 3 and y and cybertruck put everything there - both status and control. You have to look to the side to see the speed of the vehicle, and the gearshift is on the touchscreen. The S and X both retain a dashboard in front of you, but most of the controls moved to the touchscreen. And the removal of stalks…

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Re: Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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It will suck soon enough for those thick enough to be gleeful about it now.

Are you a betting man? I’d be happy to have a large wager with you about that.

We're all making bets all the time. I am positioned as I wish to be. Godspeed to you and your assets.

Re: Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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It sucks for everyone. What you want us to do? Pretend it ain't so?

It doesn’t suck for the majority of people in the country. For them, it’s what they’d love to see. Funnily enough, comments like yours are also what they’d love to see. Seeing leftists in tears over the policy changes we’re going to see is a great form of entertainment for many people.

> For them, it’s what they’d love to see.

Apparently not: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/15/trump-elon-musk-focus-group...

Re: Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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I remember some car collision data that showed that men were more likely to get into any collision and women were more likely to get into a fatal collision. A comment I read about the study suggested the conclusion that men take more risks while women take bigger risks. It's interesting to think in that context about this. Could Tesla drivers be taking bigger risks because they think the car's software will save them…

> A comment I read about the study suggested the conclusion that men take more risks while women take bigger risks. Or women's weaker musculoskeletal systems provide less protection against blunt force trauma?

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> A comment I read about the study suggested the conclusion that men take more risks while women take bigger risks. Or women's weaker musculoskeletal systems provide less protection against blunt force trauma?

Guess what year the NHTSA started using female crash dummies? 2003, thirty years after they started using male crash dummies. And the NHTSA's female dummies were essentially male dummies shrunk to 4'11" and lightened to 97/108lbs. What year do you think they mandated a crash dummy that was actually based on the female body? Just guess. I think you might be surprised that they haven't done this yet. It's in the works…

>And the NHTSA's female dummies were essentially male dummies shrunk to 4'11" and lightened to 97/108lbs.

Lol. Lmao even: "According to a 2021 report from the National Center for Health Statistics, the average weight of women in the U.S. over the age of 20 was 170.8 pounds."

https://www.forbes.com/health/womens-health/average-weight-f...

Re: Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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> A focused, alert driver I dislike how tesla kills situational awareness. It is the central touchscreen. The model 3 and y and cybertruck put everything there - both status and control. You have to look to the side to see the speed of the vehicle, and the gearshift is on the touchscreen. The S and X both retain a dashboard in front of you, but most of the controls moved to the touchscreen. And the removal of stalks…

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What?? Is this an automated post to make an account look real? This doesn't make any sense in context.

Re: Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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A certain faction always think the rule on keeping politics out of forums doesn't apply to them, because their politics are too correct and important. I experience this problem in groupchats where the very people who furiously demanded people not bring politics into the group and to make the group politics-free routinely push their own politics. They say their politics are too important to not bring up. These same pe…

There is no leaving out politics. Everything is political.

There is no leaving out politics as long as it aligns with a certain political spectrum otherwise it's no politics.

Re: Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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> legacy media Doesn't Fox News have the highest viewer numbers of any of the news stations? What fraction of local news stations are owned by Sinclair? I don't think you get to call "legacy media" out for being liberal when such a large part is not.

No, fox News isn't the highest. ABC,CBS and NBC News have more viewers.

Combined? Fox takes all of the top 10 positions in overall/demo group. Top among the youth / all / daytime / nighttime.
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