Replies to post #62721 on Tesla Inc (TSLA)

[boston745]

Case in point:

On March 7, a Tesla Model 3 was driving on the National Highway 3 near the Daxi Interchange in Taoyuan City. His driver activated Autopilot and later confessed to the police that he was doing other things in the car and did not pay attention to the road anymore. A while later, the vehicle failed to detect the road repair truck against which it crashed at 9:51 PM, local time. The Model 3 spun to the middle of the road.

This resulted in the driver of the road maintenance vehicle being hit by another car. So the Tesla didnt directly kill the driver, but a series of unfortunate events caused by Tesla AP, led to his death. Of course Autopilot glitched during enhanced geomagnetic activity due to a solar storm.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-model-3-on-autopilot-crashes-against-emergency-vehicle-in-taiwan-183793.html

Autoevolution is about the only news agency to really call out Tesla for BS.

[boston745]

When you read that Teslas are the safest cars per mile driven, realize that this is a misleading stat. Marketing departments frequently use stats to mislead, however one should try to find the whole story. The fact of the matter is, when it comes to Teslas safety, its a large part because people with greater education and/or socioeconomic status, get into fewer accidents than the average driver. This skews the accident per mile driven stat in Teslas favor.

There’s a common phrase that “numbers don’t lie.” This refers to the idea that statistics and data that are used to back up arguments are faultless. But even when numbers and data are correct, people and organizations with their own agendas can use them to mislead because they don’t tell the whole story on their own.

https://newslit.org/tips-tools/news-lit-tip-data-in-media/