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Tesla Has Highest Rate of Deadly Accidents Among Car Brands, Study Finds (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Automotive research firm finds that Tesla has higher frequency of deadly accidents than any other car brand

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[–] Eideen 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

To adjust for exposure, the number of cars involved in a fatal crash were normalized by the total number of vehicle miles driven, which was estimated from iSeeCars’ data of over 8 million vehicles on the road in 2022 from model years 2018-2022.

Gived the number are estimated, how can we trust them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

iSeeCars’ data of over 8 million vehicles on the road in 2022

It uses actual data to get a baseline of brand percentages then expands that to the total vehicles on the road total

Its not going to be a perfect estimate, but it's going to be close enough to avoid major errors unless something weird happened with the initial data (like not being diverse enough, but with 8 million cars that's unlikely)

[–] Eideen 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don’t think it needs to perfect, but without seeing the data I can’t trust it. ie one of the way the results can rigged is to set lower kilometers travel for some models.