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The article implies the self driving feature may be a significant contributor.
Considering relatively few other brands have similar autonomous driving, and that autonomous driving technology is still very much in its infancy I'd wager just having a classification of accident currently unique to Tessla is enough to put it in the lead.
Yeah I saw a clip on twitch of a big streamer getting into another streamers car, and he said he'd been playing on his steam deck while his tesla was on auto-pilot. No one batted an eye lid.
Tesla does not have autonomous driving tech, it has assisted driving tech which people are treating like autonomous driving - including tesla who market it as Tesla Autopilot. It's worth remembering it's a "beta testing" programme to get to level 5 self driving; it is currently level 2 and needs active driver supervision at all time. And that's ignoring all the controversy about the system Tesla has adopted which is cheaper and dumps a lot of sensor components others say are essential to actually achieve autonomous driving.
Tesla is basically a cow boy company who have managed to get the "BMW" stereotype drivers to buy their cars and beta test them on the roads. The rest of us are the road fodder for this dangerous approach.
They're talking specifically about "autosteer" not "full self driving". Every other manufacturer has "adaptive cruise control" and "lane assist" that does exactly the same thing. As someone who owned a Tesla well before anyone had these kinds of features, I was pleasantly surprised to see how many do now when I was shopping for a new car this summer.
(To be clear, fuck Musk and nobody should buy a Tesla for lots of reasons. Just correcting your majorly flawed second paragraph.)