• WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    for a single car brand that only rich people can afford, that has waiting lists to be able to even buy one?
    if it was like ford, fiat, or renault then yeah, that would be low, but tesla?

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      There were 43000 deaths caused by car accidents in the US in 2021 alone. 17 fatalities since 2019 is nothing.

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        if you only sell a thousand cars per year, that's a ridiculous failure rate

        edit: huh, they sold a lot more cars in the last few years than i thought, disregard

          • mar_k [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I believe that's worldwide, I can't find statistics for the US for 2022 and stuff, but for 2021 300k were sold in America, so all that stats are probably around a third of that.

            Also afaik most tesla drivers don't use autopilot constantly and they tell you it's not supposed to replace driving so they don't get sued, there's no fully self-driving car on the market