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That's incorrect.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2025/02/11/tesla-again-has-the-highest-accident-rate-of-any-auto-brand/
EVs crash more. Safer cars crash less.
Do you usually post links without reading them?
Because aside from random catastrophic failure, the vehicle doesn't make you cash. The driver or Tesla's "self-driving" does
Bad drivers and shitty "self driving" are how the cars are unsafe.
No matter how it happens if they crash more often or have worse outcomes when they do, then they're less safe.
Is this a bit account? Should the name have clued me in?
You may just be having trouble with the idea that people can reasonably and seriously see the world from a point of view other than your own.
Or it's all a bit!
Who can say? No matter how I answer it's not really evidence, you can draw a 2x2 decision matrix here for both answers and both possibilities. All four outcomes are plausible. Choose the answer that makes you happiest.