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Tesla Has Highest Rate of Deadly Accidents Among Car Brands, Study Finds
Rolling Stone ^ | 21 Nov 2025 | Miles Klee
Posted on 11/21/2024 6:54:02 PM PST by Paal Gulli
Tesla Has Highest Rate of Deadly Accidents Among Car Brands, Study Finds
Despite the company's claim that its vehicles are "engineered to be the safest in the world," the Model S and Model Y rank among the most dangerous automobiles
By Miles Klee, 21 November, 2024
“Teslas are the safest cars on the road, but most people don’t know that,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) last year. The superlative is typical of the billionaire, and the automaker itself, which boasts that its vehicles “are engineered to be the safest in the world.”
But while Tesla’s cars routinely receive top safety ratings, including from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, accident statistics show that the brand has the highest rate of accidents in which at least one car occupant is killed, according to a new report from the auto research firm iSeeCars.
Analyzing fatal collisions from 2017 to 2022 involving 2018-2022 car models, the group identified the Tesla Model S and Tesla Model Y as two of the most dangerous cars on the road by occupant fatality rate. Though models from Hyundai, Chevrolet, Mitsubishi, Porsche, and Honda occupied the top five spots on the list, the Tesla Model S, a mid-size SUV, came in sixth, with a fatal accident rate 3.7 times higher than the average car, and 4.8 times higher than the average SUV. The Model S rate is double that of the average car.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report....
https://12ft.io/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tesla-highest-rate-deadly-accidents-study-1235176092/
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: accidents; fatalities; tesla
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