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I have no idea why you latched on to the utterly useless orders of magnitude when the correct comparison is a simple rate of deaths over vehicle miles.

If you drive lifetime 800,000 miles which is damn easy to do in America in a car that has 6-10 fatalities per billion miles your lifetime risk of dying or killing someone are up to 0.6% absolute not relative.

To be crystal clear its the difference between rolling a 500 sided die vs a 125 sided die where if you roll a one your brains end up on the dash.

Its a big difference and ascribing a difference in mortality to the drivers is equally poor. Its not just unfounded its counterfactual young drivers which largely can't afford Teslas are disproportionately involved in such crashes.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/young-d....

Purely based on driver demographics one would expect fewer fatal crashes.

Please explain an absolutely massive increase in fatal crashes.



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