Not saying whether the conclusion is right or wrong here, but this isn’t a “study” in the sense of something published in a rigorously peer-reviewed research journal. It’s a random car-ranking company scraping data from the Federal Highway Administration and posting it on their own website. The source is pretty low quality.
Again, just because it’s low quality, doesn’t mean it’s wrong, but I’m not regarding this as very authoritative evidence.
As someone typing this while driving a Tesla on autopilot I understand
Why did you feel you needed a mobile crematorium?
Well, they had good safety rating IIRC - but no amount of safety measures is going to stop idiots from doing idiotic things with an explosive on wheels.
Yeah, but they’re probably negating that by autopilot crashing cars straight into medians.
They might have a good collision rating, but their decision to use electric door handles, (and hiding the manual ones) has killed a bunch of people.
Oh yeah I have no doubt that it’s poorly designed andfrom what I read/saw even shit build quality. You couldnt pay me to drive a tesla. Just kind of amusing when they were flaunting their safety back in the day