The comic would have been funnier if, due to autopilot, the car had refused to run into the wall ;)
But yes, Teslas do have a pretty impressive safety record. Even on the one thing everyone is scared of (fire). Check out how many kilometers they've been driven vs. how many fires have been reported, and compare that to gasoline cars**. Gee, who'd have guessed that having your flammable materials located inside individual cells, located inside individual canisters, located inside a box in the most armoured part of the vehicle, means a lower risk of fire than just dumping it all flammable materials in a big tank and funneling the contents in tubes all throughout the front of the car....
** - Or don't. I feel a lot less comfortable after I saw the statistics of how common car fires are and how quickly they spread...
Oh, and the other thing people are scared of (water) - check out the video of the Tesla in the flood ;) All of the other cars sunk with stalled engines, with the Tesla floating along like a boat ;) Sealed battery pack = trapped air = buoyancy.
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The comic would have been funnier if, due to autopilot, the car had refused to run into the wall ;)
But yes, Teslas do have a pretty impressive safety record. Even on the one thing everyone is scared of (fire). Check out how many kilometers they've been driven vs. how many fires have been reported, and compare that to gasoline cars**. Gee, who'd have guessed that having your flammable materials located inside individual cells, located inside individual canisters, located inside a box in the most armoured part of the vehicle, means a lower risk of fire than just dumping it all flammable materials in a big tank and funneling the contents in tubes all throughout the front of the car....
** - Or don't. I feel a lot less comfortable after I saw the statistics of how common car fires are and how quickly they spread...
Oh, and the other thing people are scared of (water) - check out the video of the Tesla in the flood ;) All of the other cars sunk with stalled engines, with the Tesla floating along like a boat ;) Sealed battery pack = trapped air = buoyancy.