Beginning in November 2024, dozens of social media users across multiple platforms circulated a study by car search-engine site iSeeCars claiming that it found Tesla had the highest fatal accident rate of all car brands. For example, one Reddit post linked to an article about the study:
Tesla has the fatal shock rate of any car brand, studies examining / Hawtgarbage917 inautomobiles
The statement has also extended to other platforms, adding Tiktok, Instagram, X and Bluesky. comments indicated that users looked like the statement, and many speculated if the supposed teslas mortality rate was due to a design error or force force .
The poles were correct in that the IseeCars examine Tesla in the first position for the car logo with the highest occupant fatality rate, with 5. 6 fatal crashes consistent with a billion vehicle miles. However, there are facets of the exam itself that are inaccessible; Use Iseeautomobiles’ knowledge of vehicle mileage (which should not be held to the public) as a “denominator” to standardize knowledge and succeed in this conclusion.
In other words, ISECARS has adjusted the number of fatal lesions so that knowledge was on a comparable scale the total number of cars carried out, what the site states was estimated from the knowledge of ISEECARS of more than 8 million of cars in the road in 2022 of the 2018-22 models. The site did not respond to our requests.
(ISEECARS. com)
The applicable segment of the readings:
Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all car brands, followed by Kia, Buick, Dodge and Hyundai. As with the model rankings, it’s possible these high fatal accident rates reflect driver behavior as much or more than vehicle design.
ISEECARS has analyzed the knowledge of the Death Analysis System of the National Traffic Safety Administration on roads, a national census that provides automatic knowledge of the mortality rate to the United States government and the public. ISEECARS tested cars of the cars of the Years of 2018-22 style in accidents, which resulted in at least the death of an occupant, then damaged the effects in categories, such as “the 23 maximum harmful cars”, “Suv them most harmful”, the most harmful cars to through the metropolitan domain “and so on.
“To take into account the exposure, the number of cars involved in a fatal turn of the standardized destination through the total number of kilometers traveled, which estimated from the knowledge of ISEECARS more than 8 million cars on the road in 2022 of the Years of style 2018-2022, “said the exam in the” Methodology “section.
Snopes wrote on the site in December 2024 to ask if the knowledge of “the total number of foster cars” should have the public, how Isecars, first of all, compiled knowledge and how it guaranteed precision. He won a reaction at the time of writing.
Although the findings of the iSeeCars study spread across social media, and many websites published the study, including Rolling Stone, MotorTrend and CarPro News, few reputable sources published the findings.
The non -profit insurance institute for road protection included 3 Tesla styles in its new driver mortality rates (2020 and equivalent style style styles), none of which placed in the 20 most productive cars in the appointments with the highest death rate of the driver.
In fact, the IIHS classified the model and Tesla as the most sensible 2024 for security. The IIHS and the Highway Loss Data Institute perform their own internal shock analysis to succeed in conclusions. IIHS and HLDI.
Fatality rates for drivers in other cars involved in accidents with the 3 Tesla models analyzed through the IIH were all under average.
Joe Young, director of media relations at the IIHS, said in an email that the organization produces fatality rates through general research through the car brand, only through the model.
In short, although the claims on social media are correct in saying that an examination revealed that Tesla had the highest dead-spin of the fate rate of any car brand, the examination itself uses the knowledge that the public should not have. So, while this doesn’t mean that the knowledge is great, this does mean that the assurance of exam accuracy is unimaginable at this point.
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– YouTube. https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=5g1df392iys. Retrieved January 8, 2025.
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Taija Perrycook is a journalist founded in Seattle who in the past worked for the PnW Crosscut data site and Jordan Times in Amman.