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Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds

20 Nov 2024 | Abstracted from Road and Track

"The study was conducted on model year 2018–2022 vehicles, and focused on crashes between 2017 and 2022 that resulted in occupant fatalities. Tesla vehicles have a fatal crash rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven...The average fatal crash rate for all cars in the United States is 2.8 per billion vehicle miles driven.

"..the Tesla Model Y - the best-selling vehicle in the world has a fatal crash rate of 10.6, nearly four times the average."

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