Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand
Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 6 months agoI think there might be something to be said here for some potential selection bias. Are Tesla drivers like ram drivers, overly aggressive idiots but with the added layer of being relatively new tech?
oo1@kbin.social 6 months ago
More boringly , maybe its selection on the circumstances too. For example maybe ev's tend to drive more in urban environments, more urban may mean more collision opprtunities per time spent driving.
Of course ram is a farmers vehicle is desgned for rural use, so must rarely be seen in built up areas. /s
vexikron@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I assure you that large obnoxious trucks are a status symbol for many idiot right wing boomers and gen x, who take pride in daily driving a truck for their commute into, inside, and outside of cities.
They also complain about traffic, while simultaneously doing everything they can to under or unfund public transit, because they are literally incapable of understanding that adding more lanes to highways does not actually reduce traffic.
meleecrits@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t forget complaining about gas prices while driving a 17 mpg vehicle.
ripcord@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Seems like around me most of the big truck douches are probably 45 or under. Don’t think it’s limited to just boomers or gen x.
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, in my observation, it’s young men with money to burn, or they want to appear that they have money to burn.
vexikron@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
This is true, there is a whole thing with truck dealerships being immediately adjacent to military bases and housing.
oo1@kbin.social 6 months ago
hah, no bother.
Take any excuse to vent.
Fortunately for me I don't live in USA so these things are still a bit of a rarity, and are quite impractical in my towns, compact and heavily pedestrianised town centre.
Sounds like yoy've a plague of them over there.
squiblet@kbin.social 6 months ago
They’re impractical in US town centers too. Drivers of these often live in suburban and rural areas and act like “omg city = CRIME and those people”, and if they come into the city, get frustrated because their giant POS vehicles are difficult to park as they’re terrible at maneuvering (drivers and the truck) and don’t fit in many parking spaces.
vexikron@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Yep. You say plague, I say smooth brained consuumor zombie apocalypse.