Automotive research firm finds that Tesla has higher frequency of deadly accidents than any other car brand

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    they have insane amounts of horsepower and instant torque

    No, no. The car is not driving you. You are driving the car. It must do what you want.

    If you let the car drive you, then no wonder you are dead quite soon. So, maybe these numbers are indeed telling something about Tesla drivers…?

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      If there’s too much power the car will start driving you. Just like how Mustang drivers leaving car meets frequently get themselves in trouble by not being able to control the power they’ve got.

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        If there’s too much power the car will start driving you.

        I have learned this from my mother.

        When she was young and already married, it was the time when women could not drive cars very good. At least not as good as all the men. At least that was what the tradition and every man said, and they had many such stories to tell.

        So my dad got a BMW 5 series then.

        People in the village started to warn my mother, for serious! Be careful. Maybe better don’t drive it at all. This thing could easily run away with you.

        My mother stayed super cool and told them nothing is going to happen, it needs me first to press down the pedal. And although she really did not drive it as often as my dad did, she was a good and safe driver.

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      No, no. The car is not driving you. You are driving the car. It must do what you want.

      you have to understand how to tell the car what you want, and that’s the issue at hand

      People who’ve been driving has cars for 10+ years are going to have a harder time adjusting to the way an EV drives. Subconsciously it’s easy to forget the differences in throttle response and how coasting works, every time I have to drive a gas car it feels like I’m driving in molasses

      Even skilled drivers have trouble adapting at first because of how different it is. Luckily my car has a mode where it drives more like a gas car so the wife and I used that for a while to adjust to driving it, now I almost never use that mode, but if I leave it off and someone ELSE drives my car theyre likely to burn out my tires a bit even if I warm them, there’s that much more torque