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tbf I tend to agree and nearly put "sportier" as another reason why Tesla might have more driver errors than, say, a 5 series BMW (through more aggressive drivers choosing Tesla, or it being more tempting to manually drive too fast) but wanted to avoid a completely tangential debate on the extent to which Tesla was responsible for that (unlike young men on busy exurban freeway commutes having more accidents than the average driver regardless of car type, which definitely can't be blamed on anyone at Tesla). But the key point is that not only is gleaning statistically significant and properly controlled info from accident data hard, but also a lot of aggregate stats don't paint the rosy picture Tesla's PR figures do



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