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I don't think it is the safest because countless accidents the car battery ignited and burns the occupants. ICE cars catch fire too but you have a higher chance of escaping before the fire reaches the fuel line.
Tesla batteries are directly under the car like a mattress. If it ignites you have less than 5 mins to escape or else the entire car becomes an open flame gas grill.
A friend of mine, a real Tesla fan boy, just bought a Model 3. I asked him about car insurance rates, thinking they might be lower for such a safe, well-built car. No, he said. His insurance rate went up.
One reason is that getting them fixed for even minor body damage is a nightmare. Musk is a new kid, he doesn't understand what the people who've been doing this for decades do. Parts.
The truly "safest" car--exclusive of drivers, which of course is impossible to scrub out--will show in the death and injury rates. NOT lab tests. Lab tests are lab tests, they may or may not reflect actual street crash outcomes regarding actual people.
100% accurate. And with that in mind, the true winner as the "safest car of all time", is the Volvo XC90. I'm sure one of you google lords can find it, but there was a news article maybe a year ago that noted the XC90 as the only vehicle with a 100% accident survival rate history when wearing your seat belt. Literally, nobody has ever died from an accident while inside that car when wearing their seat belt. Not a single person. That is truly remarkable. I used to have one (was the biggest pile of crap I've ever owned). It had a reinforced roof of some kind of uber-steel, and there are videos out there of it being rolled down a runway at 60 mph, only to come to a rest with little more than broken mirrors and a heck of a paint job.
Considering the XC90 has been around for what, 15 years or so? I'd have to say that if an XC90 and a Tesla 3 were to crash into each other, my money is squarely on the Volvo, no matter what.
100% accurate. And with that in mind, the true winner as the "safest car of all time", is the Volvo XC90. I'm sure one of you google lords can find it, but there was a news article maybe a year ago that noted the XC90 as the only vehicle with a 100% accident survival rate history when wearing your seat belt. Literally, nobody has ever died from an accident while inside that car when wearing their seat belt. Not a single person. That is truly remarkable. I used to have one (was the biggest pile of crap I've ever owned). It had a reinforced roof of some kind of uber-steel, and there are videos out there of it being rolled down a runway at 60 mph, only to come to a rest with little more than broken mirrors and a heck of a paint job.
Considering the XC90 has been around for what, 15 years or so? I'd have to say that if an XC90 and a Tesla 3 were to crash into each other, my money is squarely on the Volvo, no matter what.
We have a 2016 XC90 (and a Model 3). I believe that zero fatality stat was only for the UK... I haven't come across any global stats. It's still impressive though.
I doubt you’d be wanting to fit an entire family and child seats in a Model 3 though.
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