There's a size issue with North American passenger vehicles anyways -- less so in Europe due to higher gasoline prices, narrower roads, smaller parking spaces etc, but certainly present here.
One thing I'll add is that this is an extremely fast car, with a zero to 60 time of roughly 5 seconds. For context, that's quicker than any of the fabled American muscle cars of the late '60s/early '70s. While that makes it a lot of fun getting up to speed on a freeway onramp, from some of the comments on this thread re: fatalities, that speed is going to punish some aggressive drivers. I don't think that can be blamed on the car, though.
But the acceleration of a Tesla is, I suspect, positively dangerous.
It's generally young men who kill, or get killed, on roads. We are all young and foolish in some ways - that seems to be genetic/ hormonal (but with wide personal differences; nonetheless you are a much safer driver at 45 than you were at 20).
One cannot blame these trends on individual cars, as you say. It's a system-level problem. (and therefore off-topic)
Statistics: Posted by Valuethinker — Fri Nov 22, 2024 4:13 am