If there’s one factor Tesla house owners love, it’s daydreaming a couple of time when their automobiles will ferry them from level A to level B with out a single little bit of driving in between. Sadly for us all, it appears these house owners are doing that daydreaming behind the wheel as, in accordance with a brand new examine, they’re the worst drivers within the U.S. of A.
LendingTree, an insurer out of North Carolina, seemed into insurance coverage claims by model for 2024 to see which automakers had the worst drivers. The insurer examined rushing tickets, citations, DUIs, and crashes, and located that every one these components added as much as finger Tesla because the worst-driven model.
Tesla had 36.94 incidents per 1,000 drivers, beating out Ram in second place with 33.92 and Subaru in third with 32.85. The identical rating held true for accident charges, although not for DUIs — of all manufacturers, Pontiac gained on the market, presumably on account of a preponderance of Pit Viper-clad mullet-haired dudes with Keystone Mild within the cupholders of their Trans Ams. Amongst present automakers, although, Tesla got here in second for drunk drivers after BMW.
LendingTree’s evaluation specified sure sorts of citations to depend in the direction of the worst driver championships, however oddly didn’t specify whether or not it solely accounted for at-fault collisions beneath the “accidents” part of the examine. That makes it unclear whether or not Tesla drivers are literally the worst, or whether or not each different driver on the streets is whipped right into a frothing, violent anti-Musk rage upon seeing a Cybertruck out and about. The frothing rage is a given, actually, it’s only a matter of whether or not or not individuals act on it.
It’s fascinating that two of the highest three worst-driven automakers — Tesla and Subaru — make a variety of noise about how protected their automobiles are. One has to wonder if these automobiles are pushed poorly as a result of drivers choose automobiles primarily based on marketed security figuring out they’ll wreck someday or one other. Possibly they belief their automobiles extra, or, maybe, the explanations are fully divergent: Possibly Tesla house owners actually are simply counting on “Full Self Driving,” and Subaru drivers are simply distracted by all these canine within the automobile.
