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That's... not true. The question is "how likely is there to be an electrical fire in the Tesla, given that it has crashed (or is crashing)" not "how likely is t
by epi8 13y ago
That's... not true. The question is "how likely is there to be an electrical fire in the Tesla, given that it has crashed (or is crashing)" not "how likely is there to be an electrical fire".
It's easy enough for things not to catch flame when they're being used properly; the real test is how things behave when other things are going wrong.
That's not to say that this means all Tesla cars are fiery death-traps of doom. Just that the sample size really is the number of crashed cars.
- meric 13y agoFollowing your logic, we can ignore Tesla cars that catch fire without crashing, because we can assume they're not going to catch flame when they're used properly; We can assume cars that don't crash aren't going to catch fire anyway, so, even if they may happen, let's throw that data away, because we know our assumption holds true. That's ridiculous.