[thesunny]

This is a biased article.

I do like that the article does some analysis to deduce that the NHTSA-FARS data is incorrect for Tesla and they make several well reasoned arguments why. Then using other data sources, they try to extrapolate what the correct data might be.

The problem is that the Tesla data in the NHTSA-FARS database is lower than expected. Yet they are comparing the "fixed" Tesla data with the rest of the data in the database that they take at face value.

It goes to reason if the NHTSA-FARS data for Tesla is easily proven to be underestimated (i.e. there are actually more fatal accidents than shown) that the data for other car manufacturers and models are also underestimated.

[javagram]

Their argument is the Tesla data is underestimated because, as a new and relatively unknown car manufacturer, Tesla is often miscoded.

It seems like these concerns are much less applicable to a BMW or other manufacturer of large luxury cars.