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Worst drivers

2025-03-12 18:57:42.295678+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Making sense of the fatality rate associated with Teslas, even as they do well on NHTSA tests: Tesla's Cars Have the Worst Drivers in America, New Study Finds

There are plenty of stereotypes in the automotive world about which kinds of cars are chosen most by those with poor driving etiquette. (Priuses and Nissans often receive a strong degree of scorn.) To settle the score scientifically, the folks over at LendingTree have analyzed and categorized real-life driving data to give us a definitive answer: Tesla is ranked at the top of the "car brands with the worst drivers" list, under the quantitative model used by LendingTree.

Interesting to look at the Lending Tree brand incidents "best" table, Mercury and Pontiac leading, Cadillac right below. Might imagine that those Mercury cars still on the road are owned by older cautious drivers who want to protect their cars...

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