RE: Tesla's Full Self-Driving is Finally Out of Beta! My First Impressions...
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Believe it or not, there's actually a higher risk of being burned alive in a gasoline vehicle. This happens, on average, around 480 times every year with ICE vehicles but it's just not publicized as much. Fire fatalities have happened a total of 62 times with Teslas over a seven year period, a majority of these are after a major crash and not spontaneously. This example is an "apples to oranges comparison" but, on average, if you look at the stats EVs as a whole are much safer than ICE in this regard. You'd never know this from what you hear/read in the mainstream media though. The MSM would have you believe they're deathtraps that you can only drive when it's between 40 and 70 degrees outside. A large part of this is MSM is influenced so much by the larger auto manufacturers and Big Oil. This negative coverage will change once major automakers can ramp up manufacturing of EVs at scale profitably.
That's a lot of interesting info shared! Obviously, I had not clue about most of what you said so thank you for teaching me something new today!
You're welcome! After I became an EV owner in 2022 and started learning more about them I almost couldn't believe the sheer volume of disinformation out there in the media. They aren't perfect, for example, they aren't as green as the industry claims they are. I think it takes 25k miles of driving before they become greener to own than a petrol vehicle. I see a future where EVs occupy about 1/3rd of the global fleet.