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Old 05-04-21 | 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by EZZ
I found it funny. I generally find Toyotas to be the slowest with the occasional Prius driver hogging the left lane
I never ever seen Prius models in the left lane. Too be honest, I never see Tesla’s speeding either. Every Tesla I see driving seem to be very respectful on the roadways.
Old 05-04-21 | 04:02 PM
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I never ever seen Prius models in the left lane. Too be honest, I never see Tesla’s speeding either. Every Tesla I see driving seem to be very respectful on the roadways.
Unfortunately, it happens quite a bit in California. Gets a ton of road rage by other drivers. Most Teslas drive slow...the ones with the underlined Dual Motors badge with red calipers are the crazy ones
Old 05-04-21 | 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by EZZ
Unfortunately, it happens quite a bit in California. Gets a ton of road rage by other drivers. Most Teslas drive slow...the ones with the underlined Dual Motors badge with red calipers are the crazy ones
I have never seen a Tesla driven like crazy. Lexus IS or 3 series or C class all the time...buts it always older models. Never seen high priced Bentleys or V12 Mercs driving like madmen either.
Old 05-04-21 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill
I have never seen a Tesla driven like crazy. Lexus IS or 3 series or C class all the time...buts it always older models. Never seen high priced Bentleys or V12 Mercs driving like madmen either.
In California, the Performance Teslas dominate the road. I see Teslas race off the line all the time here. The BMWs and Mercedes don't even try to compete anymore
Old 05-04-21 | 04:30 PM
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In California, the Performance Teslas dominate the road. I see Teslas race off the line all the time here.
Never seen such a thing. Tesla drivers seem to be very respectful IMO.
Old 05-04-21 | 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill
Never seen such a thing. Tesla drivers seem to be very respectful IMO.
Same here. Most of them I see are just going about their business like the rest of the traffic. I'm sure there are some ripping around but it's same thing with other brands etc.
Old 05-04-21 | 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by LeX2K
Are you saying the average age of drivers of all other brands combined is lower than for Tesla? That's the only way our augment could be valid, which it isn't. Since we are talking about totality of brands that means inexpensive all the way to very expensive. The average is a fair comparison you simply don't like the stat.

I am on the side of technology not any one company. Period. Since Tesla is currently the runaway winner in the EV space and technology in general I tend to look at them favourably. The above is lazy and tiring, don't like something scream "fanboy".
1. so are you disagreeing that there is a miniscule number of tesla owners between the age of 16-24 compared to other brands?

2. Are you disagreeing with the known fact that 16-24 year old demographic have more than double the accidents vs 25-80+ year old demographic?

If you agree with both doesn't simple logic tell you that other car brands will be involved in more accidents than Teslas?

It's simple logic, not because a car brand has a higher age demographic means that the ratio of younger drivers is less than older drivers.

For example, if you have 5 20 year old drivers and 5 80 year old drivers, that averages out to a 50 year old driving age. While if you have 10 48 year old drivers that average out to you 48 year old of course.

The former has 5 drivers in the high risk the latter has zero in the high risk but a lower average age.

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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill
Tesla drivers seem to be very respectful IMO.
Depends on your definition of "drivers".


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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
Depends on your definition of "drivers".


That's because Tesla has full-self-driving.
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