Tesla drivers had the worst accident rate in the US, with 24 accidents per 1,000 drivers.
BMW drivers had the highest rate of driving under the influence, with 3 DUIs per 1,000 drivers.
Ram drivers had the highest overall incident rate, including accidents, DUIs, speeding, and other citations.
Based on the new study by Lendingtree.
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Tesla buyers of 2023 had the lowest IQ
—Lemmy users, maybeI would’t say that, but considering there are cheaper and better models on the market out there now, they sure aren’t being smart about their purchases.
A source the editors not distances itself from and that uses a limited data set is certainly a reliable one.
BMW drivers had the highest rate of driving under the influence
Whaaaat I would have guessed Ram
Ram drivers had the highest overall incident rate
Ah there it is.
BMW vs RAM for DUI, my guess: location location location.
Demographics would likely (guess) lean towards the same type of driver in different locales. One where drinking and driving “is just a thing people do” and one where its more enforced.
Betcha Ford F150 had the highest rate of needless tailgating and absurd lifting.
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And emissions violations
Tbf it is one of the most popular vehicles on American roads so there are dozens of them to every ram and probably a hundred to every bmw
It’s per 1000 drivers (at least in OP’s example). Doesn’t matter how many are on the road that’s factored out.
Americans can’t drive. It’s far too easy to get a drivers license in the USA. Auto lobby, blahblahblah.
No effective alternative so we all play Metallica’s Kill 'em All and roll the dice daily
- disabled guy from a car hit while riding a bicycle to work
Neither here nor there, but I was disabled by an Egyptian… in California
It’s easy because it’s required. Most Americans live literal miles from grocery, Rx, or any services. Neighborhoods are mostly suburbia which has NOTHING besides houses. If you restrict driving you are condemning people to vastly inflated costs of living. It sucks and I blame the auto industries.
And actually, Americans are fairly good drivers. Because we drive a LOT. Some literally hours a day. And because we drive so much we have tens of thousands of highway fatalities a year.
Sure, doing something a lot makes you good at it. That’s why racing drivers are fast on a course - practice.
But what a lot of people are doing when “driving” is not really driving - it’s the act of trying to get from point A to point B while not caring how that movement actually happens. They’re texting or talking to passengers or thinking about work, or what they need to buy for dinner, trying to get on with the rest of their life despite currently being at the helm of a machine capable of killing themselves and others.
Some people are out there not practicing driving, but practicing multitasking while thinking about the driving part as little as possible.
Then maybe cops should be on the lookout for such things rather than sitting on the side of the road with a radar gun while they look down at their own phones.
