Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Tesla Model S bursts into flames during test drive event in France - TomoNews" video.

  1. Michael Bishop You better stick to pedal power then because petrol cars burn up all the time, so often in fact it's not even news. EVs are new therefore every single incident of any type makes headlines which can be very "relative risk" misleading.
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  2. Romeo W Are you really that much of a fool for headlines? Tesla's represent a new design so every incident get's reported whilst the constant petrol cars burning up do not. Headlines have a relative risk reverse corolation--that is the more something get's reported the less common it is--take airlines for example, ridiculously safe so it's easy to report every single failure that ever happens anywhere on the planet where as road fatalities are a perpetual stream of carnage (pun) that rarely get mentioned.
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  3. Jo LC I will defend both the Ford Pinto and Teslas for the same reasons--It's media hype in both cases The Pinto was not near as bad as the public was led to believe and it was fixed with a simple recall. (I did a report for an engineering class on the subject once and looked into all the details) With Tesla every single incident get's reported because EVs are new, it's just the nature of news along the lines of why every airliner crash gets endless headlines (because they are so rare and spectacular) whilst the constant car crashes and fires do NOT make the news.
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