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Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by hill, Jun 17, 2017.

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  1. bisco

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    Tesla's are safer than Volvo's
     
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    A good driver is safer than both and a bad one is a lethal weapon with either.
     
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    Couldn't agree more.
    However, while I have direct control over my own driving, I have none over the other guy's.
    So I will continue to have "safety" as one of my high priorities when buying.
     
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    I got a strong premonition that when Mark said Tesla is safer, he was referring to being in a crash. Maybe I'm going out on a limb there .....
    As to a good driver, even the bad & good driver can get T-boned or rear ended in the blink of an eye through no fault of his own - so it's not always the final guaranteeing moment of driver being good mediocre or bad. And that takes us full circle regarding a safer versus less crash-resilient car. Perhaps Mark wouldn't have needed to be "correctness-checked" if he'd stated "crash worthy", instead of safe. Either way, I understood what he meant.

    This high-performance driving instructor's take on safety is that it's all about -
    "Trying to minimize the possibility of something going wrong"

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    does volvo know that?
     
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    oh my.
     
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