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The Sunday Read: ‘Elon Musk’s Appetite for Destruction’

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The Dangers of Utilitarianism in the Age of Elon Musk

Tesla's safety claims look even shakier when you try to control for the age of the car and the age of the driver./nMost Tesla owners are middleaged or older, which eliminates one risky pool of drivers, teenagers, and simply having a new car decreases your chance of an accident significantly./nIt's even possible that the number of Teslas in California, with its generally mild, dry weather, has skewed the numbers in its fav./nAn independent study that tried to correct for some of these biases suggested that Tesla's crashed just as often when autopilot was on as when it was off.

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