Manufacturer tells customer that car drives itself so driver assumes car can drive itself. Car cannot in fact drive itself.

That and the hidden door handles and exotic nature of the fires, and likelyhood of a fire in a high speed impact.

Yeah. This makes sense.

Can anyone think of another product where the marketing is so wildly irresponsible that it counteracts the product’s added safety features?

Eh, annoying article title. The article tells that Tesla drivers are idiots, not that the cars are unsafe what is implied in the title

The study’s authors make clear that the results do not indicate Tesla vehicles are inherently unsafe or have design flaws. In fact, Tesla vehicles are loaded with safety technology; the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) named the 2024 Model Y as a Top Safety Pick+ award winner, for example. Many of the other cars that ranked highly on the list have also been given high ratings for safety by the likes of IIHS and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, as well.

So, why are Teslas — and many other ostensibly safe cars on the list — involved in so many fatal crashes? “The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities,” iSeeCars executive analyst Karl Brauer said in the report. “A focused, alert driver, traveling at a legal or prudent speed, without being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, is the most likely to arrive safely regardless of the vehicle they’re driving.”