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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the only governmental really allowed to drive cars into walls on a regular basis, has beaten the crap out of a few Tesla Model 3s and decided that hey, this thing is pretty good at smashing into things. As a result, they've awarded the car the highest possible score, five stars. Not bad for a car built in tents!
So far, every car Tesla has built has earned a five-star safety rating, an impressive achievement. The automaker has a strong history of building cars that ace these crash tests with flying colors and bits of bodywork.
Source: https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-gets-five-star-crash-safety-rating-from-n-1829196052
Also: Tesla Model 3 crushes NHTSA's crash testing with a 5-star rating at c|net.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @05:41AM
Unless it has the backing of some of the sleaziest government agencies, Tesla (the car company) is going to fail. Safety ratings are next to useless in real-life anyway. It is also possible the ratings were rigged as is the case with companies providing weapons delivery capability (see below).
They have no history and no learning from it. Currently Tesla is running on investor money (just like google when it was created by TLAs). When it has to compete with traditional autos, then reality will take over but I suspect this company has the backing of the deep state. It was said that Muskie will allow Space X rockets to launch weapons, and this is just the start.
One good piece of advice: do not waste money on it even if that money was swindled from honest, hard-working peoples of the world.