Tesla declared NHTSA's crash test scores showed they were the safest car ever. NHTSA told them they can't say that, because that's not how their scores work. They're both right
, telling them not to say things like"Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any vehicle ever tested by NHTSA" and"But when a crash happens in real life, these test results show that if you are driving a Tesla, you have the best chance of avoiding serious injury." Car companies who do the tests have to follow regulations about how they express the results, and NHTSA says Tesla's marketing breaks those rules, and ordered them to stop.
NHTSA doesn't want Tesla saying those claims because it declares that the numbers can't be compared between cars that are very different in weight. That even if the test did indicate that you would do better in a Tesla Model 3 than any other car hitting a wall, this might not be true if your Tesla crashes into a safely designed Hummer or even an unsafely designed transport truck.
Tesla notes that the Model 3 is heavy as cars go, and it is, because of its battery pack, but it's still not a truck.
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