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You claim that Tesla is gaming the system.

I'm not aware of a definition of gaming in which the system is overall safer or equivalently safer than other top-tier competitors. That seems objectively better than deploying airbags when they will harm the occupants or total the vehicle when not-needed.

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Tesla is not gaming the system by having a good airbag system that only deploys when necessary (that's actually really good!).

Tesla is gaming the system by excluding accidents where the airbags don't deploy from the "Autopilot/FSD accidents" dataset, thus artificially deflating the number of accidents.

This is a point you certainly could make. But it is not what the original commenter wrote.

Agreed, but I am not the original commenter, I am making my own point separately from them. I agree with you that Tesla isn't gaming anything by having a good airbag.

It only makes sense if everyone else is gaming the system, and then it just proves it's still the best lol.

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