• ms.lane@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It does not matter if one Tesla drove 10 km, or two teslas drove 5 km each.

    It absolutely does, as they could have an accident with each other. If your statistics were taken, we could simplify down to a single vehicle globally, which can’t have an accident with another vehicle as we’re just removed them from consideration.

    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.mlOP
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      No it doesn’t. This effect only comes into effect if there are sufficient teslas on the road that p² is comparable to p, where p is the ratio of teslas to all cars. if 5% of all cars are Teslas, then p is 0.05 and p² is 0.0025, which is a negligible probability. Teslas are much more likely to encounter non-Teslas than Teslas.