Tesla needs to improve rear seat safety especially for children in my opinion. I have based my opinion of the following facts from reputed road safety reports from Folksam.
Tesla is a "recommended Safe car" on this insurer car safety list (they have been involved in vehicle safety investigations for 35 years) Krocksäkerhet - Hur säkra är bilmodellerna? - Folksam
but it doesn't make it to the "list of safe family cars" due to lack of safety features for children in rear seats like lack of rear seat belt pretensioners (present on other cars from other manufacturers) and load limiters and height adjustable seat belts etc Volvo, Mercedes, Skoda och Toyota toppar Folksams lista över säkraste familjebilarna | Folksam Press
Safest car was a Volvo as per their list http://www.folksam.se/testergodarad/varatester/hursakerarbilen/1.142926
See the full list of safe family cars here and Tesla didn't even make that list due to lack of some safety features for rear seats and children! http://www.folksam.se/testergodarad/varatester/hursakerarbilen/1.142925
And doesn't make it to the good safety choice for price categories, although i don't know if they included vehicles above Kroner 300,000 price. I don't know the price of Tesla in Kroner. http://www.folksam.se/testergodarad/varatester/hursakerarbilen/1.143008
Nor does Tesla make it to the safest category in each segment of vehicle http://www.folksam.se/testergodarad/varatester/hursakerarbilen/1.143008
Please use Google chrome to auto translate from Swedish to English for the links above.
But on EURONCAP Tesla testing for small children rear facing child seat was good http://www.euroncap.com/photo/dummies/dummie-child-front-152x152.png but had no information on bigger children sitting in car seats forward facing. Think the Swedish website tests for bigger children sitting facing forward. Hence the discrepancy between the websites. The Swedish website also takes into account EURONCAP testing results in its points system.
I hope Tesla improved safety for rear seat passenger and children and does not omit safety features for rear seats like rear seat belt pretensioners and height adjustable seat belts and child seat safety features like ISOFIX which were absent in the EU VERSION ( unlike present on USA version) as per published EUROCON crash safety reports on Tesla of you read the detailed reports. Euro NCAP | Car Details
Same applies for the lack of Knee airbags in EU and UK models (unlike USA models) if you see the detailed EUROCON crash safety testing reports you will note that driver shin knee area got yellow http://euroncap.blob.core.windows.net/media/14383/frontalimpactdriverimage.png
and driver chest got red in side pole test http://euroncap.blob.core.windows.net/media/14388/sideimpactpoleimage.png instead
of green when you select the relevant icons on the detailed reports available on euroncap website.
Hope these safety features are implemented in Tesla cars.
Hope this post gets posted instead of getting moderated because of links as I don't have many posts on this forum yet.
Tesla is a "recommended Safe car" on this insurer car safety list (they have been involved in vehicle safety investigations for 35 years) Krocksäkerhet - Hur säkra är bilmodellerna? - Folksam
but it doesn't make it to the "list of safe family cars" due to lack of safety features for children in rear seats like lack of rear seat belt pretensioners (present on other cars from other manufacturers) and load limiters and height adjustable seat belts etc Volvo, Mercedes, Skoda och Toyota toppar Folksams lista över säkraste familjebilarna | Folksam Press
Safest car was a Volvo as per their list http://www.folksam.se/testergodarad/varatester/hursakerarbilen/1.142926
See the full list of safe family cars here and Tesla didn't even make that list due to lack of some safety features for rear seats and children! http://www.folksam.se/testergodarad/varatester/hursakerarbilen/1.142925
And doesn't make it to the good safety choice for price categories, although i don't know if they included vehicles above Kroner 300,000 price. I don't know the price of Tesla in Kroner. http://www.folksam.se/testergodarad/varatester/hursakerarbilen/1.143008
Nor does Tesla make it to the safest category in each segment of vehicle http://www.folksam.se/testergodarad/varatester/hursakerarbilen/1.143008
Please use Google chrome to auto translate from Swedish to English for the links above.
But on EURONCAP Tesla testing for small children rear facing child seat was good http://www.euroncap.com/photo/dummies/dummie-child-front-152x152.png but had no information on bigger children sitting in car seats forward facing. Think the Swedish website tests for bigger children sitting facing forward. Hence the discrepancy between the websites. The Swedish website also takes into account EURONCAP testing results in its points system.
I hope Tesla improved safety for rear seat passenger and children and does not omit safety features for rear seats like rear seat belt pretensioners and height adjustable seat belts and child seat safety features like ISOFIX which were absent in the EU VERSION ( unlike present on USA version) as per published EUROCON crash safety reports on Tesla of you read the detailed reports. Euro NCAP | Car Details
Same applies for the lack of Knee airbags in EU and UK models (unlike USA models) if you see the detailed EUROCON crash safety testing reports you will note that driver shin knee area got yellow http://euroncap.blob.core.windows.net/media/14383/frontalimpactdriverimage.png
and driver chest got red in side pole test http://euroncap.blob.core.windows.net/media/14388/sideimpactpoleimage.png instead
of green when you select the relevant icons on the detailed reports available on euroncap website.
Hope these safety features are implemented in Tesla cars.
Hope this post gets posted instead of getting moderated because of links as I don't have many posts on this forum yet.