Yup, they're so badly built that the Model S is one of the safest cars ever crash tested
Different/unconventional doesn't have to automatically mean shit.
I mean, your car has 4 £170 door handles made from Chinese cheese. My car is a fantastic piece of packaging but does require £900 labour to change the clutch. Vauxhall coated the interior of the Omega with plastic wax and forgot to rust proof the chassis... They all have issues.
PMSL.
No electric car can be inherently safe in a crash. Given your job, you know that. Not that would stop Tesla, as they have a woeful history for ignoring the safety, because they
want need to get a product/feature out there before its ready. But like a lot of new tech companies (which it primarily is, just trying to be a car manufacturer), it basically does what its not-all-dogs-on-one-lead leader/founder says, regardless of anything else.
The one good thing Tesla has done is shown that full EV cars might be viable for a small proportion of the population, which has helped other manufacturers sell full EV cars. Actually, I'll be generous and add another - they have shown that there is insufficient charging facilities, and that's only a good thing if we all have to move over to milk floats.
There may have been a valid argument 5 years ago that Tesla was one of the best EVs, but everyone else has caught up, and done so properly, and have better safety records, and more conventional rather than for speccy eyed geeks.