new delhi tesla and spacex ceo and tech billionaire elon musk thinks that the risk of death from coronavirus infection is less than the risk of dying in a car accident as per a report by buzzfeed news tesla ceo elon musk recently wrote to spacex employees an email in which he said as a basis for comparison the risk of death from c19 is vastly less than the risk of death from driving your car home he went on to add there are about 36 thousand automotive deaths per deaths sic as compared to 36 so far this year for c19 the companywide email was reportedly sent to the employees in the wee hours on fridayin the email he reportedly said that based on all the evidence he had seen about covid19 the disease caused by the novel coronavirus suggests that this is not within the top 100 health risks in the united states the tesla ceo had earlier made a coronavirusrelated tweet in which he had said the coronavirus panic is dumb spacex employees are currently working at the companys california headquarters at hawthorne and tesla offices and factories have remained open as per the buzzfeed reportcoronavirus has spread to more than 100 countries in the world with over 1 million people testing positive for the infection there have been over 4000 deaths worldwide and travel airline and tourism industries have taken a massive hit many organisations and companies across the world have advised their employees to work from home as a precautionary measure travel to countries like china south korea iran and italy is strictly being discouraged on account of a high chance of coronavirus covid19 infection in these countries the world health organisation recently declared the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic