TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto
For those who don’t know about the Pinto:
In 1978, Ford recalled 1.5 million Pintos because the fuel tank was prone to rupturing in rear-end collisions at speeds of 20 mph or higher. This was the largest recall in automotive history at the time.
Top Secret (1984) made fun of Ford Pinto
Honestly curious as to why someone downvoted this?
Honestly curious as to why someone downvoted this too?
I was tempted to downvote this for continuity and lulz but I didn’t
To be more specific, the fuel tank was placed between the rear bumper and rear differential. In a rear end collision, the tank would get sandwiched by the bumper and differential, which had bolts protruding out the back and would pierce the tank, spilling fuel onto the road.
Additionally, rear end collisions would bend the frame in a way that jammed the doors so you couldnt get out.
They figured that people would die and their cost benefit analysis assumed a certain number of deaths and lawsuits. The resulting recall and larger than expected number of deaths and lawsuits made it a huge loss for them.
That design is even worse than I realized. It’s fucked that didn’t put them out of business honestly
this again? They didn’t even read their own reference for the fire stats…
With its decade-long production run, the NHTSA reported that the Ford Pinto and its famously flawed gas tank behind the rear bumper caused 27 fiery deaths with its knowingly negligent design. https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/import/ODIPinto.pdf
Cherrypicking galore:
- They literally took 27 which is the fire deaths from rear-ending only (vs 41 fire fatalities from a 2.5 year period instead of the 9 years they mention
- They conveniently did not use the 1,626 pinto fatalities from those 2.5 years.
- They used the total number of pintos produced, not the number of pintos on the roads at the end of the analysis, which would be less than 2.2M.
At least they did get your clicks.
Facts getting in a way of hating on things we don’t like???
And the Pinto is actually cool looking.
Agree to disagree. I really hate this era of cars. Take a hot hatch, but make it as ugly as you can. Then make it as heavy as possible and slap an 80bhp iron block in there, that way you have the worst of both worlds in both power and fuel economy. But just for good measure, also give it a 3 speed transmission with no overdrive as one last final fuck you, just to make that the car is as slow—and gas mileage is as terrible as allowed by the laws of physics.
The 70s was by far the worst era for cars, especially American cars.
Early 70’s was ok. 75-80? Atrocious
Whaaaaaaat??? 70s cars are beautiful!
Even if I were to agree with you, the beauty of a 70s car is only skin-deep, given everything else that is wrong with them that I already mentioned in my previous comment.
Yeah, your laughably untrue comment that is pulling facts from some cheap economy cars in an attempt to generalize an entire era. lol
All caps doesn’t make your post more interesting. Just annoying.
The title of the article is in all caps. I copied and pasted it into the post field.
HOW WOULD WE KNOW THAT FORD USE TO MAKE BEANS?
What about the Crown Victoria?
Most likely to be late because everyone assumes you’re a cop? I don’t think the cyber dumpster is there yet.
That title is currently held by the Ford Explorer.
I didn’t have Ford Pinto vs Cybertruck on my Battle of Vehicles bingo card.
Okay but I kinda need to know what is on that card set
VW Vanbus stronk.
Reading this I heard a pakled
The cool thing is when you set records. Being the most anything is awesome.
It’s sarcasm, leave me alone.
If the fediverse wants to grow and have the half-intelligent populace take it seriously, it’s going to have to start moderating sources. Not censorship. Moderation.
Too many posts I have seen here in popular ‘subs’ are from a website who got it’s name from an Amazon product, looking to rile up the leftists with confirmation bias, turning it all into a misinformed echo chamber.
‘Chklafrknozk.biz reports <thing> people already <emotion> is <adjective>.’ Fuck off with the nonsense.
We aren’t supposed to be a mirrored version of existing social media. We are meant to be a fair version of it.
Don’t insult the intelligence of users. If you want the brains to follow you, stop being yet another version of the problem.
Simply tired of the garbage.
Edit: Grammar
No problem. steal $400 million from the taxpayers, clear the inventory - problem solved.
