It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News
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We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate greed. Let’s start with the data […]

TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto

  • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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:

    1. 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
    2. They conveniently did not use the 1,626 pinto fatalities from those 2.5 years.
    3. 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.