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Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 82 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Don't Teslas have the highest crash fatality stats on the road or something? Terrible company.

Tech Bytes: Tesla takes dubious crown with worst crash fatality rate by brand, according to new analysis

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  • [–] 80 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Cybertrucks are 17 times more likely to kill you in a fiery way than the Ford Pinto, the previous record holder.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto/

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not in any way trying to downplay how bad the cyber-dumpster is, but is that an adequate sample size to extrapolate the fiery-death rate? The article says 17 times the rate of the Pinto, but it was only 5 total fires.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I mean they made millions of Pintos so yeah

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Different person, but the Pinto controversy was overblown. Media hype made it an issue when it had similar incident rates with other vehicles at the time.

    Ford Pinto - Wikipedia https://share.google/A9xMle5N02j1gPmCl

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The biggest issue with the Pinto was not the Pinto itself, it was how Ford discussed the potential issues with it internally. It was their very well documented preference for money over protecting human life that caused the controversy.

    We know this really happens all the time, at all companies and in all industries, but Ford was punished for saying the quiet part out loud (amongst themselves) and getting caught doing it. We are all supposed to at least put on a show of human lives being more important than money, and Ford failed to put on the show, and for that they were punished.

    We still don't care about human life, but at least we all felt better about it afterwards.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    huh, TIL. Thanks!

    So it's just 17 times more likely to burn you to death than average cars.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    But maybe they have the lowest crash rate?
    So like, crashes cost money right? Someone is responsible. Someone has to pay.
    But if everyone dies in an inferno, then nobody is responsible. Who can pay? They're all dead! What medical bills? What repairs? It's all a write off.
    Sounds like a high mortality rate with low accident rate is an absolute profitable win! Free market baby!

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