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Tesla is a meme stock. Can you imagine what would happen if one of the top automakers had a vehicle like this?

Lol

Which begs the question, why is Tesla stock so high. Elon's wealth is an illusion.

The really grim part comes when you remember the official statistics are collected for fatalities inside a car - but the Cybertruck was also designed to kill people outside the car: bad sight lines, high impact points, sharp corners, rapid acceleration, marketing aimed at inattentive drivers, etc.

Those are rookie numbers. Let's get them up!

*cybertruck dammit autocorrect cyberpunk is cool.

it's right there in the table, 5

And if you put a guy who shots himself in the head into your "fire death statistics", I simply lose the ability to take you seriously.

I'm not saying shitty engineering didn't have anything to do w/their deaths, but I am also not saying which element of the shitty engineering did. I was near the accident site after it happened, and body design + faulty acceleration + difficulty of accessing handles + fire: any could've contributed

Ok good. I feel like he would want to be included.

I wondered about those numbers for the Swastikar ! Thanks Ryan!

@ralphnader.bsky.social eat your heart out

Best line in the MJ article: "Burning Pintos have become such an embarrassment to Ford that its advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, dropped a line from the end of a radio spot that read “Pinto leaves you with that warm feeling.”"

As I recall, the fire danger was when Pinto got smacked hard in the rear, where the fuel tank was located, causing leakage. How common was that? I have not kept up on the nature of the fire causes for Cybertruck, but obviously a much more common occurrence whatever the origin.

You misgendering Elon musk,(you can just say his name, he isn't fucking voldemort) you are engaging in casual transphobia, and I'm asking nicely to please stop.

Real shame.

DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD YOU HAVE TO BE TO BE WORSE THAN A FUCKING PINTO!?

This is why we need to end fatality reporting requirements. They interfere with Dear Leader's trek to the Oligarchs' Paradise!

Natural selection.

this info won't be available or it won't be clean making it hard to clearly outline reality or trust truth is the first casualty

The Pinto problem wasn't so much design (over-length bolts on certain models punctured the fuel tank if the car was rear-ended) as Ford's decision to pay compensation to victims families rather than issue a recall, as it was cheaper that way. People were understandably furious when that memo leaked.

Result: Ford Pinto, withdrawn from the market. ZTesla Cybertruck, clear coat option added.

It does, but if you remove that its still 11 times more likely

And and and...the Pinto looks cooler 😩

Don't buy any car made after about 2022. Allcars now have wifi and their gps data is available to pretty much anyone with money.

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Wow, that's a record I wasn't expecting to be topped. Congrats, Elmo!

misleading data, small sample size. rate could actually be higher.

But is it a problem or actually a solution? Give all Trumpers a Cybertruck!

The Pinto didn't hurt Lee Iacocca much in the long run.

About the Pinto: put in a manual and at least it was fun to drive. Nothing like Teslas or other self-driving monstrosities.

Oh wow ..and we had a Pinto

For those of you too young to remember the Ford pinto, pic related.

Yeah the real legacy of the Pinto shouldn't be how dangerous of a car it was, but rather the internal cost-benefit analyses Ford was running to decide if they should bother fixing them. Which you can be sure Musk is doing with this stupid truck.

The right is big on the use of “burners”.

Musk should give DOGE team Swasticars as company vehicles. Crisp a few as a reduction in force.

Ford Pinto did nothing wrong (other than be a vehicle in its class)

@thekavernacle.bsky.social video suggestion?

But he is a genius.

Holy shit. That's some serious bad stats for tesla