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real straightforward calculation finds that Cybertrucks are 17 times more likely to have fire fatalities than the Ford Pinto fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

I really love this! My first car was a Pinto that my mom sold me when it had 90k miles (pesky baffler issue was fixed). It was a great car up to 134k miles, after which it broke down so many times over the next 5 yrs that finally AAA sent me a warning letter bcz I'd been towed 7 times in 1 year😄.

But, for all its problems, my Pinto never caught on fire!

kind of telling how much more seriously people took safety back then, it wasn't actually *that* dangerous

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.

But I would argue that the Pinto fuel filler design was still inherently dangerous. Plenty of reason for Ford to be liable for deaths.

More dangerous than what, is the question. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Cool cover photo for that article with the wooden matchsticks!