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

  • @[email protected]
    -4•2 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 months ago

      There was the original story a week ago about this and the “analyst” included the fireworks explosion in Vegas to get to their resiult.

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 months ago

        yup. it’s quite disturbing that even a rolling industrial garbage container like the CT needs fake analyses to be ridiculed.