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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto (fuelarc.com)

submitted 1 day ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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...

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[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see 41 fire fatalities in that image. Out of 2.2M, that's 1.86 fatalities per 100k units. Still much lower than 14.52 for the Cybertruck.

[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago

That's still an overestimate because the miles driven needs to be taken into consideration, time to fire, etc and on the CT's side we should never include the suicide case in the stats...

But an honest analysis would compare the CT to EVs as their fire rates are inherently higher, which doesn't mean at all that EVs are less safe in general than ICE vehicles.