but how does it compare to tanks in the "deaths from fire per vehicle sold" test?
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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:
- 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
- They conveniently did not use the 1,626 pinto fatalities from those 2.5 years.
- 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.
There was the original story a week ago about this and the "analyst" included the fireworks explosion in Vegas to get to their resiult.
yup. it's quite disturbing that even a rolling industrial garbage container like the CT needs fake analyses to be ridiculed.
I don't really want to get into a debate about specifics, but this has long been the case with Elon and Tesla/SpaceX.
Especially pre pedo comment, much of what gets said about him and his companies are much like including the fireworks. Fake, made up, or exaggerated shit meant to stir up extra hate for the circle jerk.
However, he has done so many blatantly bad things since then that there really is no reason to have to make shit up or do fake analysis, but it still happens and always has. The circlejerk needs to continue fake or not.
Facts getting in a way of hating on things we don't like????
Yeah, facts aren't very popular when it's about shitting on the cybertruck.:D
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