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B.See

(4,815 posts) Tue Feb 11, 2025, 04:39 PM Feb 11

It not only LOOKS like a dumpster (imo) but now reportedly has potential to be a DUMPSTER FIRE

Elon Musk's Cybertruck found to be more dangerous than infamous Ford Pinto: report - Rawstory

A new report has come to a disturbing conclusion for Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertruck — the model is far more dangerous than even the infamously "explosive" Ford Pintos of the 1970s.

Automotive site FuelArc compiled the report after gathering "a full year of data for the Cybertruck" and pitting it against a decade worth of statistics for the Pinto, which was produced from 1970-1980.

FuelArc found that the fatality rate per 100,000 units was 14.52 for the Cybertruck and 0.85 for the Pinto, concluding that the Tesla model was "17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto."

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It not only LOOKS like a dumpster (imo) but now reportedly has potential to be a DUMPSTER FIRE (Original Post) B.See Feb 11 OP

Thanks a disaster-load republicons BoRaGard Feb 11 #1

Musk will find a way to bury this Diraven Feb 11 #2

Hah! One of my first cars ever, the esteemed Ford Pinto stagon! I got rid of this car after some years, but do have SWBTATTReg Feb 11 #3

While the article is enticing genxlib Feb 11 #4

As I once responded to another poster who bashed Rawstory B.See Feb 11 #6

Good OP headline Lulu KC Feb 11 #5

Thnx, Lulu B.See Feb 11 #7

BoRaGard

(4,393 posts)

1. Thanks a disaster-load republicons

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 04:46 PM

Feb 11

yet another way for G.O.P. Billionaire Bros to screw up America

Diraven

(1,295 posts)

2. Musk will find a way to bury this

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 04:49 PM

Feb 11

Probably a lawsuit against FuelArc, or he has enough control over our government now he can probably have the FBI raid them or something.

SWBTATTReg

(24,961 posts)

3. Hah! One of my first cars ever, the esteemed Ford Pinto stagon! I got rid of this car after some years, but do have

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:00 PM

Feb 11

fond memories...despite the lowly Pinto's status, both of my parents ended up borrowing my Ford Pinto, when their Buicks wouldn't start, or had mechanical issues. My dad backed into someone at his office parking lot, and my mom, in trying to get to the battery on the Pinto (the car was parked outside her CPA office), slipped w/ the crowbar and put a big ol' dent in the hood of my Pinto.

Ha ha heh. How often is it that its your parents doing the damage, and not you, as a teenager? Good memories indeed! Both of them are gone now, but the good memories are still there. And to top off things? Guess what color my Pinto was? Bright Yellow!!

genxlib

(5,828 posts)

4. While the article is enticing

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:01 PM

Feb 11

It is simply not news. The data behind the claims is horrendously sourced and too limited to draw any conclusions.

It is click bait. I expect better than that even from Raw Story and I have pretty low expectations of them

B.See

(4,815 posts)

6. As I once responded to another poster who bashed Rawstory

Reply to genxlib (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 06:13 PM

Feb 11

If you looked them up (Rawstory - Wikipedia), you'll find that they've been cited for some rather excellent reporting, and as such provide a source for news and information BEYOND that offered by the MSM, who are usually given to cosmopolitan bullshit whitewash of information that may (or may not be - depending on the individual) of particular interest to liberals and progressives alike.

Still, to each his/her own, and you're entitled to your opinion of them. Here are more excerpts from the referenced Mother Jones article, and the study itself.

Report: Elon’s Cybertrucks Are Deadlier Than Infamous Ford Pintos. It’s just the latest reason to be skeptical of the car’s safety record. - Mother Jones

An analysis published Thursday by the auto news website FuelArc found that, in their one year of existence, the approximately 34,000 Cybertrucks on the roads had five fire fatalities, giving them a fatality rate of 14.5 per 100,000 units. That’s 17 times the fatality rate of the Ford Pintos, whose famously flawed gas tank design on the car’s rear end led to 27 reported fire fatalities in its nine years on the road, resulting in a fatality rate of 0.85 per 100,000 units, according to FuelArc.

The authors of the Cybertruck analysis openly acknowledge caveats in their methodology. First off, Tesla—the car’s manufacturer and one of Musk’s companies—has not confirmed how many Cybertrucks it has sold. FuelArc puts its best guess at 34,438, based on “a variety of means, including piecing together public reporting.” Secondly, the five Cybertruck fatalities include the one that occurred in Las Vegas last month outside Trump International Hotel, when an Army soldier fatally shot himself before the car, packed with fireworks, exploded. Musk claimed in a post on X that the explosion was “unrelated to the vehicle itself.” Thus, the FuelArc analysis acknowledges that this fatality is “controversial” since the driver’s cause of death was reportedly a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and the burns occurred after his death.

There are other reasons, beyond the latest analysis, to be skeptical of the car’s safety, though: It has reportedly not been crash-tested by the NHTSA or the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, nor has Tesla released its own safety data on the Cybertruck. Experts have also said its sharp stainless steel design could hurt pedestrians and cyclists and increase the potential for damaging other cars on the road.

https://fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/

Lulu KC

(7,334 posts)

5. Good OP headline

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:58 PM

Feb 11

B.See

(4,815 posts)

7. Thnx, Lulu

Reply to Lulu KC (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 08:27 PM

Feb 11

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