The Cybertruck is More Explosive Than the Ford Pinto
hubie writes:
It's Official: The Cybertruck is More Explosive Than the Ford Pinto:
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 summary, then we'll do a deep dive.
TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto
With that maddening statistic out of the way, let's dive into the numbers.
Here's the table, with all sources linked below.
CyberTruck and Ford Pinto Fire Fatalities
+--------------------------+-------------+---------------+-----------------------+
| Vehicle Model | Total Units | Reported Fire | Fatality Rate |
| | | Fatalities | (Per 100,000 units) |
+--------------------------+-------------+---------------+-----------------------+
| Tesla Cybertruck | 34,438| 5 | 14.52 |
| Ford Pinto (1971-1980) | 3,173,491 | 27 | 0.85 |
+--------------------------+-------------+---------------+-----------------------+
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