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hubie [soylentnews.org] writes:

It's Official: The Cybertruck is More Explosive Than the Ford Pinto [fuelarc.com]:

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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