Report: Tesla Cybertruck has higher rate of fire fatalities than the Ford Pinto

[edhopper]

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/cybertruck-ford-pinto-20160527.php

In its first year on the road, the Cybertruck ended up being tied to five fire fatalities through Jan. 1, a concerning trend that makes the rate of such fatalities higher than that of the notorious Ford Pinto, which was in production from 1970–80.
According to an analysis by auto news website Fuel Arc comparing the rate of fire fatalities in the Cybertruck's first year to that of the Ford Pinto during its life, the Cybertruck has a fatality rate 17 times of the problematic Pinto. Fuel Arc carried out its analysis by calculating the fire fatalities per 100,000 units, which was 14.5 for the Cybertruck compared to 0.85 for the Ford Pinto.

[Norrrm]

1. No wonder Musk wants to do away with safety reporting.

[Prairie_Seagull]

2. I owned a 'boom boom' pinto back in the day.

Boom boom cybertruck?

[ProfessorGAC]

3. So Did I!

But, I had the Runabout, which didn't have the hatchback. A lower fraction of those has the fire issue (don't remember why) but it was still higher than the typical car.
It also came with Firestone 500 tires, which were the tires that had high speed blowout issues because the belts could cut through the sidewall.
I dodged a bullet, driving that thing for 5 years. (Mid '73 to mid '78)

[Prairie_Seagull]

5. Mine was the hatchback with the gas filler neck behind the rear licence plate.

Other than the obvious (being rear ended) and boom, it was a a very good economy car.

Terrible engineering concept out of the gate

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Yeah; See My Version Had Tge Gas Fill On The Fender

That may have been why is was less prone to fire on a rear end impact.
Mine was red with a white vinyl top.

[MichMan]

9. Nearly every car during the 60's had it there behind the plate

The Pinto was hardly unique in that regard

[BOSSHOG]

4. Unsafe at any Greed

[MichMan]

7. "The Myth of the Ford Pinto Case"

By UCLA Law Professor Gary T. Schwartz in 1990 and published by Rutgers Law Review

https://web.archive.org/web/20151114074624/https://perishablepundit.com/docs/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf

[MichMan]

8. Snopes; Misleading Meme Compares Ford Pinto and Tesla Fire Fatality Statistics

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/12/13/tesla-ford-pinto-explosions-fatalities/

[W_HAMILTON]

10. You seem quick to jump to Musk's/Tesla's defense, but perhaps too quick...

...because your article is about a Facebook meme that came out before the OP's article was even written and includes completely different stats.

[MichMan]

12. If you paid attention, I'm actually defending the Pinto

See Posts 7 & 9.

Wouldn't drive a Tesla (or any other EV)

[edhopper]

11. Not about

the Cybertruck