The Tesla Cybertruck is statistically more dangerous than the 4-wheeled Ronson lighter known as the Ford Pinto.
It should be noted that this is a small sample size, only 5 incidents for the WankPanzer because it has not been on the road that long, and there are not too many on the road, so this could just be an outlier, but the numbers show that the Deplorean is about 15 times less safe than the Pinto:
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.
Of course, the number should be per mile driven, but that would make the numbers even more lopsided, since the Pinto was made for 10 years, and many remained on the roads for decades after production ended.
Elon Musk is to car design what Homer Simpson is to car design.
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