With ‘murican healthcare prices the fatality rate is a feature.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Don’t Teslas have the highest crash fatality stats on the road or something? Terrible company.
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 10 hours ago
bampop@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You even get a free cremation. Saves time and money!
towerful@programming.dev 11 hours ago
But maybe they have the lowest crash rate?
So like, crashes cost money right? Someone is responsible. Someone has to pay.
But if everyone dies in an inferno, then nobody is responsible. Who can pay? They’re all dead! What medical bills? What repairs? It’s all a write off.
Free market wins!pennomi@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
According to the article they have higher crash rates and fatalities because the drivers are worse. The cars themselves actually rate fairly high in safety standards.
That being said, I think the safety evaluations are flawed and don’t consider things like electronic locks.
rimu@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Cybertrucks are 17 times more likely to kill you in a fiery way than the Ford Pinto, the previous record holder.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto/
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I’m not in any way trying to downplay how bad the cyber-dumpster is, but is that an adequate sample size to extrapolate the fiery-death rate? The article says 17 times the rate of the Pinto, but it was only 5 total fires.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I mean they made millions of Pintos so yeah
meco03211@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Different person, but the Pinto controversy was overblown. Media hype made it an issue when it had similar incident rates with other vehicles at the time.
Ford Pinto - Wikipedia share.google/A9xMle5N02j1gPmCl