Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.

• darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean they made millions of Pintos so yeah

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    • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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

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      • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The biggest issue with the Pinto was not the Pinto itself, it was how Ford discussed the potential issues with it internally. It was their very well documented preference for money over protecting human life that caused the controversy.

        We know this really happens all the time, at all companies and in all industries, but Ford was punished for saying the quiet part out loud (amongst themselves) and getting caught doing it. We are all supposed to at least put on a show of human lives being more important than money, and Ford failed to put on the show, and for that they were punished.

        We still don’t care about human life, but at least we all felt better about it afterwards.

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      • rimu@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        huh, TIL. Thanks!

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