The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis
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It's barely sold in the US as well.
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Curious: how effective was that “repair”? Did it actually make a difference at all?
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I'd like to thank you for this measured take in response to my unbridled cynicism.
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It would have prevented the "spark" part of the failure condition, but not the tank rupturing part.
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Was the Pinto really that bad, though, or did Mother Jones do them dirty?
In the numbers above, the Pinto is hardly a standout deathtrap; I mean, by modern standards, sure, everything on that list is a horrible deathtrap, but the Pinto was safer than the Toyota Corolla or the Beetle or the Datsun 210, and none of those cars are as burdened with the oppressive fiery deathtrap narrative as the Pinto is. In fact, the Pinto’s overall deaths per million vehicles is better than the average!
https://www.theautopian.com/its-long-past-time-to-stop-making-fun-of-the-ford-pinto/
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It's barely sold outside the US because other places (like the EU) also care about the safety of people outside the vehicle. That's why European and Asian cars (except the models explicitly for the US market like the Tacoma) are designed for pedestrians to be deflected, while US cars are a moving brick wall which will squish them like a bug.
Also, I suspect you'd need commercial plates and a special license to drive it most other places, due to the weight.
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Stopping the explosions seems like a good enough sort of solution to me
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Seems like natural selection in progress.
Buy a Cybertruck, fuck around, see what happens.
It also handily preselects for douche.
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The pinto is a myth
Pintos represented 1.9% of all cars on the road in the 1975–76 period. During that time, the car represented 1.9% of all "fatal accidents accompanied by some fire". This implies the Pinto was average for all cars and slightly above average for its class.
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According to the article there are already five less of them than there used to be.
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What often happens in cases like that is people on the edge leave, but those who remain are now distilled insanity.
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I believe they're absolutely not street legal in the UK, nor in the EU. Those were never "ridiculous sized trucks" Walhalla to begin with (although I see more Rams than I care to, these days), so there's roughly zero chance those things will become mainstream here.
Heck, we have rain here, that's enough of a wankpanzer repellant.
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I mean, the thing is already outright illegal in most countries where pedestrian safety is taken into account. An EU version would have to look completely different.
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It’s only available in North America / Mexico. It won’t fly with many vehicle regulations outside of the US.
I imagine the sharp edges are more than enough to keep it out of Europe forever. Pedestrians need to be able to roll onto a vehicle in an EU pedestrian collision. The Cybertruck will lop you in half.
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Hackey, but I guess some plastic would be enough to stop metal on metal contact and prevent sparks?
Not that my Miata "temporarily" has cardboard wrapped in tape wrapped around the cold air intake pipe to prevent it from rubbing against the frame. Nope, definitely not.
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Climate Change Simulator
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The very real origin of the Fight Club joke about not doing a recall
