sigh

Because that’s actually a lower number when you compare it to cars in general. Those 83 fatalities happened over a period of 10 years.

EVs catching fire left and right is actually, probably, a talking point manufactured by the oil industry.

Also, get the fuck out of Facebook or wherever you get these shit memes.

We literally constantly hear about it. It’s the safest post “TESLA SUCKS” haha here’s 800 updoots.

I mean, the Cybertruck is a joke.

I hate to defend Tesla because I hate the owner and there are serious issues with things like having the emergency escape door latches hidden and difficult to access…

But there were 1.5 million Pintos affected by the safety recall across 5 model years. Tesla sold more than that many cars last year alone, and estimates are they’ve sold about 7 million vehicles total.

The fire fatality rate was higher for Pinto than Tesla.

*Opens /all*

*3/first 5 posts “tesla” or “musk”*

“You don’t hear about it.”

My dude it’s all I hear about ffs.

When Trump dies, President Musk will yeet the body in a flaming cybertruk to explode Obama’s library because DEI

Ah, yes, the thing we all haven’t heard and seen constantly for years. /s

Tesla’s exploding has been widely covered since the very first one happened, both as actual news and jokes/memes. This image is dumb as fuck, simply because of that. And I’d say with certainty that a LOT more people are aware of Teslas exploding than how many even know there was a car named Fort Pinto.
I’m all for Tesla going down the drain, and more of them exploding (without casualties), but report on that instead of making up dumb shit (that no one hears about it).

Wdym I hear shit about it daily

Adjusting for inflation that hardly seems like a… oh fuck it. Things should be getting better not worse!

Tesla blames it on a software issue that will be “fixed in the next update”

Because censorship

For one thing, in the Pinto days we didn’t have information firehoses shooting streams of content at us 24/7. People were putting up “Hang In There” cat posters with scotch tape. And “You don’t have to be CRAZY to work here… but it helps!!!” Those were simpler times.

Later studies found that pintos were not particularly more likely to explode than other cars of the same form factor from that era. Turns out, plenty of other manufacturers cut costs by placing the fuel tanks in the rear bumper. And either way there’s plenty of other things you should be more concerned about in deathtraps from that era, such as the steering column impaling you if the front of your car collides with anything, or the roof caving in if your car is ever upside-down.

What did Ford in was the Pinto Memo. Evil corpo pro-tip: Doing clownishly evil napkin math on the relative costs of lawsuits vs a cheap fix is fine, just don’t be so dumb as to write it down where a hungry journalist might find it.

Anyway are teslas better or worse than the pinto or comparable modern cars? Who fucking cares, if people actually cared about car safety they would all be lobbying to ban cars within cities and Tesla "F"SD would be illegal everywhere. Anyway it seems that the Swasticar branding is doing more damage to Tesla’s reputation than any amount of ludicrous safety and manufacturing issues ever did.

Tesla doesn’t Equal pinto, it’s actually much worse

there are more teslas than there are pintos?

That seems like a safe bet to me.