• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    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.

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      Also. WE HEAR ABOUT IT ALL THE FUCKING TIME. There is nothing anyone likes more than taking a shit on Tesla. Often it is deserved. I still wouldn’t sell either of mine for basically any ICE car. Yeah they suck. I’m still in.

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    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.

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      It’s hard to comprehend how things have simply inflated over the years. We’re dealing with massive numbers now, compared to 1970-1980…

      That being said, even with the much higher numbers, we should consider the fact that as the numbers have gone up, so has safety technology.

      So the cars should be expected to be safer year over year. The percentage of failures should be less.

      That being said, just because it’s a smaller percentage doesn’t necessarily mean that we shouldn’t care about it happening.

      In the end, I find your comment to be very useful in gaining a bit of perspective. While it might not fundamentally change my opinion, or anyone else’s, it’s good to understand the magnitude of these numbers, in comparison to the overall volume of vehicles out there.

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    *Opens /all*

    *3/first 5 posts “tesla” or “musk”*

    “You don’t hear about it.”

    My dude it’s all I hear about ffs.

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      I guess it should be “why aren’t I hearing about this” and more “why isn’t anyone doing anything about this.”

      Which is kind of just the reaction to everything Musk in general.

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

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    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).

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Because the percentages are less than the qty. The denominator is larger and the percentage is technically lower.

    Idk I’m just talking out my ass but it sounds like it could math.

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      Quick eyeball of Tesla figures shows about 5mil sold over all models. Ford Pinto sold about 3mil. So the percentages are pretty close with Tesla deaths nearly quadruple Pinto deaths. And the truck hasn’t been out long so who know how many that will kill in accidents given its construction.

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      It is this. Everyone seems to have forgotten the Ford Exploder and all the rollover accidents well above the industry average as well.

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          Yeah, but not for much longer. I’ve had my Model 3 for 7 years, well before Elon went full public Nazi, and when there were almost no similar alternatives for less than $80k.

          Just Blbeing anti-Tesla just because it’s the thing you do now is stupid. Facts are facts. Fascists aren’t the only ones that like to ignore inconvenient facts.

          Acting like the hundreds of thousands of existing Tesla owners are the same as people currently buying just makes you look like a dipshit.

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            Acting like the hundreds of thousands of existing Tesla owners are the same as people currently buying just makes you look like a dipshit.

            You sound a bit defensive here.

            I wasn’t suggesting anything beyond the strong coping signal I saw with you defending the safety of a vehicle in the face of data.

            You make it sound like I called you a musk fanboi so if we want to talk about things people do to make themselves look like dipshits, your post is a top contender.

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              You make it sound like I called you a musk fanboi

              That’s exactly how your previous sentence came across, especially given the anti-Tesla sentiment. You can’t honestly be trying to claim otherwise while being in the comment section of social media like Lemmy talking about Tesla.

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        If only that was true, but it isn’t. They’re about even, and even if they where behind on %, it should have been a pretty big case as we’re supposed to have learned and be more vigilant

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          we’re supposed to have learned and be more vigilant

          There is a regular ICE car fire every 3 minutes in the US, even after the changes made in vehicle design. But no one likes to talk about that fact. It’s normal and you don’t get to feel superior on the internet for making a snarky reply making fun of a billionaire who doesn’t know you exist or care about what you think.

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            He knows who I am, I’m the billions of dead people committing Medicare fraud! So efficient!

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            Yes! Musk makes these cars. As the great engineer he is he hand built the original tesla using old tools he inherited from his father. I get to feel as superior as i want. The rules set out for plebs like you dont work on me.