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Tesla Cybertruck burned so hot in crash, driver’s bones literally disintegrated: suit
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Are you factoring in the fact that there have been substantially more Tesla's sold than a Ford Pinto? Like, what's the per 100,000 units car sold metric?
27 people dying in explosions from a single car model is a really high number. This compares DEATHS from the Ford Pinto to FIRES for all models made by Tesla.
Edit: i don't think I was paying attention when reading this
Assuming that 83 fatalities is up to date for Tesla vehicle fires, is 16 deaths distributed per model a good stat to you?
"Not great, not terrible"?
https://i.imgur.com/LI5aKpJ.png
To be fair, nobody else has innovated in the mobile crematorium industry nearly as much
This stat seems to be just fire related deaths while the graph is all deaths.
We probably need to compare deaths or number of fire or deaths due to fire divided by number of miles driven per model. Or something like that.
Yeah and that's also a really high number
Yes, and how many models does Tesla have? 3? 4? Even divided by 4, 232 still is way WAY more than pinto and this is basically for ALL the Tesla models anyways
You're comparing total fires with fires which resulted in deaths like I was. It says 83 Tesla deaths from fires/explosions. Also, like someone else said, It would be important to see how many cars were sold for each model. For example if Tesla sold 2 million model 3s and Ford sold 300,000 Pintos then you'd get an idea of the danger inherent with owning that model.