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3 million #fordpinto vs 70k #Cybertruck and number of accidents

The other factor is the driving skills of the Pinto vs the 🤪truck

@newsguyusa that fuelarc article just celebrated its 1st birthday. Fuelarc is heavily biased against EVs in general. I don't own a Tesla or any kind of EV at all but I would take any opinion from that Fuelarc with a few kilograms of salt.

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How many did the US military purchase? Oh wait maybe they're just a new weapon system. The exploding whip.

#fuckmusk #Dildoge

@newsguyusa I'm seeing a remake of _The Spirit of '76_ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0100670/

@adamshostack @newsguyusa @boblord Musk can go f*** himself alright but this data is flawed. It even included the guy in Vegas who blew himself up.

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Where's Ralph Nader, now that we need him?

@newsguyusa Objectively horrible cars for an objectively horrible price funding objectively horrible people!

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Ford Pinto in 1973 needed to Hard Rear Ended to Explode.

CyberTrucks can just Explode at any time.

@ClimateJenny @newsguyusa you didn't have to sit on the hump

@meltedcheese @newsguyusa Most small cars of that era had similar issues, as almost all front engine/rear drive cars put the gas tank behind the axle in that era. On medium and larger cars, it often went ahead of the spare tire well, but on the smallest cars with short rear overhangs it had to go just ahead of the rear bumper.

What was unique about the Pinto wasn't the fires, it was Ford's decision that it being cheaper NOT to fix it, they would do nothing about it.

A Pinto driven today could be made much safer by replacing the probably rusted out old gas tank with a "fuel cell" racing gas tank that uses a very tough rubber bladder inside a metal tank and is designed to tolerate being smashed without bursting and dumping the fuel.

They are not cheap but they are a lot cheaper than a stay in the burn unit.

@genecowan @newsguyusa it was going to explode eventually

@newsguyusa Now why doesn't that surprise me?

@genecowan @newsguyusa It does state that there is dispute on one and you can remove that if you prefer. That still makes it a LOT worse than the Pinto.