The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis
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A new analysis suggests that the Cybertruck might lead to 17 times more fatalities than the infamous Ford Pinto.

Context

A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild of deadly cars if ever there was one.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    it takes first responders a long time to smash through the windows to rescue you before you’re barbecued.

    Panicked tweet: “Help us, Daddy Elon! We’re stuck in our Cybertruck and there’s a fire! Something’s burning and it smells like bacon. W” and it ends there.

    • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago
      funny(?) morbid anecdote

      Bacon smell is real lol. When I was a kid, my dad and I were stopped at an intersection on our way to get lunch. We started talking about how good the nearby barbecue smelled, until he realized there wasn’t any barbecue place nearby… then I noticed smoke coming out of the chimney at the funeral home across the way — they were doing a cremation

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        13·
        3 days ago
        CW: cannibalism

        Long pig - Oxford Reference

        The macabre term long pig for ‘human flesh used as food’ dates from the mid-nineteenth century. It is supposedly a translation of an expression used in the language of a cannibal people of the southwestern Pacific rim.

        I wonder if there have been any at least fairly notable death metal bands with that name. A band that did one EP and existed in Liverpool for 8 months in 1983 doesn’t really count to me.