Report: Elon's cybertrucks are deadlier than infamous Ford Pintos

especially if one paints "die nazi scum" on the windshield

a fatality rate of 14.5 percent per 100,000 units.

Tell me you don't understand statistics without telling me you don't understand statistics.

It's clear they meant "14.5 per 100,000 units" because later they call that "17 times" the Ford Pinto's fatality rate of "0.85 per 100,000 units". 14.5 divided by 0.85 is 17.06, so very close to "17 times."

But that "percent" is just randomly thrown in there and is largely meaningless.

(Taking it as literally as it could possibly be taken, one could say it meant "0.145 per 100,000 units". But again, from the context in the rest of the article, it's clear that's not what they meant as that's not "17 times" 0.85.)

Swastitruck

The podcast You're Wrong About did an episode about the Pinto. Spoiler alert: wasn't that unsafe. If you listen to podcasts, you know how to find the episode. If not, here's the YouTube mirror https://youtu.be/52pPcMwM6Wc

the pinto data is quite remarkably cherry picked (1626 deaths in 2.5 years):

(sauce: https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/import/ODIPinto.pdf Page 9.)

They look like robot shit

the approximately 34,000 Cybertrucks on the roads had five fire fatalities

1. They sold millions of Pintos. Sample size is important.

2. They included the guy who shot himself and then blew up the truck. That had nothing to do with the truck. That one death made up 20% of their fatalities.

3. The other 3 victims were all in the same vehicle, in the same crash, which means these 4 deaths were comprised of 2 incidents. Name another production car that hasn't had at least 2 collisions that resulted in a fire fatality.

Bad journalism is bad.