{"id":39211,"date":"2025-02-21T02:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39211"},"modified":"2025-02-21T02:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:19:54","slug":"report-elons-cybertrucks-are-deadlier-than-infamous-ford-pintos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39211","title":{"rendered":"Report: Elon&#8217;s cybertrucks are deadlier than infamous Ford Pintos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250210_cybertruck-danger_2000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">It&#8217;s just the latest reason to be skeptical of the car&#8217;s safety record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/02\/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto\/\">Report: Elon&#8217;s cybertrucks are deadlier than infamous Ford Pintos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;An analysis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fuelarc.com\/evs\/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto\/\">published<\/a>\u00a0Thursday by the auto news website FuelArc found that, in their one year of existence, the approximately 34,000 Cybertrucks on the roads had five fire fatalities, giving them a fatality rate of 14.5 per 100,000 units. That\u2019s\u00a0<em>17 times\u00a0<\/em>the fatality rate of the Ford Pintos, whose\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/1977\/09\/pinto-madness\/\">famously flawed gas tank design<\/a>\u00a0on the car\u2019s rear end led to 27\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosafety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/ODIPinto.pdf\">reported<\/a>\u00a0fire fatalities in its nine years on the road, resulting in a fatality rate of 0.85 per 100,000 units, according to FuelArc.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-6.png 856w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-6-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-6-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-6-675x336.png 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just the latest reason to be skeptical of the car&#8217;s safety&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1474,97,1515],"class_list":["post-39211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cybertruck","tag-elon-musk","tag-safety","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39217,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39211\/revisions\/39217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}