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It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History (finance.yahoo.com)

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

More dangerous than the Pinto, too

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 20 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

The thing the Pinto was famous for, its fuel tank being in the rear and exploring, only killed 27 people according to the NHTSA. So pretty low bar.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Ford also voluntarily recalled 1.5 million of them and addressed the fuel tank issue that caused the problem.

"Fixing" the cybertruck would involve offering refunds scrapping them.

[–] christopher@lemmy.ca 13 points 19 hours ago

If my fuel tank went exploring I'd be worried too

[–] XLE@piefed.social 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

We used to have standards for our vehicles

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

This is actually really funny, because Ralph Nader literally started his activist career pointing out that they didn’t in 1965.

The book, critical of the automotive industry, argued that many American automobiles were generally unsafe to operate.

Auto manufacturers were eventually forced to add seatbelts and protection for roll-overs.

Nader’s book was cited as the reason to create what became the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

When the original bill was passed,

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John William McCormack said the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was brought about by the "crusading spirit of one individual who believed he could do something: Ralph Nader.”