Tesla = Pinto

Because the percentages are less than the qty. The denominator is larger and the percentage is technically lower.

Idk I'm just talking out my ass but it sounds like it could math.

Quick eyeball of Tesla figures shows about 5mil sold over all models. Ford Pinto sold about 3mil. So the percentages are pretty close with Tesla deaths nearly quadruple Pinto deaths. And the truck hasn't been out long so who know how many that will kill in accidents given its construction.
It is this. Everyone seems to have forgotten the Ford Exploder and all the rollover accidents well above the industry average as well.
- Tesla vehicle owner detected.
- If only that was true, but it isn’t. They’re about even, and even if they where behind on %, it should have been a pretty big case as we’re supposed to have learned and be more vigilant

Later studies found that pintos were not particularly more likely to explode than other cars of the same form factor from that era. Turns out, plenty of other manufacturers cut costs by placing the fuel tanks in the rear bumper. And either way there's plenty of other things you should be more concerned about in deathtraps from that era, such as the steering column impaling you if the front of your car collides with anything, or the roof caving in if your car is ever upside-down.

What did Ford in was the Pinto Memo. Evil corpo pro-tip: Doing clownishly evil napkin math on the relative costs of lawsuits vs a cheap fix is fine, just don't be so dumb as to write it down where a hungry journalist might find it.

Anyway are teslas better or worse than the pinto or comparable modern cars? Who fucking cares, if people actually cared about car safety they would all be lobbying to ban cars within cities and Tesla "F"SD would be illegal everywhere. Anyway it seems that the Swasticar branding is doing more damage to Tesla's reputation than any amount of ludicrous safety and manufacturing issues ever did.

She's a 21st century pinto, oh yeah!

A 21st century pinto, oh yeah!

there are more teslas than there are pintos?

That seems like a safe bet to me.

Went to check the numbers and this site says the total number of Tesla deaths is higher(although not specifically from fires)

www.tesladeaths.com

I think the takeaway from that site is that the self driving deaths really aren't that far behind the deaths from Tesla fires.

I dunno, I've heard a lot of jokes about Teslas exploding

They sure do seem to have a tendency to spontaneously combust.

I don't doubt that model Ys catch fire sometimes but the pic on the right looks like AI to me.

Yeah, that fire would be coming from the front storage space.
- Looks like there's fire in the back too but the smoke is only coming from the side.

Different times, different causes, and different ratios of incidents to total cars. I hate Musk, think any potential for Teslas has declined heavily in quality, and lots of mistakes have been made in its development. But this kind of comparison is a definite apples and oranges. Plus grouping every incident under "blows up" and the cause of death is a bit much. How many of those were due to drivers? How many Teslas that did have some fire warned their driver to pull over and save them, vs. a Pinto that...would just catch fire and couldn't possibly do that.

I mean be fair if you're going to be critical. There is plenty to be critical about, especially with the disaster known as the Cybertruck. Plus the last part...if no one is hearing about it, then why is it a damn meme at this point, and unjustified because while Tesla fires are a nasty thing to put out, there are still far more ICE fires, and THEY only get a side note in the local news, if that.

So much missing of the point and defending going on here
- Apples and Oranges. One car killed people, the other killed other people in other ways. Totally different.
- A meme is only as good as what goes into it. And yes, I'll defend the facts over a silly meme that bends them to make it work.
  
  Did I go overboard for just a meme, yeah, probably. I stand by what I said though, from a point of view of reality.

Yall so worried about this tesla shit. Yall are so ficking edgy. Yall are absorbed with the cult of personality.

Elon ain't nothing to spend so much emotional energy on. It's you guys who make him into something he's not. Take some breaths.

Elon ain't nothing to spend so much emotional energy on. It's you guys who make him into something he's not.

You mean he's not an unfathomably rich tech bro oligarch currently running the US government with a Cheeto, destabilizing nations, and selling a brand of poorly built swasticars that kill people that would've otherwise lived while also monitoring me having sex with your wife's boyfriend in the backseat?

Huh.
He's destroying our country bro