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]OPEnglish
    6•1 month ago

    Thanks. I started to instinctively ignore Snopes but that can be very dumb of me. Even if so many recent articles are garbage - the site is very old and it used to be good.

    • crime [she/her, any]English
      4•1 month ago

      Lol yeah I wasn’t sure about either it until I saw the publish date, that’s why I specified the year. Not sure when it got bad but anything like pre-2010 seems likely aligned with their original purpose of debunking urban legends, and the older the better

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]OPEnglish
        6•1 month ago

        That seems about right. It was bad in the years just before Trump 1.0. I remember trying to use it for r/PoliticalHumor. I wanted a simple quote that said in effect “No - the Nazi party wasn’t socialist. And here’s why…” The Snopes article was ridiculously large. Don’t remember how long it was. ~2,000+ words? I kept scrolling down and down and down. Finally the very last two paragraphs were pretty good so I shared them. Snopes did that for any simple situation. You’d have to scroll and scroll to maybe find anything good.

        Then it started to turn to shit pretty quickly after Trump 1.0 started. Fact checking™ became a liberal thought terminating cliché and Snopes had a lot of competition for ad revenue from WaPo, Politifact, etc.