Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We used to have standards for our vehicles

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    • calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        GMs president Alfred Sloane refused to install safety glass and boasted to investors: “GM doesn’t make cars, it makes money”.

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      • randomwords@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        He also had to modify the corvair he claimed was unsafe to cause it to do unsafe things… Nader is a piece of shit.

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  • christopher@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

    “Fixing” the cybertruck would involve offering refunds scrapping them.

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    • invertedspear@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      All that lithium sitting in storage lots, wasted. Tesla could save the CT with some sort of body kit conversion that tears it down to the frame and rebuilds it as a more traditional truck. It’ll still not be a great truck, but better than letting all those batteries rot.

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      • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The frame is unfortunately a piece of poorly designed garbage too. even ignoring the Whistling Diesel torture test. And you can’t make something that isn’t a cybertruck using it, because:

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        It’s not a traditional frame with a body built on top. It essentially is the cybertruck.

        Yank the batteries, motors, and anything else that can be reused and scrap the rest.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All cars out of Detroit were designed like that. They only went after Ford because Pinto sold well.

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