• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I hate to defend Tesla because I hate the owner and there are serious issues with things like having the emergency escape door latches hidden and difficult to access…

    But there were 1.5 million Pintos affected by the safety recall across 5 model years. Tesla sold more than that many cars last year alone, and estimates are they’ve sold about 7 million vehicles total.

    The fire fatality rate was higher for Pinto than Tesla.

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    2 hours ago

    When Trump dies, President Musk will yeet the body in a flaming cybertruk to explode Obama’s library because DEI

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    5 hours ago

    *Opens /all*

    *3/first 5 posts “tesla” or “musk”*

    “You don’t hear about it.”

    My dude it’s all I hear about ffs.

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    7 hours ago

    Adjusting for inflation that hardly seems like a… oh fuck it. Things should be getting better not worse!

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    6 hours ago

    Then Elon and Tesla dismiss any valid complaints and criticisms as “far left gay communist propaganda” just 'cause he thinks everything’s politically motivated, 'cause he thinks everyone should agree everything he does and those who don’t are the enemy just like fascists and (also) actual communists.

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    9 hours ago

    Tesla blames it on a software issue that will be “fixed in the next update”

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    10 hours ago

    Ah, yes, the thing we all haven’t heard and seen constantly for years. /s

    Tesla’s exploding has been widely covered since the very first one happened, both as actual news and jokes/memes. This image is dumb as fuck, simply because of that. And I’d say with certainty that a LOT more people are aware of Teslas exploding than how many even know there was a car named Fort Pinto.
    I’m all for Tesla going down the drain, and more of them exploding (without casualties), but report on that instead of making up dumb shit (that no one hears about it).

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      7 hours ago

      You are right. There were 3 million pintos sold. So far there have been 6 million teslas sold. So it’s much worse than we thought. 1970s tech joke of a car has a better fire rate Than a 2020s tech car. Thanks for bringing that up!

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      7 hours ago

      Utilitarianism is really only viable when the other option is EVERYBODY dies (give-or-take a percentage point or two); killing 10 to save 1000 only really works as an argument if the alternative is 1010 unavoidable deaths. 20 avoidable deaths and 80 avoidable deaths are still a fuck ton of avoidable deaths, especially when we HAVE the resources and the knowledge to prevent them but we just don’t because of profit margins and shareholders

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    11 hours ago

    For one thing, in the Pinto days we didn’t have information firehoses shooting streams of content at us 24/7. People were putting up “Hang In There” cat posters with scotch tape. And “You don’t have to be CRAZY to work here… but it helps!!!” Those were simpler times.

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    12 hours ago

    You are all getting portable incineration in car free of charge and you complain?! Some people are impossible to please!