We have yet to ask ourselves one simple question. Is this a bug or a feature?
In the western world, deaths from bananas to cyber trucks to rocket ships are tracked. And believe it or not for many of those things there is a threshold of deaths per month or year that is required before any safety concerns are invoked.
They have charts with actual numbers to decide on how many people need to get hurt before a stop sign at a street intersection gets installed. And how many deaths need to occur before those stop signs are upgraded to stop lights.
While I don’t own a cyber truck or anything Tesla and never will. 5 deaths out of however many miles driven by the over 1/2 million cyber trucks that have been sold, is barely statistical noise.
*****Annual deaths from bananas is statistically insignificant. But strangely PubMed did have a German paper about a woman that evidently committed suicide by eating a very large number of bananas. Hyperkalemia is a real thing and there are people at high risk of it. But man, kidney failure is a very painful way to choose to die.
I see people make this point a lot but it’s not about the number of deaths. It’s about the manner in which they die. It’s horrifying.
I won’t argue with you over that. As an old retired medic, there are a great number of ways to die that are horrifying. And I’ve seen some of them.
The one thing you are forgetting… Is that Tesla lobbies the regulatory agencies.
For another comparison, the cyber truck is 17 times more likely to burn you to death than the Ford Pinto, a car that is practically synonymous with fire.
They all lobby the regulatory agencies for the same things. Tesla ain’t special there. Every auto manufacturer has formulas that they use to determine how many deaths cost them more than doing nothing does.
Only 60,000 Cybertrucks have been sold. Not “half a million.”
While the total number of deaths from fire may seem insignificant to you, it is a far greater death rate than major auto manufacturers usually tolerate.
In the 1970s, Ford had to recall the Pinto over 27 deaths out of 1.5 million units sold. That’s 18 deaths per million units.
Cybertrucks are sitting at five known fire deaths per 60,000 units sold. That would be a ratio of 83 deaths per million units.
So now we know what to do with the
bodiesburnable items.Reminder to keep one of those window breaker hammers in your car.
Also don’t buy cars from megalomaniacal nazis.
Just to be clear so people don’t think they are protected when they’re not: those window strikers ONLY work if your car windows are TEMPERED glass. They are 100% useless on laminated glass. The Cybertruck’s “unbreakable Armor Glass” is laminated.
Oh, great, then when it catches fire, and you’re going to die a certain fiery death, you can use it to bash yourself in the head to death for buying a SwastiKKKar.
Thanks for the info, I didn’t know that.
Finally, a reason to like Cybertrucks.
Ah, I see you are a fan of child bbqs. Those damn kids in the back deserve to suffer for the crimes of their parents after all.
cybertruck is a built in crematorium and Coffin at the same time,elon makes nazi impressed.
Well, see, that’s what you get for being a poor.
Solution is simple, you must buy the optional $700 Cyberhammer to bash out the glass (not a joke, there really is a cyber hammer for $700).
Elon’s got it all figured out, 8D chess losers
Wasn’t the point that the cyber hammer couldn’t hurt the truck?
“We’ll fix it in post, haha” says Musk at the end. What a smug prick.
literal deathtrap
Seems the built-in grill feature needs a bit more work.
No you just rebrand it a built-in crematorium.
Cant wait til they start taking volunteers for the Mars rocket
Mars project cancelled, now aiming for
moonNebraska.
Free cremation — it’s a service!
Feature, not a bug.
It will be monetised soon enough
Popup on the screen:
Your Tesla is on fire, escape is no longer possible as your subscription to “Escape Hatch” has expired. In order to enable “FlameOn ™ mode” for rapid immolation, please approve the one time payment of $4,206.90
You could almost say it’s like being put into an oven.
I mean you can just say that if you really want
CaaS
I don’t understand why it doesn’t have a door handle. I don’t get it
Because consumers are impressed by pointless bullshit on cars.
Think like Steve Jobs. No buttons.
okay but it’s a car so it needs buttons and levers and stuff
Tell that to Elon.
no, I don’t want to talk to him
If I’m close enough to talk to him, I’m punching him.
No no, you see, humans don’t have buttons or levers, so cars don’t need them either.
Cremation is a new feature. It’ll be an extra $2500 and comes with a decision engine on whether you should live or die (door unlocking). Tesla knows, trust Elon.
its also a 100k coffin with a built in charcuterie machine, that can slice VENISON in half.
They’re MAGAs, so…what’s for dinner?
