• ramble81@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    How many people died in Nova rear end accidents?

    Edit: it was actually the Pinto

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      The Pinto was singled out by one law firm in a class action, but all Detroit cars had the same dangerous gas tank design at that time.

      GM killed 124 with an 80 cent ignition part in the Cruze. This is what happened:

      GM actually ended on paper to avoid liability and is the New GM.

      During the media coverage of the Cruze deaths, Cruze sales TOOK OFF. Y’all are idiots when you buy cars. “Hey honee, that Chevy death car looks pretty good…”

      Now everyone is actually modifying pickups to flip over easier by lifting them. Something about a large mass of metal has a magnetic effect on people to drain their IQs.

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      5 days ago

      That issue was overblown. Very interesting history is you care to look it up or watch a long video. Still, bad engineering choice.

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        No. You’re confusing the ABC program about the AMC Gremlin, where they put a firecracker in the boot, with the Pinto. Ford admitted liability for the Pinto.

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          5 days ago

          19 for the entire run of the Pinto. That’s out of 3 million sold.

          Tesla overall is multiples of that. If you get rear ended, very high chance it will be a Tesla while a driver is swiping left and right to find a trivial setting.

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        5 days ago

        Because overblowing safety designs in the media is the main tool of large law firms in the US to force a big settlement fast.

        Remember AUDI and Toyota unintended acceleration? This is why all cars now have black boxes, because idiots mash the gas instead of the brake then claim their car was possessed by the devil.

        Why is the EU not allowing Tesla to sell some models while US does? Why is EU going to ban screen interfaces? Are they stupid?