technocritFather and son incinerated after ‘self-driving’ Tesla suddenly slammed into tree
After some googling, the “Why?!” in the image seems to be completely bullshit, though.
Electric cars have a way lower amount of deaths from fire than petrol cars. So why would there be outrage about Tesla fire safety?
The Comparison in the image also completely ignores number of cars on the street, time period, miles driven. All car models will have fire deaths.
The outrage about the Ford Pinto was because it was a known specific defect which was covered up (fuel tank rupturing when rear ended), more than the number of deaths in itself. As far as I can tell, the number of fire deaths were actually not extraordinarily high for the Pinto. Hence comparing this not especially high number to Tesla for outrage purposes is meaningless.
it was a known specific defect which was covered up
It was not covered up, the Pinto had the same fuel tank design as other manufacturers, it’s just at that period of time, Ford had more cash.
Lawyers do not sue to justice, they sue for cash.
This isn’t true. Read up on some details of the lawsuit. Although Ford had designs overseas with fuel tank behind the rear axle, not one model by Ford or others had 9” or less crush space like the Pinto. They had meetings and reports to discuss crash test results that showed the Pinto vulnerable to fuel spillage based on proposed federal crash tests. They decided to defer any improvements until 1976 to accrue $20 million in savings.