The Tesla Cybertruck was recalled seven times last year.
An analysis from FuelArc calls out Tesla’s Cybertruck for having a higher fatality rate than the infamous Ford Pinto, reports Julianne McShane in Mother Jones. Since they were released a year ago, Cybertrucks have a fatality rate of 14.5 per 100,000 units; the Pinto had a fatality rate 17 times lower, at 0.85 fatalities per 100,000 units over its nine years of existence.
The authors acknowledge the limits of their analysis, noting that Tesla will not publicly release the actual number of Cybertrucks sold, and that the analysis includes the self-inflicted death of a soldier in a Cybertruck in Las Vegas last month. (Discounting that death would still give Cybertrucks a fatality rate of 11.6 per 100,000 units — 13 time that of the Pinto.)
