It’s official, although it’s been said for years on this blog, including a takedown of deeply flawed Snopes risk analysis.

How a “Fact-Checker” Helps Tesla Play the Same Statistical Shell Game That Let Ford Hide Pinto Deaths

Tesla management’s very willful design defects are “Make Automobiles Great Again” (MAGA) levels of negligence and cruelty towards human life.

A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild of deadly cars if ever there was one.

The site arrives at that conclusion by comparing the total units sold so far — 34,438 for the Cybertruck, compared to 3,173,491 for the ill-fated Pinto, discontinued in 1980 — and comparing reported fire fatalities for both.

At the current rate of horrible fiery deaths, FuelArc projects the Cybertruck will have 14.52 fatalities per 100,000 units — far eclipsing the Pinto’s 0.85. (In absolute terms, FuelArc found, 27 Pinto drivers died in fires, while five Cybertruck drivers have suffered the same fate, at least so far.)

Notably, Tesla’s profit-driven love of design defects inside an opaque service model has produced “driverless” software that has killed far more Americans than even domestic terrorists who used cars.

Also notably, when a Musk-worshiping highly decorated Green Beret going through a mental health crisis carefully rigged a Cybertruck to expressly not harm anyone from a massive suicidal explosion as his cry for help, the Tesla CEO shamelessly mocked the dead soldier for failing to cause even greater harms to Americans and their property. Think about this horrible end to the Tesla faithful, killing themselves for a man who intentionally takes their money for nothing and cares not at all about them or America.