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Tesla Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors) is an energy + technology company originally from California and currently headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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The original Pinto Madness essay is worth a read, even just as a historical primary source:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness/
Interestingly, you're right, I think. The Pinto wasn't uniquely lethal, it was a vehicle with an obvious design flaw that horrifically killed people, but in a class of vehicle where that was weirdly common at the time.
The uncommon thing was that Lee Iacocca put things into writing like "Safety doesn't sell" and actively de-prioritized safety, and THEN his Ford Motor Company pushed out the Ford Pinto.
But, w.r.t. the Tesla Cybertruck, the year is 2026, every single car on the road should be vastly safer than any 50-year-old subcompact deathtrap.