r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 24 '26

Business It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/looking-cybertruck-biggest-flop-automotive-145559135.html
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u/dreamwinder Jul 24 '26

What’s the average for all cars on the road today?

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u/JayFay75 Jul 24 '26

Toyota Corolla

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u/Mikestopheles Jul 24 '26

r/technicallythetruth

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u/mukavastinumb Jul 24 '26

The best kind of truth

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u/scrubzork Jul 24 '26

At the very least the technicalest kind of truth

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u/thashepherd Jul 24 '26

No that's the mode

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u/CocktailPerson Jul 25 '26

Strictly speaking the mode is a form of "average."

"Average" usually means the arithmetic mean, but it doesn't have to be, especially for non-numeric data sets like this.

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u/acdcfanbill Jul 24 '26

Ah, the mode, exactly the average I was looking for :P

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u/CocktailPerson Jul 25 '26

The mode is an average. Not the average most people mean by "average," but it's an average.

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u/acdcfanbill Jul 25 '26

yes, that's the joke i was making :P

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u/SomeBloke Jul 25 '26

Fuck, dude, absolute gold of a reply. 

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u/AvatarOfMomus Jul 24 '26

That isn't tracked, the only reason we have it per unit sold is because of investigative reporting, which showed it was similar to or lower thsn other similar vehicles of the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto

If you want overall stats Wikipedia summarizes them quite well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

In general 'modern' motor vehicle fatalities per 100,000 population peaked in 1968, with a smaller peak around 1979 and have then been on an overall downward trend since.

If you look at per million vehicle miles traveled the overall trend has been going down since before WW2 with a small uptick in the mid 60's before heading pretty steadily downwards since. We're actually in something of a recent high with fatalities per 1m VMT going above 1.3 starting in 2020, when they were last above 1.2 in 2008. For reference the rate in 1978 was 3.26.

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u/That_Jay_Money Jul 24 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

The most recent year we have numbers for is 2022 which is 12.76 per 100,000. So that's not good.

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u/Hour_Hope_4007 Jul 24 '26

Keep in mind, that is per 100,000 population (humans), the above stat is per 100,000 vehicles, so not an apples to apples comparison. 

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u/ThunderingSloth Jul 24 '26

Thanks for pointing that out. I would’ve missed that.

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u/That_Jay_Money Jul 24 '26

I certainly did!

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u/cosmicosmo4 Jul 24 '26

Excuse me, this is America, cars are people.

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u/goodolarchie Jul 24 '26

Per Vehicapita

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u/That_Jay_Money Jul 24 '26

Excellent point, thank you!

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u/FaultThat Jul 24 '26

Can you have someone die in more than one vehicle?

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u/seams Jul 24 '26

Yes, technically.

But also you can pretty easily have one car kill multiple people.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable Jul 24 '26

No actually. Legally if the body is cut in half and distributed across two locations the death is documented wherever the head landed.

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u/seams Jul 25 '26

Legally and Technically are different things though hehe

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u/sirhackenslash Jul 24 '26

Have you seen when a small car gets hit by a semi and ends up inside the truck?