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Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts

www.reuters.com Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns -experts

The angular design of Tesla's Cybertruck has safety experts concerned that the electric pickup truck's stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt pedestrians and cyclists.

Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts::The angular design of Tesla's Cybertruck has safety experts concerned that the electric pickup truck's stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt pedestrians and cyclists.

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Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design """raise""" safety concerns - experts

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Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns

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Gonna be real fun to see the crash test rating.
Without crumple zones, all of the kinetic energy goes into the occupants.
- OTOH it weighs almost 7000lbs (~3100kg) so it's going to plow through most of everything with its sheer mass.
  
  You'd be surprised how much a concrete pillar holding up an overpass can actually take. They don't break like in the movies, they are specifically designed to take big truck impacts and not fail. Anybody crashing a Cybertruck at highway speeds into one of those is instantly turned into red colored mashed potatoes.
  
  Anybody crashing a Cybertruck at highway speeds into one of those is instantly turned into red colored mashed potatoes
  Why does that sound delicious 😭
  
  It is! In a pressure cooker, you can cook beets in a basket over a layer of potatoes and garlic cloves. The beet drippings turn the potatoes pinkish-red. Super fun for kids.
  
  But has the pressure cooker been crash tested
  
  Or you can just hang out under a highway overpass with a scoop and a cooler
  
  Free range. Sustainable harvest. Recycling. Sounds good!
  
  Eat the rich?
  
  case in point
  We have barriers good enough to stop a fully-loaded semi in effectively zero distance.
  
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  Go hit a 10"+ tree in a pickup and see how fast you stop. You can wander over and pick the engine up when it flies out the hood. The tree will loose some bark.
  
  Been there, done that. 0/10. Do not recommend.
  
  Same, hit a small (maybe 5") tree going about 60mph. Came to a complete stop immediately and put my head through the windshield. We went and peeled the license plate off the tree the next day.
  I guess it put a little mark on the tree but it was basically fine, completely destroyed the car though.
  
  For me it was a rather large tree that I hit at about 100km/h (+60mph). Tree was fine. Car, not so much. The ambulance ride was nice though, and the first responders thought we were extremely lucky to be alive.
  Wear your seat belts kids.
  
  https://tellyspotting.kera.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/be102f-20170208-spinal-tap.jpg
- I thought a car had to have that before it went on sale?
  
  Believe it or not in the USA it’s actually based off of self compliance in the USA. There is no specific government body that has a standardized test that they have to pass to be made legal. The manufacture gets to make that decision themselves, then if there is an issue that the government finds later they can be pulled from the road.
  
  I hope they get pulled from the road. Problem is, he'll just bribe some government officials
  
  :O
- Yeah have you seen the footage it’s as stiff as the rod up musks butt hole
- Here you go:
  https://youtu.be/SQjoDV6vDaI
  
  That's... computer generated. BeamNG maybe?
  
  I'm pretty sure that's BeamNG, yeah. That sand looks like a texture from Johnson valley, I'm pretty sure the wall they're hitting is either a gas station or a garage model that was placed on a road, and the skid marks from the tires look the same as they do in BeamNG. You can see body panels and doors clipping through the body of the truck on several occasions, too.
  
  Looked convincing at first, but it felt too clean- Then at 7 seconds in, you can watch a white panel clip straight through the door and windshield lol
  
  Yeah, without a disclaimer and evidence it's modeled correctly it's just straight misinformation at this point.
  
  Second crash, the body part above the front wheel goes straight through it.
  
  Look at the name of the channel too.
  
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  Wow looks unsafe as fuck!!

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