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

Gonna be real fun to see the crash test rating.

Without crumple zones, all of the kinetic energy goes into the occupants.

Seriously, having been hit by a fairly rounded Impreza at low speed that still did significant damage, I'm shivering at the thought of what these edges would do to soft tissue and bone in the same conditions. The pressure at the contact points would be dramatically higher.

That is what you get when you slack on pedestrian safety. This a regulations problem, not a Tesla problem.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/12/07/while-other-countries-mandate-safer-car-designs-for-pedestrians-america-does-nothing

However, under the federal government’s current safety rating system, known as the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), almost every vehicle gets a four- or five-star rating. That’s because the system only takes into account the safety of those within cars, not all the people walking, pushing strollers, biking, or taking transit outside them.

https://nacto.org/2022/05/24/why-the-u-s-gives-monster-suvs-five-star-safety-ratings-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

If it is too big of a risk it should not be certified as road legal. But then I see yanks driving stuff that would never be allowed on the road in other countries.

Freedom to maim and cripple your opponent.

could hurt pedestrians and cyclists

I dare you to convince me that anyone still buying Tesla would not see that as a benefit. That's going to be the number one selling point of this thing after articles like this make their rounds.

"Raises"?

That was a concern the day it was unveiled years ago

It looks exactly like a 'rad car' that I doodled in my social studies notebook after slamming two bottles of Robitussin.

That front trunk just looks like a guillotine

Again, this whole thing smacks of some entitled person (hmmm, who though?) who knows nothing, making design decisions that are stupid and self indulgent.

I call it “The Homer”, just like the episode where Homer designed a car. You know the result…

I don't like Teslas, Musk or the cyber truck but it can't be any more dangerous than the 4 ft wall of radiator traditional pickups have now. Not saying this isn't a concern but I am way more concerned about the millions of pedestrian crushing rolling walls already on the road.

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Safety concerns...who would have thought? This cannot be an actual recent concern. Everybody could see the safety issues from the day it was unveiled...

Good thing safety regulation is the reason why we hopefully will not see this monstrosity on EU roads.

"Hey, I know you're disappointed by the lack of Autopilot™, but look on the bright side, every Cybertruck comes standard with our patented Child Buster™ technology to cast those little shits into the depths hell where they belong!"

I hope this monstrosity will never be approved in Europe. Imagine the impact passengers of a Twingo or any other small city cat will experience in the unfortunate case of a head collision

If you ever felt like your truck didn't look and drive enough like a prep counter, Elon Musk has got your back.

Here we go again, trying to shame a narcissist out of doing the thing he was doing to get you to react by shaming him.

How long till these things are all sitting in random scrappers in the Mojave?

Pretty easy to solve. Just pay those experts to stfu. Shouldn't be a problem for musk

Meme car is real.

Don't have to pay pain and suffering to the dead

Rasied this being an issue on the Marces Brown video, the finishing on those panels is pretty backyard with exposed edges of pretty sharp steel. I also think the steel is going to look like shit after a couple of years when the coatings fade off. Also bulletproof panels don't necessarily lead to safe crumple zones which doesn't bode well for them in Europe at least. A lot of design choices for people who are scared of driving, which usually makes them really bad for use in a public space.

Raises concerns just now? There's a reason why civilian cars don't look like military atvs - because they are not military atvs

This is never going to be available in Europe. Sad because I like it. Can't afford it in 100yrs but would like to see others drive it.

I don't jump the hype and hate it just because "Elon made that". It is a cool shape, different than other cars. Doug DeMuro would have his hands full with all the quircks&features.

No shizsle. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand the inherent problem of this flaw in the car design.

So it’s an EV Delorian.

who the fuck cares

People are going to be pissed when they find out cyclists lose in collisions against any vehicle, not just prototype electric trucks.

Cars made of metal do more damage when running down pedestrians than cars made of nerf do. Is the solution to make all cars out of nerf, or to stop running down pedestrians?

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.

If anyone actually cared about this they'd be going after Ford and Chevy, not a vehicle that isn't even available to the public yet.

"The big problem there is if they really make the skin of the vehicle very stiff by using thick stainless steel, then when people hit their heads on it, it's going to cause more damage to them,"

Why are they hitting their heads on it? Is that really the worst possible outcome, multiple people intentionally bonking their heads on it and getting more hurt?

I don't buy this story. I think it's a plant.

Edit: lots of stupid replies to this comment, holy shit. At least try to understand the point I spelled out in plain English.