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

  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1684·
    11 months ago

    Gonna be real fun to see the crash test rating.

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

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      803·
      11 months ago

      OTOH it weighs almost 7000lbs (~3100kg) so it’s going to plow through most of everything with its sheer mass.

      • Thorry84@feddit.nlEnglish
        1041·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • Cornpop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        551·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • casmael@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Yeah have you seen the footage it’s as stiff as the rod up musks butt hole

        • yeptemp69420@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          11 months ago

          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.

      • Felix_Bardner@pawb.socialEnglish
        28·
        11 months ago

        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

      • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldEnglish
        428·
        11 months ago

        Because unless they have been outright lying in all of their specs, the entire body is made up of the same thick stainless steel that they have shown to be literally bulletproof.

        It’s 4x as thick as current sheet metal used in other vehicles, and twice as thick as the steel bumpers used in old cars that didn’t have crumple zones.

        That combined with the fact that they have stated that all of the strength and rigidity for the truck comes from the exoskeleton, that would preclude being able to crumple.

        They have not made safety a priority in anything on this monstrosity. The windows are are all laminated and shatterproof, meaning you can’t break them to escape if there’s a fire or you end up underwater and the body is bulletproof meaning that it can’t be torn open with the jaws of life if you need to be extracted.

        It’s a giant metal coffin.

        • Cornpop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          11 months ago

          Windows will shatter just like any other car window, and a jaws of life would pull apart that tin can no problem.

            • Cornpop@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              They are just regular tempered glass. That might have been the BS they claimed at the original announcement, but that did not make it to the production version.

        • weew@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I don’t know what the hell you’ve been reading, but they’ve never claimed the entire truck is solid stainless steel. Just the exterior panels.

          they claimed that the exterior panels would be able to add to the rigidity and strength of the truck. Not that it was 100% rigid or that the exterior made up 100% of the structural strength.

          The interior is still basically just a regular aluminum body like all their other cars.

        • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          515·
          11 months ago

          Ah, so it’s all from your incorrect assumptions about how materials work.

    • Chreutz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2467·
      11 months ago

      I know it’s fun to bash Tesla every now and then for their ridiculous things.

      But do you really think, after making 4 vehicles with top of the line safety, that they will just say ‘eh, fuck it’ with the cybertruck?

      It’s an aluminum casting base construction, just like the Model Y, so why would there be no crumble zones?

      • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        242·
        11 months ago

        There are crumple zones, they’re just not as big as those in competing trucks. But yeah, the safety comparison is probably negligible, what really makes me think it’s a bad truck is the design of the bed. It’s got slanted walls. That really limits what you can haul and how you can get it into the bed.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          27·
          11 months ago

          Let’s be real. No one is hauling anything in this truck. In my experience the more expensive truckk the less its actually used for anything.

          The entire cybertruck fleet hauling completed by 2030 is probably the equivalent to one year of 01 Nissan Frontiers…

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        Really think they will just say ‘eh fuck it’

        Were talking about Elon here. Yes, I do think so. In addition, don’t give too much credit, the other vehicles would always be inherently safer because they’re electric.