I’m pretty sure that’s not safer for pedestrians. It’s as pointy as that one chariot from Gladiator.
It’s illegal to drive a Cybertruck in the EU, because of how dangerous it is to pedestrian:
the sharp-edged, rigid stainless steel panels of the Cybertruck violate EU safety regulations, which primarily serve to protect vulnerable road users. While US safety standards focus primarily on the protection of vehicle occupants, European regulations place particular emphasis on the safety of pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists.
EU regulations require passive safety features such as impact protection zones and prohibit sharp edges on the vehicle body. In addition, speed limiters are mandatory for vehicles over 3.5 tonnes – Requirements that the Cybertruck does not meet.
Must to nice to live in a civilized society with rules that protect people…
We can only dream of such a place here in canada
While the truck is certainly poorly designed for pedestrian safety, the truck hit the deer at 75 mph. There is no such thing as safe for pedestrians at that speed.
In general, any large vehicle like a pickup truck, will do horrific damage to animals (or people). It has far more to do with speed and weight, than the “hardness” or “sharpness” of the materials used. Crumple zones are more there to protect the occupants than whatever they hit.
High speed car accidents and roadkill are some of the most violent injuries one can witness.
There are pedestrian safety design points including pedestrian crumple and not having sharp edges.
Of course the goal is moot at 75 mph, but it does apply at speeds like 15 mph that might actually be survivable and isn’t a crazy expectation in pedestrian heavy roads where the car might actually slow that much before impact.
So the cyber truck totally deserves criticism for discarding that in service of Elon’s weird taste, but just a deer at 75 mph didn’t illustrate it.
“Stainless steel”
Yeah… that was a spotty claim… 😅
I was wondering how a truck could possibly slice a deer in half. The only sort of damage I could imagine from an impact at high speed was more like torn apart or mangled, unless it had like literally a blade welded at the front.
There’s a video inside showing the damages on the vehicule (not the deer, it’s safe to watch — there’s only a few drops of blood). Turns out the impact caused a metal piece to turn and expose a sharp edge, which probably caused said slicing.
If pedestrians, like deer, are sliced in half, they’ll be safe from filing a lawsuit against Tesla for dangerous car design, design flaws in car, claimed autonomous features being lethal to surroundings, and so forth…?
In general an instant death could be said to be less cruel. The stainless steal will allow for easy cleaning and can withstand damage from foreign objects. The real victim is the car owner having to live with the consequences of killing a pedestrian but a therapy subscription to the center console will fix that.
…stainless steal will allow for easy cleaning…
Is this the same stainless steal that was being corroded by water?
Water? Why are you putting water on your car without activating rain mode?
Didn’t want to pay for the subscription.
stop the stainless steal!
