I'm still not convinced that it will be approved for street use. There's no crumple zones, and if someone were to hit a pedestrian with it they'd definitely die.
The most amazing feature of the Cybertruck is that it can suddenly make everyone who never gave a rat's ass about pedestrian safety on pickup trucks suddenly care very much about standards that don't currently exist.
Wait truck's in America have no crumple zone laws? (Genuine question btw)
There are zero pedestrian impact standards. As for crumple zones, Glitzy is basing this evaluation on exterior styling and zero knowledge of the actual chassis construction. I'd wait for actual crash testing results.
In any case, trucks and large SUVs in America are held to lower standards than cars because they can be classified as "commercial vehicles"
Thanks, I had no idea
Nice of you to mention me outside of the context of my comment. Even if there are no official standards, what is preventing them from actually caring about pedestrian lives? What other EV doesn't currently have crumple zones?
Why are you so confident about the Cybertruck not having crumple zones? Do you have the actual CAD files for the chassis? Or Tesla's internal testing data? Or are you just pulling that out of your ass?
The fact that it's a solid piece of rolled steel that is then bent by a press? Why are you so confident that it does have them? Is there a reason you have to be so rude to get your point across?
you didn't know that cars have been made of steel for decades now? Engineers know how to make steel crumple.
Uh.. are you saying fiberglass construction and crumple zones aren't standard? In 2023?
Small deposit to hold. Intersecting to see how many actually buy.
I would never buy one, but I do look forward to seeing them on the road. They look so cool.
See I think they look idiotic. Different for sure but not cool at all.
I think it depends entirely on whether you grew up watching Back to the Future and Total Recall or not.
honestly people are just looking for things to complain about. When the Model S came out, they had a huge fake grille because everyone complained that it looked weird without it. Now it looks stupid with it and the new front end with the tiny slit looks great. People complained that the model 3 looked weird without any grille at all, now it's the most boring car on the road. There were people saying Rivian would fail purely on looks because those headlights are so weird. Turns out absolutely nobody cares in reality.
I’m not sure if being a fan of old sci-fi is for or against liking the cybertruck. IMHO the brilliance of the Tesla vehicles, to date, has been that they don’t try to look like futuristic vehicles as imagined by mid- to late-20th century (physical effect era) sci-fi films. Instead of looking goofy, they’re normal.
The cybertruck is a radical departure from that, and I suspect it’s going to hit a wall of interest/demand. I think there is a knee or sharp cutoff, with few people in the “don’t care either way” category. Lots of people (non-NASCAR fans) would be happy with any truck that is reliable and has the features they want because they all look like normal trucks. That casual demand wont extend to the cybertruck.
I grew up with Back to the Future and Total Recall and think the tesla truck looks like a 5 year old tried to draw a DeLorean from memory.
I thought regular teslas were ugly with the back end shaped like a sports bra, but this this is on a whole other level.
I watched both of those, and this thing is laughable. The best thing it will do is immediately identify the operator as a clown.
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