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[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 145 points 4 months ago

The "obliterated" is decades of safety research into how to make the vehicle itself absorb the impact, reducing the forces applied to the people inside.

I have no idea what cybertruck does for safety, but I'm sure somebody was looking into it.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 85 points 4 months ago

consider, however, not dying in a minor fender bender is gay. why you trying to stay alive, to have sex with men?

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago

True sigmas only ever allow themselves to be penetrated by their steering column

[-] Naal@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

yes but that's not the point angry-hex

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[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 110 points 4 months ago

I fucking love scienceyoung-sheldon my-hero

Has 0 understanding of basic Newtonian mechanics. That energy's gotta go somewhere, folks!

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 57 points 4 months ago

morshupls Actually, if you don't wear a seatbelt, you'll be thrown clear of the crash to safety! It's simple physics.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 49 points 4 months ago

And with the bazingatruck's impenetrable glass, you can be smashed like a bug on your own windshield lol

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[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 4 months ago

Pfft Newton was woke. Next question, Don.

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 105 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Built like a tank" just means all of the kinetic energy from an impact gets absorbed by the bones and organs of the squishy occupants inside.

Both of your legs breaking from being t-boned on the passenger side probably isn't supposed to happen.

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If it was built like a tank, does that mean tankies would buy them?

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 86 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

the glass should shatter, its an alternate way for you to get out/be rescued if the door is stuck ffs. you aren't the President. jfk-gaming

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 67 points 4 months ago

Looks like Tesla are still catching up to 1950s level technology.

The Mercedes-Benz patent number 854157, granted in 1952, describes the decisive feature of passive safety. [Mercedes engineer Béla] Barényi questioned the opinion that had prevailed until then that a safe car had to be rigid. He divided the car body into three sections: the rigid non-deforming passenger compartment and the crumple zones in the front and the rear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone

There's also a bunch of reddit threads from around the time of the original Cybertruck announcement full of Musklickers saying of course it'll be a super safe vehicle and dumping on anyone who even suggests caution.

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

What if the crumple zone was the other car though? I drive away unscathed after you crumple like a fool!

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[-] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 66 points 4 months ago

Firemen will tell you this, often the people inside the more fucked up looking car are better off than the car that looks more intact, it means the car probably absorbed more of the impact than the passengers. A fireman literally told me this when my Boy Scout troop did a tour of his hall.

[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 53 points 4 months ago

I was working on an ambualnce before that round of safety features was widely adopted. It was a shock for a few years to see cars that dissolved and largely unharmed people. It is rare to see catastrophic injuries they way we used to so that has been a good change overall.

[-] HeavenAndEarth@hexbear.net 62 points 4 months ago

How did the cyber truck pass safety regulations? Jesus Christ

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 89 points 4 months ago

Can't fail the test if it doesn't get tested in the first place.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 57 points 4 months ago

How can you be allowed to put a car on the roads that hasn't been tested? That's mad

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

737 Max was the same thing, and we all know how that went. One of the side effects of the hollowing out of the public sector under neo-liberalism that results in "self-regulation".

[-] Des@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

our company does it's own health inspections. you can guess how that goes down

never seen federal in my entire career and only see the state guy once every few years and hes bought off

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

The one time I saw a federal regulator at my last job, I was coached for literally a week on exactly what to tell him by management. Day of, I just ignored them and pointed out all the obvious safety issues once we were in the private meeting. No advisories were given based off of my advice anyway. :yea:

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Critical support tbh I say make the cyber truck more dangerous

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[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I looked at this at the time; they only test vehicles they want to, essentially. They don't HAVE to test anything, and they frequently don't test low production cars, sports cars, exotics, etc

I imagine at some point they will test the bazingamobile, but only because of how high profile it is and how frequent things like this will be

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 months ago

motherfuckers know its bad

[-] HeavenAndEarth@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago

God damn I live in a fake country 😖

[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

How are they even allowed to sell it? What the fuck is the point then?

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[-] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago
[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Don't catch you slippin' now

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

Look what I'm whippin' now

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[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 54 points 4 months ago

Thank goodness the equipment is alright! Pretty sure legs grow back, but I'm no doctor or anything

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago

Crumple zones - they work, folks!

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

So the Cybertruck isn't gonna be totalled? anakin-padme-2

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

How are these damn things legal

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago
[-] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

American. Tesla is the bastion of American ,"innovation" and has the value of tons of capital tied to it, therefore it cannot face consequences for wrongdoing. If a foreign company tried something 1/10th this negligent they would never be allowed to sell cars in the US again.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

If you're famous they just let you do it.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

whats the point of making it not crumple if the insurance company is going to call it totalled anyway?

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago

The real crumple zone is fragile masculinity.

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago

i literally cannot roast the cybertruck harder than its own fans. it's not possible

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[-] POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago

Yeah 10mph faster and she would have been dead or at least paraplegic. This is fucking terrifying. Just look at how deep the crumple extends on the Nissan. It is not made to be hit by a steel wall.

[-] Alisu@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

Wait I can't tell which parts are destroyed and which ones just look like that naturally

[-] Antiwork@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago

That still looks like a totaled car

[-] hyper@lemmy.zip 32 points 4 months ago

Also, the cybertruck might not look as damaged but the cost to fix is almost the price of the vehicle. The frame gets damaged since the car does not rally absorb the force into a crunch zone.

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[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago

Anyone have a source on the two broken legs thing? I'd like to rub this in a friends face tyvm

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

I have a source on the two broken arms incident, is that okay?

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

Incestual reddit references on my Hexbear?

spray-bottle

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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 4 months ago

Tbf isn't the one being t-boned getting the shorter end of the stick? From intuition I assume they will be much worse off in most cases especially if they approached from the driver side.

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[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

in evil Soviet ghyna electric cars dont have crumple zones!!!1!1!!!!!1

[-] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Cybertruck fools be running lights, am I right?

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