Comment by et2o

7 years ago

Tesla Model S and 3 in terms of collision safety are the safest cars ever sold in America. There is a giant crumple zone where the engine would be in an ICE vehicle. The Cybertruck will be the same.

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NamTaf  7 years ago

Those are not made out of this apparently super-hard steel. This thing's sales pitch sounds more like a tank than a car.

But yes, as sibling replies have pointed out, I was more aghast as the fact that the US does not give one iota of fuck about pedestrian safety, apparently. Here, you can (theoretically, granted) get fined for attaching a bullbar that compromises the pedestrian safety, for example by changing how a pedestrian bends when impacted by the front of the car and in doing so increasing the risk of spinal or other injury to the pedestrian.

My comment was largely a critique of the differing approaches to road safety.

  • Tenoke  7 years ago

    So would this make the truck unsellable in other countries?

    • NamTaf  7 years ago

      I mean I don't have proof positive that it doesn't meet those requirements, but if it doesn't do so then yes, at least here in AU if it doesn't meet those requirements then you simply cannot register them and therefore they're not road legal.

      You could technically still buy one, just as you can a non-road-legal track car, but that's it.

adrr  7 years ago

No they aren’t. Model 3 doesn’t score perfect in the all the IIHS injury categories which Mercedes, Lexus, and Volvo do for the vehicle class. It got the top pick but so did 15+ other models.

loeg  7 years ago

The model S and 3 are built almost exclusively from aluminum and aren't marketed like tanks.