Comment by blipvert
1 day ago
The “Cybertruck” (ffs …) is not legal in the EU due to safety regulations, so I would say that you are mistaken.
1 day ago
The “Cybertruck” (ffs …) is not legal in the EU due to safety regulations, so I would say that you are mistaken.
It's not legal because it's unsafe for pedestrians, not for people inside the car.
That still seems like the kind of safety we should care about
Interesting POV
So, it's unsafe.
Bloody euros caring about all the potential victims of an accident
So we agree, it's unsafe
And yet, here's one in Poland, which is in EU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nfMEz8eJZc
I personally saw one in Krakow, Poland.
Cybertruck does not have EU homologation so Tesla can't sell it in EU. Because at the moment they don't want to.
You can buy it, import it and certify for legal use. It requires minor modifications but is perfectly legal.
No its not 'perfectly legal' in the context the original comment was made.
Its not allowed to be sold to the mass market in Europe. The import law is something different.
That feels like it's much more "by design" than "cannot meet regulations".
Immaterial to the original claim.
“We designed the Tesla Deathtrap 300 to explicitly break any regulations regarding danger to human life”
Says more about the EU than about the Cybertruck.
What, that the EU cares about the effects of products on people other than the purchaser?
That things which are good for an individual but bad for everyone else deserve scrutiny?
Calling a cybertruck too dangerous shows a quite high degree of regulatory conservatism. That could be good from some perspectives, but in the long-term it will leave the EU increasingly irrelevant as things develop, because new things always come with risks. But if your standard of unacceptable danger is 'hardened electric truck' then you'll be increasingly far behind on the curve of adoption, to say nothing of creation, of new tech because they'll all certainly go well beyond that.
Go back to times past and think about electricity for instance. Can you even imagine? 'Yeah we'd uh like to set up these poles all around the countryside and string some wires between them. And yeah if anybody touches those wire, they die and all the electricity gets screwed up. If lightning strikes them or a tree falls on them, yeah they're gonna fall and start fires. And there will be live wires - and uh yeah again, touch 'em and you die. Anyhow, we good to go? In exchange for this totally-safe-tech we'll be able to have electric lights! I mean how cool is that? Err and in full disclosure about those lights, uh don't touch the sockets or well.. you know, yeah - you die. Okay, so we good to go?'
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Stupid Europeans (and Australians) for protecting pedestrians, what a bunch of woke pussies ?
I would argue that neurotic bureaucrats forcing everyone to share their excessive worries are rent-seeking at best and actually-not-intelligent at worst.
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