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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 veh
by et2o 7y 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.
- loeg 7y agoThe model S and 3 are built almost exclusively from aluminum and aren't marketed like tanks.
- omgwtfbyobbq 7y agoMost of the 3 body is steel. I believe the fenders and frunk/trunk lids are aluminum. http://i.imgur.com/5dyII0Y.png http://i.imgur.com/5dyII0Y.png
- vincnetas 7y agoI guess for pedestrian impacts it does not matter what the frame is build from. It's the shell. Because if you (as pedestrian) already went through the aluminum shell, chances are you are already pretty much done :(
- danw1979 7y agoPedestrian or passenger safety ?
- adrr 7y agoNo 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.
- NamTaf 7y agoThose 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 7y agoSo would this make the truck unsellable in other countries?
- NamTaf 7y agoI 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.
- hoffs 7y agoI'm not sure that this would have big market outside USA regardless.