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The Ford F-150 is the most popular vehicle in the USA. Despite this, new car sales of the F-150 outside of North America appears to be negligible. This disparit
by sjwright 7y ago
The Ford F-150 is the most popular vehicle in the USA. Despite this, new car sales of the F-150 outside of North America appears to be negligible. This disparity is instructive.
Cybertruck is a product designed squarely for this North American market and isn't going to have mass appeal in any other global markets beyond novelty factor for a small number of people with excessive disposable wealth.
Yes, the Cybertruck looks like a safety nightmare in many respects—especially for pedestrians—but I would dare guess that it'd still be safer across the board compared to its established competitors like the F-150.
- daedalus_f 7y agoThe United States has a traffic related mortality of 12.4 per 100,000 pop compared to the UKs 3.1 and well behind the rest of western Europe [1] Its almost as if there's something wrong with America's road regulations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
- viridian 7y agoDoes that take in to account the difference between how many miles Americans drive a day versus Brits?
- NickNameNick 7y agoWhile I don't doubt there are shortcomings in the US's road safety regulatory regime, That's probably not a fair comparison. I strongly suspect that on both a trip-miles and passenger-miles basis, the US far outstrips any european country. *edit If you sort that table on 'road fatalities per billion vehicle KM' you'll see the US at 7.3, same as Belgium. The UK is doing better at 3.4
- sjwright 7y agoI'd argue it's entirely fair. The fact that people in the US spend a lot more time in the car is part of the problem. Fatalities per distance is fine for a technical comparison of road safety regulations. Fatalities per population is more useful when comparing the safety of roads as they are used.
- sandeatr 7y agoUS spends more time in the car because of lower population density than Europe. UK is the size of Colorado yet has 10x the population, so of course they will drive less.
- philwelch 7y agoPossibly controversial opinion: It isn't going to have mass appeal even in North America. The type of people who drive the Ford F-150 and similar American pickups are not the type of people who will drive a Cybertruck. So who is?