I think we can use the track record of them shipping safe cars to assume they will do so with the truck. However, the truck that gets shipped is still years out

I think we can use the track record of them shipping safe cars to assume they will do so with the truck. However, the truck that gets shipped is still years out, and Tesla has a history of hyping up bare prototypes for marketing / pr purposes. Personally, seeing this one not close to road legal with potential safety issues just means the usual skepticism on their launch timing is warranted.