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Is that still the same basic design that was initially shown with the rigid steel body? If so, how are they planning to solve the likely safety issues here, bot

Is that still the same basic design that was initially shown with the rigid steel body? If so, how are they planning to solve the likely safety issues here, both for the people inside as well as people outside. Having nothing that crumples should mean that the full force of any crash is applied to the passengers. And the design looks like it's a nightmare for any pedestrian hit by it.

brianwawok 3y ago
It’s not really a rigid body anymore, this got silently changed 18 months ago. It’s just slightly thicker than normal body panels.
quantified 3y ago
What truck is designed to be nice to a pedestrian that is hit by it?
- progbits 3y ago
  Every road-legal truck in Europe? Nice being a relative term of course.
samwillis 3y ago
Exactly, I'm fairly sure based on my rudimentary understanding of European regulations that the Cyber Truck as designed wouldn't pass. (Sharp corners = very bad for pedestrians) My assumption is that they aimed to have the automation/AI to the point that it avoided collisions and pedestrians, and aimed to sidestep the regulations. I don't think that has a chance in hell of happening though. Don't get me wrong, the child in my loves the design, it's awesome. However the adult in me knows it's stupid, ridiculously oversized and dangerous.
- saiya-jin 3y ago
  Yeah that frontal bumper is a people cutter, probably even for city speeds. Sure as hell am I glad I won't ever see this on roads here in Europe.
djyaz1200 3y ago
That's a valid concern that I've heard brought up and never heard it addressed, I'd assume they would make the steel very thin, or switch to aluminum. Whatever the manufacturing challenges are would be worth addressing to essentially have no paint. You can have your Tesla in any color as long as it's bare metal.
londons_explore 3y ago
In the US, trucks are exempt from most of the pedestrian safety requirements (and many of the occupant safety tests too). I'd guess they never sell this in the EU, because it would never pass, or if it did, it would get terrible scores.
- sofixa 3y ago
  > In the US, trucks are exempt from most of the pedestrian safety requirements (and many of the occupant safety tests too). What? Why?? I knew they had much wider tolerances for pollution which is playing a part in manufacturers heavily pushing them, but why the gell would they be exempt from any pedestrian or passenger safety requirement? (And yes, it's obvious modern American trucks are deadly to passengers, the question is how they how was that allowed)
vardump 3y ago
Perhaps pedestrian airbags that deploy from the front?
- Yizahi 3y ago
  Reminds me of Carmageddon, that spring-like weapon which launched pedestrians over the map like a cannonball :) . (PS: I know about external airbags prototypes, it's just St. Elon might as well make a more powerful version, to go with the Cybertruck looks) :)
  - justsomehnguy 3y ago
    In 1920s there were at least a couple of prototypes what quite litrrally caught people in the net. A bit lazy to look for it by myself but Pathe definitely had a video on those gizmos.

brianwawok 3y ago

It’s not really a rigid body anymore, this got silently changed 18 months ago. It’s just slightly thicker than normal body panels.

quantified 3y ago

What truck is designed to be nice to a pedestrian that is hit by it?

progbits 3y ago
Every road-legal truck in Europe? Nice being a relative term of course.

samwillis 3y ago

Exactly, I'm fairly sure based on my rudimentary understanding of European regulations that the Cyber Truck as designed wouldn't pass. (Sharp corners = very bad for pedestrians) My assumption is that they aimed to have the automation/AI to the point that it avoided collisions and pedestrians, and aimed to sidestep the regulations. I don't think that has a chance in hell of happening though. Don't get me wrong, the child in my loves the design, it's awesome. However the adult in me knows it's stupid, ridiculously oversized and dangerous.

saiya-jin 3y ago
Yeah that frontal bumper is a people cutter, probably even for city speeds. Sure as hell am I glad I won't ever see this on roads here in Europe.

djyaz1200 3y ago

That's a valid concern that I've heard brought up and never heard it addressed, I'd assume they would make the steel very thin, or switch to aluminum. Whatever the manufacturing challenges are would be worth addressing to essentially have no paint. You can have your Tesla in any color as long as it's bare metal.

londons_explore 3y ago

In the US, trucks are exempt from most of the pedestrian safety requirements (and many of the occupant safety tests too). I'd guess they never sell this in the EU, because it would never pass, or if it did, it would get terrible scores.

sofixa 3y ago
> In the US, trucks are exempt from most of the pedestrian safety requirements (and many of the occupant safety tests too). What? Why?? I knew they had much wider tolerances for pollution which is playing a part in manufacturers heavily pushing them, but why the gell would they be exempt from any pedestrian or passenger safety requirement? (And yes, it's obvious modern American trucks are deadly to passengers, the question is how they how was that allowed)

vardump 3y ago

Perhaps pedestrian airbags that deploy from the front?

Yizahi 3y ago
Reminds me of Carmageddon, that spring-like weapon which launched pedestrians over the map like a cannonball :) . (PS: I know about external airbags prototypes, it's just St. Elon might as well make a more powerful version, to go with the Cybertruck looks) :)
- justsomehnguy 3y ago
  In 1920s there were at least a couple of prototypes what quite litrrally caught people in the net. A bit lazy to look for it by myself but Pathe definitely had a video on those gizmos.