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Just to add, it seems like the overwhelming concern i hear expressed is for pedestrians. I'm also a bit concerned in general with the trend of vehicle on vehic
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
Just to add, it seems like the overwhelming concern i hear expressed is for pedestrians.
I'm also a bit concerned in general with the trend of vehicle on vehicle collisions. Cars are adding a good fraction of a ton of batteries, and that's somewhat terrifying: that a cars inertia is so much higher than it used to be. Now instead of a car with well designed crumple zones we have a car designed by some lunaric to go out and win Robot Wars, designed for Mad Max car combat?
In the US, we have trouble with bad visibility & vehicle heights that send pedestrians under. But there at least been a somewhat civil world where we don't have giant swinging blades and cleavers attached to cars. It's hard to see the cybertrucks design as anything but something out of Carmageddon, as flauting the at least semi polite society we lived & building something terrible. With the added vehicle masses at play, it feels like we could start to see some incredibly terrible vehicle on vehicle colossions too, not that we don't already have enough vehicle based horrors to haunt us.
- wudangmonk 3y agoI see a lot of complaining by armchair experts regarding the cybertruck. I will admit that I know nothing about it but I know this isn't the first car that Tesla has built. They are a very successful company with plenty of cars on the road and they are setting quite a few of the standards that others follow. I also know that there are federal regulations that all cars must follow regarding safety. Given all of that, is it still possible that this is a car designed by a lunatic to win the robot wars? it could well be true but you can buy it with the ease of mind that when you are stomping everyone else in these wars, you will be perfectly free from liability since its government aproved.