Amazing

The "obliterated" is decades of safety research into how to make the vehicle itself absorb the impact, reducing the forces applied to the people inside.

I have no idea what cybertruck does for safety, but I'm sure somebody was looking into it.

consider, however, not dying in a minor fender bender is gay. why you trying to stay alive, to have sex with men?
- True sigmas only ever allow themselves to be penetrated by their steering column
- yes but that's not the point
it's the one time when capitalism aligned with safety because even the slightest bump costs millionty dollars to repair but that also happens to save lives too

I fucking love science

Has 0 understanding of basic Newtonian mechanics. That energy's gotta go somewhere, folks!

Actually, if you don't wear a seatbelt, you'll be thrown clear of the crash to safety! It's simple physics.
- And with the bazingatruck's impenetrable glass, you can be smashed like a bug on your own windshield lol
- not true, my dad died that way
Pfft Newton was woke. Next question, Don.

"Built like a tank" just means all of the kinetic energy from an impact gets absorbed by the bones and organs of the squishy occupants inside.

Both of your legs breaking from being t-boned on the passenger side probably isn't supposed to happen.

If it was built like a tank, does that mean tankies would buy them?

the glass should shatter, its an alternate way for you to get out/be rescued if the door is stuck ffs. you aren't the President.

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=55401
Maybe it's not bad that it's shatterproof? /J
- What's /j?
It's taking out it's owners tho, soooo... Maybe just let them drive their steel coffins?
alternately it becomes a cyberglobe with dead rich people in it if it drives into a lake or something

Looks like Tesla are still catching up to 1950s level technology.

The Mercedes-Benz patent number 854157, granted in 1952, describes the decisive feature of passive safety. [Mercedes engineer Béla] Barényi questioned the opinion that had prevailed until then that a safe car had to be rigid. He divided the car body into three sections: the rigid non-deforming passenger compartment and the crumple zones in the front and the rear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone

There's also a bunch of reddit threads from around the time of the original Cybertruck announcement full of Musklickers saying of course it'll be a super safe vehicle and dumping on anyone who even suggests caution.

What if the crumple zone was the other car though? I drive away unscathed after you crumple like a fool!
- World's funniest tragedy of the commons
- watch this, kid... when these two bazinga mobiles get up to 88 miles per hour and collide, you're going to see some serious shit!

Firemen will tell you this, often the people inside the more fucked up looking car are better off than the car that looks more intact, it means the car probably absorbed more of the impact than the passengers. A fireman literally told me this when my Boy Scout troop did a tour of his hall.

I was working on an ambualnce before that round of safety features was widely adopted. It was a shock for a few years to see cars that dissolved and largely unharmed people. It is rare to see catastrophic injuries they way we used to so that has been a good change overall.

How did the cyber truck pass safety regulations? Jesus Christ

Can't fail the test if it doesn't get tested in the first place.
- How can you be allowed to put a car on the roads that hasn't been tested? That's mad
- motherfuckers know its bad
- God damn I live in a fake country 😖
- How are they even allowed to sell it? What the fuck is the point then?
This is america
- Don't catch you slippin' now
There basically are no safety regulations
If it's got a mirror and a seatbelt it's good to go
They probably pass the exact wording of the test in ways that don't actually help anything during an accident.

Thank goodness the equipment is alright! Pretty sure legs grow back, but I'm no doctor or anything

Crumple zones - they work, folks!

So the Cybertruck isn't gonna be totalled?

whats the point of making it not crumple if the insurance company is going to call it totalled anyway?

The real crumple zone is fragile masculinity.

How are these damn things legal

lobbying
American. Tesla is the bastion of American ,"innovation" and has the value of tons of capital tied to it, therefore it cannot face consequences for wrongdoing. If a foreign company tried something 1/10th this negligent they would never be allowed to sell cars in the US again.
If you're famous they just let you do it.

i literally cannot roast the cybertruck harder than its own fans. it's not possible

Either they're happy it breaks their legs or thrilled cops are abusing their power to pull them over just to take a look. Anything we say to make fun of them they've already gone beyond.

Yeah 10mph faster and she would have been dead or at least paraplegic. This is fucking terrifying. Just look at how deep the crumple extends on the Nissan. It is not made to be hit by a steel wall.

Wait I can't tell which parts are destroyed and which ones just look like that naturally

That still looks like a totaled car

Also, the cybertruck might not look as damaged but the cost to fix is almost the price of the vehicle. The frame gets damaged since the car does not rally absorb the force into a crunch zone.

Anf it's not even a truck fucking dammit it's a SUV at best
- Neither are American trucks nowadays. I think they're just recycling the same frame for trucks and SUV's now? The "trucks" are just an SUV with an open ass trunk.
Elon Musk, such a fan of pop culture and memes that he made a space age truck with the same frame issues as a Delorean.

Anyone have a source on the two broken legs thing? I'd like to rub this in a friends face tyvm

I have a source on the two broken arms incident, is that okay?
- Incestual reddit references on my Hexbear?
- Didn't his mum get the sauce?

Tbf isn't the one being t-boned getting the shorter end of the stick? From intuition I assume they will be much worse off in most cases especially if they approached from the driver side.

It looks like it was a passenger-side collision
- If the image isn't flipped, nah, the passenger side is too unscathed, must be from the driver side

in evil Soviet ghyna electric cars dont have crumple zones!!!1!1!!!!!1

Cybertruck fools be running lights, am I right?

Tesla fan looking at two crashed fighter jets: "Clearly the plane with the pilot's seat still there is the better plane because more of it is intact."