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Safer for pedestrians, in the nihilistic sense that they at least won't survive the hit I guess?

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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 week ago

One of the many reasons this death machine is banned in Europe

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

Regardless, there is a very large number of people trying their best to import it and finding a loop-hole to put these monstosities on the road.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I've never actually seen one in the Netherlands. Plenty of absurdly big pickups, but not a cybertruck

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

And hopefully it will never happen.

I listened to a supposed car collector saying how he is planning to import one and legalize it under the gize of being a private museum piece. Supposedly, such cars get a special license and insurance, and are permitted to circulate from one show to another.

Hopefully, it gets returned at the border.

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago

For a car supposedly made of steel, that's an awful lot of plastic.

[-] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 20 points 1 week ago

Built like the finest midgrade consumer laptops

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Isn't the stainless steel like glued on or something? I swear they're only panels. If not, please correct me

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Yes, it's glued

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yes there was a huge scandal that the glue was wrong, so the panels fell off at high speeds. 🤣🤣🤣

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Oh jeez. Marketing got the advertisement all wrong. Here, let me fix that.

it is made ~~of~~ to ~~steel~~ steal money from idiots.

Here we go

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

It has a cast aluminum frame too I think

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[-] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, all is going according to the plan.

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[-] Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 30 points 1 week ago

there is a guy who lives about 2 miles away from me that owns one. I used to see his truck around, and see it while I was out walking parked in his driveway. I stopped seeing it for a few months. Then I was walking by when I saw him outside doping something in his yard and asked what happened to his truck. He said it was too much trouble, I said yeah, i heard they have some serious issues on the news. he replies "On top having to take it to the shop almost once a month motherfuckers just kept vandalizing the thing. It just was not worth owning."

It's a thought that makes me smile.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago

Also he looks like he's turning into a potato.

[-] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Holy shit how are these still legally drivable?!

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

Because Elon Musk funded the political campaign of a pedophile.

[-] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Everything is terrible

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

He's also a pedophile himself so it comes full circle

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[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

They're not, in Europe. Lucky bastards.

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[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago

i hope someone slices elon in half

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[-] inmate_p01135809@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

My parents hit a deer at 40mph with their Forester and it turned into pink mist. The only "mass" left of it was just a head. I have no doubt the CT is not as safe as regular vehicles, but I don't think the outcome of object getting hit by something at 75mph is going to be an indicator of safety.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago

Their Forester must be stronger then most cars. I've hit a deer at 55mph in my Tacoma and there was damage to my truck and the deer definitely didn't mist. You see them hit on the freeway all the time by semi trucks and there are definitely huge pieces of the deer left. Enough that you know exactly what animal they were. Not saying that your parents car didn't magically poof the deer, but your parents car magically poofed the deer. Or you're not remembering correctly.

[-] Splendid4117@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

i hit a deer with my rivian r1t at 75. the deer walked away a bit then toppled over. the crumple zone of the truck was not happy, but no part of the deer was missing

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago
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[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

This is how it do.

Also, hey, Taco gang, lfg!

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[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I'd assume that a 75mph impact between human/deer and a vehicle is going to go badly regardless.

There is a lot of evidence that a low front with a significant upward slope (where a struck pedestrian is pushed up over the vehicle) is much safer for pedestrian collisions, but for quite awhile now the style has been flat or aggressive grills. Far from just the cyber truck that's guilty of this

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[-] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

We could double the human population with cyber trucks!

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Elon Musk lies.

That is, like Trump he deliberately and wittingly deceives. Compare Cybertruck will be much safer per mile than other trucks, both for occupants and pedestrians. with I am the most transparent president in history.

Those lies extend to his outrageous space and industry goals like mars colonies and space-based data centers. Or the hyperloop.

He probably sees it as salesmanship the way Trump sees his own lies as the art of the deal.

And when Musk denies the death toll of DOGE ending USAID, he's lying to himself.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

Elon claims that it is safer for pedestrians

Safer than what? Being shot in the face?

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[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 16 points 1 week ago

Ok I know this thing is old news and we should all be past the initial shock of Elon doing something very Elon again.

But still...WHY THE FUCK IS IT SO UGLY?

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[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

I fucking bail if there's one even near me. They're knives on wheels and that's only one of many issues that make it a death trap for people inside or outside of it.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

I'll just call the police if I see one, because there's no way it'd be road legal here in the EU lmao

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

don't give that Kennedy guy ideas

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Okay I know this dumpster is made out of hard angles, but do they really expect us to believe that it sliced anything in half?

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Speed and mass can turn most angled surfaces into a knife

[-] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I'm thinking sliced is probably not quite what happened...

But... ya know... it sounds better than some asshat hit a deer in a CyberFuck® for like the 500th time.

[-] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Kinda hard to describe just how soft a fleshy being is and how little of a sharp edge you need to cut something when the knife is travelling at 70mph

While they didn't exactly anime style bisect the deer, I'm sure that it was pretty sliced up after being hit by a bin shaped wedge of poor design.

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[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

It's literally made of knives

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[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Very safe for pedestrians where I live as no one in their right mind would even consider imagining thinking about buying one even if they weren't banned and didn't look like a wheeled skip, therefore no pedestrians are at risk.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It can't hurt you. It either misses you or kill you, no risk of getting permanently paralyzed. That's a huge progress!

[-] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

I don't think a pedestrian is surviving being hit by any vehicle at 75mph. You could wrap a Prius in down pillows and it's going to end messily.

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 5 points 1 week ago

If you could choose to be hit by a vehicle, would you choose to be hit by a cybertruck or a prius? Be honest.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

I'd be just as dead, but I don't think I want the shame of being killed by the ugliest truck in history.

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[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

And the red neck doesn't give one single fuck about the deer, or seem to realize it would do the same to a person at half speed.

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[-] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Can confirm: Two halves of a deer are safer for pedophiles!

[-] funkreddit@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Lmao that piece of tin could never

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