Link: https://fuelarc.com/evs/cybertruck-slices-deer-in-half-at-highway-speed-but-what-about-pedestrians/

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

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

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.

don't give that Kennedy guy ideas

Lmao that piece of tin could never

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

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.

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

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.

This is how it do.

Also, hey, Taco gang, lfg!

Their car was nearly totaled. It's possible there were parts of the deer somewhere, but my wife, police, and tow truck driver weren't able to find any.

Holy shit how are these still legally drivable?!

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?

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

Because Elon Musk funded the political campaign of a pedophile.

i hope someone slices elon in half

Built like the finest midgrade consumer laptops

Everything is terrible

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

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

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.

Do you work for Elon? This just seems... Super weird to say. Like, that's not how it works at all.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It's literally made of knives

They're not, in Europe. Lucky bastards.

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

It has a cast aluminum frame too I think

Yes, it's glued

Hello Rivian friend

Oh so thats why I havent seen these things! I was just hoping my countrymen had taste.

Vertically

There is exactly one way to put it on the road and that is: sitting on the back of an actually street-legal truck.

Considering the size of it, it would be a monstrosity atop another.

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.

Can't be a normal tow truck, you need the big guns for that thing.

Image allegedly from Germany.

Tell me it is going headed to the recycling center.

We could double the human population with cyber trucks!

Maybe they are taking it back to Norway (where they are street-legal, thus Norwegians can drive them into the EU)

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

I think that's wonderful, honestly. Europeans should also have the opportunity to enjoy lighting one on fire.

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

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.

The entire subframe is aluminium, and as a result known for collapsing if you try to tow with it.

It's a boxy slab of shite is what it is.

I do historical reenactment, so I know an above average number of people with... interesting vehicles.

You can own any vehicle you want, as long as you don't use it on the open road. Making a ww2 willys jeep street legal isn't too hard, since its historical. Anything from before the 1960s doesn't need to meet pretty much any safety standards other than "have lights and brakes".

But the cyberstuck isn't from before then, and would need to meet safety standards. Only some of the requirements can be waived for special reasons, but not all of them. There's one semi-famous story of a group who couldn't get their "ww2-ified" 1970's M5 halftrack approved for the road because it's insufficiently historical, so they had to install 3-point seatbelts and such. Technically, a 1940's M3 halftrack could be approved, to they basically bought a chassis from one, and made the M3-of-Thesseus, where they basically kept the chassis plate, and replaced everything else. So now it's oficially a 1940's halftrack, with 99.95% 1970's parts.

I don't think that works for a cybertruck.

Not to flog a dead deer but you seem to be describing getting hit by a truck.

How they got away without the standard 10MPH crash bumpers on the thing remains a mystery, but I doubt it would have helped the poor deer.

Maybe one of those cute little Asian deer could have ducked, but anything else is basically a pile of venison.

I’m thinking sliced is probably not quite what happened…

This is what I was replying to.

Sliced is a pretty accurate descriptor, maybe "tenderized" if you only want it in a pile and not chunked.

Those pickups are so annoying. I really hope to see those things banned.