The Tesla Cybertruck Won't Be Crash Tested Any Time Soon
The Tesla Cybertruck Won't Be Crash Tested Any Time Soon
Not every vehicle on U.S. roads receives a crash test rating.
Imagine your country be so corrupted you don't 'need do safety test for sell it .
I am at a loss here.
How can the car be sold if it hasn't been tested?
To sell the car, you must meet some minimum safety requirements. Car manufacturers usually demonstrate safety to the government by doing their own internal crash testing. That data is not necessarily publicly released.
The safety ratings you are probably familiar with come from two organisations: The NHTSA and the IIHS perform independent crash testing without support from the manufacturer. Due to budgetary constraints, they don't necessarily test every single model. The cybertruck is quite low volume at the moment and so testing it provides low value to the public. This is not unique to the cybertruck. Other vehicles which are not tested include all Land Rover, Porsche, and Jaguar models.
It may be more accurate to say independently crash tested. Manufacturer ones may not be released to the public nor useful to the public, but a manufacturer would be stupid to not do at least some. They could get some really expensive surprises when actual customers have accidents.
I didn't realize that NHSF crash tests were even optional for mass produced cars.
It’s mainly to get a nice little graphic to put into your marketing materials. Elon knows that the type of sucker who buys his products doesn’t look past the shiny design.
What's the NHSF? You said it like it's a well known organization or something. lol
That said, did you think there was a minimum safety rating cars had to achieve or something? That would pretty sweet and something we should totally have. I absolutely love safety regulations!
There are lots of safety regulations manufacturers must comply with even if their vehicle is not independently tested.
I think this aligned with the greater frequency of lawsuits in the US. Sometimes it’s more cost effective to enforce regulations by lawsuit than to hire inspections/audits/testing. I’m not agreeing with them at prioritizing, just describing
If it has Tesla's autonomous driving, I guarantee it'll be crash tested sooner or later
Sooner
Later too.
People love shitting on autonomous driving and I agree that it isn't ready yet which is why the driver is supposed to still be paying attention, but I think people are way worse and are more likely to cause an accident.
I think it varies. A trained human who is paying attention is better than the self driving script (for now?), but sometimes the human driver is drunk, busy texting, or someone whose idea of training was "I've ridden in cars before, how hard can it be?"
It's not hard to outperform those cases, but "better than Drunkotron" isn't enough to roll out self driving everywhere.
Dude, people with money are so fucking boring.
Bezos could easily buy 100 of these things (yes I know he can buy an infinite amount) and crash test them himself and put out the stats.
And he'd make money from it as well
Who’s excited to see what a vehicle without crumple zones does to a regular car at 60+ mph? Smart money is on at least one person being split completely in half, but the hail mary returns on “no fatalities” is really tempting.
Look, maybe some by crazy chance, it's super safe for occupants. However, I think the cars it hit will be sheared a good ways through.
And this is precisely why many people I know want SUVs. Compact cars are simply not safe anymore in much of the United States. I drive a hatchback in Texas and have to pay more attention driving here than anywhere else I've lived. The many lifted pickup trucks simply can not see anything other than SUVs, and that ignores the crash testing problems which need to be updated to better reasonable modern roads largely filled with SUVs and pickup trucks.
Cars move, meaning its reasonably safer to crash into (or against) another car.
Its concrete walls and trees that you have to worry about. Those things will murder you. Medians, dividers, buildings, trees, power lines, etc. etc. If you don't have crumple zones, you're dead.
The beta tester will do that and even pay for it.
Why pay a crash test team and fund all of that research when tech bros will test it for you! Good luck everyone else!
So it wont come to EU any time soon.
There's a number if reasons why it won't.
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too heavy. It requires a C1 license, which is basically what you need to drive a full-size truck, which very few people have.
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too pointy. Safety requirements require all protruding parts to have something like a 4mm rounding, but the dumpstertruck simply has bare, unrounded steel plates.
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basically nobody drives a pick up, because they're a stupid way to do anything.
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Europe mandates a CCS2 connector, which isn't even an option on the Tesla truck right now.
And of course, Europe DOES mandate crash testing, which it will never pass. It also requires pedestratian safety, which it will also never pass.
- basically nobody drives a pick up, because they're a stupid way to do anything.
Yes but they are unfortunately becoming more common
- Europe mandates a CCS2 connector, which isn't even an option on the Tesla truck right now.
True, but that's irrelevant since Tesla models have the CCS2 connector. Having to switch the connector is not a problem for them.
Obligatory: Yes the car, Tesla, Elon is bad.
I mean it positively - I see more and more of these American "compensatiors" on roads.
As a cyclist it is worrying and I know few people who use "trucks" for work and noons of them would consider anything bigger than Hylux.
I agree exept for the point that more and more people need these stupid big ass american trucks nowm
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Huge W
That gif at the beginning of the article clearly showcases the lack of crumple zones. The impact energy doesn't dissipate and you can see the crash test dummies lurch forward with a good amount of whiplash at 35 mph (56 km/h).
35 mph (21.748 km/h).
You converted in the wrong direction.
1mph = 1.6 km/h
35 mph is 56 km/h
Dang it. Fixed
The backseat passengers looks like they'd break their neck on the front seats...
I've seen video of the cyber truck being crash tested. What was that about?
An internal, unreported test by Tesla. That strangely cuts out before the impact and has no statistics or discussion about it's crash capabilities.
Ah, ok makes sense. Personally, I think it would look better AFTER a crash test. LOL.
