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First Tesla Cybertruck Crash Kills Driver In Baytown Area, Electric Pick-up Bursts Into Flames
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It’s not that you’d be cut in half.
It’s that the force of the impact is concentrated onto a single point. (Specifically the corner.)
Also, kids exist and are more likely to not be seen, shorter doesn’t much help them.
Being shorter is one thing, but that’s just a whataboutism. The design of the CT is broadly unsafe, from drive by wire systems that insert delayed control signals, to shitty suspension that can’t handle hard and sudden braking under any kind of real load, to tires that get cut by its own hub cover, to lethal body panels and being ridiculously heavy.
I mean... the meme is that the front edge is going to cut people in half and be deadly. And we agree that's probably a problem that we'll need to see crash data from. But that's just one part of the front of which others are arguably safer.
Kids will get killed by all trucks regardless. Having the front impact heads in an accident is a losing proposition for everyone and doesn't have any relevance in the discussion.
The rest of that is all meaningless as well until there is other data and you just grasping for straws.