Updated: CyberTruck “Slices Deer in Half”… Elon claims that it is safer for pedestrians.
Safer for pedestrians, in the nihilistic sense that they at least won't survive the hit I guess?
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One of the many reasons this death machine is banned in Europe
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.
I've never actually seen one in the Netherlands. Plenty of absurdly big pickups, but not a cybertruck
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.
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.
Hopefully, it does not.
A cyber truck made in the 70's wouldn't have had musks involvement and thus might have not sucked.
Those pickups are so annoying. I really hope to see those things banned.
I think that's wonderful, honestly. Europeans should also have the opportunity to enjoy lighting one on fire.
I'm better amused with your nick. How difficult is it to catch one?
If you show any empathy, they'll find you
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.
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.
Maybe they are taking it back to Norway (where they are street-legal, thus Norwegians can drive them into the EU)
Not norwegian but regardless... Ouch!
I've recently seen my first one with a French license plate driving around in Germany. Apparently they're not as completely banned as I had hoped.
For a car supposedly made of steel, that's an awful lot of plastic.
Built like the finest midgrade consumer laptops
Isn't the stainless steel like glued on or something? I swear they're only panels. If not, please correct me
Yes, it's glued
Yes there was a huge scandal that the glue was wrong, so the panels fell off at high speeds. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh jeez. Marketing got the advertisement all wrong. Here, let me fix that.
Here we go
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.
It has a cast aluminum frame too I think
Ah yes, all is going according to the plan.
Its only a matter of time until some unfortunate human gets cut in half by one of these monstrosities, its too bad we have to wait until that happens to take them off the road forever.
I have no doubt's the cyber truck will be regarded as worst automotive failure of all time. Not just because its a piece of shit but because of how much money was wasted on it.
It likely already has cut someone in twain, but we live in a world where that no longer matters. Just look at all the tesla model 3 deaths (getting trapped inside while its on fire, autodriving people into walls, etc.)
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.
Elon musk is a Nazi
Also he looks like he's turning into a potato.
Holy shit how are these still legally drivable?!
Because Elon Musk funded the political campaign of a pedophile.
Everything is terrible
He's also a pedophile himself so it comes full circle
The hilarious part is that is was too uncool for the other pedos, but that he was still begging to be one
They're not, in Europe. Lucky bastards.
Sadly, they are. What you can purchase and what you can legally drive are governed by different rules. In the EU, a vehicle doesn't necessarily need to have EU type approval to be imported and registered.
That's why you can, find non-EU-spec vehicles on European roads. For example, red rear indicators, even though EU-approved vehicles generally require amber indicators.
The process is tedious, and there may be modifications involved, but nothing outright prevents you from getting a Cybertruck individually approved and driving it legally on EU roads. I know of 5 or so cases, where somebody jumped through those hoops.
That's too bad, they're terrible and unsafe
Oh so thats why I havent seen these things! I was just hoping my countrymen had taste.
I wish all of us had taste, RAMs and DODGEs even existing on our roads proves otherwise, those blowhards would buy a cybertruck too if they could
i hope someone slices elon in half
Vertically
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.
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.
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
Hello Rivian friend
🙋
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.
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
Do you work for Elon? This just seems... Super weird to say. Like, that's not how it works at all.
We could double the human population with cyber trucks!
Oh snap
You don't need to sell me on it I'm already convinced they are a menace
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.
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?
Beauty is subjective.
...but ugly is universal.
Not in this case it's not
It's not a person honey, it's a tin can on wheels sold by a pedo nazi.
Safer than what? Being shot in the face?
Safer than nothing, its just another lie of a serial liar who has lied about literally everything for his entire life.
At this point if he'd claim 2+2=4, I'd presume math went upside down and it must be 5, because he'd be lying about it for sure.
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.
don't give that Kennedy guy ideas
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?
Speed and mass can turn most angled surfaces into a knife
It's literally made of knives
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.
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.
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.
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.
The hood is literally a massive steel knife blade.
I suddenly realize that I've never actually been close enough to, or paid attention to pictures of one of these stupid things to see that. I've only ever seen like 3 of them in the wild.
Look at the video. The hood is two steel blades that meet at their edges, traveling at 75mph.
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.
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
I'm not sure if NATO personnel in Belgium can bring this shit here: they can drive their US registered car without issues because I've seen quite a few cars with US plates (and only on the rear) in that area.
It can't hurt you. It either misses you or kill you, no risk of getting permanently paralyzed. That's a huge progress!
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.
If you could choose to be hit by a vehicle, would you choose to be hit by a cybertruck or a prius? Be honest.
I'd be just as dead, but I don't think I want the shame of being killed by the ugliest truck in history.
.........but he'd probably still slice a person in half at about half the speed, and people have survived being hit by cars before. You get that, yeah?
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.
Most rednecks would see that as a significant selling point, and still not buy it cuz it's electric
Can confirm: Two halves of a deer are safer for pedophiles!
FTFY
I'm honestly surprised any of those things are still running.
Lmao that piece of tin could never
The panels are flat stainless steel blades, not tin like most cars, and it was moving at 75mph. Would you like to be hit by a butchers knife at 75mph? Think you'd get up and run off?
Watch the video in the link. The buck may have been 'cut in half', but the truck...
I had a friend in college drive through a horse in a sedan (Honda I think). Same outcome. Bisected horse, trashed Honda (NOT drive able). He has no idea how he lived, he thinks he was leaning down to change the CD player when it happened and the roof of his car was gone and he was in pain and covered in gore.
Hate the CT, but impacting a large animal at speed isn't going to end well for anyone involved, regardless of how safe the vehicle is.
A 75mph beach ball would probably be life threatening.
If I'm not mistaken, I think I remember that Swedish Volvos were specifically engineered to be able to crash into a Moose and save the car driver. I think they have a special Moose crash simulation / test dummy.
That's hilarious and I had never heard of it, sure enough, Volvo has a factory moose crash-test dummy.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/moose-crash-test-dummy-volvo/
ok that's funny