It's more about visibility and ease of maneuvering the vehicle.
One of the first public videos of the Cybertruck showed it hitting an object as exited a parking lot. It's just way harder to drive a huge truck than it is to drive a sedan, but everyone thinks they are an above average driver so that doesn't aply to them.
Yes, which is largely why I like the cybertruck. I live where people almost exclusively drive huge vehicles like the biggest SUVs or trucks. The cybertruck is the nearest to driving one of them that I’d want to go if only for the sake of my safety.
It should be safer than a normal truck to pedestrians, since it doesn't have a broad front. With a car, the most common scenario is that car hits your legs and then you bounce on the hood. IOW, you don't get the full kinetic energy all at once. With a truck your body takes the full hit and you're more likely to fall under the tires.
With a lower, sharper front, the Cybertruck should behave more like a car than a full size truck.
But we really don't know yet. It's a real failure of regulators that we it's not a standard part of testing and that their aren't good standards in this area.
If you care about getting things done more than fitting in, the Cybertruck actually looks like a much better work truck than a relatively delicate F150.
It tells me that the involved driver doesn't know how to get the most out of the Cybertruck... probably. A Subaru of any size is a much lighter vehicle that's going to handle completely differently. Getting out of that and into a Cybertruck would be like getting out of a Corolla and into a Suburban. Just completely different vehicles.
That being said, Subaru is renowned for being a highly capable off-roading car. Cybertruck is highly renowned for nothing so far :D
Lets remember that most sedan [and smaller] cars do not fair well in collisions with pick-up trucks like the Ford F250... and neither do pedestrians and cyclists. Then consider all of the even larger, heavily industrial vehicles on the road...
Does look like the cybertruck might be even burlier than a F250... but the point is, we already share the road with "mini-tanks" [that are intrinsically more dangerous to other vehicles in collisions]. Adding one more niche model is not a significant risk increase.
The Ford F-150 is the most popular vehicle in the USA. Despite this, new car sales of the F-150 outside of North America appears to be negligible. This disparity is instructive.
Cybertruck is a product designed squarely for this North American market and isn't going to have mass appeal in any other global markets beyond novelty factor for a small number of people with excessive disposable wealth.
Yes, the Cybertruck looks like a safety nightmare in many respects—especially for pedestrians—but I would dare guess that it'd still be safer across the board compared to its established competitors like the F-150.
As if a cybertruck is somehow more dangerous than other trucks? It’s neither the heaviest, nor does it have the highest hood (the #1 pedestrian death rate predictor). Trucks are awful but CT is not the biggest offender lol.
When I lived in a midrise in the middle of town we had a Hummer driver move into the building. He started parking in the handicap space on the ground level because the Hummer's turning radius was too large to be able to make the corners in the parking deck to his leased parking spot. So much for being able to go anywhere in the Hummer. It never was a very practical vehicle. Other than the low polygon looks, the Cybertruck seems inline with the functionality of trucks in the F150 to F250 range. Probably won't be a problem performing tasks that those trucks already perform.
Im against trucks on roads here for the most part. But to act like Cybertruck is particluarly bad just isnt really make sense. Not having a huge nose will mean visibility is much better. The nose is also lower then an F-150 so the chance your head getting smash (the cause of deat most of the time would seem to be much lower). Cybertruck suspensions seem to also make it run closer to the ground when running on roads.
Plus Tesla fleet all follow the newest generation outmatic breaking regulation that is still voluntary. While many car makers including trucks don't yet implement that.
So in general, yes all pickup trucks are bad but this one seems better rather then worse.
In general keeping all these things should be severly restricted for private use, specially in cities.
This is quite the "take". But it's also directly contradicted by how Tesla designed the Cybertruck: with thick stainless steel body panels that weigh a ton compared to typical body panels used in cars. This was justified/marketed with the claim that these are bullet-proof - something that is far less relevant to the average driver than hitting a pothole or a curb.
So is the Cybertruck the exception to Tesla's design philosophy for some reason?
One of the first public videos of the Cybertruck showed it hitting an object as exited a parking lot. It's just way harder to drive a huge truck than it is to drive a sedan, but everyone thinks they are an above average driver so that doesn't aply to them.
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