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Gonna be real fun to see the crash test rating.
Without crumple zones, all of the kinetic energy goes into the occupants.
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Looked convincing at first, but it felt too clean- Then at 7 seconds in, you can watch a white panel clip straight through the door and windshield lol
OTOH it weighs almost 7000lbs (~3100kg) so it's going to plow through most of everything with its sheer mass.
You'd be surprised how much a concrete pillar holding up an overpass can actually take. They don't break like in the movies, they are specifically designed to take big truck impacts and not fail. Anybody crashing a Cybertruck at highway speeds into one of those is instantly turned into red colored mashed potatoes.
We have barriers good enough to stop a fully-loaded semi in effectively zero distance.
could hurt pedestrians and cyclists
I dare you to convince me that anyone still buying Tesla would not see that as a benefit. That's going to be the number one selling point of this thing after articles like this make their rounds.