[twiss]

Impacted side of the Cybertruck: https://www.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/18tmhia/the_dri...

It's good that nobody suffered major injuries, but another car driving into the side of a Cybertruck doesn't say much about what would happen if a Cybertruck drove into a pedestrian, for example - I assume the result wouldn't be good. So this headline strikes me as strange, or at least the article doesn't really address that concern.

[calciphus]

Last thing I want to do is make excuses for tesla, but the front doesn't look particularly different from any other truck for sale in the US. What is your question / suspicion exactly? That it is substantially worse than similar vehicles?

[twiss]

You're right of course that all trucks are dangerous. But in https://topgear.nl/autonieuws/techneut-van-tesla-legt-uit-wa... (in Dutch), the Vice President of Vehicle Engineering at Tesla says that the Cybertruck won't come to Europe partly because:

> European regulations require a rounding of 3.2 millimeters on protruding parts. Unfortunately, it is impossible to make a rounding of 3.2 millimeters on a sheet of stainless steel of 1.4 millimeters

(and I assume most other trucks meet this requirement, at least the ones that are also sold in the EU). I don't know how much of a difference that makes if you're driving very fast, of course, but at lower speeds it might make a difference?

[TheAlchemist]

We actually don't see the impacted front of the Cybertruck. And I guess there is a reason for that...