The "obliterated" is decades of safety research into how to make the vehicle itself absorb the impact, reducing the forces applied to the people inside.
I have no idea what cybertruck does for safety, but I'm sure somebody was looking into it.
it's the one time when capitalism aligned with safety because even the slightest bump costs millionty dollars to repair but that also happens to save lives too
Looks like Tesla are still catching up to 1950s level technology.
The Mercedes-Benz patent number 854157, granted in 1952, describes the decisive feature of passive safety. [Mercedes engineer Béla] Barényi questioned the opinion that had prevailed until then that a safe car had to be rigid. He divided the car body into three sections: the rigid non-deforming passenger compartment and the crumple zones in the front and the rear.
There's also a bunch of reddit threads from around the time of the original Cybertruck announcement full of Musklickers saying of course it'll be a super safe vehicle and dumping on anyone who even suggests caution.
Firemen will tell you this, often the people inside the more fucked up looking car are better off than the car that looks more intact, it means the car probably absorbed more of the impact than the passengers. A fireman literally told me this when my Boy Scout troop did a tour of his hall.
I was working on an ambualnce before that round of safety features was widely adopted. It was a shock for a few years to see cars that dissolved and largely unharmed people. It is rare to see catastrophic injuries they way we used to so that has been a good change overall.
American. Tesla is the bastion of American ,"innovation" and has the value of tons of capital tied to it, therefore it cannot face consequences for wrongdoing. If a foreign company tried something 1/10th this negligent they would never be allowed to sell cars in the US again.
Either they're happy it breaks their legs or thrilled cops are abusing their power to pull them over just to take a look. Anything we say to make fun of them they've already gone beyond.
Yeah 10mph faster and she would have been dead or at least paraplegic. This is fucking terrifying. Just look at how deep the crumple extends on the Nissan. It is not made to be hit by a steel wall.
Also, the cybertruck might not look as damaged but the cost to fix is almost the price of the vehicle. The frame gets damaged since the car does not rally absorb the force into a crunch zone.
Neither are American trucks nowadays. I think they're just recycling the same frame for trucks and SUV's now? The "trucks" are just an SUV with an open ass trunk.
Tbf isn't the one being t-boned getting the shorter end of the stick? From intuition I assume they will be much worse off in most cases especially if they approached from the driver side.