Elon Musk needs his own thread because he's in every damn thing

The clearance on the truck is great. More than enough for most of roading. It's not the issue.

The problem is tied into poor approach and departure angles for off roading.

 

The problem with the internet generation is that they tend to equate having the combo of an uncontrollabe big mouth, financial success and ubiquity with genius (and this across multi strata).
Musk simply sickens my guts.....

 

#Cybertruck crash test pic.twitter.com/QnQbyJjPfq

— ΛI DRIVR (@AIDRIVR) November 30, 2023

Oh dear.

 

It's not that bad.

I wouldn't like to be in the car it hits though.

 

35 MPH frontal doesn't look good for those Eelons in the front seat

 

That seems like a pretty good crash test…

 

Yeah.. Lots of people who have never or rarely seen a crash test are making a lot of noise about the front end.. the front is supposed to act like that. As in, it is literally designed to crumple like that. I don’t see any intrusion into passenger cabin and air bags look like they deployed properly.. obviously they don’t show anything inside the cabin so we don’t know how the crash dummies behaved, but from an exterior view, that looks like how a car should behave..

 

You're much more likely to die from embarrassment then

 

The front end is also meant to crumple so it protects them passengers in the car you hit. That Tesla looks like it's ready to decapitate the occupants of the sports car in front of it.

 

Eels needs to go all in like this. He can dress up like SuperDave

 

Terminal Mockery.

 

Okay… I’ll have to revise my comment about this being a good crash test… I didn’t notice in the video, but it appears that the back wheels snapped off in the front end test.. that shouldn’t happen.

The cybertruck has such shit-poor crumple zones that the force of a 35mph front impact, after killing the fragile meatsacks inside, is still enough to snap the rear axle. pic.twitter.com/PQViJvBzOH

— Anosognosiogenesis (@pookleblinky) December 1, 2023

 

You knew this was coming:

 

Maybe? It could also mean the crumple zone isn’t large enough. If that’s the case, that’s a lot of energy going into the meatsacks and while they are likely walking away, they are really sore.

 

The rear axle doesn't survive a under 60 km/h collision. Also it failed the rolling test at all speeds exceeding 16 mph.

 

Right but the purpose of a crash test is to evaluate the safety of the passenger compartment and to a lesser extent the passenger compartment of the car it hits. The rest of the car is 100% expendable. And it's not like the gas tank is going to explode.

 

What failed on the roll test? What they showed in the video was that the car didn’t roll, which is very hard for an EV to do given how low the center of gravity.

The rear wheels breaking free doesn’t necessarily mean it failed the test. As Paul mentioned, what’s important is the passengers. The Insurance companies won’t like it, of course, but the US’s highway safety admin likely wouldn’t care.

 

"It feels weird that it doesn't have square wheels"

Oh my god in person this thing looks even fucking stupider pic.twitter.com/GX0WP1Ilwd

— NotTheFakeAaronOppenheim (@gib_gab) December 3, 2023

 

I just realized what it reminds me of - the armored vehicle Sigourney Weaver drove in Aliens when the aliens were first attacking the marines.

 

Some kind of Mission Control wannabe jacket and a Casio?