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.
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consider, however, not dying in a minor fender bender is gay. why you trying to stay alive, to have sex with men?
True sigmas only ever allow themselves to be penetrated by their steering column
yes
but that's not the point 
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I fucking love science
Has 0 understanding of basic Newtonian mechanics. That energy's gotta go somewhere, folks!
Actually, if you don't wear a seatbelt, you'll be thrown clear of the crash to safety! It's simple physics.
And with the bazingatruck's impenetrable glass, you can be smashed like a bug on your own windshield lol
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Pfft Newton was woke. Next question, Don.
"Built like a tank" just means all of the kinetic energy from an impact gets absorbed by the bones and organs of the squishy occupants inside.
Both of your legs breaking from being t-boned on the passenger side probably isn't supposed to happen.
If it was built like a tank, does that mean tankies would buy them?
the glass should shatter, its an alternate way for you to get out/be rescued if the door is stuck ffs. you aren't the President. 
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=55401
Maybe it's not bad that it's shatterproof? /J
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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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone
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.
What if the crumple zone was the other car though? I drive away unscathed after you crumple like a fool!
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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.
How did the cyber truck pass safety regulations? Jesus Christ
Can't fail the test if it doesn't get tested in the first place.
How can you be allowed to put a car on the roads that hasn't been tested? That's mad
737 Max was the same thing, and we all know how that went. One of the side effects of the hollowing out of the public sector under neo-liberalism that results in "self-regulation".
our company does it's own health inspections. you can guess how that goes down
never seen federal in my entire career and only see the state guy once every few years and hes bought off
The one time I saw a federal regulator at my last job, I was coached for literally a week on exactly what to tell him by management. Day of, I just ignored them and pointed out all the obvious safety issues once we were in the private meeting. No advisories were given based off of my advice anyway. :yea:
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I looked at this at the time; they only test vehicles they want to, essentially. They don't HAVE to test anything, and they frequently don't test low production cars, sports cars, exotics, etc
I imagine at some point they will test the bazingamobile, but only because of how high profile it is and how frequent things like this will be
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motherfuckers know its bad
God damn I live in a fake country 😖
How are they even allowed to sell it? What the fuck is the point then?
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This is america
Don't catch you slippin' now
Look what I'm whippin' now
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Thank goodness the equipment is alright! Pretty sure legs grow back, but I'm no doctor or anything
Crumple zones - they work, folks!
So the Cybertruck isn't gonna be totalled? 
How are these damn things legal
lobbying
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.
If you're famous they just let you do it.
whats the point of making it not crumple if the insurance company is going to call it totalled anyway?
The real crumple zone is fragile masculinity.
i literally cannot roast the cybertruck harder than its own fans. it's not possible
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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.
Wait I can't tell which parts are destroyed and which ones just look like that naturally
That still looks like a totaled car
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.
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Anyone have a source on the two broken legs thing? I'd like to rub this in a friends face tyvm
I have a source on the two broken arms incident, is that okay?
Incestual reddit references on my Hexbear?
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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.
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in evil Soviet ghyna electric cars dont have crumple zones!!!1!1!!!!!1
Cybertruck fools be running lights, am I right?
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