Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns -experts
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The angular design of Tesla's Cybertruck has safety experts concerned that the electric pickup truck's stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt pedestrians and cyclists.

Tesla Cybertruck’s stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts::The angular design of Tesla’s Cybertruck has safety experts concerned that the electric pickup truck’s stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt pedestrians and cyclists.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    11 months ago

    Tesla seem confident it’ll be safer in part because of that.

    I’m wondering if they’ve done some something that can lower the front further if an imminent crash is about to happen with a pedestrian to lower the nose even more. Maybe it won’t work if you’re already at lowest setting, but if you’re raised at all maybe.

    You think they’d have advertised a feature like that though by now, so maybe not, but I bet they could.

    Would be a good feature for any vehicle with air suspension that can detect an imminent crash with a pedestrian

      • fosforus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        It definitely detects pedestrians: the live on-screen image shows them when they are nearby. They also claim to have automatic emergency braking when it detects pedestrians being in danger. I haven’t seen this in action, but then again, I don’t drive where pedestrians walk, so… But I can tell that my Tesla does weird short brakings on a motorway when nobody is close. Detects my future ghost, probably.

        Their own claim is that their cars are quite a lot safer than USA average: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport – but I have heard it being rumoured that sometimes companies lie.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          But I can tell that my Tesla does weird short brakings on a motorway when nobody is close.

          I hope you never drive where there are patches of ice on the road.

          • fosforus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            I do, weekly. These don’t happen incredibly often, and they happen only when the cruise control is switched on. Not once have they caused a dangerous situation.

      • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        This is not true.

        Anti collision systems of various sorts have been around for over a decade. The problem space is minuscule compared to self driving, and almost all car manufacturers offer both forward and reverse collision detection at this point.

        In fact I think EU is making it a requirement soon.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          Detecting a pedestrian where you would want to lower the front vs say a deer or moose (or other vehicle for that matter) where you don’t want to lower it is more complicated.

          Better to just not build the vehicle out of sharp polygons like it needs to be rendered on a Super Nintendo with FX chip.

          • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

            You could only enable the lowering in pedestrian heavy areas (city) assuming they legit can’t tell a moose apart.

            You aren’t going to find many moose in downtown NYC ;)

            Again, nothing to do with shape, this would be a good feature for any air suspension vehicle that can detect a pedestrian.

            Edit: And I’m not sure we need to worry as much about city deer, they are small enough.

            Edit: Also if they CAN detect a moose, they should do the opposite and raise the front.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Any car with AEB has this capability which is a lot of cars ya.

          I don’t know how fast they can lower the vehicle though? There isn’t a lot of time between when AEB kicks off to slow you down and the accident.