SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
7 monthsFires that entrap passengers are a well-documented and recurring problem with every model in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles, but Cybertrucks appear to have a disproportionate number of known deaths. Safety experts have told the Guardian that the truck’s unique design amplifies the deadly issue. The vehicles come with high-density laminated windows that are harder to break than regular car windows, making escape and rescue difficult when doors won’t unlock. And the trucks are built with materials not commonly used in the industry, like stainless steel, which can complicate the work of emergency responders. The Cybertruck is also the first Tesla model to entirely eliminate door handles on the outside of the vehicle.
First, “unique” design? It’s an ugly callback to the wedge-shaped cars of the 80s. It looks like a DeLorean model that refused to render properly, and the dev just went with it.
Second, the decision to exclude door handles is fucking mental. It’s a mundane feature that cars have had since the Model T. If they wanted to make a pickup, its handles should resemble those found on a typical pickup. If it’s “aesthetics” they’re after (which shouldn’t matter when it comes to a pickup), some of the best looking cars have had no problem including door handles into its design.
- 7 months
The reason to eliminate door handles that Tesla and others typically give is aerodynamic efficiency. Granted there are other bigger aerodynamic problems. gestures at the rest of the fucking truck
- nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish7 months
I don’t understand why it doesn’t have a door handle. I don’t get it
- ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Sounds like a great way to fake your death. The only problem is that everyone will think you died driving a Tesla.
- L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 months
Ehhh, you’d be surprised what the modern drawing board can do.
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish7 months
I mean if you’re faking your death I don’t think you’re planning on paying off the loan
- ChadGPT2@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Reminder to keep one of those window breaker hammers in your car.
Also don’t buy cars from megalomaniacal nazis.
- 7 months
Just to be clear so people don’t think they are protected when they’re not: those window strikers ONLY work if your car windows are TEMPERED glass. They are 100% useless on laminated glass. The Cybertruck’s “unbreakable Armor Glass” is laminated.
- BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Hey hey, just few years ago lefties were religiously buying teslas made by their prophet. What changed?
- pau_hana@feddit.orgEnglish7 months
These horrific deaths and injuries are tragic. I see too many schadenfreude comments here approving of people dying just because they chose to drive a vehicle most people don’t like. If there is blame, it is not on the victims, but on Tesla and the regulators we trust to ensure minimum and obvious safety features.
- TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 months
Anybody that bought a cyber truck did so knowing full well Elon is a Nazi. They made their bed and now they can lie in it. No compassion at all for these selfish fucks.
- CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Anybody that bought a cyber truck did so knowing full well Elon is a Nazi.
The cybertruck was available to buy before he went full mask off. And not everyone is “in-touch” with everything.
No compassion at all
Disgusting.
- TotalCourage007@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Felon Muskrat went full mask off way back in 2016 when he called child rescuers a Pedo. Go pound sand.
The Velour Fog @lemmy.worldEnglish
6 daysEven further back than that, as a kid he got thrown down the stairs because he made fun of the dead father of another kid (who threw him down the stairs)
- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish7 months
anyone that bought a cybertruck did so knowing full well that it’s a giant “fuck everybody but me” vehicle
I have no sympathy for them. their victims, yes. the owner, not at all.





