Side Impact 2.0 CyberTruck results are in

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Crazy good results

what about pedestrian safety?

Why don’t you read the test report and let us all know.

If you read it, you'll see it avoided a pedestrian collision in all tests

I am not from US and just don’t understand this. Why don’t they test pedestrian safety? Is being able to avoid collision with pedestrian “good enough”? If yes, why doesn’t same apply to collision with cars? If it can avoid collision in test, we don’t have to test safety in collision with another car (or wall), right?

While you have a fair point, the reason why pedestrian safety is treated differently is speed. A lot of crashes with other vehicles cannot be avoided as they move fast. Pedestrians don't ram into you at 80km/h.

Supposedly the way tests are designed in both NCAP and IIHS is based on the legislation and/or rules that exists, neither bodies tests and rate stuff beyond what exists. Both NCAP and IIHS test and rate pedestrian impact avoidance because there exists legislation or rules from the regulating body requiring vehicles to have AEB for pedestrians NCAP tests pedestrian impact safety because there's legislation or rules from the regulating body requiring certain impact safety measures. IIHS does not test this because the NHTSA nor legislation requires this. At least not yet. I believe there is/was a proposal for pedestrian head impact safety for all vehicles less than 4536 kg in weight (Cybertruck is around \~3100kg for reference). [I found something that referenced the comment period was extended to December 2024](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/11/20/2024-26985/federal-motor-vehicle-safety-standards-pedestrian-head-protection-global-technical-regulation-no-9), and nothing else since then so it's theoretically in the review process now.

why don’t you do your own research.

but cars can and do ram pedestrians even at 80km/h

Then you re most likely dead regardless of car make and model

Which kills the pedestrian regardless of vehicle. That’s just mass.

https://i.imgur.com/bhH8r9s.jpeg

A pedestrian running into the truck is unlikely to cause much damage so they don't test for being hit by pedestrians. Cars though can hit you because they are traveling very fast and sometimes even if the truck knows they are coming it can't get out of the way. That means they rest hit hitting pedestrians and fire being hit by other cars

at 80km/h sure. At 5km/h sure not. What about 20??30? You can’t tell that all the cars are as deadly as all the others. Same could be say about crash test of cars - at highway speed in head on collision everybody would die, so no point in doing crash tests

So pedestrian accidents don’t happen, where people are hurt and depending on car model they could or couldn’t survive? That’s like saying there is no point in testing vehicle to wall crash, because wall is stationary

With mediocre sales in the entire electric full sized pickup segment I would expect Model S level of investment from here on out. Meaning: don’t expect expensive structural changes if it’s not legally required to sell the vehicle.

It is ironic, because that’s basically what I said to the guy asking for more info.

There are talks of a global version of CT. In Australia, every showroom (to my knowledge) now has a CT on display however pre-orders have remained closed and Tesla have acknowledged they need to make some changes to meet ADRs (Australian design rules). Do you think they might factor in these identified safety shortcomings into this new version whilst also making other changes to make it deliverable to more markets?

Explain this to me in crayon. Is this good or bad?

\-32 is impressive! Torso score’s a bummer, but overall “Good” is solid. Tesla might tweak it later.

I assume you're being pedantic about the off chance that a cybertruck could theoretically do more damage because of the shape of the vehicle? It's a stupid consideration for a number of reasons. First and foremost, cars don't have airbags on the outside. You likely won't see much of a difference since, as a general rule, pedestrians are quite squishy compared to basically any car. Also, I don't see people clambering for similar tests (which are relatively new and not very standardized) with Lamborghini... and there's gif reason.

there is a reason why Europe does them, because difference between cars is very large. Not only due to shape, but also most cars have “bouncy” front that can save lives at certain speeds. Only one who consider it stupid are americans, because who cares about pedestrians, right? EuroNCAP does this for all tested vehicles. Supercars are low and thus convert much of crash energy into vertical movement, which is much less damaging to pedestrians than direct hit by “wall”, like F150 for example (I think it’s not even allowed in here)

It dosnt matter because nobody buys them anyway

I see them all the time around me so clearly people do.