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.

  • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•1 year 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
      1•1 year 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.