European Road Safety Orgs Are Terrified of the Cybertruck
16th October 2024
Tesla’s bulky and sharp-cornered Cybertruck is a disaster waiting to happen, the safety organizations claim.
Why are the safety orgs so worried about Tesla’s truck? I guess it’s because it seems so obviously dangerous. “The Cybertruck fails to meet a range of basic European road safety norms that apply to passenger cars (M1),” the letter notes. “As outlined below, these range from the Cybertruck’s inadequate, or non-existent, crumple zones for crash absorption to its sharp edges.”
One of the relevant concerns regarding the Cybertruck are its sharp, angular corners, which look like they were built to shiv cyclists. Wired writes that the same driver who imported the Tesla truck to the Czech Republic has attempted to get around local regulations regarding angular car design by affixing slim rubber bumpers to the vehicle’s four corners, thus allowing them to technically skate through regulatory vetting. The groups warn that this particular rubber modification could lead to the “mass import of Cybertrucks into Europe” and that the Czech Republic “risks becoming a back-door channel to trans-ship such dangerous vehicles to other Member States.”