Experts were shocked: Tesla’s Cybertruck is so dangerous

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Tesla’s massive Cybertruck leaves no one indifferent. Some people like the scary design and already find it iconic. Others demonize the pickup truck as a steel monster and wish it would go somewhere else; Not just on our streets, please.

The critics group is now gaining more momentum. The reason is the crash test video with Cybertruck that Elon Musk showed during the sales presentation. This crash test shocked not only competitors of Musk’s monster truck, but also famous crash experts, German magazine “Spiegel” reported.

From where? According to Tesla, in the event of a frontal collision equivalent to 56 km/h (35 mph), the monster truck’s body, made of ultra-hard stainless steel, will hardly deform. Only the front exterior is slightly damaged. “Also, the hood bends into a single spring instead of crumpling to absorb forces as usual,” analyzes a Tesla reviewer on the Bluesky platform.

The principle of the crumple zone dates back to Mercedes engineer Béla Barényi (1907–1997), who applied for a patent in 1951: The crumple zone concept involves designing body structures in different ways, rather than designing a car to be rigid and non-deformable. so that, in the event of an accident, the sheet metal parts can collapse and absorb the impact forces as much as possible. This means that the passengers in the vehicle will be exposed to less force and the risk of injury will be reduced. If such deformation zones are missing in the sheet metal, the forces are calmly transferred to the passengers; their bodies are thrown forward with the full energy of the blow.

Pedestrian protection?

Musk’s possibly humorous words in the Cybertruck crash test pictures – “If you put the Cybertruck into a fight with other cars, you win” – left a stale taste in the mouth. Accident experts just shake their heads: “Cybertruck will cut everything in its path,” he says, and warns as a precaution: “Pedestrians, be careful!”

When the first Cybertruck prototype was presented four years ago, safety experts warned that the design would make our roads significantly more dangerous. Now these fears seem to have been confirmed in the production model. Even though there are no official results from the crash tests with the Cybertruck yet. And certainly not by our European standards, where passive protection of persons involved in the accident outside the vehicle plays an important role.

mysterious power

But the data Tesla provides allows experts to predict the potential impact of crashes, which will likely be devastating. Especially considering that the monster truck, which is 5.68 meters long and 2.41 meters wide, weighs almost three tons in its simple four-wheel drive version, and 3 tons in the Cyberbeast version, which can reach a speed of 209 km/h. 1 tonne.

At the beginning of the sales and bluffs, Musk explains that the metal Tesla developed for the Cybertruck is so hard that the hard edges of the vehicle, which has a basic triangular shape, are required: “You can’t press these body parts, it will break the pressing plant.” But the controversial US billionaire appears to care less about the vulnerability of other road users.

Source: Blick