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He was bragging about the stainless steel being made to withstand bullets and we do live in a large city in the US in a state with basically no gun control, so I told him I could potentially see that coming in useful during rush hour on the freeways.
He had a story for why it was shaped the way it was, the windows are angled at the most aerodynamically possible angle because that’s important for a car that will probably spend 50% of its life stuck at a red light.
He’s obviously drank the kool aid. When I got back to the office I told my current coworkers, and a couple of interns said that car is super dangerous because it basically has no crumple zones. Then they pulled up some YT videos showing tests proving it.
The best part? We’re all engineers. The interns knew about the crumple zone thing. The senior Elon fanboy was just impressed with the window angle and bulletproof doors. I didn’t ask who he voted for, but I can guess.
But... it does have crumple zones.
The entire front and rear castings are designed to shatter in a high energy collision and crumple.
The size of a crumple zone isn't as important as how it absorbs the energy and dispenses it.
You could have a 20foot crumple zone that's empty and it's be useless.
You can see it crumpled here. They've also posted a different video on the official X account of a crash test but I won't post that to avoid linking them. here.
Since you got something so utterly basic wrong and posted it as true, I can only assume the entire post is fabricated.
Edit: took a screen shot instead of video. It crumples all the way past the front wheels
I'll reserve judgement until the NHTSA. NCAP, and IIHS weigh in. I know the NHTSA and IIHS have declined to test due to the cost of the vehicle/testing vs low market share of the Cybertruck. As far as I understand NCAP has no plans to test since the design by default breaks EU regulations before you even consider crash testing.
I trust Tesla's internal testing about as much as I trust Boeing's internal testing.
Makes sense about NCAP ya. It'll get tested eventually we'll just have to wait.