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.

  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    why not both?

    Although being fair, the other day just out of curiosity I was taking a look at electric cars in my country and almost every single one of them was a needlessly huge SUV.

    There were a few exceptions, but I was not expecting that maybe 25 out of 30 cars were in the bigger size.

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      11 months ago

      Bigger size = bigger profit margin. We’d be a lot further towards carbon neutral if cars hadn’t grown to ridiculous average sizes while engine efficiency improved a lot.

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      11 months ago

      why not both?

      Because cyber trucks aren’t killing people. Trucks made by Ford and Chevy are. Why put effort into solving a problem that doesn’t exist yet when there is a real problem right now, and if you solve that one it will also solve the cyber-truck problem.

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        11 months ago

        You’re able to do both, you have a massive country with a massive government with a lot of funding.

        99% of the time it’s not one or the other, and your argument literally works the same if they handle the dystopian car first.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Because cyber trucks aren’t killing people.

        They haven’t even been on sale for two weeks and those sales have been limited. Maybe give it the well over a century that Ford and Chevy have had before making that claim.