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Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts (www.reuters.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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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.

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[+] NotMyOldRedditName -8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Tesla seem confident it'll be safer in part because of that.

I'm wondering if they've done some something that can lower the front further if an imminent crash is about to happen with a pedestrian to lower the nose even more. Maybe it won't work if you're already at lowest setting, but if you're raised at all maybe.

You think they'd have advertised a feature like that though by now, so maybe not, but I bet they could.

Would be a good feature for any vehicle with air suspension that can detect an imminent crash with a pedestrian

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure Tesla is devoid of any technology that detects pedestrians.

[–] Buddahriffic 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Detecting that collision is on the same order of difficulty as self-driving cars.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is not true.

Anti collision systems of various sorts have been around for over a decade. The problem space is minuscule compared to self driving, and almost all car manufacturers offer both forward and reverse collision detection at this point.

In fact I think EU is making it a requirement soon.

[–] Buddahriffic 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 2 points 11 months ago

Any car with AEB has this capability which is a lot of cars ya.

I don't know how fast they can lower the vehicle though? There isn't a lot of time between when AEB kicks off to slow you down and the accident.