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[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago

Looks like Tesla are still catching up to 1950s level technology.

The Mercedes-Benz patent number 854157, granted in 1952, describes the decisive feature of passive safety. [Mercedes engineer Béla] Barényi questioned the opinion that had prevailed until then that a safe car had to be rigid. He divided the car body into three sections: the rigid non-deforming passenger compartment and the crumple zones in the front and the rear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone

There's also a bunch of reddit threads from around the time of the original Cybertruck announcement full of Musklickers saying of course it'll be a super safe vehicle and dumping on anyone who even suggests caution.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

What if the crumple zone was the other car though? I drive away unscathed after you crumple like a fool!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

World's funniest tragedy of the commons

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

watch this, kid... when these two bazinga mobiles get up to 88 miles per hour and collide, you're going to see some serious shit!

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