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The point the poster was making was that there are sensors at similar pinch points on other cars to avoid the hazard.

As well as thick padding that the cybertruck lacks, and rounded edges instead of angled corners.

I'll bite: Yes.

Manually-closing doors have pinch points, but every major manufacturer that has auto-close doors includes force sensing to avoid damaging things (or people, or digits). Power windows usually have this as well, at least on modern cars.

I'm going to admit being wrong about this after looking into it further. I saw a video of a Rivian's protection against a similar problem. I wasn't drawing the distinction of manually closing vs. automatically closing.

I will say that the automatically closing Tesla trunks I've seen won't crush someone if you get in its way. The video in question implies it would crush anything in the path of the hood when they actually found a very particular unprotected spot. But, Rivian for example does protect against this happening at that particular location, so it's still a fair criticism.

Yes, the Cybertruck lacks these standard features as cost-saving measures