Not knowing how testing works or the criteria in USA/Canada, I'm surprised it's even allowed here. I'd rather be hit as a pedestrian by almost any other truck since at least F-150s and RAMs don't have sharp edges like the Cybertruck...
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investig...
There's a bit of meme that an M1 Abrams tank has better forward visibility than many SUVs/pickups:
* https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/140dgn8/many_popu...
I’ve been on the other side of it once. I got roped into driving an acquaintance’s H3 Hummer years ago. I went to change lanes, checked my mirrors, looked over my shoulder out the window, and all seems clear. It wasn’t. There was a car that was completely invisible to me. Had other people not been in the car and looking, I would have run them right off the road. I have no idea how anyone drives those things on a daily basis. I was a nervous wreck.
I think the best visibility I had in a car was my old GTI. I could see all 4 corners and knew exactly where I was at.
Obviously we could get into incentives and prioritizing pedestrian safety and urbanizing. But if you take the current status quo of where Americans live and how they drive, I can very much understand regulators choosing to prioritize the safety regulations that will save the largest number of lives on the roads we have now.
US pedestrian fatalities 2 per 100k. US driver fatalities ~7 per 100k.
European pedestrian fatalities: 0.5 per 100k. European driver fatalities: ~2 per 100k.
So it's somewhat understandable that regulators may disproportionately favor crash protection for drivers.
hard disagree, in places where cybertrucks are most sold it is urban populated areas and pedestrian incidents and fatalities are very high
Huh - do you have a source for that stat?
TL;DW: It's most likely happening at night, on an arterial street, by a truck or SUV.