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First reported Tesla Cybertruck accident results in only 'minor' injury

by annabyrd on 12/29/23, 4:25 PM with 6 comments

• by twiss on 12/29/23, 5:07 PM

  Impacted side of the Cybertruck: https://www.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/18tmhia/the_dri...

  It's good that nobody suffered major injuries, but another car driving into the side of a Cybertruck doesn't say much about what would happen if a Cybertruck drove into a pedestrian, for example - I assume the result wouldn't be good. So this headline strikes me as strange, or at least the article doesn't really address that concern.

• by xnx on 12/29/23, 5:29 PM

  High mass of the Cybertruck seems to have benefited it here. Side impact to a lighter vehicle would've meant more acceleration/trauma to the passengers and thrown the vehicle further off course. If you're a safe driver, a heavy vehicle seems like a good one to be in.

• by bastard_op on 12/29/23, 6:16 PM

  The really interesting bit of this will be what the repair costs look like. Since that thing is all stainless, it's going to make repairs nearly impossible. Having done body and pain vehicular repair at a time in my life, I presume these cars are simply disposable in any major accident that isn't a bolt-on panel, or at best it'll need a paint job after to hide the repairs (and bondo).

  See the DeLorean wiki how that worked out for his all-stainless vehicle in the 80's, but short answer: it didn't.

  But hey, maybe a body shop can fix those bad factory gaps now!