Here’s a story you all saw coming. If a new model pickup truck is on the road for any amount of time, somebody is going to ram a deer with it! What makes this collision unique is the pickup truck in question: a 2024 Tesla CyberTruck, the Cyberbeast edition. The headline tells much of the […]
Safer for pedestrians, in the nihilistic sense that they at least won’t survive the hit I guess?
I had a friend in college drive through a horse in a sedan (Honda I think). Same outcome. Bisected horse, trashed Honda (NOT drive able). He has no idea how he lived, he thinks he was leaning down to change the CD player when it happened and the roof of his car was gone and he was in pain and covered in gore.
Hate the CT, but impacting a large animal at speed isn’t going to end well for anyone involved, regardless of how safe the vehicle is.
A 75mph beach ball would probably be life threatening.
Hate the CT, but impacting a large animal at speed isn’t going to end well for anyone involved, regardless of how safe the vehicle is.
If I’m not mistaken, I think I remember that Swedish Volvos were specifically engineered to be able to crash into a Moose and save the car driver. I think they have a special Moose crash simulation / test dummy.
I had a friend in college drive through a horse in a sedan (Honda I think). Same outcome. Bisected horse, trashed Honda (NOT drive able). He has no idea how he lived, he thinks he was leaning down to change the CD player when it happened and the roof of his car was gone and he was in pain and covered in gore.
Hate the CT, but impacting a large animal at speed isn’t going to end well for anyone involved, regardless of how safe the vehicle is.
A 75mph beach ball would probably be life threatening.
If I’m not mistaken, I think I remember that Swedish Volvos were specifically engineered to be able to crash into a Moose and save the car driver. I think they have a special Moose crash simulation / test dummy.
That’s hilarious and I had never heard of it, sure enough, Volvo has a factory moose crash-test dummy.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/moose-crash-test-dummy-volvo/
ok that’s funny