Cybertruck hitch analysis by Engineering Explained

[Gaximus]

Due to aluminum, safety factor due to lightness requirement, and manufacturer liability concerns.

Not manufactured liability concerns, it's an FAA regulation. This regulation is due to Aloha Airlines Flight 243, where it had too many compression/decompression cycles and the cabin roof blew off mid flight. It was a flight plan that was very short, so it would take off and land a lot more often than a typical jet, with the same amount of flight hours. So now FAA/Airlines have to keep track of flight numbers and hours, and do maintenance and inspection based on that.

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[HaulingAss]

It doesn't matter if the CT casting is as strong or durable as a steel frame, it only matters if it is strong/durable enough to perform the task for which it is rated.

This should be painfully obvious to every person with any intelligence so I'm sorry you had to say it.

To those who still think this is a problem, I'm not sure what to tell you.

 

[Bridgeboy69]

This should be painfully obvious to every person with any intelligence so I'm sorry you had to say it.

Yeah, this whole thread is so ridiculous.

I mean, I understand if some retired (or young) engineers have nothing better to do and want to debate their educational guesses, based upon their field of engineering knowledge, of how something was abused until failure, but if any of them think they are shining a light on an inherent design flaw in the CT they are just fooling themselves, or catering to their own egos. (@cybercricket I fully expect you to at this post since you are so predictable...).

Everything fails at some point under certain circumstances. All parts typically are purposely failed (many, many times), by the designers, to test their design and see what they withstood before mass producing them for distribution to the public.

We could fail any other truck part (Ford, GM, any of them) if there was enough incentive to do so to create enough controversy...but there isn't.

Tesla is the target here...it is so obvious to anyone with any intelligence at all, even sub IQ 100 intelligence. Tesla is in the crosshairs and these things are out there to negatively influence public opinion about them. That is all that is going on here, nothing more.

 

[mongo]

Not manufactured liability concerns, it's an FAA regulation. This regulation is due to Aloha Airlines Flight 243, where it had too many compression/decompression cycles and the cabin roof blew off mid flight. It was a flight plan that was very short, so it would take off and land a lot more often than a typical jet, with the same amount of flight hours. So now FAA/Airlines have to keep track of flight numbers and hours, and do maintenance and inspection based on that.

Yeah, 243 caused a switch to flight cycles versus flight hours for pressurized aircraft, but the numbers in either case are set by the manufacturer to some value less than expected failure point (referring to when a plane is end of life)

 

[babablacksheep]

So many "heavy duty" trailer hitches on the market are made from aluminum. I don't think it's a real area of concern, but sure makes for great clickbait.

 

[KrennPowerSports]

I just want to see someone with an 11,000 steel ball elevated 3' up in the center of a single axle trailer thats only 6' long in total.... I think that thing would probably flip the trailer over on just making a u-turn... lmao..

 

[KrennPowerSports]

I was really curious on his example he uses so i did some mathing myself 3' to the hitch going to centerline of trailer wheel means the trailer fenders are about 18" from the bumper on each side... you couldn't even turn a corner with a trailer that small.... no way in hell you'll have any trailer on the planet built like that, let alone that would be rated to carry 10-11k lbs.... any trailer carrying that kind of weight would be dual axle, and 10' long at a min which would be 9' from the hitch... not 3'... now that factor change 3x (only using common sense math) so why he says it's "possible" Id like him to find the trailer alone for what he's using his numbers for...

 

[mongo]

Yeah, although if there are trailer brakes, it's the vertical distance from the CG to the road versus CG to trailer ball. So ~17 inches...

 

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[Hunter71294]

Just watched that he seems to have changed his rhetoric. Must have lost some following…

 

[BannedByTMC]

Just watched that he seems to have changed his rhetoric. Must have lost some following…

Or he just deals with the facts and calls it as he sees it.

 

[Hunter71294]

Or he just deals with the facts and calls it as he sees it.

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