Cybertruck's Safety?

[mark555055c]

That is not true, IIHS has data on the death rates per vehicle. There are a lot of vehicles with lower death rates than Teslas. That doesnt make Teslas unsafe, but statistically they are not the safest.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/latest-driver-death-rates-highlight-dangers-of-muscle-cars

Eh, stats. Much has to do with the performance of these vehicles, so the death rate stats are going to be skewed.

I go purely by safety ratings, and I trust Tesla has made the Cybertruck as safe as the other vehicles

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[Crissa]

That is not true, IIHS has data on the death rates per vehicle. There are a lot of vehicles with lower death rates than Teslas. That doesnt make Teslas unsafe, but statistically they are not the safest.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/latest-driver-death-rates-highlight-dangers-of-muscle-cars

That's not how safety works, tho. Deaths per vehicle registered will simple be higher if the vehicles literally drive more miles, or are driven on tracks (or like they're driven on tracks).

Teslas are driven way more miles on average than other cars.

-Crissa

 

[Pops]

That's not how safety works, tho. Deaths per vehicle registered will simple be higher if the vehicles literally drive more miles, or are driven on tracks (or like they're driven on tracks).

Teslas are driven way more miles on average than other cars.

How are you coming to the conclusion that Teslas are driven way more miles on average? Death rates per vehicle is at a minimum a good indicator of safety, but not the sole one. Tesla still do well on the measure, they are in the top 20 lowest death rates, but not the lowest.

 

[Crissa]

How are you coming to the conclusion that Teslas are driven way more miles on average? Death rates per vehicle is at a minimum a good indicator of safety, but not the sole one. Tesla still do well on the measure, they are in the top 20 lowest death rates, but not the lowest.

It's a nonsensical measure of frequency. If only a few hundred of one car is sold, one death will be a much larger proportion than if ten or a hundred thousand cars are sold. Is 1/500 cars having a death related to it safer or not than another than has 20/10000 or 200/100000? One collision could easily have a huge effect on one car's 'safety' rating even though the sample is not that different. Outlier effects are real.

Also... I was remembering statistics from when Teslas were new, their first year they were driven way more than average. But apparently that's settled down alot since, they're still driven more than average EVs, but not ICE. Good catch.

-Crissa

 

[btcrealm]

Also... I was remembering statistics from when Teslas were new, their first year they were driven way more than average. But apparently that's settled down alot since, they're still driven more than average EVs, but not ICE. Good catch.

TBF I think the cybertruck is being driven far more than any other new vehicle ROFL.
I know I generally average around 10k miles per year but I'm going to blow by that with this thing and I know multiple other people with the same situation.

 

[JimBuck333]

What I can say for sure is that it is a 6600 pound vehicle with a low center of gravity. It will automatically correct your driving errors (if you turn that feature on to the max) through its numerous driving cameras and fast/powerful processor and other self-driving features (lane assist, speed assist, collision avoidance assist.) It has active blind-spot indicators in the pillars. Six airbag positions and pre-tensioning seatbelts.

While lithium batteries will burn for quite awhile, it is nothing like a liquid-fuel fire; each battery cell is sealed in its own metal can, and needs to ignite the cells around it, so that it can take hours for the whole pack to burn out (which I believe is the real reason fire departments don't like EV fires; it takes so long to leave the scene compared to a normal vehicle fire which while initially furious is all over quickly). The battery topper layer is fireproof material, naturally.
The vehicle can drive through feet of water. It has bio-defense air filtration in case you are ever caught in a wildfire, for example. A very tough stainless steel skin.

Unless it does poorly in official crash testing (which Teslas normally ace), I consider the Cybertruck the definition of a safe vehicle, practically a personal "pope-mobile"...

 

[btcrealm]

@ABLions25 if you haven't seen this yet than take a look. Apparently no major injuries @_0
https://www.cybertruckownersclub.co...le-crash-results-no-serious-injuries-😱.28813/

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