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Are trucks in the US not crash tested?
IRC heavy duty trucks are exempt from many federal safety regulations that apply to cars.
Really?
That is fucking insane.
You have to realize that semi trucks are built different. Think of it closer to a bulldozer than a pickup. It's not designed to crumple into origami to absorb the force of impact. It's a heavy industrial piece of equipment that's designed to haul assloads of product with 3 or 4 assloads of horsepower. It'd be pointless to subject such vehicles to the same or even similar tests.
we are not talking about semis. we are taking about mall crawlers.
You'd still think of verifying energy mitigation/redirection for impact into other vehicles, no?
Like it should be required that there's something to keep a car from going under a trailer's wheels if they merge into the side of a truck. How do you verify that's working properly?
crickets
Awkward glances side to side
Those are excellent questions.
They did put that bar on the back of all trailers after Jayne Mansfield died crashing into a semi at night.
Nah lmao. Big truck pull hard no stop. As long as it does all those things, fuck everything else
😬 I don't like that line of thinking haha
Just pretend it's mad max and you are fighting for the last drops of guzzoline every time you leave the house, as is right and proper with the Lord.
Do we get free silver spray paint? The answer had better be hell yes.
I don't know if heavy trucks are exempt (which may explain why the DOT regulates drivers and their schedules more strictly) but I do know the Cybertruck is not a heavy truck. It's a light truck which has similar rules to passenger cars.