Tesla's bulky and sharp-cornered Cybertruck is a disaster waiting to happen, the safety organizations claim.
The Tesla Cybertruck has invaded Europe, and European road safety organizations are freaking out over it.
Over half a dozen NGOs—including the European Road Safety Council and the International Federation of Pedestrians—recently co-signed anarguing that Elon Musk’s bulky monstrosity poses numerous threats to European road safety. The letter was inspired by the recent decision by the Czech Republic to, thus allowing it entry to the continent.
Now, the road safety advocates seem to feel that Tesla’s electric Hummer-like heap could spell big trouble for Europeans—and that the vehicles need to be kicked out of Europe, with extreme prejudice. “It is our assessment that the approval and registration of Cybertrucks in the EU poses illegal risks to all other road users,” the letter reads.
Why are the safety orgs so worried about Tesla’s truck? I guess it’s because it seems so obviously dangerous. “The Cybertruck fails to meet a range of basic European road safety norms that apply to passenger cars ,” the letter notes. “As outlined below, these range from the Cybertruck’s inadequate, or non-existent, crumple zones for crash absorption to its sharp edges.
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