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Comment on Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Tesla seem confident it’ll be safer in part because of that.

I’m wondering if they’ve done some something that can lower the front further if an imminent crash is about to happen with a pedestrian to lower the nose even more.

You think they’d have advertised a feature like that though by now, so maybe not, but I bet they could.

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DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m pretty sure Tesla is devoid of any technology that detects pedestrians.

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- fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It definitely detects pedestrians: the live on-screen image shows them when they are nearby. Whether it does anything for them is another question.
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    But I can tell that my Tesla does weird short brakings on a motorway when nobody is close.
    
    I hope you never drive where there are patches of ice on the road.
    
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    fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I do, weekly. These don’t happen incredibly often, and they happen only when the cruise control is switched on.
    
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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Detecting that collision is on the same order of difficulty as self-driving cars.

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- MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is not true.
  
  Anti collision systems of various sorts have been around for over a decade. The problem space is minuscule compared to self driving, and almost all car manufacturers offer both forward and reverse collision detection at this point.
  
  In fact I think EU is making it a requirement soon.
  
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  - Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Detecting a pedestrian where you would want to lower the front vs say a deer or moose (or other vehicle for that matter) where you don’t want to lower it is more complicated.
    
    Better to just not build the vehicle out of sharp polygons like it needs to be rendered on a Super Nintendo with FX chip.
    
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    NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You could only enable the lowering in pedestrian heavy areas (city) assuming they legit can’t tell a moose apart.
    
    You aren’t going to find many moose in downtown NYC ;)
    
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  - NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Any car with AEB has this capability which is a lot of cars ya.
    
    I don’t know how fast they can lower the vehicle though? There isn’t a lot of time between when AEB kicks off to slow you down and the accident.
    
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