Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "CNBC Television"
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for postapocalyptic survival, an electric car would be a strange choice. one could make the argument that it's much more practical to properly autonomously operate an array of solar cells than it is to drill for and distill your own fuel - ready-made fuel is known to degrade over time, becoming unusable after several months to two years or so, gasoline faster than diesel, ethanol gasoline much faster, so you can't just buy and store many years' worth of fuel either. though in regions with active easy to operate oil wells producing high quality oil, if you have at least groups of hundreds of people still surviving like in the walking dead, it seems likely that they would continue to produce (possibly relatively crude) motor fuels, whether by continued use of existing refineries, or construction of primitive refineries like they've had in syrian rebel/IS territories for a couple of years. continued fuel production would be incredibly valuable, and it would likely be distributed quite widely. usingsolar cells and an EV would be much more autonomous, but realistically, you would be very limited in the amount of power you can produce with however many solar cells you have, so you'd want to use a vehicle that's built for low power consumption first. and if you did need a relatively powerful vehicle, that would not be an SUV-pickup, but a tractor. I looked it up, there already are electric tractors! :o they just better not have firmware to prevent unauthorised maintenance ... speaking of which, don't teslas have that sort of thing? how dependent exactly is the cybertruck on tesla support continuing to exist? xD
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@tallish87 they shot the door below the window. the windows are clearly normal or close to normal thickness, they don't resemble actually bulletproof car windows at all. those have like an inch or more of several layers of glass and plastic.
the breaking of the original windows showed that it was indeed technically armoured glass, meaning it had at least one layer of plastic holding the broken glass together. but that just means that they made the side windows the same as everybody else makes their windscreens. the normal thing to do is that windscreens are made tough because they are expected to have a role in protecting the people in the car against flying objects relatively often, and the other windows of the car are instead made of tempered glass, which breaks in such a way (due to in-built tension) that any break causes the whole window to shatter into cubes. the reason is that being able to easily remove the glass with relatively harmless shards (all breaks at roughly right angles, nothing big and knife-like) enables crash victims to more easily escape or be rescued out of their vehicles, while the absence of large shards during the crash also reduces injury potential. if you want to instead remove armoured glass to create an escape opening, you are dealing with a tough plastic foil covered in large glass shards. I believe windscreens are generally built with a fixture that's supposed to make it relatively easy to push off a broken windscreen outwards, but the deeper set of side windows would certainly make this much more difficult on the cybertruck, and I would have no confidence in tesla even doing it right on the windscreen or rear window (if that's even high enough to crawl through, I don't know).
but of course as someone who would never buy this vehicle even if I had the money, I am far more concerned about the clearly extreme injury risk that its front poses to other people in accidents. other cars bumper areas and hoods are built of much more plastic or of steel panels that are bent at the edges and less stiff, and most are shaped very rounded (which also is aerodynamically far superior; the cybertruck has terrible aerodynamics). the stainless steel sheets of the cybertruck would amput°te b°dy p°rts extremely easily as soon as they separate in a crash. and at much lower speed impacts than that, the top edge and top corners of the frunk area look as if they were designed to br°°k the sk°lls and n°°ks of children.
my uncle was hit by a car when he was around 6 reportedly at barely more than walking speed. he had to have a piece of his brain removed, had to relearn to walk and talk, and suffered from severe epilepsy and violent aggression that took decades to both gradually improve. and he is permanently blind on one side of the normal field of vision and sort of generally unaware of things in that direction. I don't mean blind one eye, his brain only processes half of the image while also hiding the fact that there's something missing similar to how everybody's vision covers each eye's blind spot with pseudo-vision - though I think he might also be blind in one eye, certainly only one fully points where he looks.
anyways, the point is that being hit by cars is particularly dangerous to children, and I am disgusted by the disregard for this that is evident in the cybertruck's design. all SUVs already are super dangerous due to their high hoods and high ground clearance (they impact heads and necks rather than legs, hips or chests, and then the person ends up underneath the car and potentially under the wheels rather than on the hood). but the cybertruck has to be the worst.
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