The first documented Tesla Cybertruck accident showed that Goliath is not to be trifled with
yesterday | Peter Miller
Photo: Tesla
You can think anything about the Cybertruck, but you can’t deny it one thing – with a weight of over 3 tons and a partially bulletproof body, other cars on the road will bounce off it more than anything else. The first documented accident in normal traffic does not contradict such expectations.
Perhaps no other car has been talked about as much in recent weeks as the latest new Tesla. Whether it was for better or for worse, Cybertruck managed to impress everywhere from its appearance to its technical solutions. And even if, many years after the premiere of its concept, it remains a mystery when its production will start in full, the first serial examples are finally cruising the roads of California and Texas in particular.
It was only a matter of time before one of the sold or pre-production cars was involved in an accident. This happened in the first mentioned American state yesterday after two o’clock in the afternoon on the so-called Skyline Boulevard near Palo Alto. We can straight away say that the Tesla driver was innocent this time, as he was moving in an orderly manner on a winding suburban road when a Toyota Corolla pilot who was only 17 years old (the legal driving age in these parts of the USA) literally rammed into him from the opposite direction.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the driver of the Corolla went off the road to the right for unknown reasons, from where the car bounced back, crossed into the opposite direction and hit the side of the Cybertruck right there. As it has already happened, the cause of the accident is unclear, but it was wet, and considering the nature of the road and the age of the driver, we can expect a simple loss of control. The mention of Tesla’s Autopilot being inactive at the time of the accident is quite irrelevant, this is 100 percent the fault of the other driver who – like the two passengers in the Tesla – fortunately survived the accident without significant injuries. Only the driver of the Cybertruck complained of neck pain after the incident, but he refused hospitalization, so it was probably nothing serious.
In the end, what is interesting for us are the consequences of the accident, where we see a heavily devastated Toyota, even though it flew into the Cybertruck. It had to take the impact on its side, which usually provides the least protection for the crew, yet it looks like the Corolla bounced off the Tesla, leaving only a few relatively small scratches. Well, this Toyota is a “normal” car, the Cybertruck is a 3.1-ton monster with bulletproof body panels, a certain inequality in such a “race” was to be expected. See the aftermath for yourself below.
The Tesla Cybertruck is an automotive monster of its own, after all, it’s no wonder that other cars on the road almost bounce off it in an accident, as you can see below. Photo: Tesla
Resources: Autopian, The Verge, boddhya@Reddit, cjysqpb@Youtube
Petr Miler
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2023-12-31 10:16:30
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