The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I’ve seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying
When I was going through driver’s ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little
In 2020 I was rear ended by someone going 40 mph when I was at a dead stop (person in front of us stopped on a blind hill and I had to slam the breaks).
My (then) 3 year old car was barely dented. Me and my spouse walked off without even a HINT of injury. Not even sore muscles.
The person who hit us and had a 2004ish model? Their car was TOTALED (like it had gone from a borzoi to a pug) but everyone inside was also completely safe and okay.
The lack of safety features on the Cybertruck and in Teslas in general is so scary.
what worries me is people saying stuff like ‘let the market decide’ because this is late stage capitalism, where production is totally decoupled from demand. consumers do not have choices anymore, we can’t make decisions.
instead of responding to this as consumers who have made smarter choices than the victims of the CEO of a company that’s simply decided not to comply with health and safety regulations, we need to look at this as citizens who expect their society to protect us. it should not be legal for a car company to make cars that are deadly to drive in, or around. if it is legal, we should change that. if it’s illegal, we should enforce that. like, if one company can flout safety and accountability practices to make an absolute fuckton of money, they’re all going to try.
so like yeah haha look at the jackasses who wanted to noodle around in a ridiculous status symbol. what a bunch of arrogant twerps! but the con men who sold them a death trap have blood on their hands and need to be stopped immediately.
If people can’t understand that this isn’t just about individual choices:
You don’t get to choose what kind of car your parents drive, you fucking cabbages. You don’t get to choose what kind of car crashes into you. You don’t get to choose what kind of car hits you while you’re crossing the road.
This is about everybody being safe on the roads, not just the people driving the fucking Teslas.
