So it's too dangerous for pedestrians. Good, love to see a government stand up for its people now and then
> It is commonly known that the Cybertruck cannot be registered and operated in Germany.
Nothing much to do with the US Army.
They even get exempted from criminal law. Remember Anna Sacoolas who killed a teenager in the UK and quickly got repatriated before he could be brought to court?
The US blocked any attempts of a Romanian investigation and the American investigation found no wrong doing (the musicians much smaller taxi looked like an accordion, I passed on that street after the accident).
United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales murdered 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, in the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Nine of his victims were children, and 11 of the dead were from the same family.
Bales was taken into custody later that morning when he told authorities, "I did it".> VanGoethem also called Wentworth on his cell phone immediately following the collision and asked her to match his lie when she spoke to investigators.
https://www.stripes.com/news/vangoethem-cleared-of-major-cha...
Also, regarding hearsay... I just said that I saw myself the car wreckage the next day. And actually I also saw the metal panel fence next to the road. The Dacia was totaled, smashed like a plastic toy, and the fence next to it was also destroyed due to the Dacia (a much smaller and lighter car) being catapulted onto the fence. It's been a while since I saw it, but that road was dangerous and the direction the SUV was coming from was famous for allowing high speeds. Maybe the taxi driver ran the red light, but that's extremely unlikely as a taxi driver would have been familiar with the risky road and the possibility of getting hit by a car doing 80kmph or more.
An increasingly common problem in the UK: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kqq8dw00o
Home goods get shipped too, of course.
YTD, the US has spent approximately $4.5T[1] on health and human services, of which approximately $1.9T are health-related alone.
In 2024, the US Government's total revenue was approximately $4.9T[2].
[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
Looks like signing up for the military is an 8 year commitment, which is often at least 3 years of active duty and the remainder on reserves. Kind of a lot of commitment for health care, and kind of a lot of risk on the job. If you can manage to stay in for 20 years though, the pension seems pretty nice; I live near a navy base and a lot of parents of my kid's sports team are approaching 20 years, getting paid a pension while having a second career is pretty neat.
When you drive near a military base, it's a great time to play license plate bingo.
I've seen both Hawaii and Guam in Arizona.
The EU has very stringent testing for pedestrian safety: https://www.euroncap.com/en/car-safety/the-ratings-explained.... One of the tests is literally just taking a foam ball, pressing it on spots all around the front of the car, and looking for hard, sharp corners.
The cybertruck is a steel box made of sharp corners. It was never, ever going to be allowed on European roads - and the US Government here is saying they are not even going to fight for the rarest exception.
Obviously we could get into incentives and prioritizing pedestrian safety and urbanizing. But if you take the current status quo of where Americans live and how they drive, I can very much understand regulators choosing to prioritize the safety regulations that will save the largest number of lives on the roads we have now.
US pedestrian fatalities 2 per 100k. US driver fatalities ~7 per 100k.
European pedestrian fatalities: 0.5 per 100k. European driver fatalities: ~2 per 100k.
So it's somewhat understandable that regulators may disproportionately favor crash protection for drivers.
hard disagree, in places where cybertrucks are most sold it is urban populated areas and pedestrian incidents and fatalities are very high
Huh - do you have a source for that stat?
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investig...
There's a bit of meme that an M1 Abrams tank has better forward visibility than many SUVs/pickups:
* https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/140dgn8/many_popu...
I’ve been on the other side of it once. I got roped into driving an acquaintance’s H3 Hummer years ago. I went to change lanes, checked my mirrors, looked over my shoulder out the window, and all seems clear. It wasn’t. There was a car that was completely invisible to me. Had other people not been in the car and looking, I would have run them right off the road. I have no idea how anyone drives those things on a daily basis. I was a nervous wreck.
I think the best visibility I had in a car was my old GTI. I could see all 4 corners and knew exactly where I was at.
TL;DW: It's most likely happening at night, on an arterial street, by a truck or SUV.
The US has a comparable urban population to Western Europe or Scandinavia. However, the urban areas are far more car centric.
They used to do this for lamborghini countach in the US by adding ridiculous bumpers:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Lamborgh...
They also need to beep when they reverse and so forth.
This is one of those things that seems visually more dangerous, but I'm not sure if it is in real world results.
Outside say a pike sticking out I wonder...
This requires a per-vehicle (not per model) specific flow which may take long and cost a lot, and you may be fined if you use the vehicle outside its stated purpose.
I can remember some collectors importing cybertruck indeed, I don’t know the limitations for its use.
The only exception I know of is the F-150 Lightning. It's allowed in Europe outside the EU (Norway & Switzerland), though its maximum load is limited to 805kg (including passengers) to keep it below the 3,500kg limit.[1]
Edit: Some guy in Poland (which is in the EU) has a Cybertruck.[2] I'm not sure how he made it EU compliant. He claims there are at least five Cybertrucks registered in Poland.[3] There's also a Cybertruck registered in the Czech Republic.[4]
1. https://www.motor.no/bil/ford-f-150-lightning-klar-for-norge...
2. https://x.com/norbertcala/status/1814394368452862270
3. https://x.com/norbertcala/status/1838862685724651738
4. https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/czechia-sees-its-fi...
If you remember Atari "Battlezone," one of the targets for your tank looks remarkably like a Cybertruck.
In 1980.
https://insideevs.com/features/727202/tesla-cybertruck-europ...
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Update: Oh. The federal ban was lifted in 1966. Full your boots!
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IIRC, US customs is really strict about produce and meat.
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