The EU has requirements for the shape and height of the front of the vehicle. Roughly the reasoning is that a low front with deformable plastic bumper cover will mostly affect the legs of (adult) pedestrians and hopefully limit severe injuries to vital parts, in contrast to full size trucks or (gasp) lifted vehicles. Cor.
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 10:51 AM John Lussmyer via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/19/2025 10:53 PM, EV List Lackey via EV wrote: > > On 19 Jul 2025 at 20:20, John Lussmyer via EV wrote: > > > >> for your pedestrian example - > >> pretty much ANY vehicle hitting them is a likely major injury/death > event. > > The reason that the Cybertruck will probably never be sold officially in > the > > EU is that it doesn't even come close to meeting EU standards for > pedestrian > > protection. > I assume that the EU doesn't allow ANYTHING like an American Ford > F-series truck then? > If that is true - why pick out the CT as the "Bad vehicle"? > Also - since it appears that having a ADAS that hits the brakes before > hitting a pedestrian isn't good enough, umm, what is? > I'm actually rather curious on that. > Note: I was under the impression that US vehicles the size of the CT > just weren't allowed as "cars", since most non-highway roads out there > are too small. > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20250720/3428b92d/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
