Follow Us Let’s be real—the Tesla Cybertruck has caught heat long before it hit the production line. After deliveries finally took place (after literally years of delays), it only got worse. In England, the Cybertruck is reportedly labeled as unsafe due to concerns about pedestrian safety. The outlandish designs, sharp angles, frames snapping in half at the hitch, and likely people nearly losing their fingers caused people to think it was a coffin on wheels. Oh, and people dying firey hot deaths from being trapped inside them after a crash. The delay in government-level crash test ratings didn’t help Tesla’s image, either. All of that combined with the seemingly endless press about them led people to assume they were radically unsafe as a driver, passenger, or pedestrian. Well, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) finally tested a Cybertruck. Lo and behold, it put on an excellent performance. It passed with flying colors. The Cybertruck earned itself a five-star rating The NHTSA tests a car’s ability to withstand impact from the side, front, rear, and side overlap. It also assesses a vehicle’s ability to avoid rolling over when turning too hard at high speeds, among other tests. Surprisingly, the Cybertruck’s frontal collision test results were five stars for the driver, but four stars for the passenger. The side test was five stars across the board, as well as the side pole test that simulated a tree or utility pole. It only poses a 12.4% chance of rolling over, too, earning a second four-star rating. All in all, I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised, since Teslas have historically scored well in crash test ratings with the NHTSA or the IIHS. Some raised questions about escaping, however If you’ve read any headlines about the deaths in Cybertrucks, none of them were because of the impact of the crash, but instead, the occupant’s inability to escape once the vehicle crashed. Three teens in California were unfortunately burned alive last November after a Cybertruck crashed into a tree and caught fire, and the teens weren’t able to get out. An Electrek reader made a very solid point about that in the comments section of the outlet’s coverage of the crash test results: “There are also other, unique, CT concerns that no sane testing procedure includes because no other car in the past failed – like the ability to break the side glass and get out with standard tools to escape the car in case of fire (internal or external) or water or other dangers,” they wrote. “Or the ability of standard rescue team tooling to rescue passengers stuck inside the truck after heavier accidents (including rollovers). If the walls and pillars are too thick to cut with “Jaws of Life” then this is another way this car becomes a death trap.” Best in