{"id":30697,"date":"2023-12-09T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30697"},"modified":"2023-12-09T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:36:47","slug":"musk-fanboys-melt-down-after-ralph-nader-founded-car-safety-group-trashes-cybertruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30697","title":{"rendered":"Musk Fanboys Melt Down After Ralph Nader-Founded Car Safety Group Trashes Cybertruck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/cybertruck-elon-fans.jpg?w=1581&amp;h=1054&amp;crop=1\" width=\"219\" height=\"146\" \/>Tesla customers left in furious disbelief as Center for Auto Safety trashes Cybertruck as &#8216;dangerous&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/cybertruck-tesla-elon-musk-car-safety-ralph-nader-1234921888\/\">Musk Fanboys Melt Down After Ralph Nader-Founded Car Safety Group Trashes Cybertruck<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>(Neither U.S. safety regulators nor the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have tested it to date.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>so how does it get to drive on the public roads of the usa without passing lots of testing for occupant safety, crash safety, etc.?  isn&#8217;t one of the big hurdles for all automakers is passing and providing test vehicles for new models for certification by &lt;some testing facility>??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked this in a <a href=\"https:\/\/bbs.boingboing.net\/t\/cybertruck-to-be-officially-delivered-today\/262971\/133?u=csilvest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BoingBoingBBS thread<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-1-1024x665.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-1-1024x665.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-1-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-1-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-1-750x487.png 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-1-675x438.png 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-1.png 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>so even at ~7000lbs, it&#8217;s a &#8220;light truck&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla customers left in furious disbelief as Center for Auto Safety trashes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[87,244,140,251],"class_list":["post-30697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cars","tag-ev","tag-paul","tag-telsa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30700,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697\/revisions\/30700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}