Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars
by FlyingAvatar on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:08PM
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It can work if the other car took more of the damage than it would have compared to a collision with a "squishier" car. Would be interested to see a Cybertruck vs Cybertruck crash.
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Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars
by remh on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:12PM
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parent said: "no one in either car was hurt". If the cybertruck didn't have any damage it means that no energy was dissipated by "squishing it", basically it made the impact twice as bad (compared to a regular squishier car) for the occupants of both cars.
Maybe indeed no one got hurt, but then it means that the crash was at super low speed.
Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars
by theultdev on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:28PM
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I saw the twitter post of what they're talking about.
It was just the way the car hit it I guess, CT was basically untouched, everyone was fine, but it was high enough speed to total the other car.
It's not really an indicator of anything, just an interesting happenstance.
CT didn't crumple because it wasn't hit where it needed to crumple.
Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars
by orenlindsey on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:41PM
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> Cybertruck vs Cybertruck crash
An unstoppable force hitting an immovable object.
Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars
by adolph on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:25PM
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Cybertruck vs Cybertruck crash
Postulate two spherical cybertrucken in a vacuum suspended from the same point by wire under Earth gravity acceleration. After contact each vehicle moves away from the point of contact with the energy equivalent of 1/2 the sum of each vehicle's input kinetic energy.