The Cybertruck's hood should also curve and have no protrusions to achieve a good NCAP pedestrian safety score.
“The [Cybertruck’s] big wiper and boss would be a danger area,” predicts Avery.
According to the transport NGOs, the modified Cybertruck was registered in the Czech Republic in July. The Czech individual vehicle approval system was used for registration. The Czech Ministry of Transport said that all vehicles in the N1 category, in which the truck was registered, have weight ratios calculated based on formulas in the 2018 EU regulations. But the vehicle data provided shows that the Cybertruck did not meet the formulas suffices if it carries four passengers.
To drive legally in Europe, a Cybertruck customer must have a category C driving license. This is a truck license and is intended for driving vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of more than 3.5 tons, or 7,716 lbs.
Norton Slovak, the co-founder of Cybertruck.cz, the company that owns the imported Tesla truck, told The Guardian that he was aware of the discrepancy between vehicle weight and regulations, but that the “calculations may not fully reflect how these regulations are applied. or interpreted by the Czech authorities.”
The Czech Ministry of Transport did not see the discrepancy as a problem, because the registration was “individual approval of a vehicle from the national scope only on the territory of the Czech Republic” and not a type-approval for the EU as a whole.
However, the truck, which the owners rent out for advertising campaigns, has already been driven to other EU member states, including Slovakia, where in an Instagram post you can see how the company is testing 'Wade Mode' on the Cybertruck in a lake near Bratislava. Things don't go according to plan and the SUV gets stuck in the water, forcing passersby to help push it out and place planks under the wheels.
Tesla, Norton Slovak and the Czech Republic's Ministry of Transport were all contacted for this piece, but no one responded.
In their open letter, the transport NGOs state that if the European Commission does not intervene, the import of this one Cybertruck with rubber edges could lead to the 'mass import of Cybertrucks into Europe', which they say would be a danger. for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists who are not in comparable armored motor vehicles. Euro NCAP seems to agree with that conclusion.
