• balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    it’s possible that this person is just a moron

    They own a cybertruck. It is not a possibility, it’s a certainty

    But also

    26 degrees doesn’t seem like that much

    Nah it’s quite a lot TBH, angles feel much steeper in reality than they seem as numbers. E.g. a typical staircase is ~30-35°, and the steepest street in the world is 35° (and that thing has concrete, which is a reasonably grippy surface).

    And it’s even worse in cars, at a 15-20° bank angle most people start to freak out and scream that the car is about to flip. 30-40° is when most cars will actually flip, I guess cybertruck is on the lower end here.

    If it was grass, wet mud, or gravel, I can totally see a 3000 kg vehicle just not being able to physically stop. It’s interesting that they managed to flip it, I suppose there was something else at play that we can’t see in the photo.

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      If it was grass, wet mud, or gravel, I can totally see a 3000 kg vehicle just not being able to physically stop. It’s interesting that they managed to flip it, I suppose there was something else at play that we can’t see in the photo.

      I think it’s easy to forget how much exceptionally heavy EV cars and trucks are.

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, but usually the batteries are kept down low and make the vehicle more difficult to flip. But I wouldn’t put it behind tesla to fuck that up somehow too.

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      If it was grass, wet mud, or gravel, I can totally see a 3000 kg vehicle just not being able to physically stop. It’s interesting that they managed to flip it, I suppose there was something else at play that we can’t see in the photo.

      could probably roll it on that crap on the left and full steering angle