19-02-2025
Tesla Cybertruck Nabs 5-Star Scores in U.S. Government Crash Tests
Tesla's Cybertruck may boast a polarizing design, but the federal government says it's certainly not an unsafe one. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's testing, the Cybertruck has received five-star ratings in multiple safety trial crash tests — and appears even safer than most pickup trucks in at least one category.
In its testing, NHTSA reviewed the Cybertruck's frontal and side crash protection along with its rollover risk. In frontal crash tests, the pickup scored five stars overall, with five stars for driver safety and four stars for front passenger safety. That test simulates what happens when the Cybertruck hits another similar vehicle head-on at 35 mph. In every category tested, the Tesla's occupants were inflicted with well below the maximum allowable force also performed tested side impacts on the Cybertruck, where it scored five stars across the board. One test considered how the Tesla performed when it was hit at 38.5 mph by an object angled at 27°, in essence testing what it would be like to be hit by crossing traffic at an intersection; in the other test, the Cybertruck is directed at a 75° angle into a rigid pole at 20 mph, comparable to a situation where the truck veered off of the road and into a telephone pole or tree.
These scores fall right in line with other Teslas tested by NHTSA, all of which have been five-star performers in their own right. Notably, these five-star marks aren't out of the ordinary for full-size pickup trucks, either; in fact, full-size trucks from Chevrolet, Ram, and Ford all have five-star crash test ratings. In some cases, like the F-150 and Silverado 1500, the trucks even performed better overall than the of the other U.S.-made full-sizers came close to matching the Cybertruck in terms of rollover risk, though. The Ram 1500, Silverado 1500, and F-150 all have a rollover risk greater than 19%; the Tesla's rollover risk is just 12.4%.
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