The US safety ratings are incredibly easy to game. I have a sibling who used to be a crash test engineer, and we used to get bored of them endlessly ranting about it at family gatherings.

In many other countries it wasn’t even street legal because it couldn’t meet minimum safety standards.

If this thing had good safety ratings, then there is something wrong with those ratings.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cyb...

> The bodywork of the vehicle is particularly problematic: the sharp-edged, rigid stainless steel panels of the Cybertruck violate EU safety regulations, which primarily serve to protect vulnerable road users.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Cybertruck-remains-banned-in-Ge...