To achieve a good pedestrian safety score in NCAP, the Cybertruck’s hood would also need to flex and not have any protruding features.
” [Cybertruck’s] the large wiper and bulge would be a danger area,” Avery predicts.
According to transport NGOs, the modified Cybertruck was registered in the Czech Republic in July. The Czech system of individual vehicle approval was used to register it. The Czech Ministry of Transport has stated that all N1 category vehicles in which the truck is registered have weight factors calculated based on formulas in 2018 EU regulations. However, the vehicle data it provided shows that the Cybertruck does not meet these formulas, carrying four passengers.
To legally drive it in Europe, a Cybertruck customer would need to have a Category C driving license. This is a truck driving license designed to drive vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) in excess of 3.5 tons or 7,716 pounds.
Norton Slovak, co-founder Cybertruck.czsaid the company that owns the imported Tesla truck Guardian was aware of the discrepancy between vehicle weight and the regulations, but “the calculations may not fully reflect how these regulations are applied or interpreted by the Czech authorities.”
The Czech Ministry of Transport did not consider this discrepancy to be a problem because the registration was an “individual vehicle approval with a national scope only in the territory of the Czech Republic” and not an EU-wide type approval.
However, the truck, which its owners rent for advertising campaigns, has already been transported to other EU countries, including Slovakia, where Instagram post you can see the company testing “Wade Mode” on a Cybertruck on a lake near Bratislava. Things don’t go as planned and the electric off-road vehicle gets stuck in the water, requiring passers-by to help push it out and place boards under the wheels.
Tesla, Norton Slovak and the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic were contacted regarding this matter, but no one responded.
In their open letter, transport NGOs argue that if the European Commission fails to act, the import of this single rubber Cybertruck could lead to “mass imports of Cybertrucks into Europe”, which they say will pose a risk to pedestrians, cyclists and drivers, who do not travel in similarly armored motor vehicles. Euro NCAP seems to agree with this conclusion.