Cars these days are like 80% plastic crumble zone
Comment on Checkmate, science
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What cracks me up is the piece of metal, labeled metal, attached to the one metric ton of… Metal
jose1324@lemmy.world 6 months ago
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 6 months ago
Doesn’t the Cyber Truck have no crumple zone? It might apply to that.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Pedestrians are the crumple zone. It’s revolutionary really.
SeekPie@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It doesn’t need one, when running over pedestrians you wouldn’t want to dent your car now would ya?
/s
Hupf@feddit.de 6 months ago
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You sure about that?
late_night@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Well, the metal sees the magnet and wants to eat it so it move toward it. It’s the ol’ Magnet on a Stick trick and metal is easily fooled.
bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 6 months ago
Also since they’d want iron specifically
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Well, nickel or cobalt should work too, if middle school science memory doesn’t fail me.
bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 6 months ago
Indeed, great memory comrade
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s to differentiate from the trucks where the front is entirely made of very bring LEDs