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[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 128 points 2 years ago

What cracks me up is the piece of metal, labeled metal, attached to the one metric ton of... Metal

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago

It's to differentiate from the trucks where the front is entirely made of very bring LEDs

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Cars these days are like 80% plastic crumble zone

[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Doesn’t the Cyber Truck have no crumple zone? It might apply to that.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Pedestrians are the crumple zone. It's revolutionary really.

[-] SeekPie@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years 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 10 points 2 years ago

metric

You sure about that?

[-] late_night@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years 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 2 points 2 years ago

Also since they'd want iron specifically

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Well, nickel or cobalt should work too, if middle school science memory doesn't fail me.

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Indeed, great memory comrade

this post was submitted on 06 May 2024
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