Watch: Testing Suggests Highway Guardrails No Match for Heavy EVs

Breitbart ^ | 02Feb24 | Kent

[qaz123]

Highway guardrails may be no match for heavy electric vehicles (EVs), preliminary test results released Thursday suggest, raising concerns about the nation’s roadside safety system.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility ran a crash test examination using a nearly four-ton 2022 Rivian R1T.

When the pickup truck crashed through a metal guardrail and barely slowed down before hitting a concrete barrier, it reportedly came as little surprise to the researchers.

[qaz123]

Well, the research shows that Rivian truck is a disaster, but the company is still allowed to destroy 2000 acres and. get $1,500,000,000 in stolen money from the Georgia taxpayer.

Kemp is nothing but a thief.

[Secret Agent Man]

This will be used multiple ways. More taxes on vehicles. Additional “use” type taxes on ev’s. Additional taxes on trucks/suvs.

[9422WMR]

Guardrails and concrete barriers are no match for loaded 18 wheelers so whats the point? That double trailer Walmart rig will plow through just about any barrier on any highway given enough speed and angle.

[Alberta's Child]

Exactly. A guide rail (and this article loses credibility by failing to use the proper term) isn’t designed to stand up to a right-angle collision. It’s designed to deflect a moving vehicle back into the roadway in an area where running off the road would be particularly lethal to a motorist.

[mewzilla]

F=ma.

[mewzilla]

The NYS DOT has changed a number of its guardrail standards in the last four years...

https://www.dot.ny.gov/main/business-center/engineering/cadd-info/drawings/standard-sheets-us/606

Interesting timing.

Don’t think it’s cuz of trucks.

[Hot Tabasco]

Then pretend that guard rail is a parked car or a t-boned vehicle in an intersection. Or maybe even the last vehicle in line in a highway work zone that is rear ended by a 9000 lb. truck doing 70 MPH.....

There is no question about the massive destruction that vehicle is capable of due to it's massive weight that otherwise wouldn't happen with a normal pickup truck.

This just another example added to the long list of reasons why not to own an EV.

[maddog55]

The reasons not to by an EV keep coming. But with all this new much needed safe technology, internet connected, voice control, hands free driving, adaptive cruise control, lane assist, collision avoidance this will never happen.

[Tell It Right]

I disabled the driving assist mess within days of getting our first new car. When I’d swerve to the middle of a two lane road to give extra room for someone to check her mailbox, the car tried to help me back to the center of my lane and almost run her over. The same with avoiding potholes and such.

[maddog55]

Wife’s new Volvo is a technology nightmare. Bought one in 2023 had all kinds of issues, would slam on the brakes doing 60 and say collision avoidance but nothing there. This happened numerous times. It would slam on the brakes backing out of the garage with nothing there, lost all audio and displays for several hours. POS and finally I gave Volvo an ultimatum full refund or replace the car. They gave us a 2024 at no cost difference. Minor problems on this one so far but you can’t drive for 90 minutes when it does a S/W upgrade. All Google controlled and everything I can is disabled and I told the dealer I will not setup user account in the car..we’re on guest mode.

[Mogger]

It's not so much the weight that's the problem, but where the weight is.

It's very low, below the bottom of the lower rail.

[Bernard]

say collision avoidance but nothing there

I thought the new models say "Joe Biden handshake (but nothing there)"

[Tell It Right]

Our 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 (EV) works great. Of course, that's only if you're in a market for an EV like us (married thus need 2 cars anyway so one is ICE and one is EV to have best of both worlds, live in the south where we don't have freezing cold winters, can charge at home, virtually all road trips we take have good fast charging options, and the wife likes to stop every 150-200 miles and walk around 10-15 minutes anyway). On top of that I'm trying to be more energy self-reliant -- with solar I produce most of the power needed for our home and charging the EV in the 16K miles we charged the EV last year from home (not counting the other 10K miles we drove it from charging it elsewhere).

I disabled the driving correction features, including the auto-stop. However I left enabled the warning for stopping. There were a couple of times it warned us for no reason, but that was fixed by simply cleaning the sensors. I'm very pleased with the tech that makes it work like an EV (charging and driving efficiency so it doesn't hog up a lot of power per mile), particularly it being a crossover shape.

About the only way we could be happier with our new car is if it was a new ICE car and I could drill and refine my own oil to be 80% self reliant driving it for local driving. I can't stand the Dims' stupid war on energy. We shouldn't have to think in terms of producing our own energy at the household level to remove one of the ways the Dims control us.

[qaz123]

An 18-wheeler, so match.

The Rivian pickup a like small pickup, kind of like a Tacoma, I shouldn’t be like semi.

[doorgunner69]

Oversized electric golf cart fanbois not pleased with this.

[Steven Tyler]

yeahbut, professional drivers operate an 18 wheeler.
There are many dimwits with an absence of driving skills who can get into an EV

[antidemoncrat]

Hey there is a positive side to this. If we get involved in a war, we don’t need no steenking tanks. We can just drive one of those EVs into whatever target we want to destroy.

[9422WMR]

We pulled into a travel center that had the Tesla chargers. There were four teslas charging. What a way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Sitting in your car along side interstate 35 waiting on your car to charge. How dumb does one have to be to think that is a workable solution for travel. What about at night? Would you want your wife or daughter sitting in a battery dead car waiting for it to charge!

[qaz123]

There’s a plan

[Alberta's Child]

You should read the details of those changes before making any judgements about what they involve. The link you posted shows dozens of changes dating back to 2009. There are many reasons why design standards change over time, and the ones I've dealt with in my professional work often have more to do with the constructability of a barrier than its performance under stress.

I am a civil engineer. Some of the documents in that link you posted were signed by my peers in the industry.