Right after his self-driving Cybertruck crashed into a light post, a Florida man thanked Tesla for "the best safety in the world." On Feb. 9, Jonathan Challinger posted on social media site X that his Tesla Cybertruck operating on self-driving technology failed to merge out of an ending lane before driving straight over a curb and into a lamppost.

While Elon Musk and Tesla fanatics have long praised the Cybertruck even as others loudly mocked the vehicle, another group is now giving the truck its kudos. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published the highly-anticipated results of its first Cybertruck crash test this week,

The Tesla Cybertruck has finally been independently crash-tested, but questions remain about how safe pedestrians would be.

The tests were conducted using a 2024 Cybertruck Cyberbeast and were performed last December by California’s Applus IDIADA KARCO Engineering. While the findings span dozens of p