[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.

[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.

[Alberta's Child]

Then pretend that guard rail is a parked car or a t-boned vehicle in an intersection.

There's absolutely no reason to pretend anything. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility should run a crash test using a 2022 Rivian R1T and a parked car or a vehicle in an intersection instead of a guide rail.

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

Of course. Let's worry about the safety of an 8,000-lb. pickup truck vs. a 5,000-lb. pickup truck ... when the heaviest vehicle motorists encounter on our roads without an overweight permit is an 80,000-lb. tractor-trailer combination truck. /sarcasm off/