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 Cybertruck has a cult following in the U.S., but safety issues such as excessive size and acceleration and sharp edges make the Tesla illegal on U.K. roads.

NHTSA has independently tested Tesla Cybertruck, and it got a top 5-star rating despite some claiming that it would

The angular electric truck was put through a battery of tests to simulate head-on and side crashes, as well as rollovers.

Tesla's Cybertruck may boast a polarizing design, but the federal government says it's certainly not an unsafe one. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's testing, the Cybertruck has received five-star ratings in multiple safety trial crash tests — and appears even safer than most pickup trucks in at least one category.

The Tesla Cybertruck has finally undergone the NHTSA crash test and scored top rating just as the Model 3, Model S, and Model X

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

These days, Tesla and its vehicles are in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. But the Cybertruck has finally undergone crash tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the results have been shared with the public.