If you can’t safely take the Cybertruck to a car wash, I wonder how it will fare as a boat?
There’s something tragic about Cybertruck owners, and it’s nothing to do with Elon.
They seem to be wildly impressed by their vehicle doing the most mediocre things that any AWD vehicle can do.
They’re just coping with the fact they spent 6 figures on this giant piece of shit so they convince themselves their investment was worth it because truck go brrr
Yeah, at this point they know they got conned, and they either have to admit that or double down and act wildly impressed at its ability to, like, drive on an unpaved road.
I read a while back that many of them were shocked the cyber truck didn’t fit in regular parking spaces. In other words, these are people that, for the most part, have never owned a large pickup before. The obvious conclusion is that they bought it for cred or because they think it looks cool, not because they actually need a vehicle that size.
That’s a common theme, yes. They’ve clearly never owned a pickup truck, and don’t realise what they have is actually pretty bad by pickup truck standards.
That also might explain why they think it’s so awesome. They’ve nothing to compare it to.
I mean, I don’t think a lot of pickup drivers are aware of the fact that their giant ass truck doesn’t fit in a regular parking space
They’re aware, I’m sure, but there isn’t much they can do about it if they need to park there. Even Home Depot and Lowe’s have this issue.
Saw a YouTube video of a guy thoroughly impressed with the glue they use to put cyber trucks together. Glue
Industrial glue is on another level. The Cybertruck is a piece of trash, but modern epoxies are wild.
things that any AWD vehicle can do.
Not any AWD; you probably want high ground clearance too.
I wouldn’t go fording streams in a Subaru Impreza, for instance.
A Subaru Impreza definitely could have done what the Cybertruck did in that video though.
Nah. The Impreza doesn’t even have a weird roller top for its cargo bed, let alone a fragile and poorly-designed one. No way it could break as stupidly as the Cybertruck managed.
A cyber truck does not actually qualify as a truck. Their owners do, on the other hand, qualify as complete douche canoes.
Most pickup trucks in the US aren’t used as trucks, nor used off road. They are status symbols. The Cybertruck fits right into this category. It’s shiny and stands out of the crowd.
it’s shiny
I mean, not really
They absolutely can’t do the things other AWD vehicles can do, though. They get shown up regularly by cars that cost under 20k.
I mean, the limiting factor of the off road performance of most vehicles is how much the driver cares about the vehicle.
It’s amazing what a shitbox can do.
I must be at another level of cynicism than you, because I want to replace ‘tragic’ with ‘uproariously hilarious’.
… Elon said he was gonna put monopropellant / cold gas thrusters from the Dragon capsule into the Roadster, at one point.
Musk said the production version will be revealed later this year ahead of the start of production in 2025 and that it will have the previously announced SpaceX package, which will use cold gas thrusters to help the car accelerate and also “fly”— or hover for short distances.
“I think it has a shot at being the most mind-blowing product demo of all time,” Musk said.
Its almost like this guy just fucking says shit, snd idiots believe him, for some reason, even though he’s got a well established track record of lying about things that make basically no sense to lie about…
“I’m a world class Diablo player.”
… as well as an entire solid decade of making grandiose business / product promises, and then delivering basically 1% of what he promised.
AutoPilot/Full Self Drive is totally real guys, it’ll be perfect in a year or two… for a fucking decade.
Dude’s blown up or otherwise destroyed about half as many heavy lift launch vehicles as the entire Apollo program, and so far hasn’t even achieved orbit, much less with a payload, muchless tested the orbital refueling that his entire Starship system totally fails without.
Remember how we were gonna have rockets replace private jets?
Remember how the Boring company was gonna pay for itself by selling the dirt it dug up as bricks?
How’s Hyperloop doing these days?
Aside from every other stupid aspect of such a stupid idea, I’m curious where he thought people were going to be able to get hydrazine to refuel the thruster.
Oh god that hadn’t even occured to me.
Yeah… yeah.
I dunno, send it back to the dealer, have them do it lol?
I’m sure car mechanics will just be a-ok with handling hydrazine, rofl!
I can’t even find barely any independent mechanic that’ll touch a gas-electric hybrid, they’re too ‘complicated’, apparently.
Embrace extend extinguish. Hyperloop is doing fine, success achieved.
Wheres’s that China vs US/California mass transit system map, change over last last two decades, map/meme thingy mabob when you need it…
The rockets exploding is differen than the rest. It’s literally rocket science and blowing up a bunch of test vehicles is kinda par for the course, and SpaceX has actually been pretty sucessful overall.
But that has zero to do with Musk.
Uh, no.
No rocket development program since the 1970s has blown up or lost as many rockets as Starship/HeavyBooster’s development cycle has, proportional to how many rockets they built, flights they attempted.
And the entire fundamental design concept to be reliant on mass orbital fuel transfer, which has never been done, and will require a hell of a lot more development than drawings on napkins and CG renders… that’s Elon’s idea.
How many rockets has BlueOrigin lost?
Elon spent decades telling people he is an engineer.
When he roleplays as one, billions of dollars go up in smoke.
Isn’t 0 to 60mph in 1 sec equivalent to ~2.7g
Kind of dangerous considering Saturn V reached a maximum of 4g during its first stage burn
Do people really believe this shit?
Yeah, that is a particularly funny aspect of the whole point to point rocket thing.
It would only even theoretically be safe for basically trained military pilots and astronauts.
You shove a bunch of random rich assholes onto one?
Heart attacks galore, basically.
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uh … let that sink in?
The best part of winter in Canada is seeing all these dumpster cars disappear when the real snow falls. Though I did spot one not that long ago:
The ‘CyberPod’.
The only “question” is why would you believe what Elon “promised” at any point?
Because way too many people think he’s a genius because he is filthy rich.
Did you know it’s bullet proof /s
I honestly don’t see a problem. Nobody ever promised that it would act as a tugboat. In this particular case, it’s doing perfectly fine as a tuggedboat.
I wouldn’t trust any vehicle to be safe for wading unless it was explicitly designed from the outset for that purpose. There are offroad vehicles with snorkels, and double seals around everything like doors, electronics & batteries which are designed to go through deep water.
The cyberturd… not so much regardless of the lies Elon used to sell it. I would not be surprised if there is small print in the warranty which basically tells people to take a hike if they attempt to use it in the ways Elon has described.
Per the Cybertruck warranty:
"This New Vehicle Limited Warranty does not cover any vehicle damage or malfunction directly or indirectly caused by, due to, or resulting from…
… The environment or an act of God, including, but not limited to, exposure to sunlight, airborne chemicals, tree sap, animal or insect droppings, … water, contamination, lightning and other environmental conditions"
So, if you get all bricked up in the car wash, you’re now the proud owner of a $100,000 rust brick.
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang
I guess we found a way to get rid of this ugly truck. Convince them it is a boat?
We really should encourage all Cybertrukkk owners to test this ‘feature’.
Lol strong “I don’t want buyer’s regret” energy from this guy. Or maybe “I am way out of my league when evaluating how good something is” with perhaps a dash of “boots are delicious”.
Like he literally mentions that he can hear water sloshing around in the frame somewhere but then immediately concludes that it’ll probably go away on its own sometime in the future. I had a period in my life when I was like that. I consider it my “I had no fucking idea how naive I was or how things worked or how to take care of them” phase, and I was the last person anyone should have taken advice about anything from.
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Fucking “boat mode”? 😂
I feel like I need video of this incEl Camino self destruction in my life. Anybody have a link?
I live on a fairly-well-to-do island off the southern coast of Korea with a lot of battery powered vehicles. Our first Cybertruck appeared recently. It’s all downhill from here.
