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God damn that is ugly
It’s not 80’s enough to have a cool cyberpunk aesthetic, but if they leaned in to that they could have made something that looked really cool to me and the 12 of us that like that look.
But then the clean interior would immediately lose us. Gotta have a bunch of crap, buttons and nobs and stuff all over the interior. With no less than 4 screens giving you information at any given time.
Work with me here. Picture something like this as the general aesthetic of the car.
Now THAT’S what I’m talking about! THAT is what anything named “cyber” should look like!
What’s that?
Knight Rider
CRTs, every one of them. With those old curly phone-cord looking cables coming out the side.
And they function as patch cables to let you pick what displays on each of them by hooking them into the designated port “on the mainframe”
Cable management is the only way to tell what’s stock and what’s mod, man. That’s the look I want.
Ya I’d love something like the cybertruck but not at that price, maybe mix it with a borderlands out runner
I mean, you can get a truck chassis at a you-pull and fabricate your own cyber body if you have the space and sheer force of will…
Or just buy a Jeep Comanche and modify it a bit, Jeep Cherokee/Comanche designs were peak brick.
Shit they only made 200 thousand of the things, what a great little truck though. I think I saw one for sale in the last 5 years locally and they wanted 15k. Not exactly the hobby truck I’m looking for lol
if you want 80s/cool cyberpunk aesthetic you need to go to Hyundai and their Vision 74 concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu1yzLEsc1Q
If they make a wagon in that style I’d sell a kidney
Like if the hunchback of Notre Dame fucked a DeLorean.
From this angle (no pun intended) it looks like the nose fell off.
The front fell off
It’s not supposed to do that.
The front fell off
Can you book me a cab?
This is the car that a sixth grader draws in his notebook between a Cool S and a barbarian sword.
That S looks way cooler than this car, though.
I’d drive the fuck out of that S.
I’d have ex with that S
Elon told you that this car will win any argument with another car. If a car full of teen showed you disrespect you should track them and ram them at high speed with your powerful torque. See their crummy car be flattened by your invincible steel battleship. You are the elite, the king of the road, don’t you dare forget it or everything falls apart.
To be fair, the thing is still probably going to fall apart anyway if past Tesla weld quality is any indication.
But not before passning all that impact energy goodness to the passengers due to the lack of crumple zones.
and pedestrians, and the people in the other vehicle… I suspect this thing is going to be a lawsuit factory for Tesla.
If a car full of teen showed you disrespect you should track them and ram them at high speed with your powerful torque.
You can do that already with a GMC Sierra
Canyonero
funniest part to me is this thing is going to cost owners so much money on body work. Any dent, ding, scratch etc. is gonna JUMP out on those clean steel panels, body shops aren’t going to be able to hammer out (would leave impact marks all over) or fill and sand (unless you like that bondo patch atop SS look lol) - or purchase entire replacement panels from Tesla, if they make any (and have the excess production capacity for spares) available.
Oh and the lawsuits for making vehicles designed to slice through other vehicles - stainless doesn’t have the crumple / impact absorption modern vehicles are designed for.
There’s an Easter egg in Satisfactory (3d base building/logistics video game) where you can craft a “Cyber Wagon”, which looks exactly like a Cybertruck but with square wheels, and has the highest fuel consumption rate of any vehicle aside from the personal jetpack. It also handles like absolute shit on account of the square wheels.
But you can actually carry cargo in it. So it’s still better than the real one.
And the window is broken!
I think A.D.A. even makes fun of it in the game.
When i look at it, i start thinking I am a great designer!
While in fact, i am a backend developer
His back end is where Musk gets his ideas
A backend designer!
Those are just called plastic surgeons.
The people who buy this won’t be in debt. It will be their new iwatch for a year, maybe two, then resold at half its price because half the touch buttons or little motors for the bed cover stops working.
I really liked the review by Marcus, what happens when the door ices over, will that push open solenoid actually be able to open the door?
When the cybertrunk was first announced I kinda liked it. I’m utilitarian and don’t care what I drive looks like. The explanation I heard for the looks was because it was supposed to be really cheap to manufacture. So, a cheap ass EV pickup sounded pretty cool to me. Unfortunately, it’s not going to be cheap :(
I wish they would make like generic vehicles. Like, basic shit. Give me that nokia brick vehicle that I can drive forever and is dead simple to work on.
You mean a Toyota Corolla?
Too bad it’s gotten huge like every other car. I had an '86 Corolla and it was a good 25% smaller than the Corolla now. It was a really great car though.
Miatas are not much bigger.
I’m 100% with you though. Even mini coopers are bigger than sedans used to be.
Or nissan leaf, for electric, or Toyota prius phev, for phev
Unfortunately most of those are not dead simple to work on.
Only the best selling car ever :)
I didn’t know that it beat out the Beetle. Neat!
Soviets did that, they had a few types of vehicles that were cheap to make and that ran forever. some likely still running now. Really great stuff. ( I’m not a tankie I just like Soviet history.)
You mean the one without a crumple zone that is deadly to any pedestrian?
I rather want one that is safe for humans than for the car itself.
The unibody is neither cheap nor easy to manufacture, and repairs are going to be a nightmare. The explanation is basically “Elron thought it looked cool”.
they are going to be totaled for stuff that’s a few K to repair on other cars.
They will also never be street legal in the EU, that fucking front looks like it’s designed to kill pedestrians, they couldn’t have made a sharper edge if they put a knife there.
Utilitarian and pickup truck don’t fit in the same philosophy imo
For a lot of people they do
Well, everybody can’t be right all the time ¯\\_༼ᴼل͜ᴼ༽_/¯
Meh, fair enough. I drive a Leaf, but have an old F250 that I use at least a couple times a month. I’m either hauling firewood, mulch, compost, rock, lumber, flooring, siding, appliances, large tools, junk, etc (I live in an old house that needs a lot of work, heat solely with wood, and make furniture and garden as a hobby). Not sure I would want to tow much with my little Leaf. I guess could rent a pickup a couple times a month, but that would be pretty inconvenient.
Good point, owning it as a side vehicle like an old tractor makes more sense.
My gripe with pickup trucks is more when they appear in traffic, in parking lots sticking out at every corner, in too narrow streets, around children who they can’t see cause they have their eyes 5 yards in the sky and a bonnet obstructing everything apart from the horizon, having a fuel economy and co2 emittance of a lorry without the contribution to our essential goods infrastructure.
Thanks Obama and the EPA. Bring back baby pickups!
Wut
They do. As someone who goes camping often and also takes care of a yard in America, I would never want to put mulch in a van. But let’s say I did, I couldn’t stack as much inside the van. A 4 wheeler doesn’t fit. It makes perfect sense for its use car just like every other object invented
Imagine driving everyday to work and not taking the trailer off the hitch because you need to get mulch two times a year and transport your bikes three times a year.
I need to own a school bus as a personal vehicle because sometimes we like to travel as a group of 12.
I load it into the bed of the truck, I don’t own a trailer. I’ve moved tvs, a piano, mattresses. These things don’t always fit in a covered location with a finite amount of space. Do you genuinely hate all pickup trucks?
I can’t move a piano with a sedan. I could maybe hitch a trailer and move mulch or do that thing where you pop the trunk and lash it down
Yeah I honestly hate all pickup trucks. I don’t hate you, though. From what I know, in your country most sensible cars have a very low towing capacity on paper. And although they could tow a trailer with a piano in other countries, they’re not allowed to in the US. So even for towing trailers, most people use pickup trucks, if I’m not mistaken.
In my country, I would tow a piano with a sedan, station wagon or a compact car. If I owned none of that but like a Ford fiesta or something small like that, I would hire a moving company for that one trip. It’s still cheaper than maintaining a truck 365 days a year.
Fair enough. I can’t vouch for the legality, but you are not mistaken. I would rent a uhaul if I found it necessary to move a piano, but I’ve used the bed of my pickup an awful lot. Most recently to bring in the Christmas tree. But I do a LOT of work around my house so I know I’m in the minority here. But being from rural-ish America I find that there are people who have a stock pickup that they use frequently as a pickup.
It looks as if they missed the stop line at a red light and can’t see out of the rear window to back up safely.
There’s a persistent rear camera view. This wouldn’t be an issue.
Where I live you could buy a very decent RV for the equivalent of $100k. Hell even the $60k variant gets you quite a bit.
I’d much rather have that and be able to work “from home” from the south of Spain rather than drive a geometric shape.
I have spent less than that on my flat, and just about that on an older house.
car prices are insane.
Cars have become expensive, sure. But what I find crazy is people are so happy to take out huge loans on it.
You can buy a really nice and comfortable car for under €10k around here. Yet so many people have a car worth 2/3 of their gross annual income.
absolutely, I have a used car myself,I will probably never buy new.
People also way overspend on cars then complain that they don’t have money
It’s been said before, and it’s the kind of comment that essentially implies this community shouldn’t exist, but it’s extremely ironic for a community called “enough xyz spam” to essentially spam everyone’s feeds with posts about xyz. Imma go ahead and block this community, don’t take it personally peeps, I just actually have had enough of musk spam.
Another person who didn’t read the community description that’s right over there to the right.
The title is a holdover from reddit where for far too long people sucked this guy off in basically every thread that they had a chance.
I kind of wish that they went with a different title for Lemmy just to avoid the apparent contradiction of only posting about Elon Musk in a community called “Enough Musk Spam”, but it is what it is I guess.
These cars a made for the immanent apocalypse and you will see who has the last laugh.
You can probably attach chainsaws and shit to it but you need an app to open it (the app won’t work after the apocalypse)
Everyone is talking about electricity going down but the real problem will be the Tesla DRM servers going down.
on one of the IASIP podcasts Glen Howerton who plays Denis on IASIP tells his story on how he got his Tesla stuck in a parking garage, because there was no signal there, so he couldn’t use his phone to open it, then called a tow truck after buddying up to the parking garage attendant, but that they couldn’t do it, because the size of the tow truck to lift the heavy tesla couldn’t fit into the garage.
it also inspired an episode in the latest season, brilliant stuff, how stupid it is.
I will def. have the last laugh: with no electricity (because remember, apocalypse), owners will starve or suffocate as they can’t even open their doors DAYS before i die of radiation induced cancer, laughing
Electricity is easier to source than fossil fuels; solar panels, wind power, you could even burn wood and use a steam turbine to make it
Could just get a diesel and learn how to work it. There will always be stuff to burn.
A Mercedes g class would survive longer than that truck.
My 35 year old Samurai has already survived longer. And it has just as much cargo capacity.
Suzuki Samurai are the best way to move on snowy roads, only the Panda 4×4 is better on account on the narrower tyres
There are reasons why even the fucking base models of the G class are still trusted by the world’s militaries.
Oh sure, but just wait until they find out the apocalypse also means no electricity…
Not to mention for civilization to collapse a hell of a lot of people have to die; which probably means environmental collapse; which means the oceans are dying; which in turn means there’s no oxygen being produced because the keystone species (phytoplankton, algae, etc) are mostly dead or switching to toxic modes of energy production. This means that everyone is dying, no matter if they have an ugly DRM controlled polywagon or not.
You should look into how past civilizations collapsed. They collapse quite quickly without a lot of mass death (beforehand, I mean).
Past civilisations weren’t even close to industrialised, nor did they span the entire globe. The closest was the Roman Empire of course, and they just sort of faded away over the course of a few thousand years if you count Justinian’s Byzantine Empire as a direct continuation.
Our present situation is much more dire, with global consequences for reasons you are likely already aware.
You probably want to read a bit of Tainter.
Why? I’m talking about the collapse of environmental systems that support the life of every oxygen breathing species on the planet, not anthropology.
Maybe you walked into the wrong conversation by mistake then.
I remember the power in the eastern half of my state being knocked out because of an ice storm. I remember that a lot of gas stations were closed, because the pumps run on electricity.
Yes and no. The pumps are just pumps.
If you didn’t have to meter it and tie that to a credit card, you could pump the gas with a hand pump.
Solar panels won’t just stop working, you know. I have a solar generator. Takes forever to charge but it does get power.
Listen to your heart
No you listen to your heart.
go watch “Dennis takes a Mental Health Day” IASIP
Okay mate
Still convinced Elon made this for shits and giggles to see if he could make someone buy it.
Like he did with Twitter. Except that was a drunk bet at a billionaire Christmas party.
i saw one IRL today for the first time. was walking past the dealership in Chicago and they had one on display
there’s a Rolls Royce and Maserati dealer a few block away. what i thought at the time is that these are toys for the rich to show off, publicity for the South African, and nothing more
I don’t care how many bumper stickers you put on it to hide the fact, this abomination is a scarlet letter announcing what you really are.
Alexis Ohanian (co-founder of Reddit) bought one. I’ve yet to hear of Spez getting one but he’s precisely the kind of tech bro who would.
didn’t spez say he likes Elon?
Those bumper stickers are timeless. Imagine going back in time and putting them on model-Ts or Volkswagens.
I’ve never seen the cyber truck from behind. But is it just me or does it look like the cyber truck not have a bead. Is there just like a super stylish tano or is there seriously not a bead on the cyber truck.
There is a roll up cover. I have seen one with it closed and open.
Well I guess at least it’s a “truck”
The bed… it can’t even hold a bike. A BIKE. This thing is trash at everything it was marketed for.
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