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[–] [email protected] 86 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What a garbage article. Elon sucks, the cyber truck sucks, but an article about tweets is less than worthless. Perhaps the article instead of assuming elon just "didn't have time to run tesla properly", should dig a bit deeper and demonstrate that tesla was successful despite elon, not because of elon. Same with Space-X or Star-link.

Now as far as why the cyber truck is getting stuck in snow, tires is the low-effort answer, but maybe look at the weight of the truck versus the contact area. Maybe look at how the traction control system works? How about whether the car is front wheel bias vs rear-wheel biased. Does it make assumptions about which wheels have contact to the ground? Does it have a differential or are all 4 wheels independently controlled? (I don't know the answer to any of these by the way, but if I were concerned about a vehicle getting stuck in the snow, I'd certainly want an analysis that addresses all of the above.)

[–] slaacaa 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Welcome to modern “journalism”, throwing together a few sentences based on twitter and reddit posts, without any research or asking experts.

[–] drivepiler 8 points 11 months ago

"Another user said...."

It's so ridiculously low quality journalism it's embarrassing

[–] greedytacothief 27 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I see Jersey schmucks up here with their pavement princess trucks getting stuck in the snow all the time. I see locals in a Corolla or fiesta or other tiny light car make it just fine in deep snow. One of my bosses at the ski mountain used to drive a mini Cooper an hour to work every day.

This is a skill issue.

[–] CADmonkey 3 points 11 months ago

One of the most satisfying things for me is driving my wife's little Mirage in the snow. With normal all season tires it does great, with proper snow tires it's completely unstoppable - that is, until you need to stop.

It turns out that accelrating and stopping a 2,000 pound car on ice and snow is easier than it is with a 4,000 pound vehicle.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’d feel like such an asshole driving one of these things. If someone gave me one for free, I wouldn’t even want to park it in front of my house.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How is this thing still real?

[–] realitista 5 points 11 months ago

They set out to make the truck version of the Delorean and succeeded.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do we know it is? I suspect all photos of the thing are AI-generated deepfakes. 😜

[–] pory 3 points 11 months ago

I've seen them in the wild, I live in the bay area. They look worse than in the pictures. The brushed steel catches every speck of dirt and oil. It's like they're driving a damn crock-pot.

[–] Fades 3 points 11 months ago

The engineers unironically ask themselves the same question. None of them wanted to do the project

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-engineers-cybertruck-secret-design

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[–] hOrni 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mighty? It was a joke from the start. The only reason for buying it is a novelty for collectors. I don't think it was ever meant to be driven.

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[–] arin 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All season tires in snow = a terrible time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

All seasons with a tiny sidewall = bad news pretty much anywhere but pavement.

Although I do think Tesla needs to work on their traction control system to better mimic having locked differentials after seeing the hill climb video from a few weeks ago. This should be able to be performed via an OTA update though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably bad tires to be honest. Bad tires for a hideous truck: a loosing recipe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Too bad the tires are tied to the wheel and can't just be exchanged

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

they aren't tied to the wheel, just the hubcaps. If you want to run it without the hubcaps, you can put whatever tire you want on it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I remember MKBHD made a comment about the snow possibly being an issue opening the doors as well. Hoping these things were actually tested in super cold conditions

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Truck built for truck things fails at truck things

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[–] madcaesar 6 points 11 months ago

Holy shit that thing is ugly..

[–] Fridgeratr 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe if it didn't weigh 3 tons...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Weight is actually a good thing in the snow. Too light of a vehicle and it's hard to get any traction without something like tracks.

The struggling in the snow is most likely an issue of tires. If someone put some all terrain or ideally snow tires, I'm sure it'd do significantly better.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Who would have guessed that an offroad vehicle designed in socal only works on bare, dry, triassic limestone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Remember how well the Delorian didn't do? Mush has one that's going to do 1,000 times worse. Way to go boy genius.

[–] grue 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Delorean might've been fine if they hadn't tried to build it in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and if John Delorean hadn't been entrapped with drug trafficking charges. Musk doesn't have those excuses.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Tesla touts that its Cybertruck is "durable and rugged enough to go anywhere" on its website, but apparently snow may be its kryptonite after numerous online videos and pictures have showed the electric vehicle getting stuck in typical wintery conditions.

An Instagram user posted a video of a Cybertruck slipping and getting stuck in about four inches of snow in an unspecified location.

"There's literally a sedan like thirty feet ahead of it that made it all the way to a parking space," joked podcaster and journalist Robert Evans.

And back in December, a TikTok video also showed a stuck Cybertruck being pulled up by a sports utility vehicle on a slight incline of snow and ice.

All this content showing its performance in real-world conditions doesn't bode well for a vehicle that's being hyped as the next big thing in the lucrative consumer truck sector.

Regardless, the news doesn't come at a good time for Tesla's Cybertruck, which has had to contend with range and quality control issues, in addition to numerous delays and production problems.


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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

There is not a single good thing about the Cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Shitty truck performs shittily.

Fixed their headline.

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