At first glance it reminds me of a 1990s video game where they don't have the polygons and the graphic card horse power to display what a Pontiac Aztek would look like.
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Graphic cards have met a hard limit, and we now have to reduce the visuals of reality to make games look more realistic.
Hey, you support Elon, you get what you deserve.
Play stupid Elon games win stupid Elon prizes!
That's a very ugly vehicle...
I think it's beautiful as an art piece. A perfect testament to a rich manchild's inability to be told "no".
And now people get to drive around in this embodiment of hubris.
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Wait was it really 100k I thought the whole idea was it was super cheap to produce and buy because flat metal plates are way easier to manufacture
Because everyone knows 90% of the manufacturing cost of a car is bending the bodywork panels.
Got me on that one ahah
One of Musks pitches for selling the car at 40k was that bending the steel panels is cheaper then making curved and painted ones.
Of course, the cars lowest trim is 60k because Musk is a liar, but that was part of the hype he was selling.
It’s a special alloy and it turns out it doesn’t like to make big flat parts, or something like that.
Yea I started watching the MKBHD video on it and turned it off at the part where he was kinda justifying how sophisticated the metal pressing process had to be because it has some elasticity or something and was hard to get consistent … the upshot of which was, as MKBHD admitted, that the panels were inconsistent and you were going to get random gaps in the plating. He kinda showed some examples, and to me, even over YouTube, it just felt cheap and I no longer understood how someone could feel ok spending the money.
Because Elon is a god king genius emerald boy who can do no wrong and you’d be a fool to ever doubt his perfection. It would be an honor to go into crippling debt to support him.
The original idea, as I understand it, was that it would be made of the same stainless alloy that SpaceX was developing for Starship. This steel was too hard to form using stamping, as the tools used would wear down much faster. So, they had to limit themselves to bending the sheet metal with a press brake, which really can’t do compound curves, hence the need for straight lines. Whether any of this was ever the real reason I have no idea, but one tidbit is that for Starship, they were using 304L (same mixture as some of my pans) and may never have switched to their own alloy. So, the design may at one point have been necessary for practical considerations, but that may have been mooted without bothering to change the design.
Most metals don’t. That’s why cars have curves in the body work.
The woes of trying to make a strong 2D shape in a 3D world.
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I honestly thought that at launch they would drop away the metal panels to reveal a kickass vehicle underneath.
Nope. That's actually the thing.
lolwtf
I love taking the wind out of Elon's sails because he is just a horrible and cringe person to an extreme degree, but I personally like the cybertruck aesthetically. It definitely different from anything we have seen in a truck, and I'm all for it. It's also basically a concept car that is somehow actually making it to market, and if it motivates the bigger auto makers to take more chances with their designs and ideas, I think it's great.
That said, its so ludicrously expensive, and so impractical/not advisable for all the reasons I would personally use a truck, because it's basically an SUV with a bed. It's like a Chevy Avalanche/Honda Ridgeline mashup. This thing is the ultimate pavement princess. If there's one thing I wouldn't be an early adopter for, it's something thats whole purpose is to get beat the fuck up.
It really does just look like a Lamborghini you'd get on an N64 if you didn't have the expansion pack.
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Don’t forget that you can’t haul much because the dumbass designers sloped the walls of your bed. You have plenty of room for friends though, if you could make any.
Wasn't sure what your meant...
Bottom is release version
That's about the level of craftsmanship I expect to see in a wheelbarrow from Harbor Freight.
I'm not sure. Their wheelbarrows are probably going to last longer and haul more than a CyberTruck.
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I actually thought it would look cool at least since it's wildly different. That's just plain genuinely ugly.
It looks like something the top gear guys would have made for a laugh before dropping it into the sea
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It's like driving a doorstop in reverse.
I still think it looks really cool, but I'm still in favour of more accessible public transportation eating away at the space cars have taken from us.
Also I will never ever buy a Tesla, for wide ranging variety of other reasons.
Similar concept to the discrepancy in the pictures of food in a restaurant menu vs what you're actually served.
Plus you can't leave it parked anywhere. Anyone who sees it will want to recreate the famous steel ball test. Dude will spend a fortune at the tesla dealership getting his "bulletproof" windows replaced every week.
Honestly this just seems like the best way to have both sides of the relevant conversation hate you. The urbanists will hate you because you bought a Cybertruck which exemplifies all the problems with large cars in urban areas and car dependency in general, not to mention techbro dependency. And the truck people will hate you because you bought a liberal socialist soy boy electric truck instead of a noble, God-anointed, by your bootstraps diesel truck.
Wouldn't be surprised if someone comes back to the parking lot to see a line of alternating rednecks and railfans all taking turns keying their truck.
It’s definitely going to be very popular with some ~~crews~~ groups…
They're $100K in debt for a fridge.
Ughh it just looks like a fridge with wheels
[Puts on stupid, ugly, expensive sunglasses at night]
🎶 "Reluctantly (chuckled at by teens), at the starting line..." 🎶
Pointing, and laughing and cringing inside
The green light flashes, the jig is up
Buyers. Remorse. A divorce creeping up.
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but, but, the only way to fill the void in my heart is to consooooooooom!
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Why would anyone go into debt for something like this? If you can't afford it, you should clearly not be buying something like this.
Other than that, it is largely foolish to consider other's opinions on a lot of our actions.
News flash, easily over 50% of cars on the road are bought with borrowed money and therefore debt.
Even people that don't need loans still do some sort of financing option for their credit score.
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Should someone tell him? Who is going to tell him?
Alright, I will do it. People make bad decisions.
It's OK to go into debt over a depreciating asset if you can afford to default on the loan, and it substantially improves your ability to make money. Businesses do it all the time. If a sole trader could work better with the cybertruck for some reason(I've got nothing) and could borrow off their house as collateral, that's a financially savvy business decision.
But a lot of people fall victim to predatory marketing. We need to recognize that it's not just them being dumb, they were manipulated, tricked and lied to by a powerful machine.
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