The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money::Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money.
Because everything musk does is basically bullshit.
- $30k Tesla
- Tesla semi
- Cybertuck 4 years late
- Full autonomous driving
- Hyperloop
He is vaporware sales man, if you trust anything he says, you are a fool.
Even SpaceX is missing targets in a big way.
SpaceX is his only successful project, and that’s because it has a defense contract.
I am not so sure it is successful though. They are missing their targets by years left right and center and even recently admitted they will not be ready for NASA’s Artemis Project. https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-problems-delay-artemis-3-2026
A company can miss targets and still be extremely successful if you look at the body of work. SpaceX absolutely dominates the space launch industry, there’s nobody close.
Especially space stuff.
No project in space stuff ever meets targets… Unless they reduce the goals at some point because they know they can’t make it.
Look at Apollo (and this is no criticism) - they had some seriously lofty goals at first, and then as they learned stuff they changed goals to what was achievable with that new knowledge and developing tech.
This is the heart of Agile project management - because you learn as you go it’s easier to adjust priorities and targets.
They’ve launched the Falcon 9 88 times this year dwarfing the nearest launch provider 10 to 1… They’re doing fine.
Spacex is a massive success, with little thanks to Musk. Those engineers are fucking rock stars.
If you mean “some” technical success…I would agree.
What is a lot in your mind? Going from nothing to biggest rocket in human history and fully reusable in 20 years.
Great website. Dude is a total fraud.
I just found a new favorite website.
wow we found someone who WANTS more Musk spam…
Hey, Trump spam was fun too while it lasted. It’s just that you need to watch that dumpster fire from a safe distance. Something like 5000 km should be fine.
I mean I don’t care to be honest. If I see something about Elon, it doesn’t mean I have to look at it.
Also, the Roadster. Announced six years ago, supposedly launching next year, but we’ll see…
You mean the 2020 Roadster they took millions on deposits for?
Yes, that one.
Who would have thought making a chassis out of a material that is denser than mild steel would result in a vehicle that is heavier? It’s a truck, horrible aero drag and rolling resistance from the get go. Difficult to imagine a worse target for an EV project.
The fact that he has all of his engineers afraid to tell him his ideas are terrible speaks volumes about his narcissism.
The ones who spoke up were fired. The ones remaining dont care as long as they get their paycheck.
Good. At least someone is benefitting
Part of the reason why I don’t leave where I work now. I speak my mind.
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It has a conventional chassis. Only the panels are SS.
The extra weight is entirely due to the weight of the batteries.
Good to know.
Has anyone tossed a brick at the windows yet? Or has that debacle been swept under the rug?
It was a steel ball. They recreated the event with the same guy at the delivery event, but this time with a baseball and the dude gave it the most obvious limp wristed toss, it was incredibly cringe I highly recommend you seek that clip out because it’s absolutely hilarious.
God, that was worse than I expected. https://youtu.be/IUCMGB2AGaE
Lol, Franz is a wimp.
“So anyway, the glass is tough, basically”. Sure Elon, we’ll take your word for it. Is this how they test their rockets, too?
Tbf the rockets seem to work. Not easy to fake that.
I want to see large gravel chunks at 80mph not a baseball at 25.
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My 1995 truck could handle that throw, but sure, we’ll call it “innovation”
🤣🤣🤣
If they were honest and smart about the glass, they would’ve only ever went with something like a baseball or anything soft-ish and really beamed it in to the window. They might be able to take bullet levels of force, but not from a chromed ball. A chromed ball will focus force WAY better than lead ever would, though if a baseball would’ve broken the window, a damn .22 would…
Admittedly car windows are just strong as fuck from the outside due to their curve and construction, and they did throw the metal ball hard at the glass before when practicing for the announcement event and it bounced right off.
Come to think of it, how much do Cybertruck windows curve?
You think there are curves on this abomination?
Depends on your pov. Not curved much compared to a window from any other car. But it is curved just as much as any other piece of flat glass you may want to compare it to.
Not much but they have a curve.
If they were smart about it, they would have tried it out once before doing it in public to see if it worked.
Was it a baseball? It bounced quite a bit and looked a lot like a light rubber ball
Edit: “baseball”
That was exactly my thought when I saw it. Baseballs don’t bounce like that normally.
some customers have expressed their disappointment in online forums.
Wow. That’s brave of them. Throwaways, I assume.
you can tell they arent truck people
Normal truck people Love paying more for Less
I see you’ve noticed the parking lot princesses that truck guys seen to modify now.
Every day with the Elon spam. It’s infected Lemmy.
That’s a bit much, isn’t it? It’s a brand new weird-ass truck, people are going to talk about it. And the article isn’t exactly celebrating it.
If this article was about a new car from another brand, would you complain about it? I thought we wanted more content on this platform. Or we could just stick to memes I guess…
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Tesla isnt a car company
What do they sell, pizza?
They’re a tech bro company.
And what is it that they sell?
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Huh. Weird. I was certain they sell cars. I guess all those “cars” with the T on them I see driving around are holograms. Silly me.
I’d agree that I see way too much Elon stuff on my lemmy feed. This one I’m more interested in than 99% of the others. Maybe it’s just cause I’m a gear head, but I’ll sure as heck take it over the 10 X (formerly known as Twitter) “news” articles that I scrolled past to get here. News in quotes because it is no longer news that X (more commonly known as Twitter) and its owner are dumb.
I find that a don’t sprain my thumb scrolling over something that I don’t want to read
The oldest and lamest justification for having shitty and repetitive content.
Choose a different platform them. Or use a filter. Or I dunno fucking whine about other people discussing what interests them.
Use a filter. Other people want to talk
no get out
Well, that’s me told =)
It resists antibiotics, there’s nothing we can do.
It’s his broke mind virus. It’s sometimes fascinating but I’m mostly over his antics.
For some reason, all Lemmings seem to have a constant hate boner for him. I don’t like him, but this is just taking it to a whole new level…
When he agrees with someone who says that people like me are trying to destroy white people (insinuating Jews aren’t even white), I think “a constant hate boner” is appropriate.
There’s plenty of people I don’t like and I spend basically no time thinking about them. Why these people let Elon live rent free in their minds is beyond me. Not a day goes by without a thread about him on the front page along with the most predictable comment section imaginable. Apparently the glue holding Lemmy together is the mutual hatred of certain things and people. That’s just sad. We’re giving them what every asshole in the world desires the most; attention.
Ok, but not every random asshole is the richest guy in the world…
And what does that have to do with anything?
You don’t understand why people might more frequently discuss the actions of someone with enormous power and influence, than they would those of Darryl from high school?
This is recreational outrage. There are plenty of actually bad people out there that cause tons of suffering and are aspiring to make the world a worse place but instead people are complaining about some tech bro that’s hardly any more influencial than the Kardashians.
The only thing more insufferable than celebrity worship is celebrity hate.
And every day someone posts about how everyone else posts about something that they, personally are not interested in. I guess everyone else is wrong
I feel like lemmy needs excluded word filters so you can just say hide any post that includes “Elon Musk”
Sync can do that.
Oh? I’m actually using sync primarily and didn’t know that 😂
It would be nice if it was on the server side so the list just worked regardless of client though
You really don’t want to be a pedestrian crossing the road in front of one of these. Just in case.
Oh, you don’t want to be a pedestrian in the US period. That’s a very dangerous activity.
You don’t want to be in US.
You don’t want to be.
It’s not a choice. You are until you aren’t.
You can choose one part
You don’t want.
You don’t.
It’s fine, I’ve got my gun
All these problems, and it’s ugly as hell to boot.
The PT Cruiser has been dethroned.
HEY! You’re the guy who I’m supposed to fuck
God bless they are trying. I;m fro mthe south us do god bless is basic calling someone really dumb.
30%? It’s like 50-100% more money than promised. Also lower payload/towing capacities.
My guess is the author first calculated how much less range, in which case the bigger number is the denominator, then mistakenly did the same for how much more money, so (61k-40k)/61k ~= 30%
Author is bad at math. 50% range reduction and a 50% base cost increase. The upgraded model has a 30% range reduction for a 100% cost increase
Modern day DMC DeLorean. All the disappointment and the crazy CEO to go along with it. Maybe when Tesla folds up they can get a movie made about the truck like Back to the Future. Wonder what the movie will be called?
Back to the Emerald Mine
Call the movie “Back to the Stoneage”. Then send a tech billionaire to the past where nobody gives a fuck about them and they have to work to survive for the first time in their pathetic lives.
If they have to work to survive, maybe any time from the 1800s on would work. You imagine a genius from the modern day, with all his knowledge, could blow the competition out of the water, create a one-man technological revolution, and radically change the course of human events!
…until you realize he’s not actually a genius. He’s a dumbass. He just owned capital that other people used to do things. So if you remove him from his money and even name recognition, he’s just some loser who keeps asking if ketamine has been invented yet.
Even if you throw a real modern day genius with all his knowledge, an impeccable work ethic and a real can-do attitude into an 1800s factory as a floor worker, they’ll turn into a sleep-deprived, hopeless, chain-smoking alcoholic within a month, just like everyone else.
There was a Twilight Zone episode like that.
Can we make it a documentary about sending Elon and a bunch of other tech billionaires to Mars? That way we can enjoy it when their ship breaks up and they all die in space.
A rocket is just an outer space submarine!
I like this. If they make it to Mars they get a survival habitat where we can vote them off, one by one
I’d say the Discovery Channel could show it, but I definitely want David Zaslav on that ship, so who would put it on there?
Maybe we can catch him in a cocaine deal too.
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PS1N64.
Seems like at best its almost on par with the F-150 Lightning for the fanboys…it’s just $30k more.
Seriously if you’re a fan boy just buy the F-150Lightning and a Model 3 and you’ll save money.
But the lightning has some space to haul things.
Who expected more from a stainless steel chassis? Stuff is heavy and expensive.
You know this headline is fake because Cybertruck fan boys would never ever act like it’s anything but a 100% perfect personal space shuttle + superiority license
BUT YOU CAN SHOOT IT WITH A BOW AN ARROW.
Checkmate, hater
/s if it’s not completely fucking obvious
The mkbhd first impressions were fascinating for what he didn’t say. I’m guessing that he didn’t want to burn the good times he has with Tesla so he really seemed to be trying to positively spin everything. At least, that’s my interpretation. The mirrors were particularly… https://youtu.be/XxOh12Uhg08?si=jlfuFU70v5cGd8HV
Anything in particular? I’m not great at understanding things that aren’t said.
That is what all YouTubers do as they do not want to bite the hand that feeds them.
To be fair, it’s the same thing that happened to our news. It’s become commoditized, and now so-called “journalists” are terrified of asking good questions for fear of losing access.
I’ve stopped watching his channel long time ago, he’s not a reviewer, he’s a shill. Good on him for making bank, but his opinion is worthless.
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I’m dying laughing. It has a roller shutter on the back. Like I have on my windows. I have cybertruck technology in my home.
Why is that funny? That’s actually a nice idea.
I think it looks cheap and ugly. And there is no chance it will withstand the elements. It’s gonna leak and get moldy.
the dangerous brake lights are more of a concern to me than the cost and range.
This thing is so far behind schedule and they’re failing at the basics.
Gotta follow code, center brake must be distinct from all other lights… Should we make a separate chmsl then? Nah, lightbar go brrrrt and FMVSS 108 can ligma.
Really though, I wouldn’t mind this lighting choice as much if the lower brake lights were bigger and the c"hm"sl was actually brighter. Dedicate another 8 square inches to additional brake lighting, damn it
Can you explain it to me? I still don’t get it.
There is less light during braking instead of more, or brighter.
Why?
In order to make the break light visibly stand out from the light bar that goes across the back of the car, they turn off two sections of the bar on the left and right of the centre, leaving a portion of the light bar lighted in the centre.
Normally car manufacturers treat the light bar as a running light, and they add a seperate ‘third’ brakelight. Clearly at Tesla they didn’t want to alter the design, and this weird solution fits the wording of the government mandate. It doesn’t fit the spirit, but they got away with it.
And it’s ironic because in every other bit of safety, like crash protection, rollover protection. Tesla is a leader in the market, their cars are incredibly safe. Tesla really cares about you when you bought a car, they don’t really care about safety in general. Sums up Musks attitude.
Was elongated muskrat trying to make the ugliest thing on the road? It makes the Pontiac Aztec look pretty.
- Deloreans are cool and made from stainless steel
- ?
- Profit
Unironically enough, while DeLoreans are cool, they’re also kinda crappy vehicles.
They are pure shite 😂 but they have a special place in our hearts because of 88 MPH!
They had to modify the vehicle for the movie as the stock speedometer in the delorean only went to 85 mph.
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The world just wasn’t ready for it yet.
I agree it was an amazing vehicle. Why else would they have reused the rear differential for the solstice/sky, but it is still butt ugly.
Well that’s your opinion, I still think the Aztec looks ugly. Great camping vehicle though.
That’s funny, I said almost the exact same thing about it
Every Tesla model has been uglier than the last. (Especially thanks to Elon, but really ever since it was Lotus based.)
To be fair, it is REALLY hard to follow up when your industrial design starting point is a Lotus.
incidentally I just saw a roadster 1 yesterday, gorgeous car. But it’s just a rebadged Lotus Elise
