Tesla Cybertruck • Hacker News Board

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by leesec » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:56 AM UTC

unityByFreedom wrote: post #118

atonse wrote: post #64

You couldn't invent a more polar opposite of Steve Jobs than Elon Musk. VERY disorganized presenting. Badly rehearsed. Awkward speech. Speech is almost never in sync with slides. Demos failed spectacularly. The rest of the event was him with a backdrop of two broken windows. They didn't show the interior, and barely talked about the bed. Is this even good as a pickup truck? Is there enough storage? This all seemed ha…

> You couldn't invent a more polar opposite of Steve Jobs than Elon Musk. Jobs would start off describing a common problem before unveiling the product which inevitably solves said problem. This often brought cheers that felt genuine. Musk simply shows something bizarre and talks about how they made it, never how it solves your problems (other than a desire for the latest tech). edit Regarding the transition to EV ve…

Lol it's absurd to say the cheers didn't feel genuine. The crowd was insanely hype about this.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by omarchowdhury » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:56 AM UTC

Finbarr wrote: post #67

You can pre-order with a down payment of only $100 today for delivery in late 2021.

Does that guarantee a purchase spot?

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by gexla » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:56 AM UTC

trimbo wrote: post #15

I can't be the only one who sees the design similarities to the Delorean, right? And to top it off it's stainless steel...

Yeah, it's like they took a Delorean, added an El Camino style bed and made the whole thing more rugged... and electric.

Gas stations? Where we're going, we don't need gas stations!

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by Hoasi » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:56 AM UTC

Ugly, but cool. That's perfect.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by ummonk » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:57 AM UTC

This seems to be the electric version of the hummer. Not a practical replacement to actual pickup trucks, but a lot of coolness factor for people who want it.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by ip26 » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:57 AM UTC

atonse wrote: post #64

You couldn't invent a more polar opposite of Steve Jobs than Elon Musk. VERY disorganized presenting. Badly rehearsed. Awkward speech. Speech is almost never in sync with slides. Demos failed spectacularly. The rest of the event was him with a backdrop of two broken windows. They didn't show the interior, and barely talked about the bed. Is this even good as a pickup truck? Is there enough storage? This all seemed ha…

I had never watched him give a presentation before.

I started at, "This is terrible, this guy is crazy"

By about halfway through though it turned into, "This guy is crazy, and I really hope he succeeds"

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by chaostheory » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:57 AM UTC

gexla wrote: post #104

Yeah, a lot of people talking about how ugly it is. But that's exactly what a pick-up has always been. A big ugly thing with a bed in the back and a lot of utility most people didn't even use. Some models over the years have looked decent. Many have (Ford especially) have been dog ugly. I could see this thing taking off, though not sure how rural truck owners would take to electric. Edit: On second thought, rural tru…

I want this car, but other pickups have started looking pretty decent for the past two decades now. To put it lightly, the cyber truck’s look is not conservative at all

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by hclalpha » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:57 AM UTC

I bet one of the key factors for this thing to be on the road safely was the development of some kind of unbreakable glass for the huge front window, so they "had to" make this new type of resistant glass. Some "yes man" at the upper management level must've decided to skip constrained material testing (Glass dissipates energy much differently when it is in a frame rather than just loose... pay close attention at the ball drop demo and you'll see the glass jump a few inches)

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by kijin » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:57 AM UTC

atonse wrote: post #64

You couldn't invent a more polar opposite of Steve Jobs than Elon Musk. VERY disorganized presenting. Badly rehearsed. Awkward speech. Speech is almost never in sync with slides. Demos failed spectacularly. The rest of the event was him with a backdrop of two broken windows. They didn't show the interior, and barely talked about the bed. Is this even good as a pickup truck? Is there enough storage? This all seemed ha…

Elon keeps screwing up his presentations, and people keep buying his products. He give me hope that a sleek presentation isn't all that matters. That humanity still cares about content, not just the outward appearances.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by smoovb » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:57 AM UTC

mikenew wrote: post #36

Watching this was... cerebral. The impression I get is that Tesla made this truck because they wanted to, and they don't really care too much what people think of it.

They made it to erase any doubt about an electric truck being tough.