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Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by hooloovoo_zoo »

nimbius wrote: post #252

Great truck. Very exotic design, excellent price point, However, there was one statement that stood out as a MASSIVE mistake: >The glass is stronger than standard car glass Please stop doing this. Audi and Mercedes pulled this gimmicky crap about 8 years ago until they realized samaritans, Firefighters and EMT's need to be able to breech safety-glass windows in the event you become entrapped in the vehicle (possibly…

Not sure what you're worried about; all you need to break in is a lightly thrown metal ball.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by ehnto »

kgwxd wrote: post #281
nimbius wrote: post #252

Great truck. Very exotic design, excellent price point, However, there was one statement that stood out as a MASSIVE mistake: >The glass is stronger than standard car glass Please stop doing this. Audi and Mercedes pulled this gimmicky crap about 8 years ago until they realized samaritans, Firefighters and EMT's need to be able to breech safety-glass windows in the event you become entrapped in the vehicle (possibly…

In the grand scheme of things, what are the chances of getting in a car accident that leaves you alive, but traps you, and also causes life threatening injures or situations, but only at the level where if first responders can't reach and extract you in the average amount of time? And how many people are afraid enough of becoming submerged in water to even have the tools necessary to shatter a regular window? And eve…

Pretty high? You need only be unconcious to end up dying in a burning car because no one could extract you. Cars also deform in weird and chaotic ways in a real world accident, who knows what will be the final piece between you and safety. People sometimes exit via their rear windows because the front of the cabin is crushed and the glass there broke, but the doors and windshield frames were also crushed so you can't exit. Cars are pretty good at absorbing the impact so your body can tolerate it non-fatally, but you may still end up broken, trapped or simply unconcious.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by nikofeyn »

nedsma wrote: post #106

I find it awesome. Kudos to Tesla for willingness to experiment with form and functionality. The car industry nowadays is all too predictable and boring. Great job Elon.

i read predictable and boring as reliable and safe. and many companies are innovating in design.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by leggomylibro »

jccooper wrote: post #147
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…

Who cares about rural customers. How will the suburbs like it? That's who actually buys all those trucks.

How many rural areas have you been to? I see small houses with a half-dozen pickups sitting around all the time when I get more than 100 miles or so out of a major city. And places like ranches, farms, and orchards seem to operate small fleets of them.

Of course, they usually span the past few decades of makes/models, but there are plenty of towns where the trucks outnumber the people.

I think one big issue will be that a lot of people are like 50 miles from the nearest major highway or town, which makes the range a bigger issue for daily use.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by zaroth »

sixothree wrote: post #143
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…

My question: Can it fit a sheet of plywood in the bed.

"The Cybertruck is 230.9 inches long and sports a 149.9-inch wheelbase with a 6.5-foot-long, 57-inch-wide bed out back." By comparison, an F-150 has 50.6" between the wheelhouses.

Here's a picture of the bed, just before the ATV drives up to it. Note the wheelhouses don't impinge upon the cargo bed at all.

https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5dd768642c8...

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by clouddrover »

nimbius wrote: post #252

Great truck. Very exotic design, excellent price point, However, there was one statement that stood out as a MASSIVE mistake: >The glass is stronger than standard car glass Please stop doing this. Audi and Mercedes pulled this gimmicky crap about 8 years ago until they realized samaritans, Firefighters and EMT's need to be able to breech safety-glass windows in the event you become entrapped in the vehicle (possibly…

The glass fractured pretty easily. The demonstration didn't go as planned:

https://youtu.be/m7atGkba-Z8?t=75

So maybe that means it's not so hard to get into if needed.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by CamperBob2 »

z3rgl1ng wrote: post #237

This is what happens when an Aztec mates with a Delorean. This is the biggest boondoggle, maybe ever. The Reliant Robin has more charisma than this thing.

An iconic car with an almost 30-year production run? I'm sure Tesla would be OK with that kind of "boondoggle" on their hands.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by [deleted] »

mirimir wrote: post #289
nimbius wrote: post #252

Great truck. Very exotic design, excellent price point, However, there was one statement that stood out as a MASSIVE mistake: >The glass is stronger than standard car glass Please stop doing this. Audi and Mercedes pulled this gimmicky crap about 8 years ago until they realized samaritans, Firefighters and EMT's need to be able to breech safety-glass windows in the event you become entrapped in the vehicle (possibly…

Not at all. A key point is protection from attackers. But they need ballistic glass. https://wartell.com/video/WZPS1j4KvJs

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Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by davidgay »

vvanders wrote: post #86
fumar wrote: post #71

I appreciate Tesla for taking the pick up truck use cases and building something from scratch. This is the first pick up truck I’ve ever thought to myself “makes sense and I want it.” The ICE trucks have needy engines and most of the time the power is unused. The air suspension seems like a natural fit and I’m surprised it’s not already common place. I would love to take the Cybertruck off-roading. I’m also excited t…

Depends on the truck, our Ram EcoDiesel gets better mileage(30mpg) than any of our Subarus ever did. That said you see a lot of 3/4 ton daily drivers that only see a tow hitch one or two weekends out of the year.

Don't forget to adjust those mpg figures by ~13% for the higher energy density (and CO2 emissions) for diesel vs gasoline. So 30mpg diesel is ~ like 26.5 mpg gasoline.
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