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> cybertruck is the maga hat of trucks How is this a real comment?
Because it’s not. You changed what I said.
Please correct with your intended interpretation.
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> The cheapest F150 Lightning (available today not in 2025) is $50k (vs $60k for Cybertruck), same 250 mile range but AWD standard, and is a regular pickup truck compatible with standard accessories and parts for doing actual pickup truck work. I'd like to nitpick "doing actual pickup truck work". The Lightning gets terrible mileage, to the tune of roughly 100 miles on a charge, while hauling which ICE trucks do not…
Modern “truck things” are Costco runs and taking the kids to soccer practice. Maybe towing the ski boat to the lake twice a year. Real work gets done with utility vans or 15 year old trucks the size of a modern midsize suv.
I disagree. I have a Tacoma that definitely gets treated as a truck. The bed gets filled with stuff, I use the 4x4 every time I go through the Cascades, mountain passes, or washed out roads, and I've hauled closed to the limit with it several times. Would a van do some of those things? Maybe, but certainly not all, nor for the same price point.
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> The cheapest F150 Lightning (available today not in 2025) is $50k (vs $60k for Cybertruck), same 250 mile range but AWD standard, and is a regular pickup truck compatible with standard accessories and parts for doing actual pickup truck work. I'd like to nitpick "doing actual pickup truck work". The Lightning gets terrible mileage, to the tune of roughly 100 miles on a charge, while hauling which ICE trucks do not…
>while hauling with ice trucks do not ????????? My truck does 12l/100km highway without hailing, 30-35l/100km while hauling. Ice trucks definitely feel it.
The article I linked shows the Lightning gets close to 100 miles per charge when hauling near the limit. My MPG certainly takes a hit, but not that big and my truck is about half the price and size of the Lightning.
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Addiction and substance abuse are complicated topics, but ideally somebody partaking of tobacco, drugs, or alcohol is aware of the risk to their own person of doing so, and has freely chosen to partake regardless. Unfortunately, though I'm well aware of the mortal danger excessively large and powerful personal vehicles pose to me and my family on the road, the only ways I can opt out of that danger are to a) not driv…
This ignores the fact that many vehicle fatalities are due to drugs/alcohol, ergo they do affect you.
Already addressed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492800
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I don't think this comment will age well.
If the “Lindy effect” holds true for the 911, it might be quite a long time before the 911 and its variants go out of style. The same cannot be said for the cyber truck, and all of the other short lived prototype cars that have very harsh angular lines.
The 911 will be 60 in 2024.
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The 911 has the highest average resale value, relative to the original price, of any car on Earth. It depreciates less than any other vehicle. I don't think you're going to be correct.
depends on when countries make ice less road legal...
I don’t think that’s how the end of ICE vehicles will happen.
It’ll be death by a thousand cuts. New ICE vehicles will be increasingly rare in showrooms. There will be bans in city centres. Gas stations will start to disappear. Those that remain will be required to sell blends with increasing amounts of non-fossil derived gasoline, which will be considerably more expensive than current prices, and far more expensive to run.
Eventually, driving ICE vehicles will be like horse riding today - a niche, expensive, smelly hobby that is conducted well outside city limits.
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Yes - for me 911 or my ultimate dream: M3. And the best part: you will still enjoy it even when you are going slow or sitting idle because both cars SOUND amazing. Maybe I’m a purist but as a 41 year old adult I still sprint off my couch to look out the window every time I hear an interesting car pass by my house.
To each their own I guess. I'm in my 50s but ever since I test-drove a Tesla, and the car pressed me back in my seat with just a quiet swoosh, all that noise has just seemed superfluous and old-fashioned.
Indeed.
While I’ll never own one, there is still something about the sound of a Mustang V8 going past.
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Not great - https://youtu.be/wqcu0j3Wsys?t=815
It actually did great. The occupant area was minimally damaged - the front end absorbed the collision as it was designed to do. The driver would have walked away from this collision. Tesla makes some of the safest vehicles on the road from a driver/occupant perspective, but lately HN loves to hate on Tesla.
HN is awfully leftist, and Musk doesn’t enjoy the greatest admiration among those people.