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Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by senordevnyc »

alooPotato wrote: post #250
fragmede wrote: post #218

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Blue Cruise on the F150-Lightning is pretty capable, and it also supports a comma.ai, which is better in a practical sense than FSD. I have a friend with a CyberBeast and a friend with an F150-Lightning. The acceleration on the CyberBeast is absolutely magnificent and FSD is very capable. However as a truck, the frunk on the F150 is way more useful. The F150 is a better truck , but I'd say the Cybertruck is really go…

also is comma.ai legit - like would you put your kids in a car driven by it? do they publish safety stats like waymo and fsd

It’s wild to me that you trust the vague bullshit safety data that Tesla puts out enough to trust your kids lives to it.

From my perspective, the only self-driving system I trust my kids with is Waymo.

Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by gamblor956 »

alooPotato wrote: post #253
gamblor956 wrote: post #230

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A Cybertruck cannot physically fit 4 bikes, and the truck bed is not long enough to fit skis or snowboards. When I go biking and snowboarding with my idiot friend that owns a Cybertruck, we have to use my Outback to haul the gear because it won't fit in his lemon.

yes it does. i do it. as do surfboards. you just toss it all in the back and let shit hang out.

In a real truck, the surfboards and bikes fit without having to "hang out."

The CT has less usable space than the average crossover SUV.

Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by gamblor956 »

throwawaytea wrote: post #152
washingupliquid wrote: post #138

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It was never meant for construction workers. It was meant for the owners of small construction companies. I used to work for a swimming pool contractor. He didn't own a shovel. He made $600k a year. So did his plumber best friend. And his buddy that did concrete work. I actually also worked on their small time NASCAR team, since they had so much money to burn. The cyber truck is perfect for them.

A NASCAR franchise team license is $30 million, and the annual operating cost is $10 million or more (emphasis on the "or more"). If your buddies have a NASCAR team their money didn't come from their day jobs, and the CT is definitely the right truck for people born with silver spoons.

Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by alooPotato »

Freedom2 wrote: post #258
alooPotato wrote: post #256

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Have you ridden in a cybertruck? I've owned several luxury SUVs (volvo, mercedes), a porsche 911 and an s class (admittedly a while ago). The cybertruck to me feels in the same league. I know older/cheaper teslas might not be the same but try the Cybertruck - I think you'd be surprised. Its very comfortable.

I currently own 5 luxury vehicles and have ridden in a Cybertruck, and the Cybertruck is so far below in terms of quality it makes me question what luxury features you see in it.

air suspension, heated and air cooled comfortable leather seats, 15 high quality speakers, everything is soft to the touch (minus the window switches), super fast high quality software (that alone is a huge draw for me, most other cars have terrible software)

honestly don't need much more than that - yes it doesn't have a fridge or massaging seats or whatever, but thats usually in cars with a higher price point too

Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by alooPotato »

brazukadev wrote: post #219
alooPotato wrote: post #198

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still the best car

the fact that there are only 173 RWD Cybertrucks sold tells another story.

i have the awd drive one not the stripped down one, maybe thats a big difference. I havent driven the rwd one

Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by alooPotato »

gamblor956 wrote: post #262
alooPotato wrote: post #253

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yes it does. i do it. as do surfboards. you just toss it all in the back and let shit hang out.

In a real truck, the surfboards and bikes fit without having to "hang out." The CT has less usable space than the average crossover SUV.

what!?!? you're completely wrong.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69fe71ad-7f48-83e8-8633-d628632c71...

And you def need to hang surfboards and bikes out the back in other trucks.

Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by alooPotato »

senordevnyc wrote: post #261
alooPotato wrote: post #250

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also is comma.ai legit - like would you put your kids in a car driven by it? do they publish safety stats like waymo and fsd

It’s wild to me that you trust the vague bullshit safety data that Tesla puts out enough to trust your kids lives to it. From my perspective, the only self-driving system I trust my kids with is Waymo.

for your kids safety, would you rather do 30,000 miles in HW4 FSD in a Tesla or hand driven in any other car of your choosing? doing 30K miles in a waymo isn't an option.

Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by dzhiurgis »

formerly_proven wrote: post #247
dzhiurgis wrote: post #246

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Insane take. They will be vastly more reliable than hydraulics.

Brake by wire passenger car brake systems are still hydraulic... and all of them have a mechanical backup. There is not a single car on the market today using electromechanical brakes. Unless you're talking about electric parking brakes in a thread about ABS.

Look up cybercab. Their new disassembled manufacturing method cannot support hydraulic lines.

Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by mikestew »

neogodless wrote: post #33
discors wrote: post #30

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> neogodless: At least in the U.S. below a certain longitude is quite common. Latitude.

I KNEW I was going to get that wrong.

I use Jimmy Buffet’s song “Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude”, meaning head south to Key West to change your attitude. Ergo, latitude is north/south.

EDIT: ninja’ed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065792

Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by saalweachter »

cucumber3732842 wrote: post #255
saalweachter wrote: post #102

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Snow tires, people! Snow tires! A FWD vehicle with snow tires is frequently better in the snow than an AWD without snow tires. Better control, better stopping, better uphill on snowy roads.

>A FWD vehicle with snow tires is frequently better in the snow than an AWD without snow tires. Better control, better stopping, better uphill on snowy roads. Control and stopping of course, but I'd love to see the justification behind "better uphill" Napkin math says that doubling the contact patch over which the motive force applies still wins because snow tires aren't going to double your friction coefficient. And…

Snow tires can actually double your coefficient of friction on snowy pavement!

The coefficient of friction drops fast on snowy ground, with all season dropping as low as 1/3-1/4 of their dry value.

Of course, snow tires plus AWD is even better, but I find snow tires on a FWD vehicle to be plenty to drive up steep hills in snowy weather. (Before learning of the wonders of snow tires, I used to have to take different routes home if it began snowing because I couldn't reliably make it uphill without losing traction.)

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