The outside look of it is really terrible. It's like someone made a rough sketch of a truck and then told the team to build that exact sketch. Which is almost certainly what actually happened.
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#152This is what we call vehicle weight inflation. As cars get heavier and heavier, the roads get increasingly more dangerous for smaller cars, which causes everyone to get bigger cars. And the loop continues.
or, spun the other way - you're much more safe inside a cybertruck than any other car on the road.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
It really has, cars have gotten progressively safer every year since 1975 for everyone involved. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/child...
Are these charts simply displaying the gradual decline in children-under-13 walking and riding bicycles?
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#155Announcement of an announcement; flagged
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#156Cars kept solely for convenience should be eliminated.
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#157I wonder how much the demand for this vehicle has changed since it was first announced. I was definitely on the bandwagon from this thing from the first time I saw it. Four years of Elon's dumb antics and I now absolutely will not spend a dime at any company he's associated with.
I continue to be puzzled by people's strong opinions on Elon. He's says dumb things on social media but there seem to be unusually strong sacred contagion effects from that.
Buying petrol from Shell or cereal from Nestle? No problem. Buying a Model 3 from Tesla? No way!
Honestly, I'd be surprised if there weren't a ton of people with the same views on immigration or trans issues or covid or whatever, each associated with a company you buy from every year.
Though personally, I always thought Cybertruck looked pretty naff.
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#158If it is a great car, but flops because it looks weird, that's a shame. If it's a terribly-built car, with reliability issues, and a super difficult production cycle, that's a shame, but for a different reason: you'd think after the snafu over the Model X, where certain features (the X-wing doors) were a production nightmare and ballooned the cost and tanked the reliability, they wouldn't make the same mistake again.…
FWIW, I have a model X and love the falcon wing doors. I’ve never had an issue with them, but I realize it’s a lot of complex moving parts so wouldn’t be surprised if I do. However: * they open fully in really tight spots where normal doors wouldn’t (although a mini van slide door would) * they look awesome (although a mini van slide door never would) We bought the car because the seats were the only ones that didn’t…
"they open fully in really tight spots where normal doors wouldn’t"
I don't see how this helps. They're on the back, not the front, so the driver can't get any benefit. So you still always need to have room to open the doors normally.
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#159I'm rooting for it despite it being silly and not a practical pickup, strictly because every car people are buying looks identical (picture a crossover SUV from Toyota, Chevy, BMW etc. Basically shoe-shaped things). This looks like a concept car that would never come to market. I hope it sells really well and convinces others to bring actually-creative designs to market.
We are still in the motor cars looking like horse drawn carriages without the horses phase. Electric cars don't need ICE engine layouts. It will take a few years until the designers realise they can have cars looking much different as they have more flexibility. I also have hope this truck on the roads will get manufacturers doing something different. Concept cars at car shows should be where we should look first.
Electric cars already look a bit different -- many of them don't have a front grille.
But what else would you change?
I'm not sure there's as much scope for flexibility as you think. Maybe when self-driving cars are common and very safe, internal seat layouts could change a bit. That seems a long way off though.
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#160I wonder how much the demand for this vehicle has changed since it was first announced. I was definitely on the bandwagon from this thing from the first time I saw it. Four years of Elon's dumb antics and I now absolutely will not spend a dime at any company he's associated with.
I will take your reservation if you have one. I have one, but am looking for a second. I can like the cars but not like Elon, very little nuance required in holding the position [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37949037
> I have one, but am looking for a second.
holy consoomer