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Fearmongering? Ralph Nader was writing about how unsafe motor vehicles were in 1965
"Your wish for child safety impedes my freedom to play suburban cowboy in my jacked up electric scythe. That's tyranny."
Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#222There was a Cybertruck at the Paris Games Week (there was a Tesla corner in the con for some reason). That was my first time seeing one in person. The most striking thing was how tall it was. Half the kids attending the PGW were smaller than its front bumper. I hope these things never, ever get allowed in France.
Why do you hope they never get allowed in France?
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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Cybetruck owners are the car world’s vegans.
This is a thread about the Cybertruck.
No, it’s a thread about car sales and cybertrucks position in that list.
Also, I’m sure we are all familiar with the value of anecdotal evidence vs data, the response of “I’m a ____ and I don’t _____” is limited at best and meaningless in the aggregate
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#224There was a Cybertruck at the Paris Games Week (there was a Tesla corner in the con for some reason). That was my first time seeing one in person. The most striking thing was how tall it was. Half the kids attending the PGW were smaller than its front bumper. I hope these things never, ever get allowed in France.
Why do you hope they never get allowed in France?
Because theyre a danger to pedestrians being so tall.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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That’s strange since the Cybertruck doesn’t meet European regulations (at the very least UN-R26) due to pedestrian safety. Not sure if there is a workaround if someone imports it as their personal vehicle though.
Perhaps there's some sort of exception if it's just for exhibition? If there wasn't, I suppose it would be difficult to have things like museums, auto shows, etc
There is an exemption for formal road legality for vehicle development and sales in all countries I've been working in with vehicle development and testing.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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People keep assuming China is only successful because they're dumping, and miss the elephant in the room: China went all-in on EVs over a decade ago, while we were fucking about with hybrids and maybe-just-stick-with-ICE. They have world-class batteries and insatiable domestic demand and it's been that way since before Tesla, what if China is undercutting us because their cars are just better ? In that case our tarri…
>They have world-class batteries and insatiable domestic demand Excellent, then they won't have an issue with losing their export markets to tariffs, because they can just sell their EVs to the "insatiable demand" of the local consumers. >what if China is undercutting us because their cars are just better Price/performance they ARE better, China can produce cheaper because of their years of (government aided) investm…
Boy do I have news for you if you think China is the only country that pours money into domestic R&D for strategic commercial development…
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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We need to start treating PCs like the utilitarian objects they are and bring back beige cases.
Car designs have converged because there are certain properties that are better than others for safety, performance, efficiency, and so on. Those concerns are arguably much more important than aesthetics or the ability to express one’s individuality. Not really the case for PCs.
You could still have cars in every color, and yet they're all black or gray.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#228The weird thing I’ve seen is in almost all the online forums I visit, like Reddit, YouTube comment sections, parts of twitter, hacker news, the cybertruck is universally panned. Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented. Shows how much of a bubble the internet alone is. MKBHD got the ratio’s…
If you drive the weenermobile you'll get a similar reaction, but it doesn't mean people want to buy it. It's an oddity, a curiosity they're excited to see in person.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#229The weird thing I’ve seen is in almost all the online forums I visit, like Reddit, YouTube comment sections, parts of twitter, hacker news, the cybertruck is universally panned. Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented. Shows how much of a bubble the internet alone is. MKBHD got the ratio’s…
The thing is, the people most likely to complain that the Cybertruck is a bad vehicle are the people who are informed about it. The wider public doesn't know about things like the tonneau cover leaking, wheel bearings failing, the suspension being stuck down and causing tire rub, the aerodynamic wheel covers that were causing tire failures because they were puncturing the sidewalls, the upper control arms that bend l…
I think a simpler explanation is that terminally online people just don't like the politics of the CEO and like to take any chance to dunk on him.
In a world that has been stagnant for decades in terms of design and doing things out the box, it's something at least trying to be different. Don't get all the hate
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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I drive a Cybertruck as my daily driver and I don't even know about most of these.
I smoke a pack a day and I haven't heard of lung cancer. I play the lottery every day and I haven't won a dollar. Etc etc
> I play the lottery every day and I haven't won a dollar
The chance of a consumer encountering any of those issues is equivalent to winning the lottery? We should all run and get a cybertruck! :-;