I love how the Cybertruck looks like something out of a SEGA Saturn game, but I still don't want any EV from any manufacturer until I can get one that won't spy on me.
You can always just take the SIM out
Cybertruck Launch
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This seems to line up with the rest of Tesla stuff - there are a few physical interaction points on the steering wheel (which work surprisingly well) and the rest is 100% glass screen. Its enough for the driver to do their normal tasks, but anything extra (e.g. changing AC) requires touching the central screen.
> the rest is 100% glass screen There ARE other buttons as well. There are physical buttons for hazard lights and gear shifting.
> gear shifting
Removed in Model S Plaid and rumored to be removed in the cheaper models in future iterations.
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#443I happen to think that Musk is a loon, but I am rooting for the success of the truck, because, in the US, truck buyers are a super conservative bunch, and if you win them over, then the EV transition really kicks in. Truck buyers cannot afford machines that get between them and earning their livelihood. The question for me is whether this, and the Ford F150 Lightning, are poser trucks, or genuine work trucks. Its win…
I think the rivian is a better push towards converting people over to electric. I thought I saw it helped some people win an off road race recently and that’s a good way to catch traditional truck owners attention. Plus the slightly modernized but not ugly design language makes the transition more smooth
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#444We welcome any and all creative attempts to convince the public to use evs, which are massively piling up on dealer lots.
A better recipe than this truck:
* Honda Civic sized
* Honda civic priced
* 400 mile range
* only one small CarPlay display in middle
* no 4g chip for the car whatsoever
* free roadside charging assistance for 10 years
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Tesla has its own principles, and collaboration is a big part of them. One reason so many engineers apply to work at Tesla is that they get to see their ideas implemented quickly and without excessive bureaucracy.
Cybertruck was announced in 2019, and production was pushed back several times in '21, '22 and finally '23. Sounds pretty bureaucratic to me.
Or it was just hard. Plus it depended on 4680 improving and scaling and that was definitely hard.
But look at all the models in production. They don't have discrete model years, they're pushing out new updates all the time, even for hardware.
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The shoe-shaped things are that way because of crumple areas and pedestrian safety requirements (if the car hits a pedestrian, the bonnet is supposed to deform in order to minimize injuries). Contrast that to the Cybertruck, which... > ...has received criticism from automotive safety groups, including the Australasian New Car Assessment Program and the Euro NCAP, for not conforming to standards for pedestrian and cyc…
The ever-stricter fuel efficiency requirements also impose strong constraints. If the rules were sensible, we would have a taxes on carbon and dangerous features at amounts that reflected their actual negative impact, and the consumer could choose how much they were willing to pay for style. Instead we have a march toward uniform blandness and 99% of consumers don't know why because they never interact with the regul…
Actually the CAFE standards allow car makers to pay to compensate for less efficient designs. So we already have what you suggest.
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#447Really glad this ugly POS probably won't be street-legal in Europe. Just look at the old Defender 2016. And that has no sharp edges or reflective surfaces.
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#448I know nothing about the actually physics, but all those polygonal, angled surfaces remind me of the chapter in Ben Rich’s skunkworks book about how a lot of the radar-defeating properties of the F-117 was due to the similar-looking geometry of the plane. I wonder if cops will discover it’s weirdly hard to speed check these :P
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Yeah I agree with this. You show up at a party and there are five others, you’ll suddenly have five new friends.
I haven't noticed that happening when 5 people pull up in white Model 3s
That’s because the model 3 is about as unique as a ford Taurus
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#450I know nothing about the actually physics, but all those polygonal, angled surfaces remind me of the chapter in Ben Rich’s skunkworks book about how a lot of the radar-defeating properties of the F-117 was due to the similar-looking geometry of the plane. I wonder if cops will discover it’s weirdly hard to speed check these :P
Cops mostly use lidar these days. The cybertruck would need to be made out of mirrors.