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Re: Tesla Cybertruck Owner Gets 'Coming Soon' Message When Trying to Lock Diff

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> Old man shouting at clouds? Reasonable person reacting to insanity? I believe there's a small but growing market for "dumb" tech. Unfortunately there aren't really many options for cars that I'm aware of. I suspect a quality-but-stupid display company is incubating somewhere, just waiting to nail manufacturing.

> I believe there's a small but growing market for "dumb" tech. Unfortunately there aren't really many options for cars that I'm aware of. I suspect a quality-but-stupid display company is incubating somewhere, just waiting to nail manufacturing. I'm pessimistic. The product would be too niche. The problem is twofold: 1. Experts who have the users best interests at heart have bee disempowerd by business-culture and t…

Even if, IF a company started selling a basic dumb reliable car AND it became popular and people started buying it THEN it would only be but a brief moment before the MBAs came it to ruin it and enshittify that car too. I see no stable market place for good basic reliable (and easily repairable) automobiles. Any attempt to do so either: won't happen to begin with, be unsuccessful because it won't induce perceived status like a giant F150, or will eventually turn into the thing it was originally designed to subvert.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck Owner Gets 'Coming Soon' Message When Trying to Lock Diff

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In what way would the Cybertruck need to change in order to become a proper offroad vehicle?

Be 2000+lbs lighter? That puts it in the same class as a 4runner, which is already heavy for an offroader. The crosstrek that climbed the hill the cybertruck couldn't is about 1/2 the weight.

That's going to be difficult with current battery chemistry. Maybe a Cybertruck/zeppelin hybrid?
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