cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19079924

[OC]One of the only cybertrucks I've ever seen

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[–] 35 points 9 months ago

I gotta admit, it looks better now

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    Lucky you, hopefully they all end up like this soon.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    In its natural state, broken.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Earlier this year I protested outside a Tesla dealership, and there were more Cybertrucks coming into the dealership on flatbeds, than there were visiting or passing on their own power.

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  • LOL, I love it.

    I have yet to hear someone say they like the look of the trucks. I know that is minor to the issues with automobiles, but given our Capitalist worm, I do not how they still being sold & line is not cancelled.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, it looks like shit. But it also can’t be taken out in the rain or through a car wash, falls apart constantly, catches on fire, and traps its users inside.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    The way it looks isn’t the issue, it’s the way it functions (or doesn’t). I can 100% tell that this truck was designed by someone who a. has never owned a truck, and b. doesn’t know why people own trucks.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    b. doesn’t know why people own trucks

    Seems like it was designed for the people who buy trucks for the wrong reasons (i.e. pavement princesses and emotional-support trucks).

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You would not believe how many of those are here in Los Angeles, with just the tiniest truck beds you’ve ever seen. I did once see one of those trying to haul a few pieces of lumber, and the angle it was jutting up at was pretty funny.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    One of the things I do all the time in my truck is reach over the wall into the back of the bed. Literally I did that a week ago to move a large box of printer filament from the back of the bed toward the front where I could get it.

    In a Cybertruck, you can’t do that. If you slide something to the back of the bed, you just have to crawl into the bed to get it. I hate crawling into the bed of my truck. The grooves in the bed that guide water away from whatever you’re hauling huuuuuurt to crawl on. So, whoever designed the Cybertruck (Musk, I assume), has never actually used a pickup truck long term.

    There’s also the fact that the frame of the Cybertruck is aluminum, meaning if you tow with it, it’s a matter of when, not if, whatever you’re towing (plus the part of the frame it’s attached to) will snap off your truck and continue down the highway, meeting whatever or whoever unfortunately is driving ahead of you.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I like the way it looks, I think modern car design is incredibly boring. I don’t like the guy who makes it or the mountain of design decisions that make it a rusting turd, but I like the aesthetic.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    First one i saw was abandoned on the beach, and flooded. Apparently one of the first things the owner had tried to do was drive on the beach, got down bellow the high tide line, and then gotten stuck. The local paper had a chronicle if the cars short lifespan up that evening, via user photos.

    It had come over on the ferry that morning, illegally parked twice down town, once in a handicap spot, and once in a crosswalk, and made it out to the beach to get stuck by noon, and was scrap by 3pm. (I'm assuming, as by that point high tide would have happened, and its battery and engines would have been submerged by a foot or 2 in sea water)

    It took a week or 2 fornthem to get it off the beach Apparently the one company that runs a beach capable tow truck had refused, not wanting to risk his vehicle on the fire hazard on wheels (especially when soaked)

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Damn, fresh off the assembly line too!

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I see them all the time and the only time I thought one actually looked cool in person, was one that was painted with a pearlescent rainbow effect and had pride flags on it.

    Though I don't know why such a person would have a cybertruck to begin with unless they won it in a raffle or something.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I saw one posted somewhere that'd been polished to a mirror finish. It looked awesome, but then I remembered how much more dangerous such a thing would be on the road and I shelved it into the "cool, but fuck no" part of my brain

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    In its natural habitat

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I see a surprising number of them around here, considering how expensive they are. The styling is what I'd imagine an 8 year old boy would come up with if you asked him to draw a car.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Lucky you

    I live in Vancouver and I have to see these rust buckets on a daily basis

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    [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    "Brand new"

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I get that it was in a wreck or something, but what the hell happened to its suspension!?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm no engineer but given that there's soot marks I could imagine that a fire broke the seal on the hydraulics in the suspension. Or that the car was wedged into something, forcing the body down, and breaking the suspension.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    It has variable suspension. I suspect it is in its lowest position, on the bump stops

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Come to Oklahoma you will see these god awful things everywhere.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Same in California. I moved here from Oklahoma 2 years ago actually.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Really thought people California would know better? Fucking Oklahoma morons surround me. What line of work do you do that allowed you to get out of this hell and get California?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Believe it or not, residential pest control. And being able to leave Oklahoma was exactly why I took the offer. The company I work for decided to open new branches in California and asked me if I would want to open one of them and run the branch. Jumped right on it. They moved me and my family here and here I am. Expensive but worth it for the quality of life improvements for me and my family.

    Edit - and also there's idiots everywhere. But there way less of them here. Problem is the population is a gazillion times bigger than Oklahoma.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Muhahahaha I see far too many. Worst of which is the one painted in Bitcoin logos.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I was honestly excited about these. The difference in looks, the possibility of capabilities, etc. Then nazelon happened and I turned the rest of the way from Tesla. The issues that these keep having make me laugh at the cost that these idiots pay, the poor capability off road make me love my Tacoma even more.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I see them all the time in fucking Canada, but only on nice days since they can't drive on ice

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I envy you. I see them all the time in the SF bay area. Fortunately I've steadily been seeing them less and less often.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    lol gave me whiplash as I scrolled by. I was like I took a photo just like that.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    ive never seen a cybertruck irl in my life. im glad

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