No more Cybertrucks; Musk moves on from the angular metallic flop
arstechnica.com
Tesla wanted to unseat the Ford F-150, instead it made the Edsel look successful.
  • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
    72·
    3 days ago

    This thing is The Homer, but if Homer watched back to the future and was a nazi.

    From the first demo of the bullet proof glass shattering, it was obvious this was trash.

    There’s a guy near me who drives one, he parks it next to the garbage dumpster and it fits in perfectly.

    • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      3 days ago

      The Homer was fugly, but it was fun.

      CyberDumpster is fugly, and lacks fun. Even if you take Muskrat’s politics out of the equation, the dumpster isn’t functional, and is outperformed by a Honda half its price.

      There is someone who has one in my area and taking a look at him…he just looks like a guy who has always tried so painfully to be in the cool crowd, so he jumps first into new things, but just keeps failing. And, it’s very clear that he can’t do anything else with it because he dropped so much money on it and likely can’t afford to “trade-in” for half its value.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialBannedEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        CyberDumpster is fugly, and lacks fun.

        Every aspect of its design is overtly hostile, both to its driver and passengers and everybody outside. It’s as if pure robotic hatred of all mankind was distilled into a pickup “truck”.

        • Malica@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Fucking thing is knives on wheels. I book it wherever I see one, I don’t want them anywhere near me.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      23·
      3 days ago

      Are you kidding, the Homer had a domed windshield, two of them! … full 360 degree unobstructed view of the world … what does the cybertruck have? Angles! … The Homer was way ahead of its time

      • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        The Homer itself is full of practical decisions (see things well, keep the noisy kids away), my analogy is Homer knew nothing about car design, designed something nobody wanted, and the company invested so much into the idea it basically ruined them.

    • lockemup@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Lmao imagine being too disgusting for pedophiles; it doesn’t get any shittier than that!!

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      "Dear Elon,

      Your constant inquiries have gone beyond annoying, so I’m going to give it to you straight: You will never be invited to my island.

      Look, the truth is, you’re just too fucking weird. It’s hard enough to keep these girls in the game, pretending to enjoy sexing up these sweaty, fat old pigs, without some grotesque naked goblin prancing around, randomly emitting strange noises like a howler monkey with Tourette’s. You’ll scare the crap out of my kittens. They’re only little girls, after all.

      I wish you well in your future endeavors, but lose my number.

      Your friend,

      Jeff"

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    If you get in and it perceives you as the wrong shade, does it automatically lock and deliver you to a detention centre?

  • greyhathero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Going to get so much hate for this. I hate Nazis as much as the next person, but I was in Austin over the weekend and those cybercabs were so cool to ride in.

    • 73ms@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I think it is entirely possible for it to be cool but still not great. I like AVs and a vehicle that is built for just autonomous operation does appeal to me. I just have doubts about how reliable it can be with just cameras as tracking and also think as a autonomous-only vehicle it does not go far enough as it is basically just a traditional EV with some things like mirrors, driver controls and rear window removed. The Zoox vehicle is a much more radical redesign than Cybercab.

      I will say Tesla FSD does do a pretty good job when supervised but I would not trust it to necessarily handle difficult conditions or even do a job that is as good as the systems that utilize a more complete sensor suite.

      • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        There are a long list of terrible engineering decisions to choose from over the last century of automotive history. I would still put this one in the top five. Mostly because it was really, really fucking stupid.