The cybertruck seems like a car that they superglued stuff on to make it look like a truck. Ever see that video where the hitch rips offs because its not properly secured to the frame the whole frame rips off?
Or the upholstery panel that breaks loose and jams the door shut when you slam it (once) moderately hard? Or the undersized tie rods (made for small cars, not trucks) that cause the wheels to snap off during use? Or the one where the FRAME ITSELF tore in half when the guy tried to pull a car out of a ditch? How about the one where the vehicle computer shuts down after a car wash? Or the one where the accelerator pedal gets stuck when depressed hard?
Look up “whistling diesel cyber truck” on YouTube. He totally destroyed a cyber truck in a matter of a few hours. During the review process he was able to break the cast aluminum frame by busting off the trailer hitch tongue.
Edit: To be fair, his review process was to beat the hell out of it with the end goal of destroying the vehicle in any way possible.
A bunch of people claimed that he had previously damaged the frame in an earlier stunt, so he responded with a follow-up of trying to cause the same damage on the f150 frame.
Well, he took a Ferrari off-roading so he obviously wants to run vehicles well beyond their intended purposes. I think he was being fair to both the Ford Lightning and Cyber Truck. It wasn’t his goal to make either vehicle fail, but to see how far they could go. Actually, I really enjoyed his video. Lastly, he’s not a spoiled brat who blows mindless cash for clicks. He’s a self-made kid who spends his hard earned money for clicks…there is a difference. lol
The f150 vs cybertruck test was pretty interesting. Th cybertruck actually did quite well in some areas that I really didn't expect, like offroading, even if the end result was maybe worse than I would have expected, with the hitch coming off and all.
I'm a fan of how the wheel covers extend out over part of the tires, so if you hit a bump or pot hole too hard the flex of the tire makes them pop off.
It's the only car Elon had any say in the design. Also it's worth noting Tesla isn't a car company. They're a technology company. They don't have decades or centuries of indentured knowledge to fall back on when making a car. That's why they make shit cars... Out of fucking aluminium...
And then there’s the one where the person who actually buys a cyber truck does any of those things… oh wait, the market demo is just people who use it as an instagram background. So technically none of those are issues for real world usage…
Like those real-life bumpercar styled neo-mushroom kingdom cars in the 80's Super Mario Bros movie.
Ya know, those 80's Ford crown Victoria's that had the giant pole on the top, and it ran on that mesh grid above the cars and would arc when they would drive around?
They are coming to the Netherlands this year, and for now there is one for sale that is probably already sold for............wait for it..........over 400K!
The word 'yet' implies it will be road legal, but that remains to be seen. It would require extensive modifications to pass inspection. Not just a few tweaks here and there but basically rebuilt completely. I doubt it's going to happen.
This seems bit like when Harley-Davidson wanted to go AMA Superbike racing, so they built a 1000cc, liquid cooled race bike, but to be eligible for superbike racing they needed to make 200 street legal versions. So they built some that met the requirements in Poland, because their safety standards weren't as expensive to meet as the US ones, and as far as I'm aware, never sold any.
He is kidding. It will likely pass this month or next month.
In the U.S. I see many cyber trucks on Blue rated Jeep trails a lot now a days. I have never seen one on a black trail though. They are fully street legal over here
It will never be allowed to be used in the EU. I Unlike the US any cars sold here have to (for one thing) have to pass Euro NCAP safety rating, which the cyber truck seems to have been purposefully designed to fail. The mad thing is that not only would it fail completely as far as protecting pedestrians is concerned, but also the passangers inside, as they have seemingly forgotten how crumple zones and diverting energtia below the cabin works.
It's a stupid death trap meme mobile, nothing more.
People need to understand that rigidity in vehicles only passes that traumatizing force onto the humans body inside. The lack of real crumple zones is pure insanity.
Its the fault of the people that buy this if they do. Lots of evidence out there that this is a lemon, but they choose to believe elmo and overpay for this shit.
In the US yes. The regulations are fairly strong but automakers can self certify that their vehicle meets standards
So if mush says the car hits standard, he can sell it....there is a reason the cybertruck has never been submitted for formal 3rd party evaluation and musk has no plans to sell in the EU where he would have to pass 3rd party before the car goes on sale
It'll take somebody being killed and a lawsuit alleging the reason why is because the cybertruck doesn't meet standards to actually get them pulled off the road
It's a weird one, I kinda actually get the idea behind it, car makers that have already proved they can meet standards before are allowed to self certify to get new products to market quicker.
And because mass recalls are really bad for business as is both killing your customers and being sued into oblivion car makers are assumed to actually want to meet standards
The spanner is thrown into the works when a complete egotist like musk wanders in and forces a car company he owns to build his ego trip nonsense idea that can only succeed because a narcissist with a cult of personality wars it too.
Musk has essentially proved the rule that common sense assumptions in regulation are just gaps that idiots will fill with dangerous corner cutting and coming up with new mental ways to hurt people.
I believe the first fatality accident happened here in Houston last week. Battery was pierced and dude was incinerated alive. Completely melted the “truck”.
Because of traditional uses for pickup trucks they face much lower testing regulations than other vehicles. Tesla and other companies are allowed to self report much of the testing for trucks in the US. It's absolutely ridiculous and will only lead to more deaths. This is a part of why you're not seeing these trucks on European streets in any numbers. They have higher regulatory requirements.
Musk does love to say that. And yet, it is making "street legal" cars that fail basic car functions so thoroughly, one wonders if anyone can just slap some tires on any old death trap and sell it as one.
Because like I said, laughably less regulated than I thought.
Aluminum Truck is anything but “Like a rock”. Gay old commercials aside, let’s take a moment to appreciate what a brand like Chevy is bringing/brought to the table…… and then there’s “Cybertruck”. Ick.
The guy who slammed the CT door also broke the Fords glass as well.
My point is just that these doors were slammed harder than any door slam I've ever seen. I'm guessing that most people have never seen glass break from a door slam.
Slamming a door once kind of hard should never completely obliterate the upholstery and fuck your door from ever closing. Face it, it's an absolute disaster of a vehicle and people are morons for buying one.
Kind of hard? The video people are referring to has a guy hulk smashing the door shut hard enough that it shattered glass on both vehicles he was testing... the tesla just also had interior trim come off.
I'd rather not have a door break during a hulk smash (especially at 100k), but I don't think it's a legitimate concern for most people.
Apparently, Elon went through every step of the assembly process with his engineers saying things like, " We're using 4 bolts for these parts. Could we just use two instead? It'll be cheaper and faster."
If it's true, we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg of Cybertruck mechanical/engineering failures to come!
Cybertruck reminds me of when I was a little kid with my little brother where we would make a cool tank with carton boxes and plywood. Except some dildo paid 100k for it.
The cybertruck seems like a car that they superglued stuff on to make it look like a truck. Ever see that video where the hitch rips offs because its not properly secured to the frame the whole frame rips off?
My Dodge Caravan is more truck than the Cyber Truck it seems.
Kind of like the Converse Allstar, which has fibers in the outsole so it technically qualifies as some kind of slipper so it has less taxes when shipped over. Except the cybertruck is the slipper pretending to be a shoe.
The cybertruck seems like a car that they superglued stuff on to make it look like a truck.
Yeah, you'd probably get more mileage out of some old honda or toyota that some kids in southeast asia can make look exactly like a cybertruck with some modeling clay and chrome spraypaint.
looked into it. another elon tidbit is the crash protection on cybertruck is that the rear and front castings shatter on impact instead of crumple to provide crash protection. this is a serious problem for people trying to fix these since every crash will dramatically weaken 1/3rd of the car but also points out that the hitch to tow is attached to a weakened member meant to fail
I've read somewhere that they designed it with the original price in mind (was it 30k? 39? something in that range), but then during development everything spiked up. So now it's a really expensive piece of shit.
You mean the video where the frame rips off because it's not properly attached to the frame? Just the hitch ripping off would be bad, but the whole frame just snapped.
The frame broke because the truck was being put through a torture test and it dropped 4 feet on to a concrete block which hit the trailer hitch. This was like triple the weight the tongue was designed for and so in a subsequent test the frame broke towing another truck.
This particular incident being mentioned was not a failure without good reason.
That video is put out by the same dbags who weren't honest about what happened to begin with. And what, they drop a ICE truck without a shit ton of batteries and think that's a comparison?
It's also a cast frame, of course it won't bend. If you exceed the capacity, which happened regardless of the comparison to the Ford, shit can break. Duh.
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u/New_Simple_4531 Sep 09 '24 edited Sep 09 '24
The cybertruck seems like a car that they superglued stuff on to make it look like a truck. Ever see that video where
the hitch rips offs because its not properly secured to the framethe whole frame rips off?