Even the Tesla Cybertruck’s Brake Lights Don’t Make Sense::Brake lights shouldn’t be confusing, but Tesla’s determined to be different with the Cybertruck, for better or worse.

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    2 years ago

    everything about this truck is ugly, and fucked up. Just scrap it and start over.

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      2 years ago

      I’m convinced that Elon himself drew a shitty sketch for the truck on a napkin and said “make it exactly how I drew it!” and they did unfortunately.

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      2 years ago

      I actually love the way it can look in some of the promo materials and concept art. They should have left it as a concept car and showed it off at events and shit. The things that make it work as a concept, like the striking geometry under certain lighting at specific angles, I haven’t seen a pic of it on the road that looks cool yet. The smaller details like these lights take away from the minimalist geometry and make it look messy and busy instead of sleek and weird, and it just looks like a bunch of rectangles haphazardly arranged.

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        2 years ago

        Good concepts look good on the road. They have all the lights worked out. You’re proving the point this is a bad design. Leave it a rudimentary sketch and never building it, means it’s a bad design.

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          A lot of concepts aren’t even road legal or would just be laying frame on any normal road. The Cybertruck’s bad design isn’t really due to the aesthetics, it’s the design of the platform and structure underneath.

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    2 years ago

    It must “look like the future”…

    I guess, if you are stuck thinking the 80’s are the future.

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      2 years ago

      honestly, if you even buy an Elonmobile these days, it’s kind of embarrassing… people will make fun of you behind your back now because of it and weird Elon bros will approach you. I had so many middle aged Elon bros come up to me and peddle crypto to me while I was charging, it’s crazy. you really really have to be a super moron Elon fan to buy one today

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        Which really sucks because when you do the math for range and efficiency honestly nothing else really approaches the Tesla still. The closest is Hyundai with their iconic series but as aging Wheels did a video on recently the charging situation for non Tesla cars is just abysmal at the moment most Chargers are broken, derated, or just otherwise somehow not easily functional whereas the Tesla charging stations rarely have issues

        They really puts a wet towel on my desire to own an electric vehicle

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          2 years ago

          yeah they’re still capable cars if you can get over the terrible QA off the line. but like it or not, buying a Tesla these days is almost like making a political statement. it’s just way more annoying to own one these days than something that’s more low profile

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          2 years ago

          Weren’t there articles like literally 2 days ago beinf posted about how they lied about the range so bad people were taking their cara in for service because they thought the batteries were faulty? (Then Tesla gets to charge a service fee too)

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            I didn’t see that, but I would not put it past them. However as mentioned the Aging Wheel videos shows how trying to actually charge your car anywhere other than home is a massive pain in the ass with anything other than Tesla which would still be a huge deal breaker.

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    They say they have a million preorders…

    I ordered a Tesla S way back in the day when it was a 6 month wait. I had to put down a $2000 deposit. But I got it all back when I cancelled the order a few months later.

    So I have to wonder what those million preorders actually mean. Because boy howdy people are going to have some fucking buyer’s remorse once these eyesores start shipping.

    They make the Pontiac Aztec look good. And that’s saying something!

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      The deposit was only $250, fully refundable, so there was no reason not to. At the time, there were no EV pickups, so this was announced to be first, and starting price target was $39k.

      So now, it’s not first but last to release, price is way higher, and it’s not coming together as expected. I wish they’d stop reminding people about the preorders because they’re going to lose a lot of them

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        And if the million preorders did hold up, it would still be bad for them because they’ll need two years to produce them all.

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    2 years ago

    Why the F isn’t the brake light at the top of the rear windshield like any other car ? Well, it was probably not easy to CAD on a Sony PS1, they had to make compromises.

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      2 years ago

      This may actually be important if you end up behind one of these. Besides, this isn’t specifically about Elon so maybe make your whining relevant.

    • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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      Consider using ‘Hide’ to hide posts you don’t want to see, or go to another sub. Curate your own experience, and shut the hell up.

      • applejacks@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago
        1. most polite lemmy user

        2. there is no hide button

        3. elon posts are on every community, which is kind of my point