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Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles (insideevs.com)
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Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles::Also, the charging speeds are below par, but on the flip side, the sound system is awesome and the car is “a dream to drive.”

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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Why does it look like a car from a PS1 game?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Because we live in the version of reality where the worst idea is the best idea and we don’t actually care about anyone’s wellbeing and safety. The car is shaped the way it is to inflict the most fatalities on pedestrians.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    And the us traffic safety board is refusing to test it's crash rating because they don't have to. It's so fishy that this is a new stupid design and they don't want to test it. Either Elon paid them off or they refuse to give or sell one to test. I have a feeling it would get a 2 out of 5 stars.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because Musk wanted to make a vehicle out of stainless steel and straight panels are the easiest/cheapest to form.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Straight panels are much harder to make as every bend and minor imperfection show up. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/13/why-the-cybertruck-is-so-hard-to-manufacture.html

    Why do you think cars are never made with straight panels?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Straight stainless is easier.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    If it was really that thick plate it would be, but making any modern vehicle (that’s not meant for military use in hostile territory) out of thick plate is fucking stupid. And keeping thin stainless flat is really tricky, it wants to have at least a bit of curve to stay rigid. It asoc doesn’t like consistent forming, which is why nobody since Delorean has bothered.

    Both for weight, and economy, but also for accident safety—good luck of you’re not also in an armored car, and occupant safety, since the crumble zones are greatly reduced and going to transfer way more energy into your soft tissues and internal organs.

    But you can throw a rubber baseball at it just fine at least.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Are you genuinely asking? Because I thought all these jokes were made when it was first unveiled 5 years ago?

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  • [+] -21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Lemmy is 99% karmabots at this point

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I mostly see the N64 Rush 2049 car called Venom I think. It was mostly a Lamborghini Diablo. Maybe it just stood out in the sea of rounded futuristic cars.

    Side note, I think the one called Euro LX was really just the BMW 6-series concept from the Bengal era. Funny how it landed in a mix of futurism that included a rocket car

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    And why, after we ridiculed this thing 10 years ago for being a low-poly abomination and then it disappeared from view for two decades, did they suddenly decide to release the thing with apparently zero changes in 2023?

    This is a terrible, ridiculed, 10 year old atrocity. How is it being taken seriously? I feel like I’m on crazy pills.

    e: number typos

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't disagree, except it was 4 years ago that they unveiled the abomination.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It was definitely previewed at least ten years ago. In my old job as UX designer, we were laughing at it around the office, and I haven’t worked there for 12 years. It may have been a limited preview in design circles, not a public announcement, but the design hasn’t changed.

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