At first glance it reminds me of a 1990s video game where they don’t have the polygons and the graphic card horse power to display what a Pontiac Aztek would look like.
Graphic cards have met a hard limit, and we now have to reduce the visuals of reality to make games look more realistic.
I honestly thought that at launch they would drop away the metal panels to reveal a kickass vehicle underneath.
Nope. That’s actually the thing.
lolwtf
I love taking the wind out of Elon’s sails because he is just a horrible and cringe person to an extreme degree, but I personally like the cybertruck aesthetically. It definitely different from anything we have seen in a truck, and I’m all for it. It’s also basically a concept car that is somehow actually making it to market, and if it motivates the bigger auto makers to take more chances with their designs and ideas, I think it’s great.
That said, its so ludicrously expensive, and so impractical/not advisable for all the reasons I would personally use a truck, because it’s basically an SUV with a bed. It’s like a Chevy Avalanche/Honda Ridgeline mashup. This thing is the ultimate pavement princess. If there’s one thing I wouldn’t be an early adopter for, it’s something thats whole purpose is to get beat the fuck up.
It really does just look like a Lamborghini you’d get on an N64 if you didn’t have the expansion pack.
I really can’t fathom anyone seriously thinking this is good aesthetically without assuming they have a serious bias affecting their judgement in form of payment, cognitive deficiency, misplaced Musk sympathy, or otherwise.
Other auto makers are doing just fine with their designs overall, we don’t need to include children’s scribbles of a car when talking about where car designs should be headed.
I can’t really fathom that anyone seriously thinks that aesthetic preferences are uniform across all people without biases similar to what you listed.
All those SUVs designs sure are strikingly different.
There’s aesthetic differences stemming from simple original taste, then there’s differences stemming from being on the challenged side of the bell curve. Like smearing poop on a wall and trying to call it art.
Nice straw-man example at the end, there.
Show me on the cybertruck where Elon touched you.
On the entire cybertruck
I personally like the cybertruck aesthetically
I can understand liking the idea of the cyber truck but its aesthetic is so different from convention that I think people need to see it in person to decide if they like it.
There are so many things in it that are different in ways that might be better it is hard for me to imagine it selling well.
they also might be mediocre, or much worse. Given Tesla’s record of bad/rushed design and manufacturing processes (see: bad panel alignment; bad chassis engineering; janky bandaid fixes like random hardware store supplies making it into their cars; failed and costly manufacturing automation mistakes; etc.),
And Musk’s record of using the same trick of dangling a new gimmick to fix cash flow over and over (make wild new promise to create hype, while not delivering on the old ones, see: hyperloop, full self-driving feature, etc)
And how he’s been steadily going off the deep end for years (gestures generally)
I don’t really have hope that this isn’t the ludicrous gimmick it stinks of.
Hey, you support Elon, you get what you deserve.
Play stupid Elon games win stupid Elon prizes!
That’s a very ugly vehicle…
I actually thought it would look cool at least since it’s wildly different. That’s just plain genuinely ugly.
It looks like something the top gear guys would have made for a laugh before dropping it into the sea
True tho. In some episodes they just solder random panes of metal together for a joke and those look better. Id rather drive the two sided car than this.
Similar concept to the discrepancy in the pictures of food in a restaurant menu vs what you’re actually served.
I still think it looks really cool, but I’m still in favour of more accessible public transportation eating away at the space cars have taken from us.
Also I will never ever buy a Tesla, for wide ranging variety of other reasons.
It’s like driving a doorstop in reverse.
Plus you can’t leave it parked anywhere. Anyone who sees it will want to recreate the famous steel ball test. Dude will spend a fortune at the tesla dealership getting his “bulletproof” windows replaced every week.
Honestly this just seems like the best way to have both sides of the relevant conversation hate you. The urbanists will hate you because you bought a Cybertruck which exemplifies all the problems with large cars in urban areas and car dependency in general, not to mention techbro dependency. And the truck people will hate you because you bought a liberal socialist soy boy electric truck instead of a noble, God-anointed, by your bootstraps diesel truck.
Wouldn’t be surprised if someone comes back to the parking lot to see a line of alternating rednecks and railfans all taking turns keying their truck.
It’s definitely going to be very popular with some
crewsgroups…
LPT: Don’t buy anything chasing after happiness.
IMO it depends on what you’re buying. Exercise and training to compete in sports that I do brings me some of the most happiness I have in my life, so buying sports equipment really does improve my happiness because it lets me do what I enjoy. I enjoy astronomy and just bought my first telescope recently and it has brought me a ton of joy. OTOH I have also been pulled into the cycle of buying shit because it’s new and shiny and once it transforms from a “new thing” into just a “thing”, it loses my attention.
I bought a house with an extraordinarily beautiful view. And I can say without a doubt it’s definitely made me a happier person.
Years later, and still enjoy that view as much as I did the first day I moved in.
Really not what I meant. I mean you don’t chase after happiness with purchases. You know how like people chase after happiness with alcohol, drugs, etc. These things won’t make you happy, you have to find happiness in life at a more fundamental level.
you sit at a red light. a bicycle passes you on the side of traffic. you grow obscenely, irrationally angry and vow to get all bike lanes removed from your city. the traffic gets worse.
but, but, the only way to fill the void in my heart is to consooooooooom!
Coom
Ughh it just looks like a fridge with wheels
Most fridges do have wheels, especially the large ones.
Fridges also don’t crush people all that often.
Did you know?
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), there are around 20-30 fatal accidents related to refrigerators in the United States each year.The majority of these accidents involve children under the age of 5 who become trapped inside the refrigerator or freezer.
Tip-over incidents are one of the leading causes of refrigerator-related fatalities, accounting for about 70% of the cases. (Source).
Now you know!
But if we don’t have fridges, all we will have is warm soda and no one likes that.
Yeah, but how do you feel that 20-30 people must die per year so you have a cool soda?
I’m okay with it, to be honest. If you piss off your fridge so much that it kills you, you probably had it coming.
Scope the user name friend
So you want to murder him too? How can you sleep at night?
Except @WarmSoda of course.
It is not as if the warm soda cupboard can’t tip over on top of you too.
@warmsoda Are you trying to kill us with your cupboard?
And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you damned lemmings!
I have wheels, Greg… Can you milk me?
“I HAVE A MANGINA! I’M OLD GREEEEGGG!!!”
Hot take: It’s no stupider than any other pickup truck, and at least it stands out. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fugly as hell, but that’s still better than being indistinguishable from every other vehicle in its class.
As a pick-up it however absolutely fails compared to everything else in its class.
Why does it fail any more than all the other dumb American pickup trucks that also fail at being pickup trucks?
Can’t carry a load as well.
Plus at least it’s not spewing exhaust everywhere.
Why would you want your car to stand out?
Because that’s the purpose of a posermobile, which the vast majority of pickup trucks are.
Social status. The main reason for wanting to stand out (other than your own ego) is because having a higher social status will offer the individual more opportunities in these social games we play.
Perception matters more than the truth for most
To find it faster in a parking lot?
Isn’t that the main feature of remote car keys, to make the car blink?
It’s a Tesla, you can ask it to come to you (it might even succeed without unduly blocking traffic)
Mainly because it’s shaped like a snow plow and won’t care if anything soft is in its way.
I would have to disagree. A new Tacoma is about $60,000 less stupid than this.
I agree, won’t stop me from making fun of it though!
[Puts on stupid, ugly, expensive sunglasses at night]
🎶 “Reluctantly (chuckled at by teens), at the starting line…” 🎶
Pointing, and laughing and cringing inside
The green light flashes, the jig is up
Buyers. Remorse. A divorce creeping up.
The son chose the mom, and they both moved out,
He stormed off to Hooters, drank til he passed out,
He’s now home yelling, and crying, snot lining his face, the light of a Twitter feed in an emp-ty, place…
Cuz he’s going to post now, he’s going in-cel, he’s all alone, ALL ALONE, and he’s buying what the nazis sell…
Because he’s racing and pacing and fuming on X
He’s fighting and biting and really bad at sex
He’s going the distance, he’s smoking some weed
His pillow wife (pillow-wife) is all he neeeeds
…
No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulb, no spine
He’s haunted by decisions he cannot untwine
Bank-account shaking earthquakes of APRs and remorse
Assail him, impale him with cybertruck force
…
In his mind he’s still driving, still dunking on libs
She’s hoping in time that her memories will fade
'Cause he’s wasting his paycheck on onlyfans whores
He’s fighting, promoting, defending Musk of course
*cries behind my Ray-Bans"
Why would anyone go into debt for something like this? If you can’t afford it, you should clearly not be buying something like this.
Other than that, it is largely foolish to consider other’s opinions on a lot of our actions.
News flash, easily over 50% of cars on the road are bought with borrowed money and therefore debt.
Even people that don’t need loans still do some sort of financing option for their credit score.
In our case, we were able to get a better rate from investing than the rate we’re getting charged on the car loan. It was “cheaper” to take the loan than to pay up front! This economy is nuts.
That’s great if you can guarantee you beat the interest rate of the car. But as you’ve said the economy is nuts and anything can happen 🤣
When borrowing rates are lower than investment returns borrowing just makes good financial sense.
I could pay off my home loan today, but at 2.5% interest why, when I can keep that money and leave it in a safe high return investment? I’d be losing 10s of thousands a year in returns for my retirement to save a few thousand in mortgage interest.
Same thing with cars.
Then again, I don’t even buy new cars. I just get a dependable used Japanese car and drive it until it dies at 300k miles.
Should someone tell him? Who is going to tell him?
Alright, I will do it. People make bad decisions.
It’s OK to go into debt over a depreciating asset if you can afford to default on the loan, and it substantially improves your ability to make money. Businesses do it all the time. If a sole trader could work better with the cybertruck for some reason(I’ve got nothing) and could borrow off their house as collateral, that’s a financially savvy business decision.
But a lot of people fall victim to predatory marketing. We need to recognize that it’s not just them being dumb, they were manipulated, tricked and lied to by a powerful machine.
If they get a square wheel it’d be perfect 😌👌
They’re $100K in debt for a fridge.
