Why am I reminded of the Atari ET game? I wonder how many Cybertrucks will be buried in the desert?
Red Cybetta
Digital man
(Elon is) Losing It
The Cyber Body Electric
Between the Wheels (there’s a ton of crap)
Distant Early Warning (a CT is coming)
(Un)natural Science
Fly Off By Night
Seems to me, though, you mean Chemistry
Can’t blame him here. This is legal.
Legal for your privately-held company to buy something? Sure. Legal to publish financials for your publicly-held company that don’t disclose it? Eh, not so much. I’m sure the SEC will get right on that!
Carbon credits you can drive. Seems like a win-win for Musk.
Oh no who could have predicted.
Tesla Cybertruck Flop Proves Costly for South Korean Supplier - Bloomberg
South Korea’s L&F Co. disclosed Monday that its 3.83 trillion won ($2.67 billion) supply contract with Tesla, first announced in February 2023, had been slashed to just 9.73 million won. In a filing, L&F said the reason for the 99% reduction was a change in supply quantity.
The high-nickel cathode material that L&F was contracted to supply from January 2024 through this month was meant to be used in Cybertruck batteries, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive business transactions. Scant material was provided as the vehicle’s development was repeatedly postponed and consumers opted for other vehicles, including Tesla’s Model 3 sedan and Model Y sport utility vehicle, the person said.
Link doesn’t work.
It works for me
Me as well.
Odd. I get: “Safari cannot open the page because the sever cannot be found.”
Sounds like a DNS glitch. Years ago I suddenly couldn’t find an online game I’d been playing using the URL. I could at work though, obtained the IP address and could use that to get into the game at home. This lasted about three weeks until the URL started working again. I figured that particular URL, and maybe others, had dropped out of the server then got put back in.
I realized later that I posted an a r c h i v e . p h link, it might simply be blocked.
Fox Business: Video shows Cybertruck nearly drive mom and baby off overpass: lawsuit
Looks like a nearly T intersection on a fairly high bridge. So not an inherently safe road design.
Assuming FSD really was driving, it seems to have seen the barrier ahead as a continuation of the road surface.
If, more likely, the car was using some of its ADAS features, the driver assumed it’d make the turn on its own. Nope. Crunch. It/she were definitely driving much too fast to physically make the turn required without high-siding the curve.
Amour’s attorney added that just before the crash, she disengaged the driver-assistance feature and tried to take control of the wheel. However, the vehicle was already too far in motion for any intervention to be effective, the law firm indicated.
“She tried to take control, but crashed into the barrier and was seriously injured (mostly her shoulder, neck, and back),” Hilliard said.
Even without FSD, it should have braked before hitting something. I have had that happen to avoid me rear ending something and it was oversensitive in my opinion.
Well, Mr. Regular was able to get someone to let him review their Cybertruck. As usual, he provides a good overview of what the car is culturally and mechanically. I will watch his reviews, even if I have no interest in the vehicle. He can usually come up with something good to say about it. He’s not a fan. It ties for the worst car he’s ever driven, an Oldsmobile Bravada.
Double click because it’s probably NSFW. Nothing naughty happens, but his comparisons are shall we say, colorful.
@scabpicker : Thanks for reviving this thread. Saves me having to search it up; which I’ve intended to do for a week-ish now 
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The other day I saw a CT with one of those canoe-like clamshell fiberglass cargo pods attached to transverse rails above the roof. Which pointed out another functional design shortcoming of CTs.
The entire roof aft of the windshield slopes downward to the rear. Any cargo carrier installed there also slopes the same way. So all the cargo wants to pile up at the bottom = aft end of the pod. How handy.
Heheh, all the credit goes to Mr. Regular. I’ve been looking forward to his (almost always) weekly reviews for at least a decade now*. In a previous job he was an English teacher, but he’s apparently always been kind of obsessed by cars. He blends both of those into his videos, plus a sometimes liberal amount of fart, dick and sex jokes. Oh, and he’s come out in the last few years. He can be pretty irreverent and silly about that, too.
I dunno, I certainly know of more boring car reviewers, If he hadn’t reviewed it, I wouldn’t have even thought about it again. Give him a bit of a watch. If it’s not your thing, it’s not your thing.
*Damn, I just realized this. Now I feel guilty and think I need to check out how that whole Patreon thing works. #oldpeopleproblems
New episodes of two different shows this week (Euphoria, The Boys) have douchebag characters driving Cybertrucks. The shows don’t mention or call out anything about the Cybertrucks in any way, they are just confident that the audience will recognize that driving Cybertruck=douchebag.
Speaking of which, in this paywalled Bloomberg article that just came out, one in five cybertruck sales in the last quarter were registered to one of musk’s other companies, particularly SpaceX.
@scabpicker, I didn’t know about “Regular Car Reviews” before but thanks for that video – I really appreciated that. The Cybertruck really and truly is a piece of shit of the kind that only a deranged lunatic like Elmo could produce, and the reviewer truly has a way with words.
I’m astonished at how much is wrong with that thing in terms of ergonomics and road feel, completely aside from its unreliability and lack of durability. There are far too many witticisms there for me to even begin to quote them all, but this description of the Cybertruck was sort of poetic: “a luxury dumpster that completely demystifies the act of living.”