Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. But I’m not sure what transportation desires the cybertruck is meant to appeal to.
I saw a video and when it’s opened up it’s not that bad of a utility truck. That said it’s over priced and next to no one who owns one uses it regularly for that purpose.
Huh, i thought it was cheap. Maybe the battery makes it expensive. A lot of the design considerations (like folding a flat piece of steel to make the body) are around making it cheap to manufacture.
Over in the Pit thread about Musk and Twitter, there’s an article about Cybertruck sales. It’s an unmitigated disaster worse than the Edsel flop, further exacerbated by a history of defects and a string of recalls, not to mention being tainted by association with Musk. The article also claims that it’s just plain bad at things pickups are supposed to do well, like hauling things and off-road driving. Tesla is sitting on a huge inventory that it can’t sell.
Cybertruck? that’s what that streetroach is? I thought someone built a vehicle out of scrap. It reminded me of those grown-up, street-legal gocarts that people build from a kit, a big piece of plywood, and some used tires.
There are six or eight of them on the lot at the Tesla dealer near me. There is no chance that they are sold and waiting for pickup.
Maybe they can sell them as “The hearse of the future.”
Care to comment about the one pedal driving issue?
It should definitely be an option on hearses.
The car that the OP drove was a rental. According to the article you cited one pedal driving takes some getting used to. So it wouldn’t be surprising if that feature was turned off in a rental, so a driver might easily not be be aware that the car had one-pedal capability.
The OP came from a car that drove exactly the same way. Apparently you can turn that option off in the menu but I’d be surprised if the rental company did that by default. If they said they tried and it didn’t work, I’d take them at their word. Instead they’re just showing their ass.
Whereas i would assume the rental company turned it off, as it’s a foreign experience to most drivers, and they don’t want to confuse their customers.
I assume you can turn it on via the screen, just like you can find the manual via the screen.
OK, to begin with, I looked on the “laptop” for the option, and couldn’t find it, but even if I had, it still might have taken some getting used to. I drove manual transmissions exclusively for 30 years, and yet if I slid into one I’d never driven before, especially a model, or entire make I’d never driven, there was a slight learning curve.
It might not have been worth the trouble of learning to drive the Tesla that way.
It was probably on by default but I obviously can’t prove that. Had you come from a ICE car, I’d agree that it’s far from obvious that it even exists but you have a Leaf. Also you said that it doesn’t have it at all.
I assumed that it would, but after I searched for it, I couldn’t find it. Then I noticed that when I touched brake pedal, a light flashed briefly that said “regen” in orange. I assumed that stood for “regenerative braking,” and meant that since that was already happening, and since fully releasing the accelerator was not slowing down the car enough not to require also tapping the actual brake pedal, that one-pedal control was not available.
BECAUSE on the Leaf, one-pedal control happens when regenerative braking happens-- turn off regenerative braking, turn off one-pedal driving.
Why didn’t you just use your phone to search for answers? I would do that for my old Hondas from fifteen years ago.
Your assumption wasn’t completely unreasonable but it would have been so easy to verify. You must not have stepped into your Leaf for the first time with 100% received knowledge.
Then I think pretty clearly one-pedal driving had been turned off, which would be sensible as the default for a rental. According to the linked article, in the Model 3 and Y, it’s found under Vehicle → Pedals and Steering → Regenerative Braking, which can be set to “Low” (basically, off) or “Standard”.
Your constant hounding of @RivkahChaya about the things she didn’t like or didn’t find out about her rental Tesla is not doing you, her, or any of the rest of us much good, and IMHO has been verging on jerkishness for some time.
I suggest you accept that you and she have different opinions on the subject and let it drop.
Saint Cad, name one. How would that even work? Regen deceleration is moderate and fairly constant. I don’t see how 1 pedal could handle acceleration, cruising, a gentle slowing and a panic stop.
I accept the opinions of course, including yours. Not the things that are objectively incorrect nor the rude blanket condemnations of all Tesla owners.