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I know this was a while ago but these things are apparently making their way across country Midwest lol saw 2 in two days in podunk, farm-field Iowa!! One silver, one gold, and omg they look so much uglier and odd in person! 😂 i saw them and thought of you, Amanda 😅
That isn't even head canon. That's just real. Tesla's designers apparently thought the thing was hideous and proposed alternative designs but were overruled. Although I doubt Elon drew the original concept himself. He probably said, "Make me a Warthog from Halo."
We have a Cybertruck at my work and the thing is absolutely goofy in and out. The stainless steel sheets that make up the exterior show literally ALL HANDPRINTS, the plastic is thin and flimsy and EVERYTHING is controlled through a series of small menus on the tablet screen, including windshield wipers. The on-screen buttons aren't color coated or bordered either, so you can't just use your peripheral vision to turn on the wipers (and again it requires navigating multiple menus, so it's not just one single button press). This IMO is extremely dangerous considering we're supposed to be discouraging people from looking at screens away from the road for longer than a fraction of a second. Also the door latches came loose just from opening/closing the door from normal use and had to be screwed back in.
don't all tesla's have everything in menus on the screen? there have been issues where I live because it's against the law to interact with screens while driving
@@thebigunodos3559 currently it looks like it won't be allowed because it doesn't have a crumble zone and is very dangerous in accidents with smaller cars and pedestrians. it's also heavier than a car driver's license currently allows, so you would need an expensive truck driver's license to drive one. the maximum weight in driver's licenses is expected to be raised though
@kira-eg8fg I think you're right. this is just my first personal experience with it. I definitely see it becoming a huge issue at the state government level in the near future, especially because Tesla is sort of spearheading this philosophy of reducing mechanical controls wherever possible for saving costs.
The guy who said "Looks like it's straight out of Blade Runner" made me laugh. Because yes. It looks like a 1980's version of a sci-fi vehicle. It looks like what people 40 years ago thought cars would look like in 40 years.
Apparently Musk's big vision for this was his son saying "What doesn't the future look like the future?", and apparently that inspired him to want to make the present look like the 1980s' idea of the future. And he just kept repeating this to his engineers and designers over and over again whenever they said "This car is awful and no one will want to buy it. But tbh the least plausible part of that story is one of Elon Musk's children talking to him.
I usually joke that if you saw this thing driving in a future scene from Terminator 1 or 2 with John Conner standing in the back firing at robots, it would fit in perfectly.
i think about the reddit post of the cybertruck owner getting a thumbs down from a stranger and that giving them a crisis of faith like once a week, pubic shaming WORKS folks
Something to note about the impacting testing at 13:38, those nice 1950s cars with the tail fins that people like to restore? They're also horrible for the people inside the car in a collision because the metal does crumble and all the momentum and kinetic energy is transferred to the people inside. Our modern cars today can look horrible and crumpled after a collision but people walk away without little to no injury all of the time because they are now designed to transfer as much of that kinetic energy to the car rather than the passenger. Congratulations the cyber truck has literally gone in reverse in terms of car safety
yeah back in the 2000s my friend had an old car his grandma gave him that didn't have crumple zones. We got into an accident where a couple cars behind is piled up and rear ended us. both of their cars were totaled. my friend barely had a dent in it. we were on a decline so we were thrown forward and I hit my head on the roof. The car was totally fine but I realized if we'd been in a real major collision I'd probably have had a concussion or damaged my neck.
Was forced to watch a doc on the dangers of old cars, and the non-crumpling is not the worst of the dangers, for example; the nobs, the steering wheel, and if your head went through the windshield it is possible you would be decapitated. I see similar dangers with this new truck. There are so many sharp edges, and things that can seriously hurt you if impact with them. I really do not know how it passed the safety tests enough to be allowed on the road.
There’s one in town here and it’s hideous. It lacks any and all elegance or grace. It’s basically exactly what you would imagine a 50 yr divorced dad with 200 billion dollars and a favorite dinosaur would design…
Less hot than black paint. (or any other colour darker than silver) Simple reason is physics: black does absorb more energy from sunlight. (the darker the colour, the more sunlight gets absorbed and turned into heat)
I did actually see one of these a few days ago when out with my mom! That’s when I learned that she had no clue of their existence and got this beautiful line: “I didn’t know you were allowed to make your own car and drive it…”
Even funnier, one of my neighbors actually made his own electric car years ago, and it does look kind of similar, but is still much better looking than this monstrosity. So even an engineer who made a car in his own workshop made it look better than this.
My mother and I bumped into one one the other day. She didn't know about their existence. She was very unsettled by it. She thought it looked alien. She was shocked.
I feel like people ONLY like how the Cybertruck looks because it makes them different. You cant convince me people actually think it looks good. They likely wouldn't want it if it were a $20,000 car that every person could own.
Yeah it’s 100% an elitism thing. Idk why they think people will be jealous they made a poor financial decision and only got an ugly death trap out of it LOL
I like it as a rough draft. I like the wedge and angular design. I also like how different looks. That being said, if I had to I’d much rather trade my regular F-150 and get a Ford Lightning
I completely disagree! I think it looks cool as hell, it's just that it shouldn't be a vehicle that exists, it should be a graphic in a video game. Actually making them is dumb and dangerous.
Nope, I actually think it looks pretty cool. The issue isn't really the looks, but all of the other design issues. Crash test crumple zones, over reliance on screens, rust issues, tire issues... those are actually legitimately lethal. A comparison would be to talk about the beetle from about two decades ago. Some people really liked those cars, and I thought they looked kinda silly. They were actually popular for some time too
I have seen an F 150 after a highway accident w a semi - crumpled front end, demolished bed, only thing that survived was half the cab. Looked like a car after the compactor. Driver was casually milling around the scene, he was perfectly fine. Wear your seat belt & if you're spending big on a pickup, go for safety.
Yeah, the guy at 14:06 "showing a more fair comparison" and saying they look the same didn't really look that hard. The cybertruck crumpled yeah, that will happen when anything hits a wall, but the other truck bent and redistributed the momentum to the bed as well. The cybertruck was rigid and left all of it to be applied to the passengers and anything else not directly connected to the stiff frame, like the wheels and axle. Also you can see the F150's bend allows the passengers to decelerate over a longer distance by going overtop of the front of the truck while the cybertruck's passengers stop almost immediately.
For real... typically the more totaled the car looks after a high-speed collision, the better off the driver probably is. Cars are designed to crumple like that to keep you safe. It's just basic physics.
@@DeathClawz yeah he definitely was only watching how far the front end crumpled. if he'd been watching the passengers at all, it's very obvious that the F-150 dummy only falls forward far enough to get caught by the airbag, but the cybertruck dummy plunges so deeply into the airbag that the curve of its neck fully inverts. that's a full-on spinal injury vs a simple neck strain.
@@northstarjakobsyup. Also mercedes recently tested a crash between two of their electric suvs and while they look like dropped lego sets afterwards, the dummies had no noteworthy injuries
The ONLY way I will not laugh at someone driving a cybertruck is if they commit fully to the bit and dress like they are out of a cyberpunk movie or video game at all times. Otherwise I have labeled them as a huge dork in my head and nothing will change my mind.
Thanks, time to do that then -- I'm kidding, I don't even have a car and don't plan on getting one anywhere in the near future. But that car does fit the type of aesthetics I like. Unfortunately... almost everything else about it does not. Safety and durability are huge concerns, and this isn't meeting those standards as far as I am aware
You know, you're right. If I ever saw a cybertruck, I'd be judging that person right up until they walked out with leather trousers, a neon mohawk and a metal arm. At that point I'd just be like "fair play to you".
The cyber truck would definitely have the thoughts of a chihuahua: they think they’re the biggest, baddest dog on the block, when they are actually very far from that
I mean.... I've done a bunch of off-road donuts in my mostly stock Forester and haven't broken a wheel yet.... That's the sort of thing you expect to happen after some years of daily wear.... Not a brand new car
Gotta ask, since you have more experience with off roading than me, how does the performance in general of the cyber truck look like to you from that clip? To me it seems 10x more bouncy in the shocks than anything else I’ve seen, but that might just be me. It gave off the vibe of horribly off road handling 😅
@@SonjaHamburgSeemingly _anything_ can pass American road safety tests. It's why everyone is in a truck or SUV that is so tall you couldn't see a stroller parked in front of it, with lights that are so bright it hurts to look at them even during the day.
@@SonjaHamburg trucks and SUVs aren't held to the same standards as regular cars, for really bad reasons. Not Just Bikes has a video about it, "these stupid trucks are literally killing us" or something like that.
Fun random fact I learned today. Guardrails and other safety devices for the freewaysin CA are not yet tested on cars as heavy as the cybertruck (the highest for cars being a 5000lb truck), so if one is crashed into a guard rail it might not function as it's supposed too. That's like always something to keep in mind when your car is 'different' from the others on the road (ie hight and weight) because Important road safety functions caltrans uses are all based on the tests they do.
@Dbk416 Good point! Semis are also not usually tested on most safety devices because it's expensive and most areas dont have a high enough truck trafffic or accidents that would warrant those stronger barriers (usually they'll put stuff rated for semis in front of bridge columns if really needed. Cyber trucks aren't the main issue. I was mostly just pointout that cars that deviated from the standard aren't really the ones being tested on safety devices and the cyber truck is pretty nonstandard even compared to other passanger trucks in its shape, weight, and center of gravity. It is kind of outdated that they don't test heavier passenger cars since EVs in general are significantly heavier than combustion engine cars.
@@Marleys2775 I agree that you made a really good point. It opens up more of a discussion on why our safety systems aren't being reevaluated more frequently as vehicles have been getting both bigger and heavier for some time now. It shouldn't take a massive electric pickup truck. The Hummer EV clocks in at a lot more than the cyber truck. We really need to start pushing this towards the DOT to figure out better safety measures.
Ok, that surprised me, because here in europe guardrails for roads are tested with busses and big trucks usually, because it's what others need to be protected from. (and who needs protection from harm themselves too) Sure there's always a scenario they couldn't test or didn't come up with, so there's never 100% safety, but what logic is it that you don't test for the heaviest vehicles on the road. (And due to them making up the professional traffic and doing the highest mileages on roads they also have a higher probability over all to make contact with them/have an accident)
@@Dbk416In all fairness, you need a special license to operate a semi truck. A cybertruck is a car that the general public can drive on a normal license.
I saw a cyber truck when I was visiting California the other month. I saw it at the most unexpected place you could imagine; an extremely expensive wine tasting in Napa valley. Who could imagine that I’d see a cyber truck at a rich person event near tech-bro central? I would have thought I’d see a cyber truck at a post-apocalyptic bunker with the way it’s advertised. Fr tho; I think the rusting-issue was done on purpose. A giant rusty cyberpunk vehicle definitely fits the ‘mad-max’ post apocalyptic aesthetic that Elon advertised it as. This is just a toy that allows wealthy crypto-farmers to role play as some badass post apocalyptic warlord.
Amanda, blue collar workers that actually use their trucks to make a living need cost efficient vehicles. That's why there isn't really any footage of the car being used for "real" work. Not only are Cybertrucks too expensive to begin with, it also costs too much to maintain the things. It's a luxury toy for people with more money than common sense.
You wont see the chassis bend in the middle like Fords, Nissans ect and totally writing of the truck... Ford are under investigation for faking recalls for profit aka not changing life threatening airbags that don't deploy or fire shrapnel into your face...
in tears because i've seen one a few blocks from me a couple of times and i didn't know it was a tesla or even a real vehicle, i genuinely thought it was someone like trying to turn an old beater car into a delorean cosplay or something
Electric vehicles aren’t practical for a lot of forms of fieldwork. When you’re going to the middle of nowhere where cell service isn’t always guaranteed, it’s unlikely to find a charging station.
As someone who lives in a rural area I been thinking about this like electric cars aren't the mainstream I'd be scared to drive out of the populated safe zone where I know chargers will be
Yeah look, I'm afraid that's true of **all** cars: if you run out of fuel, they don't go no more. Sure, if your area or use case isn't there yet in terms of infrastructure, don't get one. But it's not a great argument for the sake of discussion.
@@Taurusus While I agree that "the infrastructure isn't there yet" shouldn't be the end of discussion, I honestly expect EVs to never really outstrip internal combustion engines for a lot of types of fieldwork--at least not without a massive breakthrough in technology that allows for massively lighter batteries that handle extreme temperatures much better, with double the range we're currently seeing. Taking a cybertruck (or other electric truck) to the desert to rip around in is one thing, *working* in the desert is entirely another. That being said a lot of us are already doing fieldwork in unbelievably ill-suited vehicles already. It's really only a question of what the companies with fleets will be buying in 10 years' time.
@@TaurususBut you can put liquid in a container, the other solution here is having multiple batteries, but the weight of a battery compared to gas is not practical.
@@bluester7177 Or this magical thing called a generator that will add some charge to the battery. Those run off that magical liquid you are talking about.
@knarfstein They look industrial the way a commercial kitchen equipment does (to me), not the way industrial vehicles do! At least restaurant ovens and stuff actually are utilitarian, even if they are sort of ugly??
fun fact: the delorean (the car from back to the future) also has a similar problem with water and things like that, so the manual recommends washing off stains with gasoline.
Yeah it’s kind of a given with an uncoated car so that’s not something I hold against the cybertruck OR delorean, at least the delorean looks cool tho when compared to the cybertruck lol
@@sootekkenI have an issue with tesla over the rusting because he specifically claimed it would be LESS vulnerable to that sort of damage, if your product has a weakness and you just say that up front that’s fine but you can’t just lie like that to your customers esp about something SO fucking expensive. Tbf tho anyone buying a cybertruck kinda deserves what they get in return lmao
When the first design came out, somebody said it looked like a truck from a futuristic/apocalyptic/dystopian 1980s movie titled "Cybertruck". Still true.
So in the US deaths in crashes average 1.35 per 100 million miles driven, for crashes with people using Tesla autopilot that number is about 11.3 deaths per 100 million. And the galaxy brain idea of how to stop your drivers dying at a 8x rate isn't to remove the autodrive feature, it's to make a small tank. Such weird behavious. Wrapping it might make the corrosion worse, Stainless resists rust because of the oxide coating that forms on it's surface, if rust penetrates that it can rust very very quickly, especially if there are salts involved, like the stuff we put on roads in icy conditions. Wrapping it reduces the surface oxygen availability and means scratches may not form a new oxide coating as quickly and in turn makes it more likely that rust will penetrate and it'll rust from the inside out. It'll be difficult to guess whether a wrap will work or not in real world conditions, but it wouldn't surprise me if in a year or 2 we see a couple stories of bodywork falling off wrapped cybertrucks.
Yeah, I'm really curious how well it'll hold up to European winters where you're driving through salty sludge for days every time it snows. My car is over 20 years old and has a bit of visible rust behind the front wheels, but that's it. Dunno how often the previous owner washed it, but I just put it through the car wash once after it was clear we wouldn't get any more snow this year. With the Cybertruck, you'll probably have to hose it down every day.
@@AZaqZaqProductionstats on the distance driven with FSD are hard to find but Elon said in the investor call this first quarter that 150,000,000 miles were driven with Full Self Driving, fatalities are public record, estimated to be 736 crashes and 17 deaths with people using FSD. Easy maths gives you 11.3 deaths per 100M miles driven using FSD. The average rate is public info again it states the rate for 2022 as 1.35 per 100M miles although I can't find the miles driven number for to put here so will have to use the 2021 figure. 42,795 deaths with 3,230,000,000,000 miles driven giving a rate of 1.37 deaths per 100M driven. 2021 is the highest rate for a decade and is still 8 times as much. Thanks for forcing me to go back to the numbers, I was wrong in my post when I said the rate for Tesla FSD was above 12 it was above 11, I'll edit my original post in correction. But the substance stands. Sources are Elon, OECD data, you can look up specifics yourself. Long story short, Elon is lying when he says it's safer than human drivers, he's a con man he lies all the time, that shouldn't be surprising.
You should check out Simone giertz’s truckla, she turned a Tesla into a truck and took it to the cyber truck unveiling even though they told her not too lol
They should have taken notes from Truckla instead of just going full cartoon supervillain with the Cybertruck. Simone actually made something practical
I don't think iot's because it's silver that makes it seem goofy. It's because it's bare steel. It isn't a uniform colour as it's various levels of oxidization and "clean" if you will, plus with it being angular, it accentuates any mild imperfection in shape. Again this is something any ACTUAL designer would avoid like the plague before you even got to prototyping.
I think to expand on that, it’s bare steel with NO defining features. The delorean is also that bare looking metal but it has a character and charm that this truck could never have because of how vague it looks. It’s bland and basic, giving it any kind of defining feature seemed to not even be an afterthought.
@@sootekken And to be fair, theDelorean, while being a dodgy company, did have ACTUAL graded stainless steel. This doesn't. It's not exactly stainless technically. It's really cheap stuff that only barely makes it technically stainless. Hence why it rusts and degrades easily.
I FKN KNEW THEY WERE LYING ABOUT THE RANGE. I knew it. I’ve owned an electric vehicle. With the size of the truck I absolutely knew they were lying out of their a*s about the range…. I feel vindicated lol. Thanks swell!
As a GenZ car exterior engineer for not Tesla, the highlight of my career so far has been getting to watch 15 senior engineers roast a cybertruck in person
@@siliconvalleymetal if you weren‘t a clown you‘d know Tesla is valued like a tech company instead of like a car company. They are completely overvalued
2 million pre-orders of the Cybertruck. Maybe your engineers should stop tearing down other ppl's work and get to work themselves, so Tesla would stop eating their lunch lol
4:25 longtime game lover here, can confirm it looks like placeholder geometry that a developer might use while still building a game. When developing a 3D experience, theres a few parts to every object in the game. First is its base polygons, the rough approximation of the object onto which all other parts will be fitted. Next is the collision properties, i.e what happens when the object is touched by another object. Defining collision creates a Hit Box, where everything inside the box triggers collision, and everything outside that box does not. FINALLY, after it MECHANICALLY works, the dev finishes the object with a Skin / Texture, which is a 2D image that wraps around the polygons to create the Finished Asset. Cars in the polygon phase look almost exactly like the cybertruck, it's uncanny.
Love love *_LOVED_* the Musk-Holmes equivalence (in the metaphor) in that Theranos joke you told. Been drawing that comparison for a while now and it's great to see other people starting to agree! Can't wait for that Tesla bubble to burst 😝
i don‘t love living in the countryside but in the sense that i‘ll never have to encounter these in the wild it‘s great. also not weather resistant you say? amazing then they‘ll never get into my home country in the first place except for by particularly unhinged multi millionaires so that‘s going to be great as a warning sign for particularly unhinged rich people
I was driving home one night through downtown where I live and I saw one. What got me was seeing the weird headlights (or headlight?) from a few hundred feet away. When it got closer, I lost my mind because I never thought I'd seen one of these goofy cars in public 😵💫 I live in ARKANSAS btw. Never thought I'd see on here 😂
Doing relatively wide donuts on dirt is not exactly wild behavior. That seems like the least rough thing you can do off-road. My 03 minivan can handle that lol! Driving on top of 8 inch ruts is insane, donuts are just a waste of gas...
The hauling issue could be a few things. As someone who has hauled up to 12k before the truck doesn't look safe to haul with. Something to remember is the truck has to be able to balance all that rolling momentum behind it, and stop it safely. It's not just about pure pulling. The other issue is one the other electric trucks are running into. Hauling any kind of load absolutely destroys your range. So if the truck gets 250 with normal driving expect to get half that with a load. The cybertruck is just not practical as a pure work truck.
I saw a cybertruck in the flesh for the first time the other day and it sent chills down my spine. It is literally so menacingly ugly like it just appeared out of a wormhole from another universe where everything is gray and geometric
I just saw one irl yesterday and the first thing that struck me was that it's a lot more obnoxiously big than I was expecting. The 2nd thing that struck me were all the smudges everywhere. It looks like the kind of thing that will give you hard buyer's remorse after a few days.
I saw one in the wild at a Starbucks near my work last week! Did a double take as I headed back to my car, honestly was underwhelmed, it’s much smaller than I would think a truck should be (coming from a Texan 🤠)
Must be bad if others are copying the building process.. oh and Tesla gave the 48 volt battery system design(uses less copper) -- (replacing the 12 volt system that uses more copper) away for free.....
An accident where they’ll absolutely murk the other driver too since it doesn’t have any give like cars are supposed to seeing as the laws of physics say your car needs to crumple at least SOME
I live in Reno and there’s a whole parking lot of these things that the nearby Tesla store has dropped off in a parking lot near my job. These things are SOOOOO goofy looking. As I type this on March 1st, we’re staring down a huge snowstorm tomorrow. Can’t wait to see how badly rusted these things are on Monday 😂
When it comes to "stainless" steel frames, first it was the Delorian and now it's the Cybertruck. But the Delorian is way cooler, even before Back to the Future made it even cooler.
The delorean did it right, it had a style and coolness factor that the cybertruck couldn’t replicate because having style seemed to not be a priority at all, which completely baffles me
I saw a cyber truck while driving with my dad to my gparents one day and the way the guy driving it stared back at me told me everything I needed to know about the type of people who drive those things.
I saw one for the first time the other day and seeing them in person hits different. No photograph or video can truly do justice to how goofy these things actually look
I feel like this is going to age like those minivans from 10 years ago that used to be made with built in TVs with DVD players for the kids in the backseat. Barely 2 years later and DVDs became obsolete. I feel like so many of these stupid bells and whistles like the tablet screen and wireless phone chargers are going to become just as quickly outdated and irrelevant
I was lucky to see one of these bad boys in person and I lost my mind,,the feral excitement I had over seeing it. I saw it go past me in a downtown area and when we got on the interstate it appeared again and I was able to gaze upon its low-poly unrendered video-game graphic beauty again. And farther down we passed by a car dealership aND YOU KNOW WHAT WAS IN THE LOT!?!? ANOTHER FREAKING CYBER TRUCK BABY. Seeing those felt like running into a shiny Pokémon or winning the lottery it was low-key the highlight of my day.
I live in the bay area and have seen a few cybertrucks on the highway in the past month. They look so hilarious in person. Like they're in a futuristic movie made in the 80s..... People who actually need a work truck for work truck reasons and want an EV are probably just buying the Electric Ford Ranger and calling it a day.
I can’t imagine anyone who needs a work truck owning a purely EV one. I used my old Suburban to haul furniture wood occasionally and sometimes woodworking equipment and… I needed the weight capacity and the range and I don’t think that even for that level of use an EV version would have been practical. For a real work truck, hell no.
YEA HATERS/TERRORIS ARE CURRENTLY SETTING FIRE TO TESLA`S IN GERMANY.... OVER A DISPUTE OF WATER USEAGE BY TESAL... TOTALY IGNORING THE COAL PLANT IN GERMANY PUTTING SULPHURIC ACID IN THE COUNTRIES DRINKING WATER.... AND USING 10 TIME MORE WATER THAN TESLA...
I’m a flight attendant and my whole crew, 4 flight attendants and 2 pilots, were in a van going from the LAS airport to the hotel and a cyber truck passed us near the strip. We all saw it at the same time and audibly gasped and squealed. It was even weirder in person, it’s hilariously ugly.
“I dont see a difference in the crumple zone” My guy you literally pointed out the rear tire game ending itself when the fords tires where completely fine
Throttle House did a good review on the Cybertruck. But I don't even have stainless steel appliances because I don't want to clean the fingerprints off them, I can't imagine the pain of constantly cleaning fingerprints off my car. Also there's no way that it gets 300 mile range while towing 11,000 pounds, I want to see how far it goes while towing a maximum load. I'm waiting for my first sighting in the wild!
my big concern is if it's bullet proof, so really strong, will it be able to crumple like other cars in crashes? crumpling is a massively necessary safety feature and significantly reduces the risk of fatality if you crash, so if it's too solid to crumple it could be really bad
As multiple people have noticed, the vehicle is ridiculously delicate for people who are doomsday preppers and ridiculously expensive for regular folks who like trucks. This thing is just a novelty item for really rich tech nerds. That isn't exactly a large market.
Saw one hopping on to the freeway behind me. It looked dorky with the large body and comparatively small wheels/tires. I think it was JerryRigEverything that did a thing on using it to haul a loaded trailer. Long short of it is that the range is heavily reduced and charging locations is not outfitted to take in a cybertruck+trailer.
I feel like the cyber truck has been such a journey. When it first was talked about I don’t think any other electric trucks even existed for sale in the states. I remember watching TH-camr Simone Guerra make her “Truckla” where she converted a Tesla into a truck and that was the first electric functional “truck” I ever saw (not that I saw it in person, but still). Now it’s been YEARS of waiting for cybertrucks and other companies, Ford, Rivian and likely others, have released electric trucks and it doesn’t seem so insane anymore. I personally love the cybertruck look but could never afford one or have any use for one and am all about my car lasting in multiple environments and being able to handle all weather conditions, so its sad to hear the paintless exterior is basically useless. Maybe paintless cars like this only appeal to us weird patina car people but I thought it was neat. It’s just so crazy that when we first heard about the concept of these, Elon Musk didn’t own twitter and was pretty tolerated online and now so much has changed and so many people are just over it and angry at him (totally justifiable). I feel like he’s made so many decisions for Tesla that many people prob don’t want Tesla innovations just cause it still feels tied to him.
A real wrap made by a real wrapping place might help a bit. But you really should paint or put laquer on exposed steel. Even we need to do that, and we are a touring theatre where the steel only has to last indoors with some transport for half a year. I hope their cars are supposed to last longer than that.
So I'm learning to operate trains right now and the other day I had one of these goofy looking scrap heaps driving on the road right next to my train. It was so stupid.
A lot of manufactures started adding those clauses to new specialized cars because people have been buying flipping them. Most people found a loophole where they can draw up a 12 month lease agreement to where they buy the truck for a $1 a the end. I think that is why they removed the clause.
Still remember when a few months ago me, my family and some friends were headed to the snow when we saw this car hauler with just Cyber trucks, horrible sight and so so goofy. Then the next time I went there was a cyber truck just parked in the snow, totally unreal feeling, I had to try so hard to conceal my laughter
Zach from JerryRigEverything has been putting his cybertruck through it with towing heavy shit in the snow and comparing it to his Rivian and the new all-electric Ford F150.
The cybertruck design team was channeling William Towns when they penned it. It is actually retro styled, it was the dominant European automotive design language when he was a kid in the 70s. American cars were all about the baroque, the land yachts swathed in chrome.
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btw yr haircolor and glasses look amazing!
I know this was a while ago but these things are apparently making their way across country Midwest lol saw 2 in two days in podunk, farm-field Iowa!! One silver, one gold, and omg they look so much uglier and odd in person! 😂 i saw them and thought of you, Amanda 😅
My head cannon is that Elon drew a Cybertruck and refused to let the engineers deviate from his design in any way.
That isn't even head canon. That's just real. Tesla's designers apparently thought the thing was hideous and proposed alternative designs but were overruled. Although I doubt Elon drew the original concept himself. He probably said, "Make me a Warthog from Halo."
He was up on ket playing on the 3d fab and was like I have invented futurism
this is just what happened. didn't he fire someone over this?
Did he learn nothing from The Homer fiasco?!
He tends to commit to things publicly and then expects the engineers to just figure these things out so this fits
the cybertruck looks like something straight from roblox
it's so goofy looking and angular 😂
its the useless “prize” you get after completing an obby 💀
Or something from Mad Max or Killdozer.
Specifically a child's first ever attempt at making their dream car in Roblox Studio
Elon’s special sauce - fever dream cyber spunk.
I will never get over the fact that the cyber truck is basically just a stainless-steel fridge on wheels.
Fridges have more complicated sheet metal dies and stamping processes. Literally.
At least the fridge serves a purpose other than saying “oooo look I have money!!!”
They called the bmw isetta a fridge on wheels as well. But it seems like fridge design has gotten much worse since then.
Except the fridge is stainless 💀😂
@@Purplesquigglystripe thank you so much for mentioning it, I had never seen one and it's just the cutest little thing on wheels I've ever seen!
We have a Cybertruck at my work and the thing is absolutely goofy in and out. The stainless steel sheets that make up the exterior show literally ALL HANDPRINTS, the plastic is thin and flimsy and EVERYTHING is controlled through a series of small menus on the tablet screen, including windshield wipers. The on-screen buttons aren't color coated or bordered either, so you can't just use your peripheral vision to turn on the wipers (and again it requires navigating multiple menus, so it's not just one single button press). This IMO is extremely dangerous considering we're supposed to be discouraging people from looking at screens away from the road for longer than a fraction of a second. Also the door latches came loose just from opening/closing the door from normal use and had to be screwed back in.
Also all the edges to the closures are sharp, so watch out if you've got kids or are chronically clumsy
don't all tesla's have everything in menus on the screen? there have been issues where I live because it's against the law to interact with screens while driving
@@kira-minooI never thought of that. I wonder if this will keep it out of states with those types of laws.
@@thebigunodos3559 currently it looks like it won't be allowed because it doesn't have a crumble zone and is very dangerous in accidents with smaller cars and pedestrians. it's also heavier than a car driver's license currently allows, so you would need an expensive truck driver's license to drive one. the maximum weight in driver's licenses is expected to be raised though
@kira-eg8fg I think you're right. this is just my first personal experience with it. I definitely see it becoming a huge issue at the state government level in the near future, especially because Tesla is sort of spearheading this philosophy of reducing mechanical controls wherever possible for saving costs.
The guy who said "Looks like it's straight out of Blade Runner" made me laugh. Because yes. It looks like a 1980's version of a sci-fi vehicle. It looks like what people 40 years ago thought cars would look like in 40 years.
Apparently Musk's big vision for this was his son saying "What doesn't the future look like the future?", and apparently that inspired him to want to make the present look like the 1980s' idea of the future. And he just kept repeating this to his engineers and designers over and over again whenever they said "This car is awful and no one will want to buy it.
But tbh the least plausible part of that story is one of Elon Musk's children talking to him.
I usually joke that if you saw this thing driving in a future scene from Terminator 1 or 2 with John Conner standing in the back firing at robots, it would fit in perfectly.
It easily could have been in the background of the original Robocop movies and looked like it belonged there lol
The cars in Blade Runner are way cooler, even ignoring the fact that they literally fly.
More like straight out of Red Faction on PS1.
My sister said she saw one on the road once, she said it didn't look fully rendered in
Haha this is exactly what I thought when I saw one in person!
It's stainless steel. It's a fingerprint magnet. So ugly
LOL
Clearly we have to update our graphics cards, ig that's why it looks better for other people.
@@rogue-taxidermy_griffin That would explain a lot!
The fact that they're real and out there is so scary.
The fact that people actually buy them is even scarier, lol.
There’s only like, 5 of them. And after a rainy day, they’re will be about 2 of them
It's literally a vehicular manslaughter machine, or at least elon has been marketing it as such.
I see one daily on my commute
@@deepfriedicecream576 stop
i think about the reddit post of the cybertruck owner getting a thumbs down from a stranger and that giving them a crisis of faith like once a week, pubic shaming WORKS folks
Source?? I NEED to see this
omg please give us the link so we can see lmfao
I found a thread, don't know if it's the one, cause it is filled with cope
are you12???
i think that the shaving habits of others shouldnt be a public matter
Something to note about the impacting testing at 13:38, those nice 1950s cars with the tail fins that people like to restore? They're also horrible for the people inside the car in a collision because the metal does crumble and all the momentum and kinetic energy is transferred to the people inside. Our modern cars today can look horrible and crumpled after a collision but people walk away without little to no injury all of the time because they are now designed to transfer as much of that kinetic energy to the car rather than the passenger. Congratulations the cyber truck has literally gone in reverse in terms of car safety
Yup! Cars are designed to self destruct so that the HUMANS survive! I wish people understood that!
yeah back in the 2000s my friend had an old car his grandma gave him that didn't have crumple zones. We got into an accident where a couple cars behind is piled up and rear ended us. both of their cars were totaled. my friend barely had a dent in it. we were on a decline so we were thrown forward and I hit my head on the roof. The car was totally fine but I realized if we'd been in a real major collision I'd probably have had a concussion or damaged my neck.
Was forced to watch a doc on the dangers of old cars, and the non-crumpling is not the worst of the dangers, for example; the nobs, the steering wheel, and if your head went through the windshield it is possible you would be decapitated. I see similar dangers with this new truck. There are so many sharp edges, and things that can seriously hurt you if impact with them. I really do not know how it passed the safety tests enough to be allowed on the road.
I mean it’s definitely delorean inspired so maybe going back in time was always the plan 😂
@@ZectifinYou'd be dead.
There’s one in town here and it’s hideous. It lacks any and all elegance or grace. It’s basically exactly what you would imagine a 50 yr divorced dad with 200 billion dollars and a favorite dinosaur would design…
Everyone should have a favorite dinosaur, they’re cool, they have nothing to do with Emerald Mine Elon
Yo, wtf the dinosaurs catching strays? They at least left us a habitable planet. Will we be able to say the same
Why do you hate dinosaurs
I’ve reconsidered and apologized to the first bird I saw for bringing them into this🙂
Fr
I wonder how hot the stainless steel would get left out under the sun in a parking lot or something
released in winter for a reason perhaps..?
Cook dinner on the drive home from the grocery store! Time-saving and eco-friendly! 😂
Seen one here in Vegas and I k own wonder the same thing come Summer.
it's an oven on wheels, basically
Less hot than black paint. (or any other colour darker than silver)
Simple reason is physics: black does absorb more energy from sunlight. (the darker the colour, the more sunlight gets absorbed and turned into heat)
I did actually see one of these a few days ago when out with my mom! That’s when I learned that she had no clue of their existence and got this beautiful line: “I didn’t know you were allowed to make your own car and drive it…”
Even funnier, one of my neighbors actually made his own electric car years ago, and it does look kind of similar, but is still much better looking than this monstrosity. So even an engineer who made a car in his own workshop made it look better than this.
That’s hilarious! 😂
My mother and I bumped into one one the other day. She didn't know about their existence. She was very unsettled by it. She thought it looked alien. She was shocked.
Downloading other car manuals on the cybertruck to give it body dysmorphia
STOPPP😭😭😭
Lol got em
That's evil.
I feel like people ONLY like how the Cybertruck looks because it makes them different. You cant convince me people actually think it looks good. They likely wouldn't want it if it were a $20,000 car that every person could own.
Yeah it’s 100% an elitism thing. Idk why they think people will be jealous they made a poor financial decision and only got an ugly death trap out of it LOL
I like it as a rough draft. I like the wedge and angular design. I also like how different looks.
That being said, if I had to I’d much rather trade my regular F-150 and get a Ford Lightning
If i had 90k truck money i would def buy the cybertruck because of how different it looks. Its absurd looking but i love it haha
I completely disagree! I think it looks cool as hell, it's just that it shouldn't be a vehicle that exists, it should be a graphic in a video game. Actually making them is dumb and dangerous.
Nope, I actually think it looks pretty cool. The issue isn't really the looks, but all of the other design issues. Crash test crumple zones, over reliance on screens, rust issues, tire issues... those are actually legitimately lethal. A comparison would be to talk about the beetle from about two decades ago. Some people really liked those cars, and I thought they looked kinda silly. They were actually popular for some time too
I have seen an F 150 after a highway accident w a semi - crumpled front end, demolished bed, only thing that survived was half the cab. Looked like a car after the compactor. Driver was casually milling around the scene, he was perfectly fine. Wear your seat belt & if you're spending big on a pickup, go for safety.
Yeah, the guy at 14:06 "showing a more fair comparison" and saying they look the same didn't really look that hard. The cybertruck crumpled yeah, that will happen when anything hits a wall, but the other truck bent and redistributed the momentum to the bed as well. The cybertruck was rigid and left all of it to be applied to the passengers and anything else not directly connected to the stiff frame, like the wheels and axle.
Also you can see the F150's bend allows the passengers to decelerate over a longer distance by going overtop of the front of the truck while the cybertruck's passengers stop almost immediately.
For real... typically the more totaled the car looks after a high-speed collision, the better off the driver probably is. Cars are designed to crumple like that to keep you safe. It's just basic physics.
@@DeathClawz yeah he definitely was only watching how far the front end crumpled. if he'd been watching the passengers at all, it's very obvious that the F-150 dummy only falls forward far enough to get caught by the airbag, but the cybertruck dummy plunges so deeply into the airbag that the curve of its neck fully inverts. that's a full-on spinal injury vs a simple neck strain.
@@northstarjakobsyup. Also mercedes recently tested a crash between two of their electric suvs and while they look like dropped lego sets afterwards, the dummies had no noteworthy injuries
The ONLY way I will not laugh at someone driving a cybertruck is if they commit fully to the bit and dress like they are out of a cyberpunk movie or video game at all times. Otherwise I have labeled them as a huge dork in my head and nothing will change my mind.
Thanks, time to do that then -- I'm kidding, I don't even have a car and don't plan on getting one anywhere in the near future. But that car does fit the type of aesthetics I like. Unfortunately... almost everything else about it does not. Safety and durability are huge concerns, and this isn't meeting those standards as far as I am aware
You know, you're right. If I ever saw a cybertruck, I'd be judging that person right up until they walked out with leather trousers, a neon mohawk and a metal arm. At that point I'd just be like "fair play to you".
Or Daft Punk.
Exactly
You have to drive everywhere blaring the theme tune from Robocop.
Was kinda hoping Hermes might mark the Cybertruck as his own for us
Same
Hermes would prefer not being associated with that Matchbox, probably
It would’ve discolored the car lmao
The cyber truck would definitely have the thoughts of a chihuahua: they think they’re the biggest, baddest dog on the block, when they are actually very far from that
Ever see the one pulling a Star Ship Raptor engine... ??
@@kylereese4822 I’m sorry, WHAT?
I mean.... I've done a bunch of off-road donuts in my mostly stock Forester and haven't broken a wheel yet.... That's the sort of thing you expect to happen after some years of daily wear.... Not a brand new car
Yeah, maybe you can make excuses for that if you haven't marketed the thing as being tough enough to work "on any planet"
@@PartanBree would love this see this thing get absolutely shredded by a dust storm on Mars
Gotta ask, since you have more experience with off roading than me, how does the performance in general of the cyber truck look like to you from that clip? To me it seems 10x more bouncy in the shocks than anything else I’ve seen, but that might just be me. It gave off the vibe of horribly off road handling 😅
Yeah I was gonna say living in the south thats just someone enthusiastically getting out of their driveway.
@@PartanBreeikr? There’s planets with insane gravity
The trucks may not get embarrassed at Trader Joes, but you know every other truck is pointing and laughing at Tractor Supply.
They are probably thinking they are the best truck out there but even the mopeds are laughing at them.
@@apollonarfbrain hell, my bike is laughing at them
Trader Joe's is a German company (Aldi) and we are laughing too^^ That thing is a death trap. How did they pass american road safety tests???
@@SonjaHamburgSeemingly _anything_ can pass American road safety tests. It's why everyone is in a truck or SUV that is so tall you couldn't see a stroller parked in front of it, with lights that are so bright it hurts to look at them even during the day.
@@SonjaHamburg trucks and SUVs aren't held to the same standards as regular cars, for really bad reasons. Not Just Bikes has a video about it, "these stupid trucks are literally killing us" or something like that.
Fun random fact I learned today. Guardrails and other safety devices for the freewaysin CA are not yet tested on cars as heavy as the cybertruck (the highest for cars being a 5000lb truck), so if one is crashed into a guard rail it might not function as it's supposed too.
That's like always something to keep in mind when your car is 'different' from the others on the road (ie hight and weight) because Important road safety functions caltrans uses are all based on the tests they do.
With that logic, why is the Cybertruck the main issue? Do we not have semi trucks that weigh well over the weight of this?
@Dbk416 Good point! Semis are also not usually tested on most safety devices because it's expensive and most areas dont have a high enough truck trafffic or accidents that would warrant those stronger barriers (usually they'll put stuff rated for semis in front of bridge columns if really needed. Cyber trucks aren't the main issue. I was mostly just pointout that cars that deviated from the standard aren't really the ones being tested on safety devices and the cyber truck is pretty nonstandard even compared to other passanger trucks in its shape, weight, and center of gravity.
It is kind of outdated that they don't test heavier passenger cars since EVs in general are significantly heavier than combustion engine cars.
@@Marleys2775 I agree that you made a really good point. It opens up more of a discussion on why our safety systems aren't being reevaluated more frequently as vehicles have been getting both bigger and heavier for some time now. It shouldn't take a massive electric pickup truck. The Hummer EV clocks in at a lot more than the cyber truck. We really need to start pushing this towards the DOT to figure out better safety measures.
Ok, that surprised me, because here in europe guardrails for roads are tested with busses and big trucks usually, because it's what others need to be protected from. (and who needs protection from harm themselves too) Sure there's always a scenario they couldn't test or didn't come up with, so there's never 100% safety, but what logic is it that you don't test for the heaviest vehicles on the road. (And due to them making up the professional traffic and doing the highest mileages on roads they also have a higher probability over all to make contact with them/have an accident)
@@Dbk416In all fairness, you need a special license to operate a semi truck. A cybertruck is a car that the general public can drive on a normal license.
I saw a cyber truck when I was visiting California the other month. I saw it at the most unexpected place you could imagine; an extremely expensive wine tasting in Napa valley.
Who could imagine that I’d see a cyber truck at a rich person event near tech-bro central? I would have thought I’d see a cyber truck at a post-apocalyptic bunker with the way it’s advertised.
Fr tho; I think the rusting-issue was done on purpose. A giant rusty cyberpunk vehicle definitely fits the ‘mad-max’ post apocalyptic aesthetic that Elon advertised it as.
This is just a toy that allows wealthy crypto-farmers to role play as some badass post apocalyptic warlord.
Are there wealthy crypto-farmers? Maybe where electricity is cheap…
Amanda, blue collar workers that actually use their trucks to make a living need cost efficient vehicles. That's why there isn't really any footage of the car being used for "real" work.
Not only are Cybertrucks too expensive to begin with, it also costs too much to maintain the things. It's a luxury toy for people with more money than common sense.
cybertrucks will never be given permits where I live because they don't comply with safety regulations
Good lol
Where do you live, I want to move there lol
Thank god
@@oscarguerrero178somewhere in the EU, probably
Yeah doesn't meet regulations in Australia.
I saw one too! I was completely thrown off bc I thought that it was gonna be like clothes you see on the runway but you never see in real life.
You wont see the chassis bend in the middle like Fords, Nissans ect and totally writing of the truck...
Ford are under investigation for faking recalls for profit aka not changing life threatening airbags that don't deploy or fire shrapnel into your face...
in tears because i've seen one a few blocks from me a couple of times and i didn't know it was a tesla or even a real vehicle, i genuinely thought it was someone like trying to turn an old beater car into a delorean cosplay or something
Cyber truck looks like if you told an alien what a truck was without showing pictures and asked them to make you one 😂
Weirdly that would be a positive selling point to the average person buying one of these
It's like those drawings where somebody reconstructs an animal based only on the skeleton, and it looks horrifying 😂
Electric vehicles aren’t practical for a lot of forms of fieldwork. When you’re going to the middle of nowhere where cell service isn’t always guaranteed, it’s unlikely to find a charging station.
As someone who lives in a rural area I been thinking about this like electric cars aren't the mainstream I'd be scared to drive out of the populated safe zone where I know chargers will be
Yeah look, I'm afraid that's true of **all** cars: if you run out of fuel, they don't go no more. Sure, if your area or use case isn't there yet in terms of infrastructure, don't get one. But it's not a great argument for the sake of discussion.
@@Taurusus While I agree that "the infrastructure isn't there yet" shouldn't be the end of discussion, I honestly expect EVs to never really outstrip internal combustion engines for a lot of types of fieldwork--at least not without a massive breakthrough in technology that allows for massively lighter batteries that handle extreme temperatures much better, with double the range we're currently seeing. Taking a cybertruck (or other electric truck) to the desert to rip around in is one thing, *working* in the desert is entirely another.
That being said a lot of us are already doing fieldwork in unbelievably ill-suited vehicles already. It's really only a question of what the companies with fleets will be buying in 10 years' time.
@@TaurususBut you can put liquid in a container, the other solution here is having multiple batteries, but the weight of a battery compared to gas is not practical.
@@bluester7177 Or this magical thing called a generator that will add some charge to the battery. Those run off that magical liquid you are talking about.
Cybertruckers look like industrial kitchen equipment? It’s supposed to be in the back… but they only look utilitarian, so like??
How is it utilitarian when it isn't fit for the most basic metrics like rust protection?
@@KnarfSteinI can't wait to see one of these things after it's been driven in an area that salts its roads all winter.
@knarfstein
They look industrial the way a commercial kitchen equipment does (to me), not the way industrial vehicles do! At least restaurant ovens and stuff actually are utilitarian, even if they are sort of ugly??
fun fact: the delorean (the car from back to the future) also has a similar problem with water and things like that, so the manual recommends washing off stains with gasoline.
I mean if you can afford a delorean you probably have money to burn... and likely anything within the vicinity.
Yeah it’s kind of a given with an uncoated car so that’s not something I hold against the cybertruck OR delorean, at least the delorean looks cool tho when compared to the cybertruck lol
@@sootekkenalso elon as usual didn’t openly talk about these issues because he’s a liar and will do anything to boost sales
@@sootekkenI have an issue with tesla over the rusting because he specifically claimed it would be LESS vulnerable to that sort of damage, if your product has a weakness and you just say that up front that’s fine but you can’t just lie like that to your customers esp about something SO fucking expensive. Tbf tho anyone buying a cybertruck kinda deserves what they get in return lmao
The first thing I thought of was a Monopoly board piece, but even the Monopoly car design looks better than this rolling refrigerator!
I'm just glad my country's safety requirement standars will seemingly keep those out of here for now.
Can I ask which country?
Good lol
@@VanessaChatsEurope as a whole
@@VanessaChatsThe Netherlands
@@VanessaChats every country outside of north america. That thing is a death trap.
When the first design came out, somebody said it looked like a truck from a futuristic/apocalyptic/dystopian 1980s movie titled "Cybertruck".
Still true.
So in the US deaths in crashes average 1.35 per 100 million miles driven, for crashes with people using Tesla autopilot that number is about 11.3 deaths per 100 million. And the galaxy brain idea of how to stop your drivers dying at a 8x rate isn't to remove the autodrive feature, it's to make a small tank. Such weird behavious.
Wrapping it might make the corrosion worse, Stainless resists rust because of the oxide coating that forms on it's surface, if rust penetrates that it can rust very very quickly, especially if there are salts involved, like the stuff we put on roads in icy conditions. Wrapping it reduces the surface oxygen availability and means scratches may not form a new oxide coating as quickly and in turn makes it more likely that rust will penetrate and it'll rust from the inside out. It'll be difficult to guess whether a wrap will work or not in real world conditions, but it wouldn't surprise me if in a year or 2 we see a couple stories of bodywork falling off wrapped cybertrucks.
Yeah, I'm really curious how well it'll hold up to European winters where you're driving through salty sludge for days every time it snows. My car is over 20 years old and has a bit of visible rust behind the front wheels, but that's it. Dunno how often the previous owner washed it, but I just put it through the car wash once after it was clear we wouldn't get any more snow this year. With the Cybertruck, you'll probably have to hose it down every day.
@@rolfs2165I looked it up and they are not aloud here in Europe at all apparently
Why are you lying? Lmao
Where did you get that stat?
@@AZaqZaqProductionstats on the distance driven with FSD are hard to find but Elon said in the investor call this first quarter that 150,000,000 miles were driven with Full Self Driving, fatalities are public record, estimated to be 736 crashes and 17 deaths with people using FSD. Easy maths gives you 11.3 deaths per 100M miles driven using FSD.
The average rate is public info again it states the rate for 2022 as 1.35 per 100M miles although I can't find the miles driven number for to put here so will have to use the 2021 figure. 42,795 deaths with 3,230,000,000,000 miles driven giving a rate of 1.37 deaths per 100M driven. 2021 is the highest rate for a decade and is still 8 times as much.
Thanks for forcing me to go back to the numbers, I was wrong in my post when I said the rate for Tesla FSD was above 12 it was above 11, I'll edit my original post in correction. But the substance stands.
Sources are Elon, OECD data, you can look up specifics yourself. Long story short, Elon is lying when he says it's safer than human drivers, he's a con man he lies all the time, that shouldn't be surprising.
You should check out Simone giertz’s truckla, she turned a Tesla into a truck and took it to the cyber truck unveiling even though they told her not too lol
They should have taken notes from Truckla instead of just going full cartoon supervillain with the Cybertruck. Simone actually made something practical
I don't think iot's because it's silver that makes it seem goofy. It's because it's bare steel. It isn't a uniform colour as it's various levels of oxidization and "clean" if you will, plus with it being angular, it accentuates any mild imperfection in shape.
Again this is something any ACTUAL designer would avoid like the plague before you even got to prototyping.
It also looks like when you teleport in a game and things are still loading, feels like you're seeing a low poly version of a car.
@@bluester7177 I hope someone makes one purple and black, like when you have unloaded textures in a source game. That would be amusing.
@@bluester7177 Absolutely, which is ironically what Elon Musk's brain looks like.
I think to expand on that, it’s bare steel with NO defining features. The delorean is also that bare looking metal but it has a character and charm that this truck could never have because of how vague it looks. It’s bland and basic, giving it any kind of defining feature seemed to not even be an afterthought.
@@sootekken And to be fair, theDelorean, while being a dodgy company, did have ACTUAL graded stainless steel. This doesn't. It's not exactly stainless technically. It's really cheap stuff that only barely makes it technically stainless. Hence why it rusts and degrades easily.
I FKN KNEW THEY WERE LYING ABOUT THE RANGE. I knew it. I’ve owned an electric vehicle. With the size of the truck I absolutely knew they were lying out of their a*s about the range…. I feel vindicated lol. Thanks swell!
with musk's track record for lying and over promising i am not surprised at all. i expected this thing to be a dumpster fire.
The cyber truck looks like it is going to fall apart just going over a speed bump.
Literally the thing looked 2 seconds away from one bounce too high turning into the body flying right off the chassis of the car LMAO 😭😭
Google F150 truck chassis bending and writing of the truck... Cybertruck wont do that.
As a GenZ car exterior engineer for not Tesla, the highlight of my career so far has been getting to watch 15 senior engineers roast a cybertruck in person
I wish I were there
@@siliconvalleymetal if you weren‘t a clown you‘d know Tesla is valued like a tech company instead of like a car company. They are completely overvalued
2 million pre-orders of the Cybertruck. Maybe your engineers should stop tearing down other ppl's work and get to work themselves, so Tesla would stop eating their lunch lol
@@anonymousfu 2 million mentally challenged people
@@MaticTheProto some of those made almost $200k flipping it, so they doin fine
4:25 longtime game lover here, can confirm it looks like placeholder geometry that a developer might use while still building a game.
When developing a 3D experience, theres a few parts to every object in the game. First is its base polygons, the rough approximation of the object onto which all other parts will be fitted. Next is the collision properties, i.e what happens when the object is touched by another object. Defining collision creates a Hit Box, where everything inside the box triggers collision, and everything outside that box does not. FINALLY, after it MECHANICALLY works, the dev finishes the object with a Skin / Texture, which is a 2D image that wraps around the polygons to create the Finished Asset.
Cars in the polygon phase look almost exactly like the cybertruck, it's uncanny.
Love love *_LOVED_* the Musk-Holmes equivalence (in the metaphor) in that Theranos joke you told. Been drawing that comparison for a while now and it's great to see other people starting to agree! Can't wait for that Tesla bubble to burst 😝
i don‘t love living in the countryside but in the sense that i‘ll never have to encounter these in the wild it‘s great. also not weather resistant you say? amazing then they‘ll never get into my home country in the first place except for by particularly unhinged multi millionaires so that‘s going to be great as a warning sign for particularly unhinged rich people
I was driving home one night through downtown where I live and I saw one. What got me was seeing the weird headlights (or headlight?) from a few hundred feet away. When it got closer, I lost my mind because I never thought I'd seen one of these goofy cars in public 😵💫
I live in ARKANSAS btw. Never thought I'd see on here 😂
"this car doesn't look like something someone who likes cars would design" you're so right. Cybertruck probably haunts Adrian Newey
It looks like a kid tried to draw a car
That’s exactly what happened. Elons kid drew it, and he made it. (Not satire)
Doing relatively wide donuts on dirt is not exactly wild behavior. That seems like the least rough thing you can do off-road. My 03 minivan can handle that lol! Driving on top of 8 inch ruts is insane, donuts are just a waste of gas...
I wonder how much weight the truck is throwing about with all the heavy batteries.
The hauling issue could be a few things. As someone who has hauled up to 12k before the truck doesn't look safe to haul with. Something to remember is the truck has to be able to balance all that rolling momentum behind it, and stop it safely. It's not just about pure pulling. The other issue is one the other electric trucks are running into. Hauling any kind of load absolutely destroys your range. So if the truck gets 250 with normal driving expect to get half that with a load. The cybertruck is just not practical as a pure work truck.
I saw a cybertruck in the flesh for the first time the other day and it sent chills down my spine. It is literally so menacingly ugly like it just appeared out of a wormhole from another universe where everything is gray and geometric
This truck should've been marked for Scifi nerds as a gimmick not for blue collar men
It is a lot like a truck from a video game in 1988.
I just saw one irl yesterday and the first thing that struck me was that it's a lot more obnoxiously big than I was expecting. The 2nd thing that struck me were all the smudges everywhere. It looks like the kind of thing that will give you hard buyer's remorse after a few days.
I saw one in the wild at a Starbucks near my work last week! Did a double take as I headed back to my car, honestly was underwhelmed, it’s much smaller than I would think a truck should be (coming from a Texan 🤠)
It looks like a Toyota from an 80's action movie that just has a flimsy body kit thrown over top so it looks ✨futuristic✨
Must be bad if others are copying the building process.. oh and Tesla gave the 48 volt battery system design(uses less copper) -- (replacing the 12 volt system that uses more copper) away for free.....
Their visibility from the driver's seat is awful as well. Its an accident waiting to happen.
An accident where they’ll absolutely murk the other driver too since it doesn’t have any give like cars are supposed to seeing as the laws of physics say your car needs to crumple at least SOME
I see them all the time on my commute to school! The one i saw today was being towed and had horrible water spots all over.
I live in Reno and there’s a whole parking lot of these things that the nearby Tesla store has dropped off in a parking lot near my job. These things are SOOOOO goofy looking.
As I type this on March 1st, we’re staring down a huge snowstorm tomorrow. Can’t wait to see how badly rusted these things are on Monday 😂
the cybertruck should have stayed as an idea. I don't want to walk around seeing that thing.
When it comes to "stainless" steel frames, first it was the Delorian and now it's the Cybertruck. But the Delorian is way cooler, even before Back to the Future made it even cooler.
The delorean did it right, it had a style and coolness factor that the cybertruck couldn’t replicate because having style seemed to not be a priority at all, which completely baffles me
@@sootekken Agreed, 100%.
I saw a cyber truck while driving with my dad to my gparents one day and the way the guy driving it stared back at me told me everything I needed to know about the type of people who drive those things.
I saw one for the first time the other day and seeing them in person hits different. No photograph or video can truly do justice to how goofy these things actually look
I imagine water gets trapped under those custom wraps and corrosion would increase in speed and you wouldn’t even notice bc of the wrap
"Its like I saw a Thernos Edison machine in person" the loud scream / laugh I let out.
I feel like this is going to age like those minivans from 10 years ago that used to be made with built in TVs with DVD players for the kids in the backseat. Barely 2 years later and DVDs became obsolete. I feel like so many of these stupid bells and whistles like the tablet screen and wireless phone chargers are going to become just as quickly outdated and irrelevant
I'm glad I didn't get those in my car. My son would have yaked his guts out from motion sickness.
Tesla Model S prototype revealed in 2008/9 on sale 2012...
DVDs aren't obsolete though. They should be, because Blu-Rays and UHD Blu-Rays are a thing, but DVD is still hanging on.
I was lucky to see one of these bad boys in person and I lost my mind,,the feral excitement I had over seeing it. I saw it go past me in a downtown area and when we got on the interstate it appeared again and I was able to gaze upon its low-poly unrendered video-game graphic beauty again. And farther down we passed by a car dealership aND YOU KNOW WHAT WAS IN THE LOT!?!? ANOTHER FREAKING CYBER TRUCK BABY. Seeing those felt like running into a shiny Pokémon or winning the lottery it was low-key the highlight of my day.
I live in the bay area and have seen a few cybertrucks on the highway in the past month. They look so hilarious in person. Like they're in a futuristic movie made in the 80s.....
People who actually need a work truck for work truck reasons and want an EV are probably just buying the Electric Ford Ranger and calling it a day.
I can’t imagine anyone who needs a work truck owning a purely EV one. I used my old Suburban to haul furniture wood occasionally and sometimes woodworking equipment and… I needed the weight capacity and the range and I don’t think that even for that level of use an EV version would have been practical. For a real work truck, hell no.
That’s offensive to futuristic 80’s movies 😅
Thank god this will never get approved to drive on roads here in Germany in this form
YEA HATERS/TERRORIS ARE CURRENTLY SETTING FIRE TO TESLA`S IN GERMANY....
OVER A DISPUTE OF WATER USEAGE BY TESAL...
TOTALY IGNORING THE COAL PLANT IN GERMANY PUTTING SULPHURIC ACID IN THE COUNTRIES DRINKING WATER....
AND USING 10 TIME MORE WATER THAN TESLA...
Anything Elon does is kinda.....goofy...
He even tells goofy lies.
I saw a Cybertruck in person a few days ago and I had the EXACT same thought of "oh my god, this thing is even more ridiculous in person"
I used to draw a lot as a kid and I'm glad I am wise enough to not obsessively use my childhood doodles as blueprints
And the other option is a design that 70 years old so not a new truck.... but an old obsoleted design.
I’m a flight attendant and my whole crew, 4 flight attendants and 2 pilots, were in a van going from the LAS airport to the hotel and a cyber truck passed us near the strip. We all saw it at the same time and audibly gasped and squealed. It was even weirder in person, it’s hilariously ugly.
My favorite thing about the cybertruck is how it looks like something I would make in my 3D graphics class when I was bored for like 5 minutes
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Good job Hermes! I think extra treats are deserved for being such a good helper. The cybertruck looks so silly!
"Does it feel like a bad bitch, or does it feel like the ugly duckling?" XD
“I dont see a difference in the crumple zone” My guy you literally pointed out the rear tire game ending itself when the fords tires where completely fine
Throttle House did a good review on the Cybertruck. But I don't even have stainless steel appliances because I don't want to clean the fingerprints off them, I can't imagine the pain of constantly cleaning fingerprints off my car. Also there's no way that it gets 300 mile range while towing 11,000 pounds, I want to see how far it goes while towing a maximum load. I'm waiting for my first sighting in the wild!
my big concern is if it's bullet proof, so really strong, will it be able to crumple like other cars in crashes? crumpling is a massively necessary safety feature and significantly reduces the risk of fatality if you crash, so if it's too solid to crumple it could be really bad
You know when sometimes a toy company makes a plushie based on a crayon drawing of a 4 yr old? That's what it looks like.
As multiple people have noticed, the vehicle is ridiculously delicate for people who are doomsday preppers and ridiculously expensive for regular folks who like trucks.
This thing is just a novelty item for really rich tech nerds. That isn't exactly a large market.
It's like all our Elementary/Primary school car drawings for those who didn't really know to draw yet.
I live in the SF Bay Area and seeing them around makes me smile every time. Goofy is the perfect word.
“Dumb future”is a thought I have multiple times a day
The cyber truck rusting just reminds me of the old American Airlines "Bare Eagle" all metal livery where they had to clear coat it to keep it shiny.
Saw one hopping on to the freeway behind me. It looked dorky with the large body and comparatively small wheels/tires.
I think it was JerryRigEverything that did a thing on using it to haul a loaded trailer. Long short of it is that the range is heavily reduced and charging locations is not outfitted to take in a cybertruck+trailer.
I feel like the cyber truck has been such a journey. When it first was talked about I don’t think any other electric trucks even existed for sale in the states. I remember watching TH-camr Simone Guerra make her “Truckla” where she converted a Tesla into a truck and that was the first electric functional “truck” I ever saw (not that I saw it in person, but still). Now it’s been YEARS of waiting for cybertrucks and other companies, Ford, Rivian and likely others, have released electric trucks and it doesn’t seem so insane anymore. I personally love the cybertruck look but could never afford one or have any use for one and am all about my car lasting in multiple environments and being able to handle all weather conditions, so its sad to hear the paintless exterior is basically useless. Maybe paintless cars like this only appeal to us weird patina car people but I thought it was neat.
It’s just so crazy that when we first heard about the concept of these, Elon Musk didn’t own twitter and was pretty tolerated online and now so much has changed and so many people are just over it and angry at him (totally justifiable). I feel like he’s made so many decisions for Tesla that many people prob don’t want Tesla innovations just cause it still feels tied to him.
I saw a cyber truck for the first time yesterday on one of them trucks that carries cars and my friend and I were DYING it was so goofy lookin
A friend and I saw a cybertruck drive past our school the other day and just burst out laughing. They’re so goofy!
Imagining one of these things pulling like a cattle trailer is so bizarre to me.
Is it a dumpster, a Bar B Q on wheels, a metal dog house, a bucket latrine, a rusty junkyard trashbox from space? No! It's a Cyber Truck! 🪣 💩😂🤣!!
A real wrap made by a real wrapping place might help a bit. But you really should paint or put laquer on exposed steel. Even we need to do that, and we are a touring theatre where the steel only has to last indoors with some transport for half a year. I hope their cars are supposed to last longer than that.
So I'm learning to operate trains right now and the other day I had one of these goofy looking scrap heaps driving on the road right next to my train. It was so stupid.
I never thought they’d actually make it…someone should test the windows on it
A lot of manufactures started adding those clauses to new specialized cars because people have been buying flipping them. Most people found a loophole where they can draw up a 12 month lease agreement to where they buy the truck for a $1 a the end. I think that is why they removed the clause.
I literally JUST saw one in person just parked in one of my neighbor's drive way. It's gone now but what a coincidence with this video.
Still remember when a few months ago me, my family and some friends were headed to the snow when we saw this car hauler with just Cyber trucks, horrible sight and so so goofy. Then the next time I went there was a cyber truck just parked in the snow, totally unreal feeling, I had to try so hard to conceal my laughter
"Doc... you made a time machine... out of a Cybertruck?!"
i've seen a cybertruck in real life and my immediate gut reaction was to burst out laughing and yell out "its so ugly!"
Zach from JerryRigEverything has been putting his cybertruck through it with towing heavy shit in the snow and comparing it to his Rivian and the new all-electric Ford F150.
The Hummer ev he towed was more than legally allowed.
The cybertruck design team was channeling William Towns when they penned it.
It is actually retro styled, it was the dominant European automotive design language when he was a kid in the 70s. American cars were all about the baroque, the land yachts swathed in chrome.
I live in Austin so I’ve seen a few roaming around, they are so ridiculous literally laugh every time i see them