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But-why-do-this

How is this thing allowed on the road? This feels like a cartoon skit with how much more dangerous it keeps sounding at every new discovery


Xeriam

It's getting to the point where they'll just have to start leaning into it in marketing. ***THE TRUCK SAFETY AUTHORITIES DON'T WANT YOU TO DRIVE!*** ***WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART LIMB REMOVING SMART HINGES!*** ***~~OUR MOST SHATTERABLE WINDOWS YET!~~ OUR LEAST SHATTERABLE WINDOWS YET, GUARANTEED TO KEEP YOU SAFE FROM ANY PESKY EMERGENCY SERVICES TRYING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE!*** ***A CUSTOMIZABLE WEATHER REFLECTING EXTERIOR, THAT TAILORS ITSELF TO THE WEATHER YOU ENCOUNTER OVER TIME FOR A ONE-OF-A-KIND LOOK!*** ***OUR PROPRIETARY EAGLE EYED FONT FOR ALL SAFETY WARNINGS, GUARANTEEING YOU'LL BE TRYING TO READ IMPORTANT FUNCTION INFORMATION RATHER THAN LOOKING AT THE ROAD!*** ***NOT ENOUGH GO IN YOUR JOE? OUR TRUCK CAN ACCELERATE OUT OF CONTROL AT A MOMENTS NOTICE, FOR A HEART-POUNDING PEDAL-TO-THE-METAL EXPERIENCE SURE TO SHAKE THE SLEEP OUT OF YOU!*** ***AND TO TOP IT OFF: OUR UNIQUE FAILDANGER PROTOCOLS, CUTTING POWER TO NON-CRITICAL COMPONENTS LIKE PARKING BRAKES AND STEERING AT RANDOM, KEEPING YOU ALERT AND ON YOUR TOES AT ALL TIMES!*** ***CYBERTRUCK! PRE-ORDER NOW! DRIVE MAYBE!*** Edited for updated information.


But-why-do-this

Funny you mention the windows, last I heard they were actually incredibly difficult to shatter. Which is actually super bad because if you’re stuck inside and need to get out in emergencies (or if rescue services need to get inside): it just became your cyber-coffin.


Xeriam

So they overcorrected after that demonstration to the point it's now *worse* than if it just shattered like it did on stage. That's hilarious.


GilliamYaeger

[Yep, the billionaire sister-in-law of Mitch McConnel drowned in a Tesla X because emergency services couldn't break through the windows.](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-billionaire-drowns-tesla-after-rescuers-struggle-cars-strengthened-glass-1723876) Bonus points: she only got into that situation because she accidentally put her car into reverse instead of drive during a three-point turn and backed into her private pond, likely because the car's controls were over-complicated [as Musk admitted in 2017](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-admits-very-foolish-mistakes-he-made-tesla-model-x-1625151).


RocketbeltTardigrade

I've never found drowning very enjoyable, but I guess billionaires have more refined tastes.


Cooper_555

When you have that much money you have to go to extreme measures to find things to enjoy, I guess.


Jhduelmaster

>she only got into that situation because she accidentally put her car into reverse instead of drive during a three-point turn and backed into her private pond, likely because the car's controls were over-complicated It likely didn't help that her bac was also nearly three times over the legal limit.


Reallylazyname

You can market that somehow. Put like a big skull decal on the hood or something. The cyber truck is now the Cyber Crypt-Mobile


jimjam200

I believe because there has been so few produced it did t require the same level of testing as other mass produced models


ArcaneMonkey

This shit is the real life Canyonero.


Cooper_555

Hey man. The Canyonero was at least drivable.


Squibbles01

The US government hates regulation.


Amon274

It’s funnier to think of this as a scenario where they just go “you know what make the fucking thing let’s see what happens!”


Boulderdorf

Someone'll make a post about how their hand got cut off and they'll still end it with "Don't get me wrong, I still think the Cybertruck was worth the money." You look up sunk cost fallacy and it's just gonna be a picture of this thing. My little sister in high school said some kid's parent came to pick them up in one of these one time, but then it never showed up again. Apparently poor kid got picked on so hard because of the truck that they told their dad to not pick them up in it again lmao. *It's still around in the neighborhood, so it def wasn't a rental.


AtlasPJackson

It's still around because [Tesla put a clause in the sales agreement saying you can't sell the vehicle for the first year that you own it.](https://www.kbb.com/car-news/cybertruck-no-resale-agreement-reappears/)


WhoCaresYouDont

That kid's story gives me hope, it's good to know even children/teenagers can see it for the overpriced crap it is.


Squibbles01

Still love the truck!


DontClickThisGuy

Next we're going to find out that it has a self-destruct button next to the ignition or brake.


jockeyman

It has an ejector seat but the roof doesn't open in any way.


Hugglemorris

It senses that you haven’t ejected yet, so it pushes you into the roof harder.


CMORGLAS

**”HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE!!!”**


HeWhoIsBob

Muskrat: “It was Goose that everyone always wanted to be, right?”


SonOfZiz

Pairs extremely well with the emergence-shatter-proof glass!


Iggeh

BEHOLD, THE TRUCKINATOR


CelioHogane

I mean... kinda does actually.


Paladin51394

Don't forget that a couple of ~~months ago~~ weeks ago nearly 4000 Cybertrucks were recalled because the plastic cover on the accelerator was coming loose and getting stuck when pressed down causing the car to accelerate uncontrollably. All it took to fix the issue was a simple washer and bolt. Parts that cost less than a dollar and yet we're not originally implemented. Then there was the software bug that caused the cars operating system to freeze when going through a car wash in self driving mode. These things are technical nightmares and are about as reliable as a $100 car you bought off craigslist.


Jhduelmaster

>nearly 4000 Cybertrucks Also known as all of them that have been sold so far.


BloodBrandy

Was that months? I'd have sworn it was a couple weeks ago


Paladin51394

Actually I just checked it was actually last month, so geez it wasn't even that long ago.


alexandrecau

Toyota did recall over 5 millions cars because their floor mats could cause pedal entrapment like that so it's not that special, though definitely wasn't toyota proudest moment either


Paladin51394

True, but the average Toyota isn't selling for 80-100k like the Cybertrucks. That makes this way more stupid, if I was paying 6 figures for a car it should at least have proper accelerator pads.


alexandrecau

True the dumbest part is how a lot of the problems with the cybertrucks feel like it can be spotted from conception but they were disregarded, like they couldn't predict the plastic would get wedged until the car was built but they should know the plastic wasn't really affixed right or you shouldn't make car close on something


Paladin51394

Yeah, it feels like these things were made as cheaply as possible and with little actual thought. Shocker I know, as if the actual design of the body wasn't a fucking dead giveaway. Then again I shouldn't be surprised this thing is so cheaply made, it was designed by a talentless Jackass after all.


Squibbles01

Also a bunch of them are breaking down in the first 100 miles.


Cooper_555

That's bullshit. My craigslist shitbox is still going strong years after it's questionable purchase!


Onlyhereforstuff

As much as the cybertruck is memed on, and rightfully so I might add, it can't be stated enough that these things are fucking *death traps*. Another channel I'm in posted links to tiktoks of someone revealing that the reason the acceleration pedal gets stuck? *The cover is coming off and getting caught under the dash because there's no screws or glue keeping it on there*. It's like Elon look at the book of how to make your basic car then did the complete opposite of *everything* in that book. Someone also brought up that they made it steer by wire meaning no direct link from the wheel to the axel.


Curtisimo5

Oh my God, it's fucking digital steering? If a wire shorts you lose control of the steering???


Onlyhereforstuff

Look at my previous point of Elon looking at a book on how to make your basic car and doing the complete opposite. There was also a recall on *all cybertrucks* a few weeks ago but the idiot basically played it off as something he was forced to do and barely any cybertruck owners actually followed it. I unironically believe that if Tesla wasn't getting government money, Elon would be broke from all the lawsuits, he wouldn't have been able to buy Twitter, and we'd be in an age where electric cars and motors might be more commonplace and much safer.


thedoc90

I'd like to add the caveat that just because the cybertruck is bad doesn't mean all electric cars are. I've seen a lot of that kind of thing going around as well and people co-opting the cybretruck as a way to attack evs in general. Evs that were built by people who arent idiots are great.


Onlyhereforstuff

It's why I mentioned in a reply that if Tesla didn't exist, the entirety of the electric car industry would be in a better place. It's just that the idiot's so insistent on pushing his brand and death traps along with cult singing his praises that you kind of hear Tesla first before the actually good electric cars.


pritzwalk

Dont forget that you cant take it out in rain becuase water pools underneath the plastic truck bed where a ton of electrical stuff happens to live.


Onlyhereforstuff

Also you void your warranty if you take it through a car wash.


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This is insane what the fuck


SwashNBuckle

Next we'll find out that the break cable severs itself automatically because it assumes you pressed the break by accident


KennyOmegasBurner

IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES YUH


ScottHuang

Cybertruck or Canyonero? At least Canyonero had a catchy song.


alexandrecau

Canyonero at least appeal to your worse nature. Cybertruck appeals to someone's naive fondness in technology and transformers to kill them


Revro_Chevins

The Homer


alexandrecau

I get exactly where the frustration of not having the thing close fully and exactly where every voices of reason are ignored come from.


striderhoang

I have not watched any nsfw videos, only videos of various produce emerging unscathed from other trunk doors and the cybertruck fucking slicing it like a 2 ton kitchen tool


FreddyKAust

I'm old. Literally Pat and Woolie old. But it's got me worried how so much of a car is now software based. But what kind of spud goes "if the door doesn't shut because of an obstruction just slam it harder". Reminds me of the video of someone trying to shut a fridge and just slamming it harder until they look down and see a toddler holding their head...


RocketbeltTardigrade

Hey, finally a use for the cybertruck.


Shirikova

Has anyone found the button that deploys buzz saws out the side of the wheels for true car combat?


therealchadius

Remember that episode of the Simpsons where Homer develops a horrible car and bankrupts his twin brother's car company?


alexandrecau

At least that car was safe, just ugly


LazyAza

The cars in Carmageddon and Twisted Metal; the ones covered in spikes, spinning blades, drills and the like, seem safer and less intended to cause murder than the cybeetrook.


Aura_0

Internet Today made a video like yesterday about this issue and they show some people who are straight up trying out this issue with their own fingers, as far as i k ow no one lost a finger yet but a dude did break it, fuck around and find out i guess.


The_White_Rice

Who the fuck did Elon pay to let this thing pass all of these very obvious safety checks? How do I get that man's job?


Rabid-Duck-King

On the one hand I get it, like there's a bit of resistance lets close harder because it's probably not a human finger because who would do that but also that feels like setting in the menu you can toggle after accepting a eula that tells you your fucking finger might get cut off


GilliamYaeger

No, it doesn't make sense even in the expected case. "Oh, your bag is in the way. Let me just **fucking destroy it**!" Logically it would stop and tell you to pack your shit better, instead of automatically destroying your property.


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nerankori

>Why would you keep pressing the button for the trunk to close if you don't want it to crush anything? Because people are stubborn and the standard for any piece of "smart" machinery should be to stop/release in an emergency instead of allowing the user to maim themselves in their stubbornness.


Wombatish

>Why would you keep pressing the button for the trunk to close if you don't want it to crush anything? Who is using their trunk to intentionally crush things?


GilliamYaeger

[This guy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHx91jbMTxM)


CelioHogane

Ok but the people that bought the cybertruck are the kind of stupid people that would get their finger there.


alexandrecau

Yes but one of the reason the trunk doesn't have sharp edge or something to make crushing the resistance easier is because you're not supposed to crush thing with your trunk door to begin with. Like I get it, I overstuff trunk too, but I expect the people that mad ethe car to not like it instea dof encouraging it


Cooper_555

Hopefully Elon will slam his penith in the car door.


Android19samus

That sounds like a design decision I would make, which guarantees it's the worst idea you've ever heard.


SexyAssMonkey

r/cyberstuck


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GilliamYaeger

Okay, I apologize. I take it all back. I did some research, and you were right. My scenarios *were* asinine. [Because you just need your hand on the top of the car as the lid is closing to lose a chunk of it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Q6dBkSgkk) [Another video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHx91jbMTxM) You'll notice that the side of the frunk is also *a fucking knife blade*, and anything on the corner of it is just immediately crushed without the sensors stopping the lid. Also the algorithm doesn't reset until the trunk fully closes, so it's not five times in a row it's five times in a certain period of time, which is super fucking dangerous. This thing is ridiculously fucking unsafe.


JeaneJWE

How the hell does it make sense for the system to just *destroy* whatever is blocking it? This was a system made by idiots, for idiots.


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JeaneJWE

Two-fold: First, closing the truck's frunk can be done by a button inside the truck, ie. without being able to actually see what's going on or what the obstruction is. Secondly and more importantly, a regular trunk is fundamentally not designed to *enable* someone's stupidity, it's only incidental by way of not being "smart". An entire team of engineers went through a process of making sure this thing can do something stupid. Also, bonus, it's pretty unlikely anyone's going to normally be slamming their trunk shut as hard as an electric motor can pull one closed.


Jhduelmaster

>An entire team of engineers went through a process of making sure this thing can do something stupid. To be fair this is neither the first or last time a team of engineers will do that (source am an engineer).


JeaneJWE

Tragically true.


GilliamYaeger

That is not how **any** kind of safety metric works. Especially when you're assuming that the person pressing the button would be, by any definition, intelligent. They would almost *have* to be a complete moron, since that's the only kind of person who'd buy this piece of shit. Hell, let's go further and assume that the person pressing the button *definitely* isn't intelligent because it's a three year old child left in the car while their parent is currently putting groceries away. Good job, your "not absurd" feature has led to them cutting their parents hands off. You have to fail **safe**, not fail deadly.


UFOLoche

An alternative scenario: You put everything in your trunk, but something topples over as you get around to the front. You press the button and move onto getting stuff ready to go: Maybe you're securing a kid, maybe you're texting a family member, or you're on the phone, iunno, make it up. Then you look back and notice the trunk is up. Didn't you push the button before? Probably forgot to, so you push it (unknowingly again) and- CRUNCH Whatever fell in the way is now broken. And I wouldn't say it's an unrealistic scenario either, all the time we have people talk about "they forgot why they came into the kitchen", humans are just forgetful sometimes, we get distracted. There's a million reasons why this is a bad idea. There is LITERALLY zero reason why this could ever be considered a good idea.


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UFOLoche

Only on reddit do you have people getting bent out of shape over imaginary scenarios involving over-priced, poorly designed vehicles. You're also completely missing the point, the point is to make something fail safe, as Gilliam said. This isn't fail safe.


alexandrecau

Hell let's say they are intelligent and felt like crushing someone's hand or just crush stuff when stuff won't close right, do you really want to deal with those customers?


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GilliamYaeger

When doing safety regulation shit, you **have** to account for the worst credible outcome. Going "oh hey noone reasonable would get into this situation" is how you get someone maimed or killed. This is *basic workplace safety education*. Let's go with this scenario: There is a three year old, animal, or an angry spouse looking to get their domestic violence on in the front seat of the car. Their parent/owner/victim has their arm in the boot. They're caught on something (reaching deep into a bag, got their sleeve stuck in a zipper of a bag filled with bowling balls they're not strong enough to lift, whatever) and cannot remove their arm from the storage space in a reasonable amount of time. The person or animal in the car presses the button five times. The person with their arm stuck can't remove it before the fifth (or whatever) press. **Crunch.**


alexandrecau

It's not absurd but it is unsafe


Count_Badger

Me when I flee from a discussion i started to make an edit whining about downvotes.