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From the article: "Tesla began delivering the Blade Runner-inspired truck in November 2023"
Me: Fuck you. That is an insult to Syd Mead's legacy.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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I mean (assuming thats the author idk) he was imagining a dystopian world, so this is a compliment in my book.
Syd Mead was a concept artist. Blade Runner was based on a short story by Philip K Dick called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
I guess it vaguely looks like this one in terms of the large flat plane in the front. Though it's blade runner, so it's all grungy like pieces are falling off and it's all rusted and junk. Wait maybe cyber truck was inspired by bladeunner.
Doesn't look much like a lot of other cars in the movie though.
I finally saw one in real life. On the highway. It's shocking how aggressively dumb they look in person. Photos don't do it justice. It seriously looks like a giant unrendered N64... thing.
I live in the bay area. I see and laugh at them daily
I don’t commute to work daily but see them once in a while. I’d be lying if I didn’t say they scare me as the driver of a compact car. I’m just hoping whomever gets sliced by colliding (or being collided by) those monstrous things goes quickly. I can’t imagine what the scene will look like if we have a pedestrian near by while their stupid accelerator gets stuck again.
They literally can't sell them in Europe because of the angles are too dangerous for pedestrians. It's only legal in the good old US of A because we didn't bother having safety regulations for pedestrians. The edge is literally a knife that will slice a person on impact. Absolutely moronic vehicle.
I was walking to the grocery store when I saw a neighbour polishing his in front of his house. I said "Wow, a Cybertruck," and he replied, "Cool, isn't it?"
I said, "No, it's a $120,000 go-kart made of scrap metal that will rust in a month."
Edit: sounds fake but I do have a picture of the car in question, but I took it on a different day—
That neighbor? Albert Einstein.
"The neighbors for miles around stepped out at the sound of his boisterous ejaculation mocking the ugly car, applause was heard throughout the evening."
Why would I make up the number 1 most common interaction between a Cybertruck owner and a normal person?
But here's a picture I took of his car while he was attending church (across the street from the grocery store):
And yes, you can tell it is new because it doesn't have a number plate yet.
The picture was taken on 30 March, the interaction happened a few days earlier
No one's questioning that you saw a Cybertruck, just that you actually said those things to the owner.
This is the type of bs that should be in a Shower Thoughts comm.
But if a cypto-bro is making up making fun of a Tesla car, at least that's progress.
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Just saw a Wankpanzer for the first time last Friday and I agree. It is ugly and anyone who fell for this scam deserves every ounce of derision they receive.
Non-functioning wipers could increase the risk of a crash in wet weather
I would bet money musk tried to argue wipers were unrelated to safety
So wait, they've gone from getting wet and having the bumpers fall off to getting wet and then instantly crashing?
I'm not sure that's an actual improvement.
Again?
It’s almost like they’re a bad car.
You have been banned from Xitter
Almost like using a single giant wiper is a bad idea
Bbbbbbbut it looks cool!
"Failures of the wiper motor shouldn't come as a surprise," said Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst at Guidehouse Insights.
"This is the largest individual wiper ever used on a light duty vehicle with a 4-foot-long (1.22 meter) blade. That exceptional long lever arm puts a lot of stress on the motor and there have been a lot of anecdotal reports popping up since early in production of failures," he said, adding that the overall build quality of the Cybertruck is "quite poor."
I seem to recall that Mercedes did it without incident.
They probably spend more money on engineering and use better parts.
Pretty sure Koenigsegg does too.
It didn't look like a big long weird floppy noodle though.
I don’t think the Mercedes ones are 1.22m long.
One of the side effects from this is that this confirmed they've only shipped about 10,000 Cybertrucks.
This strikes me as a way to bring in the thing to the dealership to address other more important issues like the accelerator while playing it down as “only a wipers issue”. They must be scared by oncoming lawsuits that they decided this was the best course of action.
How many recalls do they have to do before all profit from cybertruck sales has evaporated?
If you include R&D, then I would guess negative 4500 or so.
The funniest thing about the Cybertruck is the windshield wiper. Not only does it ruin the science fiction ascetic by breaking up the flat surfaces, it breaks up the primary surface with a dumb squeegee arm. It's also a little reminder that not only were the first wipers invented in 1903, but that they were fitted to electric vehicles.
I think they used one huge wiper in an attempt to make it look innovative by just by virtue of being unusual.
the sound of that recall means more carbon and jobs, bobby :)