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Tesla Cybertruck
Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck. Apparently, many people think it's ugly. I absolutely love it. It took the jellybean esthetic of modern vehicles and ran it over. Twice. There's simply no point in saying anything about this truck -- you have to look at the pictures:
In order to make this TFS less short, a few specs, but really, they don't matter until you see if it appeals to you which it either will or won't in spades. The low end 250 mile range version is supposed to be about $40k. The body is unpainted cold rolled stainless steel. Upmodels will have a towing capacity variously described as 10-14k pounds and at the top end, a 500 mile range. They'll cost a lot more.
"Bulletproof" Musk Cybertruck fail
Elon Musk bragged that his "cybertruck" was bulletproof to a 9mm round, but two separate attempts to demonstrate just how tough it is failed when ball bearings thrown by hand literally caused the windows to come crashing down in pieces. So much for safety glass; even on cyber trucks, windows sucks.
We created an exoskeleton," Musk said to rapturous whoops from those attending the Los Angeles launch. "It is literally bulletproof to a 9mm handgun."
Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla's chief designer, asked Musk if he could lob a metal ball at the window of the vehicle. "Really?" said Musk. The window smashed. "Oh my fucking God," said Musk. "Maybe that was a little hard."
Showing confidence in the vehicle, Von Holzhausen then suggested he should lob it at a second window. "Try that one? Really?" asked Musk moments before the rear window was also smashed. "It didn't go through, that's the plus side," a stunned Musk said.
Also at Ars Technica and Wccftech.
See also: Hot takes as opinion cools on Tesla Cybertruck
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Sulla on Friday November 22 2019, @09:38PM (2 children)
I find boxy and angular things better looking than bulbous cancer vehicles of the past 20 years, so I found this vehicle to be nice.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @02:31AM (1 child)
It would be nice, if it had a full size bed and flat rails. Or he should have enclosed the whole thing like a van, down by the river, with a little turbo pump or water wheel to keep the battery charged, so Buzzard could listen to Limbaugh, or Baker, or any other one of those "healers", while he's out there fishing
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 24 2019, @06:12PM
yes, i'm sick of these fake ass truck beds. i don't need to haul a goddamn 50cc 4 wheeler, ffs! i need to haul plywood and shit. that shit is 4x8! 2x4's are 8 foot long. it's almost as if elon doesn't spend any time working on his shack...