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.
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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22 2019, @10:50PM (1 child)
However, that wraparound front headlight is probably dozens or hundreds of high intensity LEDs, so a similar white effect is no doubt just a software update away!
Hell if they are the right LED modules they might even have 5 wire color adjustment and allow full RGB alterations for selecting your own cylon/knightrider sweep while cruising the harsh streets of panopticon/depressed but not yet dystopian America!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Immerman on Saturday November 23 2019, @01:40AM
If only, that would be awesome.
LED strips are almost always wired as a group - two leads leave the strip and you supply power to all the LEDs or none of them. The individual control needed for animation requires one wire per LED, and a far more comples box of electronics to supply power selectively.
Bottom line - it's considerably more expensive, and so is unlikely to be done unless there's a specific plan to use the ability from the outset.