cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19079924
[OC]One of the only cybertrucks I've ever seen
Damn, fresh off the assembly line too!
I gotta admit, it looks better now
I see them all the time in fucking Canada, but only on nice days since they can't drive on ice
In its natural state, broken.
First one i saw was abandoned on the beach, and flooded. Apparently one of the first things the owner had tried to do was drive on the beach, got down bellow the high tide line, and then gotten stuck. The local paper had a chronicle if the cars short lifespan up that evening, via user photos.
It had come over on the ferry that morning, illegally parked twice down town, once in a handicap spot, and once in a crosswalk, and made it out to the beach to get stuck by noon, and was scrap by 3pm. (I'm assuming, as by that point high tide would have happened, and its battery and engines would have been submerged by a foot or 2 in sea water)
It took a week or 2 fornthem to get it off the beach Apparently the one company that runs a beach capable tow truck had refused, not wanting to risk his vehicle on the fire hazard on wheels (especially when soaked)
I see a surprising number of them around here, considering how expensive they are. The styling is what I'd imagine an 8 year old boy would come up with if you asked him to draw a car.
I would not be surprised if this is close to the truth. Straight lines are easier to draw so maybe that's why Musk came up with this garbage design.
I see them all the time and the only time I thought one actually looked cool in person, was one that was painted with a pearlescent rainbow effect and had pride flags on it.
Though I don't know why such a person would have a cybertruck to begin with unless they won it in a raffle or something.
Come to Oklahoma you will see these god awful things everywhere.
Same in California. I moved here from Oklahoma 2 years ago actually.
Really thought people California would know better? Fucking Oklahoma morons surround me. What line of work do you do that allowed you to get out of this hell and get California?
Believe it or not, residential pest control. And being able to leave Oklahoma was exactly why I took the offer. The company I work for decided to open new branches in California and asked me if I would want to open one of them and run the branch. Jumped right on it. They moved me and my family here and here I am. Expensive but worth it for the quality of life improvements for me and my family.
Edit - and also there's idiots everywhere. But there way less of them here. Problem is the population is a gazillion times bigger than Oklahoma.
Awesome that you got out. Hopefully we can do the same next 2 years.
As your fellow Oklahomie, I hope you do too. Wherever it may be.
Earlier this year I protested outside a Tesla dealership, and there were more Cybertrucks coming into the dealership on flatbeds, than there were visiting or passing on their own power.
I definitely saw several a day earlier in the year, now I don't recall the last one I've seen.
LOL, I love it.
I have yet to hear someone say they like the look of the trucks. I know that is minor to the issues with automobiles, but given our Capitalist worm, I do not how they still being sold & line is not cancelled.
Yeah, it looks like shit. But it also can’t be taken out in the rain or through a car wash, falls apart constantly, catches on fire, and traps its users inside.
The way it looks isn’t the issue, it’s the way it functions (or doesn’t). I can 100% tell that this truck was designed by someone who a. has never owned a truck, and b. doesn’t know why people own trucks.
b. doesn’t know why people own trucks
Seems like it was designed for the people who buy trucks for the wrong reasons (i.e. pavement princesses and emotional-support trucks).
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