Monday, December 11, 2023

Car Culture was a Mistake 5: Elon Skum and the Cybertruck

CyberTrucks have no concept of
EL-E-GENCE!
Just before Thanksgiving Ryan Cooper delivered a blistering article on the wholly ridiculous Cybertruck;  The Cybertruck is the dumbest thing I've ever seen...

It’s anyone’s guess how much of a success or failure the truck will be, though the fact that at time of writing there is, incredibly, still no official information about price or battery capacity doesn’t bode well. But we can conclude that the Cybertruck is just possibly the dumbest vehicle ever produced. 

Cooper notably ridicules Skum's boast about the Cybertruck stopping an arrow shot by rightwing meathead Bro Rogan, 

“Joe Rohan [sic] shatters an arrow on Cybertruck that would easily go through a normal car,” Musk boasted on Twitter.

Thank heavens, all the commuters facing constant raids from massed formations of 13th-century Mongolian horse archers can rest easy. (No word on if the truck is resistant to ballistas, trebuchets, onagers, or mangonels.) Though if you’re actually out in the wilderness, you might not be able to get away from attacking cavalry; a recent video posted on Twitter shows the Cybertruck struggling mightily to get up a small hill that wouldn’t trouble a Subaru Forester.

Impractical.  Inefficient.  Ugly.  Costly.  Dangerous.  Poorly crafted.  Poorly designed.  Terrible.  Inelegant...

This is a what a child of the 1980's drawing of a future truck would look like.  Comparisons to 1980's computer game generated futuristic tanks to the vehicles made for the 1982 box-office flop Megaforce are all apt but, the best descriptor I read described it as a cubists interpretation of a Penis.   

The lines and materials used in the construction of the Cybertruck guarantee it will be murderous to pedestrians and deadly to drivers in other cars and their owners as well, much to chagrin of its buyers, since one of the prime reasons to buy such a monstrosity is to slice through other vehicles while you drive recklessly.  The Cybertruck will be unsafe at any speed and with 845HP boy will it speed.  "Move fast and break things" indeed...

But, far worse than the horrific design is the materials and performance.  It can't store anything in the "truck bed".  It can't tackle the gentlest of off-road slope.  Self Drive mode is as flawed, faulty, and dangerous as with every other Tesla.

Having just written about the blinding of opposing drivers with eye-level ultra bright LEDs it comes as no surprise the Cybertruck is equipped with a ridiculous and probably road illegal single horizontal LED.

The description of Tesla's as $100,000 MAGA hats continues to be correct as Elon Skum just reinstated chief rightwing propagandist Alex Jones.  In fact, the average Tesla owner is this guy, Nathaniel Radimak, so I'm super excited to see what Musk Fanbois can do while driving this CyberDalek on America's highways.

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