Lol
$50k in fees
totally reasonable price to tack onto a car worth less than $100k
Jesus fuck why are they so fucking stupid lmao
Who is giving this money to these people?
I still owe $171,500
They aren’t sending their best
Ugh if I could lose that much money I would be able to start fresh with a legit bankruptcy claim. But no, stuck in the middle with basic personal debt.
Remember the truck is “apocalypse proof” save for a scooter
There will be no scooters in the apocalypse, Elon has foreseen the future while in a K-hole
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Is it really impossible to repair this thing after being “sideswiped by an e-scooter”? Like, I’ve known as well as anyone else that the truck is a joke but how is that even possible?
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There’s no frame?!
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It’s peak anarcho-capitalism
All the Elon Musk fanboys: “Genius move, Good Sir!”
It has like, a structural aluminium tub where you’d normally put the frame of a truck. That’s why the
tailgateback half of the car rips off when you try tow something heavy with all that torque.It’s truly the car homer simpson would have designed if he were less intelligent.
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fuck, it’s such an ugly piece of shit
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load bearing lithium-ion battery pack
The US military should just drop these instead of bombs
I remember reading about structural battery packs a few years ago. Are any other EVs doing it? I assumed it was standard practice now.
because all of the force of the collision is applied directly to weak mounting points and then every adjacent part basically falls like dominoes.
how much of that is due to the aesthetic of the car? Like, could you theoretically build a cybertruck that didn’t have this problem? (meaning it’d still look exactly like a cybertruck from the outside)
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For a normal car it’s repairable, probably be an overpriced fix but not totalled. For a Cybertruck? Would not be surprised if Tesla dealerships are literally not capable of that level of repairs.
To be fairs, they aren’t even capable of reliably making the thing in the first place. Shit’s more jank than a Bri’ish car built in the 70s. Pure vibes based engineering.
How its built, first the air bags went off which are crazy expensive which damages interior panels as well. It looks like both doors were damaged, and back quarter panel. I know the rivian pickup back quarter panel extends to the front of the truck so who knows what this does. The roll down cover for the bed was probably damaged if that back quarter panel was damaged. The bed could also be damaged depending on how its attached to the quarter panel. Stainless isn’t very forgiving, its very rigid so its possible it could damage other things while being damaged. I bet only Tesla repairs these things too. So yes not surprised.
My next question is are a car’s airbags supposed to go off if it gets “sideswiped by an e-scooter”?
Tbf I’m old enough to have set off airbags on strangers vehicles with a well placed kick to the drivers side headlight when they were first released. They are no longer this way, but they used to be.
Just some perspective.
Haha yeah I remember those good old days. One well placed basketball to the front of a car would be a writeoff. Good times.
My wife hit a concrete mailbox doing like 5 mph, 8 kph and all the airbags went off. All depends on how its hit.
Lot of cars can be a total loss when airbags deploy in general. Internal combustion, or swasticar.
Not $200k cars or, if we’re being more accurate, ~$80k cars
That’s the thing most averaged priced cars could easily be totaled when air bags deploy. So either this doesn’t keep value or how its built. Also probably only manufacturer will fix. It’s got to be how its built. Swasticar 😂
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Along with the other things mentioned, Tesla hasn’t been good with insurance repairs. They have such a backlog with parts and service that insurance companies have been totalling a lot of vehicles that are repairable because they would take too long to repair.
Especially so with the cybertruck because there’s no way use bondo and paint, there’s only a few specialist Delorean shops that can rework stainless panels. That means only complete panel replacement, which is a complicated procedure on the CT because it mostly uses adhesive rather than fasteners to attach body panels. It’s like a supercar, they don’t design them to be repaired, because they don’t want them to be repaired.
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Hahah asymmetrical warfare go brr. I hope the scoot rider is okay.
IIRC Musk was in talks with police and the military to have cybertrucks replace the humvee.
they should do that, and throw in some e-scooters in case the enemy also has cybertrucks
Haha alu fixed frame vs IED what could go wrong. Do it.
God please yes
Sometimes I worry that I’m not good with money, but other times I see this
Me too, buying Senran Kagura DLC seems like a wise purchase in comparison
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I’m now remembering the days that mElon was peddling the lie that Teslas would be an appreciating asset.
yeah because it could autonomously drive people around while you sleep, and then come back with vomit on the seats and smelling like beer
That is so funny. “Oh yeah these batteries- just gonna keep goin up in value” slaps side of cybertruck and breaks a window, bleeds out
Just buy an iconic JDM classic at bottom of the market value 20 years ago it’s not hard. All you need is a time machine or a history of strange obsessions. Jeeze.
Foundation Series
I only recognize one Foundation series.
God damn those rule.
Right? I love that they’re all from the perspective of the exact same geographical location on Trantor.
I still find it really funny how the core concept of a foundational (heh) scifi series is literally just a guy discovers historical materialism and is considered a prophet for it.
That’s why I dislike all the Foundation-related works after Second Foundation. They veer directly into Great Man Theory nonsense, with a side of misogyny that goes even beyond the original stories.
The AppleTV series is the worst of all. It’s unrecognizable. Salvor Hardin is a brooding loner who fetishizes their gun, which is so fucking offensive to me. I’m perfectly fine with gender changes so long as the core of the character remains faithful to the stories. And that’s just the start of the bullshit changes.
I was soooooooooooo disappointed with the Apple show. Why even buy the license if you’re just going to make your own story? Fans of the books are just going to hate it anyway.
With the sole exception of much-needed gender swaps, it truly is baffling how badly the writers made every possible bad decision they possibly could have taken. I refuse to believe that they’d actually read the original books. Even people who aren’t fans, but have read them at some point, know that everything happening on screen bears no resemblance to the books aside from that single courtroom scene.
The mule is such a sad boi
a Foundation series with a woman in it? Asimov would be pissing and shidding in his grave.
It is a very durable investment (in comedy output)
Hitting one of those inflatable dancing tube guys while driving out of the dealership and my cybertruck shatters into a thousand-thousand pieces while the tube guy continues to dance.
Still love the truck tho
SUB TEN MICRON ACCURACY
On the scooter build, sure, I can believe that.
I looks like it has random greeblies glued onto it, like a prop in a low-budget sci-fi movie.
Bingo! That’s it, that’s the spec.
like piranha devouring a cow, so are the e-scooters to the lumbering cybertruck
