The horns facing backwards just bring the whole shitshow together.
I can’t believe that’s the front… Like… Holy shit is that car fucking ugly.
The more you look the uglier it gets.
I mean I’ll take that over the alternative of being gored in the head as a pedestrian
That and the dirt painting on the side
And the rust on the front.
Muskrat thought paint was a conspiracy
It makes it look like it has a handlebar mustache
You don’t like the slicked back look all the bulls have been rocking lately?
I think the worst (best) thing you could do to this is just a very small plain unadorned white paper square saying “ew”
Write it in the dirt.
Is every stupid shit legal in the US?
All the stupid shits.
All thanks to the Stupid Shit Party!
The Pretty Shitty Committee.
Giant Olde Poo
Did you mean bullshit?
Fuck yeah!
Legal and encouraged here!
It’s on the wrong way
That’s the direction the longhorn was facing when the autopilot ran it down
Better they impale themselves than any pedestrians they run over.
Lol that’s perfect
I knew something was off about them horns.
I still can’t believe this is actually a real car. It’s beyond stupid, it’s what I’d expect someone to come up with in a zombie apocalypse with welded sheet metal or something.
I thought that was the back of the car and thr horns facing backwards didn’t make any sense, until I realised where the rear view mirror are and that that’s the bonnet. What the actual fuck, 4 years old me did draw something similar a long time ago.
Yeah at least that has character
Fuck, Homer Simpson did it better.
Now put truck nuts on it
If the truck wasn’t assigned nuts at the factory you can’t just add them later. It’s unnatural.
You can’t tell my truck which transmission to be!
It’s a subscription feature that you can unlock for only $79.95 per month.
Does the cybertruck have just 1 giant wiper? That seems…fucking stupid. You can see the passenger top side of the windshield isn’t clear which might be needed. Also the wiper blade must surely be proprietary meaning, wait I can just look it up: $75. Less than I thought somehow.
Benz did it better with one
Oh cool.
More footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSC9KrQYaW4
But that is Mercedes-Benz, a company that is already known for being able to design a car. The “cybertruck” looks like it was designed by a ten year old, and, as the wiper shows, not actually smartly executed.
The wipers on the mercedes work better than two blade setups as well. You don’t get that trailing line of water off the tip of the wiper right in the center of your view because the one blade extends all the way to the edge, all the way across.
I’m not a mechanical engineer but I’m still getting hot and bothered watching that. What a cool design!
I have a 93 Mercedes with this system and I love showing off the wiper. Its unexpected motion brings joy to both mechanical nerds and regular people. No joke, people see it and can’t help but grin. It’s that perfect combination where it looks odd but also is immediately recognizable as clearly superior.
Must have been patents that kept it from catching on?
As a car nerd, I think it’s really cool. I’d smile seeing one in action.
As a car owner, I wouldn’t want one. There are enough things to go wrong on cars as it is. I want something simple that works, not one more thing that might cost me money or ruin my weekend.
It works for Mercedes because their target market (in the US anyway) buys a new car every couple years, and isn’t put off by over engineering.
Surprisingly it’s been wiping since 93 with no issues! Unless it was changed by a previous owner. I should probably take it apart and repack the gearbox at this point, though. It slows down quite a bit if the windshield isn’t wet enough, implying there’s some drag in the system.
Back in the early 90s Mercedes were a lot different from how they are today, that car is put together so well that those old diesels are considered a true million mile car. Lots of things on it are really easy to take apart and maintain, too.
The only thing really failing on it is the paint which is cracked all to hell, and I’m honestly considering getting a repaint since there are only 200k miles on it. It helps that I’m friends with a body man/painter who can do it in his garage for a fraction of the cost.
I agree with keeping things simple, because more things mean more chance of failure, which eventually just becomes a matter of how frequently over time. However, this is a pretty simple design. It’s a clever use of simple mechanisms. From the gif above, it’s an extra gear with a linear actuator attached. It’s not doing anything complex other than just cycling the actuator twice over the course of the full half circle –or four times a cross the entire gear if it could go all the way around. This is probably not going to be the thing that breaks, and even if it is it’s probably easily replaceable (if it became common so the parts are available).
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Mercedes is often at the forefront of new car tech. It doesn’t always catch on, though.
This is very pleasing
I like the cyber truck wiper better. It looks perfectly functional, and I’m not a huge fan of the German overengineering.
Side note, I love Toyota, but the FJ cruiser’s windshield wipers are stupid.
It is one blade and it has good enough reach that the driver would have no complaints about coverage.
The reason they did it like this is because Elon is over ambitious and over hypes everything and originally wanted a wiper that was vertical and moved in a linear motion back and forth across the windshield.
Obviously they didn’t engineer that and settled for the comically large standard blade that ships with it. I’m also curious how much one of those bad boys costs. Probably more than 2 for a standard car
Also where to get it. I don’t think AutoZone is carrying 50in wiper blades standard.
Yes that is exactly what it has lol
Notes that you pointed that out i can’t unsee it, and it is stupidly hilarious.
I hear it’s a floppy mess.
Wow I’ve never seen one out in the wild before! I also wouldn’t have imagined anyone could make it look even more obnoxious but here we are lol
they wrote matador on the side lmfao
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They misspelled Metaldoor.
Just in case any pedestrian survives the initial impact.
I hate the windshield uniwiper
Not gonna find a replacement for that beast at O’Reilly’s!
Its the ugliest vehicle since the Pontiac Aztec
I still think the Fiat Multipla is even uglier than the Cybertruck.
The Multipla’s price tag at launch was a little over $16,000 and no right-wing suprematist hyped tf out of it
no car give the sense of unease like the Multipla
That is, in my opinion, hands down a better looking car than the cybertruck
What? That car looks great imo
That’s bad. Really bad, but somehow less worse
Nissan Juke is also giving it a run for its money.
Who is that car even for?! I had the misfortune of getting one as a rental once, and it barely had a 200 mile range in the tank, had basically zero room for luggage or anything in the trunk, 5 adults probably wouldn’t even fit, and it didn’t feel that great to drive. And that’s all before mentioning how ugly it is!
I genuinely hope that most Juke drivers I see are forced to due to circumstance, because I honestly can’t see why anyone would intentionally pick one. They’re just so horrendously ugly and impractical, as you said.
It ain’t a PT Cruiser
Or the Plymouth Prowler…
Maybe you are right but you know what? I know maybe a dozens people who owned a multipla (mostly fiat employees or had access to discounts). None of them ever thought it looked good, or that it was cool.
Edit: i should also add, for those who will look up this monstrosity, also check out the original fiat 600 multipla from the 1950s. That might work as eye bleach
It’s* the ugliest
I can’t help but wonder what the dashcam and computer thinks of that shit 😂🤣
The glorified cruise control should be disabled if there are modifications like that.
As much as I hate cybertrucks and the sort of people who would buy them, I hate the diminishing of our property rights even more and thus have to object to the notion of manufacturers punishing people for exercising their right to modify their property. Frankly, the “glorified cruise control” ought to be Free Software to begin with so that the owner could modify it as well, to be compatible with the horns. (The owner would of course be legally responsible for the result, but that goes without saying since it’s how property law has worked for hundreds of years.)
What should happen is that if the modifications make the car unsafe (whether because of the cruise control, the horns themselves failing pedestrian safety standards, or otherwise), the government prohibits the owner from driving it on public roads. But the keys are that it would be a restriction by government (not the manufacturer) of how the thing could be used affecting the public (not whether it’s allowed to exist at all).
Yeah, without the last part I would’ve argued about safety, but restricting the use while allowing modification seems quite good. Except I’m not sure how to enforce safety checks often enough
Oh I’d certainly hope so, that’s a given. Still seems like it would trigger some sort of constant warning though.
Is that rust on the front of the “truck”?
“Patina”
Real question: how can you tell the difference between rust and a supposed patina that forms and changes over time? I’m not talking about Cybertrucks, those are just rusting. But some chromium based metals supposedly can do this over time and can look like rust initially. Does rust usually cause pitting or flaking?
No, patina is a thin layer of oxidation on top of the actual material from contact with the air.
Rust is corrosion from air + moisture, and causes pitting and flaking. Patina should just sit over the surface, but not distort the thing it’s on.
There is more nuance to it, but patina is on top, rust is the actual thing turning into rust
Thanks. I’ve got a metal decoration made from weathering steel that has what appears to be rust spots all over it. Allegedly it will do this onto the entire surface and eventually fade into a darker color. But it’s been pretty slow. But no putting or flaking at least.
It’s character , a shit one to boot
Don’t worry, that’s normal. It’s maturing.
This is an improvement
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