The Cybertruck was defeated by sand.
I’ve seen a few of them in the wild now and each time I’m struck by how cartoonishly awful they look. Somehow the pictures don’t do them justice - they’re worse than that. They always remind me of those “futuristic” cars they put in low budget 80s sci-fi movies.
I saw one in person for the first time a few days ago. I was absolutely astonished at how much worse they look in real life.
Isn’t that crazy? I’ve seen other people say that, but you just don’t get it until you’ve seen one. I feel like the astronauts who say they can’t really describe the experience of seeing the earth from space because the pictures don’t do it justice, except this is in a bad way.
They always remind me of those “futuristic” cars they put in low budget 80s sci-fi movies.
I’ve been saying the same thing since I first saw it! It looks like a shell over an El Camino in a Mad Max ripoff that went straight to video in the 80s.
Exactly. They even seem to drive like those kinds of things - like the suspension wasn’t made for the extra weight - but maybe that’s just my brain extending the impression.
I see a videogame model that’s stuck on its lowest LOD.
It’s respectable that they did something different, but not this.
I saw my first one in the wild recently. It looked like someone was driving an attempt at a fridge for gamers down the highway.
when they could’ve used a real sci-fi car, the Citroën DS
The tow company that got it unstuck was named “I Pull Out.” That’s on their checks and taxes and business cards…
You sure?
Coulda sworn it was Camel Towing.
They say they’ll hump anything.
The Donut guys on Youtube tried to take one for a standard off-road adventure and had to abort early due to running out of battery. They also had to recharge twice before they made it to the trail.
It’s for one of those apocalypses where there’s readily-available electric generators.
Seriously though, some solar panels and an inverter are easier to come by and rig up than an oil well, a well head and a whole working refinery. My house has been running autonomously since 28th of April and that includes driving and heating. Gas stations would have been empty in that timespan.
I think you underestimate how much electricity is necessary for a Cybertruck.
There’s a reason why Elon’s solar charging promises never pan out.
My car uses 20kWh/100km. 40kWh/100km would be okay as well, it’s still in the same magnitude, just double. I’m running 8kWp at the moment.
For that and your house? On a daily basis?
Yeah, 8kWp results in about 55kWh/day right now. Easily enough.
But in the apocalypse, your neighbor with the AR says they are his now.
(includes two photos of it parked on a crosswalk)
It’s a local news outlet in a resort town at the very beginning of the tourist season. “Someone parked a Cybertruck downtown” qualifies as news.
so they know exactly which guy likes to block crosswalks on a regular basis?
The spectacle drew a small crowd before the $80,000 (starting price) vehicle was pulled out by the new “I Pull Out Beach Towing” service.
I Pull Out Beach. Incredible.
Driving on sand can be tricky for any vehicle and it seems like the drivers wasn’t skilled in this. I’m all for dumping on Cybertrucks, but this seems like the driver is more to blame in this situation.
From the article:
The operator - whose identity is unknown - was described as “super nice…Just a first-timer who made the standard mistakes.”
Not much of an apocalypse-proof truck if you have to be taught how to not get it stuck in sand.
I always read it as “apocalypse proof” rather than “apocalypse-proof”. That is, it’s proof that the apocalypse has happened, rather than something that’s immune to the apocalypse.
There’s plenty of evidence that it isn’t “apocalypse-proof” in myriad other ways. I saw a post in which one got sideswiped by a Prius and it had to be towed away because the driver’s side mirror was damaged. I seriously wonder when the other shoe will drop and we find out the Boer is intentionally burning it all down.
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I bet an air-cooled Beetle would do just fine.
An old bug, properly modified with bigger tires and fiberglass parts would absolutely run circles around this (and most other) vehicles in the sand. A stock bug with tiny tires…not so much.
That’s why baja bugs and dune buggies were so popular.
