Found in the wild in Tennessee

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      Oh to be ignorant of the cyber truck. There are so many complaints about this piece of crap daily online. They lock out their owners, have body panels fall off, have very few protections against auto closing doors cutting off fingers, the accelerator pedals can get stuck at full speed while moving, they are uncoated stainless steel which corrodes, and replacement parts are insanely expensive.

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        I saw a YouTube short of someone claiming Tesla fixed the trunk door cutting people’s fingers off. He demonstrated with a banana at first. It detected the banana and immediately opened the door again. It barely made a dent into the banana. So he’s like imma try my finger now lol. So he tries his finger and of course that fucker clamps down hard on this mf’s finger, which gets stuck for a short while before the Tesla gives up and opens the door again. But his finger had a huge and deep dent in it, bro. You could tell he was in big pain. His hand was shaking minutes after the event.

        I don’t know what’s worse, the door, or this idiot thinking a banana is an accurate prop to use in place of a finger. I would’ve used something smaller than my finger. If it detected that, you would think a finger would be safe…

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          One other thing here is that the sensitivity of the detection is actually decreased with repeat attempts. This is pretty standard.

          The reasoning here is that people will check after the first failure. And if they then send the close request again, the car will try a bit harder. Maybe it’s just some bit of oversized luggage that can be pushed down.

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    I saw someone refer to these stupid things as “Incel-Caminos”, and that’s the most perfect description of anything I’ve come across recently.

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      I’ve said for a while that they look like a cheap fiberglass shell put over an El Camino for a straight-to-video Mad Max ripoff from the 80s.

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      You joke, but when my parents bought an electric car, the cops in their small town started harassing them. My mom drives like a saint but they keep pulling her over and giving her tickets that aren’t valid. She said she’s caught them waiting for her to leave the grocery store so they can follow her out of the parking lot and try to catch her doing something wrong. But she doesn’t, so they just pull her over anyway. This isn’t even in a rural town where people are rolling coal. It’s just a small suburb. Why do they care?

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    Even the tires are ugly. That’s… kind of impressive. I never once considered tires could be uglier than other tires. But here we are.

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      Yeah it’s meant to have uglier wheels that fit with those ugly tires, possibly only with the ugly tires.

      I think it’s as close low polygon wheels they could get before they become hexagonal.

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      Wait, yeah… Why do they look like that? I’ve literally never seen ugly tires in my entire life before. This is the first time.

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          Diesel fuel would probably work ok, gasoline will evaporate and make it rust quicker.

          The way Elon’s politics have gone it wouldn’t surprise me if he started promoting fossil fuel use.

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            Sorry to say, you’re basically wrong on all ends.

            Diesel exhaust is one of the quickest things known to cause cancer. And gasoline is like the quickest (not safest) to clean metal.

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              Diesel/kerosene doesn’t evaporate like gasoline though, lots of mechanics use it to soak Rusty stuff and get parts unseized.

              Modern has also attacks rubber with its high ethanol content, but its a slower process.

              Gasoline works great for cleaning, but you have to immediately coat it in something or you get flash rust again. Diesel is slower, but less volatile, and better near rubber and plastics.

              Btw, I restore old cars and have used both to clean things, though the cancerous benzine fumes from gasoline aren’t worth it compared to other solvents for me. Denatured alcohol<mineral spirits<naphtha<acetone is my order of escalation when a mess is stubborn.

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    Drive it anyway. The Cybertruck can handle it. The Cybertruck can handle anything! I heard it’s made out of 1978 Hot Wheels parts and 1982 Megaforce machismo.

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    I swear Lemmy acts like anything shitty happening to a Cybertruck is like it’s Elon’s personal car getting fucked up. You’re being trendy. I fucking hate that guy too but is this really funny or meaningful?

    Why don’t you just nuke every city in America because we all use Amazon and Bezos is a megalomaniac, evil bastard? Post it on Lemmy and laugh because we all deserved it for supporting him.

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      Yeah it just seems like an easy scapegoat to join in on and feel cool (not saying I like elon) but it just seems like low hanging fruit.

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      Look, Elon Musk is the most popular celebrity in the world, probably tied with Donald Trump. Of course we constantly shit talk about him, it’s what we humans do. Just roll with it, or continue to have a bad time, it doesn’t matter either way.

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        I think I’ll continue to have a bad time on Lemmy, for $500.

        Yes, Elon Musk is. Not some random car owner. This all feels like bullying to me.

        Of course we constantly shit talk about him, it’s what we humans do.

        I pretty sure that’s almost verbatim what one of my bullies said about me, who also isn’t Elon Musk incidentally.

        Just rip on Musk, not his customers.

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          That’s unfortunate, I’m sorry you’ve been the target of bullying. I’m just saying we as humans gossip about one another all the time. If it’s directed with the intent to harm a real peer I’m not okay with that. Although we do indeed require a way to vent and gripe when stressed about certain situations or persons and that’s okay.

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          It’s not really bullying because they’re generally wealthier than us and bought these trucks as a status symbol. Society is rejecting that bid at higher status.

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      Looks like picture was taken from a jeep or some other sort of vehicle with a soft top, and we’re seeing that top hanging down into the shot

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        I think they’re in some sort of lot, under a tent. The Lego truck isn’t on asphalt. You can see how the road runs past it in the upper left.

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      Looks like the picture was taken from the passenger seat of a car with the ceiling coming unglued from the roof

      Nvm, that is the top of a car, not the windshield wipers. Looks like some sort of awning.

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    What’s stops someone from simply changing the tire? This seems like a bad design for a boot.

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    The Tesla Rusty Triangle, the vehicle for your high-iron, low-poly lifestyle.