I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck
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From "Keith" in the comments, "You bought a Cyber truck because you wanted attention. You're getting attention. What's your beef?"
Couldn't agree more
Yeah, sounds like a Cyber truck owner
It seems like there's a correlation between people that refer to women as "females" and people that don't treat women well.
It's almost like using a term typically reserved for livestock betrays that you see women as below you.
Nah, don't lump farmers and such into this, please. Cows and bulls, hens and roosters, nannys and billys, sows and boars. There are also words for modified gender/castration similar to agender: steer, stoat, gelding, bellwether.
Depending on the situation it can be fun to ask, "A female what?" Try to get them to say human.
I'm almost sad I'll never be able to point and laugh at one. The Cybertruck is so badly built, it'll never be allowed on European roads.
Based
Like, even ignoring Musk's whole everything now, it's just one of the ugliest vehicles ever designed. Regular Teslas at least look okay if you ignore Musk himself, but the cybertruck looks like they just took a particularly untalented 1st grader's drawing of a vehicle and just went "Make that"
And that alone would be enough, but add to that the fact that they cost about 100 grand a piece, and yet they are essentially held together with bubblegum and shoestring. Bro, you paid a year's worth of salary for the average middle class person to drive around an ugly, falling-apart piece of shit created by a fascist. Yeah. We're gonna point and laugh at your dumb ass.
$100k is about the average household income in the US, the average single income is about $67k. So about a year and a half of the average wage. And median income is much lower (median household income is about $44k) indicating that high income households have a much larger effect on the average than low income households so the average middle class individual income should also be much lower than the average individual income.
Not on Lemmy
Exactly, the stainless steel "exoskeleton" is glued to plastic and pieces are coming unglued while driving. The towing thing is attached to a cast aluminum frame and multiple people have had it break while towing. It's a terrible car, and most owners are insufferable people.
There was this great meme going around years ago when the truck was announced that had a crayon drawing of it and “by Elon” written shakily in big letters like a child would use. I’ll see if I can find a link.
Edit: it’s on the shitty website we all left, but: https://old.reddit.com/r/Autos/comments/e0m4sg/the_original_concept_for_cybertruck_was_a_drawing/
You can also download the image and repost it to a lemmy instance like I'm doing here .... then no one has to go back to the old site
I'm just impressed that Elon finally made something worse than the Harambe rap.
the what
For the love of god don't look it up. If you've made it this far without hearing it, just count your blessings. It's worse than you can possibly imagine.
You have no idea how much pain I'm willing to inflict on myself in order to get the reference. Your warning has been heard, but it will not be heeded
Edit: oof
Aw shucks, I'm honored to have my foolishness immortalized
This is a masterpiece
So, now that you have the benefit of hindsight, what do you think? Was the warning justified? Is your relationship with curiosity still the same?
It was pretty cringe, the lyrics were god awful and they were way too liberal with the auto tune. Thankfully Elon is so unimaginative that he couldn't think of more than one verse for his war crime of a song so there weren't any surprises after ~10 seconds in. I would say the warning was justified, but a little overstated. I thought we were gonna be on Angelic 2 the Core levels of bad and it was just Friday bad. My relationship with my curiosity remains the same. As long as it isn't (real) gore, I'll probably click on it
What is Harambe rep? I only know it is apparently "starting point of things going wrong"
I'm sorry
It genuinely gives the Pontiac Aztec a run for its money in terms of “holy fuck that is ugly”
That thing makes the Aztec look positively sleek by comparison
Don't devalue the Aztec for this. Yeah it was clad in tons of plastic and had a grill that was way too busy but it wasn't shockingly ugly like the cyber truck.
I’m laughing here because I realized that’s almost certainly what happened, Elon mocked up a picture himself or dictating to someone else of a truck that he thought would look cool and then told the poor engineers and designers “make this.”
I can easily imagine that, too. I saw an early concept render that went around a decade ago or so when I worked in a design office, and we half- joked they’d accidentally released a low-poly model by mistake. Or it was some sort of weird joke we didn’t get.
It’s so ridiculous and broken, it has Musk’s fingerprints all over it (and good luck; fingerprints are near-permanent on that ludicrous metal finish they chose.)
I actually like the general look of it, though it's done poorly. I want SO MUCH to drive a low-poly vehicle reminiscent of some 80's retrofuturism racing video game. But I fear the massive failure of the cyber truck will scare anyone away from taking a stab at the concept.
The Hyundai Vision N 74 concept is a much better take on 80s retrofuturism imo.
Apart from the S which looks good despite being too big, do people really think Teslas look good? Ok the cybertruck is the ugliest one by far but model 3 and Y are not great.
They're inoffensive, at least. Boring is better than hideous, I suppose.
What do you mean by inoffensive? As in not dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists?
I mean that their design is conservative and does not take risks. Even pretty cars are dangerous, this is unrelated.
Got it, thanks
He laments people laughing at him, and likens his purchase of the cybertruck to that of the Toyota Prius. Unfortunately, what he fails to consider, is that the Prius is an economy car. You can make fun of a crappy car, but that mockery ends before it affects the owner, because the majority of us understand that buying a car is more of a financial matter, rather than one of taste. i.e. most of us buy the car we can afford, not necessarily the car we want.
That goes out the window when you take into consideration the cybertrucks price tag. If it was an economy electric car (like the Prius), we would poke fun at the vehicles design and that would be it. But this is a bloated, over-priced, unreliable, gimmick truck; whose only purpose is to serve as an ego-boost to one of the richest, dumbest men on the planet. The man that got bullied into buying and abruptly tanking one of the largest social media companies in the world. The same man jumping around like a pick-me dipshit at a fascist rally for a convicted felon, bankrupt businessman, convicted rapist, and self-described sex-pest.
People can laugh at not just the cybertruck, but also the owner; because paying what amounts to a third of a fucking house so you can fanboy a man sure to go down as one of histories most public dumb-asses, makes you ripe for ridicule (and deservedly so).
Agree 100%. Also, re. "a third of a house"; I bought an old (1941) but comfortably livable 2 bedroom house with garden and driveway in Columbia, South Carolina for only $86k last year. Most of the cyberfuck owners paid MORE than my house for their dumb cars...
well said, kudos
Hey, Memericans, do Apple next.
This reminds me - I saw spinner wheels in public for the first time in probably 15+ years yesterday. I was genuinely shocked to see them. Man I hope they do not make a comeback.
Spinners are dope! I wouldn't buy them but they are certainly unique and flashy.
Friend of mine got spinners on his cheap ass Toyota a couple years back because they all got ditched after the craze ended
If you know where to look you can get good ones for shockingly cheap, and putting them on old beaters or a Prius is fucking hilarious
At least spinners are good at what they do! The Cybertruck isn't even a good truck.
I had spinner hubcaps on my clapped out 85 Monte Carlo in 2004, it was awesome.
Dude probably grew up around them, and now he's all grown up and can finally afford them. Live and let live. At least it's not a Hummer or a cyber truck
Spinners are purely an aesthetic choice though. This truck literally doesn’t even perform its function as a truck.
Some people work hard to tell everyone else that they are contemptible. It is now the job of society to make an artificial island in the middle of the Pacific so that they can live out the rest of their lives in a safe place, amongst their own kind.
Are you referring to the Great Pacific Garage Patch?
Great Pacific Garbage Patch kids!
Also known as Australia
I was watching the taxi thing, and they didn't know on which sentence to cheer. Some would cheer when others cheered for no reason, but always sporadically between small groups.
It's a cult and they reinforce their worth in their echo chamber (cyber chamber? No echo chambers work).
I like spinners and dont think they make someone an idiot. I probably won't ever buy them myself but they are at least fun. I haven't seen a set in ages though.
Are they not all electric?
I was convinced this was satire until I followed the link in the story for the Cybertruck forum where this was actually discussed.🤦♂️
His whining at the beginning certainly had me wondering too.
And then there are the comments -- "There just haters there mad cause they can't afford one them self's..." Like really, did you even make it beyond third grade? And this is the kind of person who is sticking up for Cybertruck owners? Maybe there are a number of reasons why we point and laugh...
That's the usual line I see. Buddy, I could buy one in cash tomorrow if I wanted. I'd rather put that money in a barrel and burn it to cook my dinner than spend it on the PS1 titty shape truck.
I don't scowl at the guy in the white Lambo I see sometimes. I don't frown when a Porsche flies past me on the interstate. Shit, even a brand new Corvette will get a "nice!" from me. If it were jealousy I'd hate all kinds of people.
Cybertrucks are just horribly ugly. So ugly it assaults your senses, I can't help but think "oh that car hasn't finished rendering" every time.
Right? There's a Countach that parks next door to my favorite bar pretty often on the weekends and I have not once pointed and laughed at it. That's a vehicle I'll never be able to buy but I'm not jealous. I'm jazzed to see it.
I'm not a car guy but even I think it's cool as hell.
The difference between a Cybertruck and a Countach is the difference between a self-indulgent wiener and a connoisseur.
I've said it other places, but you don't get a sense of just how bad they are until you see one in person. I don't know if it's that they're a bit bigger than I thought, or that I'm used to seeing fake images of all sorts of things, but even though I'd seen pictures I was surprised at how bad they are in person. They're cartoonishly awful.
Wow, did I hit that one or what? And it's just so sad.
I think there is a large group of people in America who define their self worth based on how much money their family makes. For them they see the cyber truck as showing off their success.
Maybe this is just dumb rich people. What did they used to buy before this? Exotic cars that break down ever few hundred miles? Outfits that cost tens of thousands of dollars?
Putting the "dumb" in dumber. I don't know how people can be so wasteful. I mean when I buy a car, I expect to not have to take it in for work for a very long time. Imagine my surprise today when I went to get an emissions test and found out the back end of my exhaust pipe has rusted off. The last time I had any work done on it (other than oil changes) was before COVID, when someone hit me. I drove my previous (first) vehicle for 24 years before deciding I needed to get an SUV for towing capacity. Man if I had that kind of crazy money to blow on a cheap cybertruck, I'd be using it for donations or something. I can "prove" my worth by the smiles at the children's hospital.
I'm sure it is and outlets are just taking the bait because they know it'll generate clicks.
But what made you think it's not satire?
The link to the forum discussion in the article probably
There's no way that's satirical, there's too much of it
While I'm sure that's part of it, mostly it's just the fact that you blew 6 figures on a poorly assembled low res rust triangle
Exactly, few people are laughing at people in any other tesla. It's specifically this vehicle because it's a impractical hunk of junk AND ugly as fuck.
He says "a female", then "a guy".
No wonder they're laughing. This guy's a joke.
Anytime they say female, but don't specify the species, you get to pick.
.::: spoiler Bookhorse :::
Kinda funny heh
...he's talking about two different drivers.
We are all aware. The terminology used for the two different drivers is the problem. You don't call a woman a female, that's insulting. He had no problem to call a guy a guy, no "male" or such. It makes him sound like a misogynistic asshole.
Oh, gotcha.
...oh boy. I'm guessing you call women females if you missed that one.
Quality post. I really did think I was reading an Onion headline.
And I have to admit, the first time I saw the guy in my neighborhood who bought one driving it around, I pointed and laughed too.
Kind of reminded me of this one.
That one's a classic.
Bitch almost made me laugh
Wow! I skimmed through the article and legitimately thought it was an onion article until I read your comment.
The only one I see regularly is owned by a sneaker shop and has a tacky vinyl wrap with their logo.
Those ones we just refuse to acknowledge, corporations pay through the nose for attention, so don't give it to them
Business write off...
That's not really how that works, just because it's a business expense doesn't mean it's free money.
It does mean it's cheaper to put a wrap on the truck than pay taxes. That's all I was getting at.
That doesn’t really make sense, even if they’re in the 37% tax bracket if the wrap costs $100 they only save $37 on taxes.
They're probably claiming the entire truck as a business expense because of the wrap. Therefore, they're able to basically buy it with untaxed money, saving whatever their effective business tax rate is on the $100k or whatever. Of course, stuff like that is usually a bit of light tax fraud, because many small business owners just want a big expensive truck, but putting advertising on the car you drive for personal use doesn't make every mile a business mile. You can deduct the wrap itself, and if you are diligent you can deduct a reasonable and justifiable amount based on the advertising value and actual business use, but especially for shop owners, this is just tacky business owners hoping they don't get audited.
They probably think "tax deductible" means you take the entire value off your taxes or something.
It's going to be glorious when an AI-powered trash truck empties the contents of a cybertruck in back.
My 6 year old son points and laughs at Cybertrucks. "It looks so weird. Why's it so pointy?" Direct quote
Give your son a high five for me, and let him know that no one knows why it looks like that.
It's like a Delorian gave birth to a defective baby.
At least the Delorian had character. You can't say that about this abomination.
Truely a mystery for the ages.
At least someone is getting joy from the cybertruck.
They’re only laughing because deep down they know they’re beta-cuck manlets who will never be an alpha-chad like you. It’s an involuntary nervous reaction to feeling viscerally outclassed and unmanned by your aura of effortless brocious dominance.
lol, get CyberMogged
First: lmao
Second: that’s it? You are like a little baby.
"a female"
Yep, that language checks out.
A female, guys. A femcel. Perhaps a femoid, by chance. Questionably a femur.
Grand Nagus approves!
It truly is like that Margaret Atwood quote, about men being afraid women will laugh at them, and women being afraid men will kill them.
Not just women. It is an absurd vehicle
The cyber truck is, at this point, a malfunctioning status symbol. I suppose a 100K truck that sucks at being a truck is intended to communicate the driver is a successful tech guy but, whenever I see one, I think "there goes a rube". I have a similar reaction when I see those gaudy designer bags or "luxury" branded tee shirts. I don't think "there is someone who is successful" I think "that person is an idiot."
There should be a catchy term for status symbols that communicate the opposite of their intention. Stupidity symbol? Status irony? Status error? None of these really roll of the tongue.
Rube flag?
I think the question is, why do those people not seem to react the same way to a cyber truck.
Price does matter right? I saw a comment in the original post on the Tesla forum saying people wouldnt laugh if it cost 15k. I think they are right but I dont think they realize why it would be less embarrassing if it was a budget car.
Whatever effect it has should be named after that one Indian guy who was so rich, he made an entire polo shirt woven from gold fabric just because he could.
Tacky
Yes, thank you, we already have a word for this, lol.
I saw a white cyber truck today (a first for me). It even more hideous than the silver and black ones.
I thought they were all plain metal. I wonder if it was a custom paint job.
Many will opt to get a custom wrap because the steel could get scratched and start rusting, plus they are buying for clout and are now in too deep to stop throwing money away on making it "look" better.
Some have also opted into getting a third party service to chemically deposit a layer of gold on the surface of the steel. Making it an even bigger money sink for little benefit and basically not worth driving around almost at all except for showing off.
The only reason to get a cyber truck is because you want to make a statement
The funny thing is, it’s not the statement they think it- none of them have the introspection necessary to understand, the message is “I’m a monumental douche.”
It doesn’t rust.
Iron particles in the air land on the bare stainless steel, react with it, and rust. It’s the iron particles rusting, not the steel itself. This is called 'fallout,' and it mostly comes from brake rotors. It contaminates the surface of all vehicles and needs to be removed, but with paint and clearcoat in between, this reaction doesn’t happen. The 'rust' on Cybertrucks is just surface contamination that can be cleaned off. If you left a bunch of modern cars out in the rain for 100 years, the Cybertruck would likely be the only one with anything left of it.
There's plenty to criticise the Cybertruck for but spreading this rusting myth is dishonest.
Anything with iron can rust, including stainless steel.
Stainless that gets scratched will rust, as well as if the mild steel (or whatever the dust is,) causes a galvanic reaction. Or any where that the stainless is exposed to lesser steel. (Which is why you can’t store stainless with mild.)(including, in point of fact to milde steel dust…)
Alternatively, exposure to corrosives- bug juice, road salt and other deicers, potentially a dozen kinds of automotive fluids.
There’s a reason the rest of the automotive industry doesn’t use exposed stainless anywhere. And that reason me is it rusts (and is difficult to work with, and is more likely to kill people in an impact.)(people at Tesla told musk this. He didn’t care. Musk is an idiot.)
A wired as a source talking about the issues in CA drivers (where there is a lot of salt in the air.)
I used to build stainless steel farming equipment for industries like fertilizers and such. The acidic nature of which, would eat through paint. Stainless steel gas to be cleaned of that "surface rust" constantly or that rust will transfer to the stainLESS steel (note: not stainPROOF steel.) 100 years in the elements and no vehicle would be recognizable. Especially knowing the reaction of lithium to water.
The Cybertruck manual actually says you have to clean all bug splatter and bird shit off immediately or else.
To be fair, every car manual says that.
There are different grades with different alloys. The type of alloy of steel the CT uses is similar to kitchen grade, but reduces the chromumium to make it cheaper, but more prone to corrosion, especially around salt.
I think you’d still agree that, compared to the regular steel used in most other vehicles, one made of stainless steel would offer superior corrosion resistance, right? It may not last forever, but it sure beats the alternative.
My 17-year-old truck has its wheel arches rusting through, despite the paint and undercoating. I feel pretty confident saying this wouldn’t be the case if it were made of stainless steel.
Well that all depends. 17 years old and rusting through, I'd say you're likely in a wet environment. Possibly near salt water. And it's moving a lot more than one would while in a field, sitting. I bet you drive on gravel a bit, yeah? Doing that also makes wheel wells rust out faster because even minute damage to the paint will make it rust pretty fast. So from my point of view, sitting in an unprotected field, I would take the Corvette over a cybertruck. It's a heavily painted fiberglass body over an alloy chassis. Honestly the more carbon fiber the car has, the more likely it is to be recognizable in 100 years. The point is, you'll see badly rusted cyber trucks pretty soon because it's actually quite a pain to maintain. Any dent or scratch will be rusted BAD if not rectified within 6 months or so in a wet environment, 18-24 if it's dry enough.
All else being equal, stainless steel is a superior material compared to regular steel. I don’t get why that’s so difficult to admit. If my truck had been used in the exact same way but was made of stainless steel, it wouldn’t be rusting through. It might not be completely rust-free, but it would definitely be less rusty.
I'm guessing what you describe is like some of my knives (IKEA ones iirc) getting rust on them if they don't get dried properly and are left to dry with water left on them?
Still sounds like terrible design when no car I've ever seen has this sort of problem.
It does rust.
And you have to wash the car every time it rains? No thanks.
Left untreated, rust can form pitting and become extremely difficult to impossible to restore.
https://bssa.org.uk/bssa_articles/iron-contamination-and-rust-staining-on-stainless-steel/
The paint job on any car, especially one costing 100k+, requires an extreme level of care and maintenance if you want to keep it looking pristine. Many people who own such cars don’t even wash them themselves because they will scratch the clear coat. Personally, I have no desire to waste my time on that, but I’m also not in the market for such a car, so it doesn’t concern me. What I don’t get is why people who have no intention of buying a Cybertruck in the first place are so vocal about how difficult it is to maintain. If anything, I’d imagine these people would just be happy that Cybertruck owners have to deal with all that.
I have an MS in mechanical engineering focused in materials and I wrote a few papers on 3d printing of stainless tool steels. I've read further down the thread and you are completely wrong.
It's rusting because it's a low grade stainless. Its low grade because stainless steel work hardens when bent or machined. Lower grades have less issues with work hardening. They made this choice to save on tooling costs I assume.
Work hardening is when you permanently deform a material it gets more brittle. Stainless is an unbelievably stupid choice for a vehicle body because it needs to be formed into complex shapes which require lots of deformation. It's why SS cars feature mostly large flat panels and also partially why we have been moving towards aluminum body panels.
What am I completely wrong about exactly? I haven't made any claims about the quality of the steel.
Most of the articles I find when googling about the rusting points towards iron particles.
The lower the grade the faster it rusts. Forgot most people don't know that. Its rusting because there is iron in steel (duh). It's rusting quickly because it has low concentration of rust inhibitors like chromium or nickel. Increasing the concentration of these metals makes it rust slower. It also makes it harder to tool into a car body, making it a shifty choice for a car shell.
The article you linked is either uninformed or being misleading about "free iron". That just means there are no rust inhibitors so they are leaving free energy available on the surface of an iron grain at the surface of the material. This makes it rust quickly where those grains are. There are millions of these grains at the surface where the metal interfaces with air. The iron particles are in the body panel, not on top of it.
Sure Elon let's get you to bed
It's only $5k to professionally wrap a vehicle. You can have rainbow pearl over pink if you want.
Nah, no option here, mirror buff or go home. It's the only sufficiently obnoxious choice for that car.
Rainbow pearl x3, the really obnoxious one, over chrome.
I appreciate your taste, But the raw danger of driving a mirror around just wins it for me.
I saw a bedazzled BMW X3 the other day, should have followed them to get a pic
I mean he could have bought a Lightning.
No, he bought a Cybertruck. That's why they are laughing.
Nothing to do with the electric truck.
Why not laugh at the lightning as well? They are both silly, over priced and over sized.
Because you clearly don't live in the rural Midwest where everyone and their grandma has plenty of towing capacity.
I don't personally like trucks, but an electric truck is far a more environmentally friendly choice than literally every other truck.
I live in rural Alberta. If you want an electric vehicle a lighting is the same sort of silly as a cybertruck. I was not factoring in towing, I did not mention towing, I don't think towing matters to most truck owners other then an excuse.
You should look at evs, but if you want to be environmentaly friendly buying a literal truck load of lithium batteries is not the flex you think it is.
Ok so like serious note: you do realize when people have a conversation, typically we don't act like assholes on purpose. I'm starting to wonder if trolling isn't somehow related to a mental illness. I mean you put a lot of effort into simply ignoring what I said, insulting people, and finding a way to feel superior.
I hope you don't interact like that with people you see everyday. I'm worried for you bud, there's plenty to joke about on the internet without being a joke yourself.
Umm, we’re talking about electric trucks here, sweetheart. They don’t guzzle gas.
I agree with peopleproblems. Stop being a condescending dick. It doesn't help you get your point across, it just makes it so people think that you're a dick and stop taking you seriously.
He claims he'd never mock a Prius while in the same sentence posting about how much he hates the Prius, and then doesn't think it's fair to be mocked for driving a certain vehicle.
To break this Möbius strip logic: Blame someone else.
To be fair, I don't care for either the CyberTruck or the Prius.
But yes, there is a lot of social backlash against owners of the Cyber Truck. But it just ain't "females". It's all of us laughing at you.
His point is that it's fine to hate certain cars but that you still shouldn't mock the people driving them. I think that's kind of a dumb line to draw, but it's not hypocritical or inconsistent.
I am going to judge people by their actions.
Right, but saying "I hate the Prius" is not mockery.
He chooses what to drive. If he likes it, that's his right. It's also right of the others not to like it and find it ridiculous. There is no objective reason to drive a Cybertruck except to show off. Well, it backfired for him.
When they only made the S, and they were super rare space age tech, Tesla was kinda cool. Now they make road going appliances, and the owner is a terrible person.
Even back then, they were shitty, closed-source spyware-boxes.
what car from the last 15 years isn't, though?
I abhor Tesla and their nazi CEO but to think any other automaker is any better with regard to privacy or openness?
There's a reason all of my cars are more than 15 years old.
I don't blame you at all, though there are definitely some tradeoffs
I'm ok with needing to keep an 8track collection instead of CDs if it means that my car won't report my every sneeze to Ford or whothefuckever.
Yeah but that isn't/wasn't really unique to them
Yes, but most people don't give a shit about that.
Rivians are silly. Much less silly than the Cybertruck but still excessively large and heavy with pedestrian-murdering front ends, among other gripes like not having a glovebox or a power button
People who own pickup trucks but don’t need them for work should be sent to live on the pacific garbage patch.
I don't know why there aren't any small pickups. I used to have a proton jumbuck, little two seater pickup. You could get a ton of wood in the back and it was the same size as a car so you could park it easily. Really useful little thing, but you don't seem to get them anymore.
Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz are the closest things available in the US now.
IIRC it is due to how taxes are related to size and weight classes of trucks in the US
https://lefthandutes.com/
I’d love something the size of a 90s S10
All I want is a LHD Kei truck.
+1 for the creative punishment of idiots.
two colors: Old NAZIs or new NAZIs
They seem neat, but I'd like to experience their UI first. If it's as awful as the Teslas I've ridden in, then nah.
Also, want a front-end winch.
Guys, I just can't figure out why my coworkers laugh at me when I show them my picture wearing a maid costume! What could possibly be funny about that?
Nothing, post pics
It's probably the cat ears
Aww, but they're supposed to be cute!
You forgot your maid bonnet. Classic blunder!
Aww heck. How do I get one of those on short notice?
Very cute outfit :3
Hate to break it to ya... It's not just women.
There’s a Tesla showroom near me and dozens of cybertrucks out front, all in a couple of lines. They look even more ridiculous when they’re like that, like the point is really driven home about just how ugly they are.
Like a bunch of dumpsters lined up on garbage collection day.
I'm still not entirely convinced it's not a practical joke from Elon...
The man is demonstrably not smart enough to pull off a joke that good deliberately
"Stupidity" would be the answer to both why he bought a cybertruck and why he wonders why people are laughing about his choice.
Ford Multipla drivers can finally point and laugh at another vehicle owner.
I was like "oh, I gotta remember that duck billed one. That's an ugly one too. Ugliest I ever saw!"
It's the Multipla. It's a Fiat, though.
Until the cyberstuck appeared.
But i feel like capability is a beautiful thing.
You're right, I don't know why I thought it was Ford 😅
The Ford Multipa is one of those vehicles that's so ugly that it's cute.
The Cybertruck, not so much.
I honestly kinda want to import a Multipla, widebody it and put a Hellephant in it
But nobody paid $100k for a Multipla that it corrodes by itself, right?
I’ve seen multiple people making fun of the car (myself included) but never the owner.
And also I share FlyingSquid opinion, it’s ugly but in a cute way.
*Fiat Multipla
That said, the second gen looks alright.
Now I know who designed the USPS's new fleet
He's bought a status car and spent ~$70k extra on it in order to get a reaction. Not sure what he's whining about.
Probably because he expected for that sort of money for the only reaction to be people jizzing themselves
I suppose that's... kind?
Bless your heart
"I drive the equivalent of a 2024 Yugo that is laughably poor quality sold by a huckster and I paid enough to buy 4 reasonable cars. It's the most gaudy design of any car ever produced since the dawn of time. Why would people laugh at me?"
Man, I sure wish cybertrucks had been around to deflect when I spent 7 years driving a Fiat Panda.
James May? Is that you?
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He forgot to gold plate his Tesla, that's why.
Well as they say, you can put lipstick on a pig...
Oh we are so putting lips and a curly tail on our neighbor's cybertruck this halloween as a prank
You'll void its warranty b doing crazy stunts like that.
Wait are you telling me there's folks driving their cybertrucks unpainted
I guess I kind of feel for some of these guys, but the Cybertruck was always going to be a political statement.
Putting aside how dumb it looks, or how terrible it actually is, it's a cultural signifier. Unlike the other Tesla cars, that can easily be separated from Musk and his "brand", that can't be done here.
Musk and his brand was baked into it from conception to production, so, I don't think this is going to resolve itself anytime soon.
Let me jump back to my first point though, I feel kinda sorry for anyone who bought this simply because they have really bad taste, poor financial decision making skills, but who also genuinely weren't aware of the political implications or cultural baggage it would carry.
Although, now that I think about it, every time I've seen a Cybertruck driving, I have also started laughing, but only because it looks just so dumb, and I can't help but imagine the driver losing his finger trying to close trunk.
Someone in the Tesla forum posted that if the truck sold for 15k it wouldnt be laughed at. What do you think? It would certainly make it less ridiculous to own one. More of a peculiarity than a gigantic red flag.
This person needs to get help. I doubt more than one or two women are laughing at him, if there is anyone laughing at all.
Who has time to do this while driving?
I've pointed and laughed at a couple of Cybertrucks. It's hard to really capture how funny they look in motion in person. That feeling of "this was drawn by a kindergardener" hit me so much harder the first couple times I saw a real one moving.
I think it's because it's stupid looking enough that the brain doesn't even classify it as a vehicle, it's just some weird contraption that isn't supposed to act like a vehicle does, so it's an uncanny valley effect.
Looks more like an attempt at a low polygon 3d model to me.
As others mentioned, it does look kinda ridiculous in person. Driving home Sunday with my sister we saw one, pointed and both laughed/chuckled to each other. I wasn't looking at the driver so dunno if they noticed, but if they were looking at our faces as we passed they might have been able to notice, and it was just a natural reaction, not meant to have the owner notice in an effort to mock or anything.
My partner and I make a point of pointing and laughing at every single cyber truck and owner we see
if we see one parked we like to walk by it to see if it's true we can run down the battery by making its security system record us.
I live in the Bay Area and there are like 5 of them in my small, rural town, so I see them daily. I laugh every time. As silly as they look in photos, it's just so much sillier in real life. Especially out in the county where I live.
I actively point and laugh at the two I see cruises my town sometimes.
As a man I’ve been patiently waiting my entire life for the general population of women to realize they can shame men into not being stupid assholes. I don’t think men on the whole are going to like it…but it’s been a long time coming. See: history.
I make a point to roll down my window so they can see me pointing as I laugh at them.
His Cybertruck still drives?
The trucks are cool to a point. I like the way they look, but they were built so poorly that they must be a nightmare to own, and nowhere near worth the price.
You genuinely like the way they look? I'm not trying to poke fun here I am legitimately curious, what is it you like about the aesthetics? I don't see the appeal.
I like the styling too, its got a wicked 80s cyberpunk/Delorian/Tron vibe. I dislike... everything else. I get why a lot of people wouldnt like it, its a love it or hate it deal.
But now that Musk is such a polarising figure and the truck is such a polarising design I think a lot of people cant or wont separate the two.
It’s funny, I love the DeLorean/Tron style, but to me the CT looks nothing like that. Both of those styles have a certain sleekness to them, while nothing about the CT looks sleek.
I kinda liked the concept vehicle, but the production version managed to make just pile terrible little changes on top of one another until it came out looking like a bigger Pontiac Aztek that someone forgot to paint. It's lumpy and quite ugly in a way I was only half-expecting.
i thought they looked cool, until i saw one in person. i honestly expected them to be about 30% smaller. they're stupidly gigantic in real life.
I actually think they're "too small". Didn't they shrink the size sometime after that dude broke the bulletproof window? I swear it was bigger on that demo.
Yes, but I think it's mostly due to my affinity for Brutalism, which the Cybertruck adheres to at an absurd degree. Most people nowadays don't seem to like Brutalism either, except for architects. The real problem is that some forms of Brutalism, like most modern office buildings, are way too simplistic. Like, Brutalism is inherently simple, but mere rectangles are not design.
Fair enough. I'm glad that people have different perspectives than me so I enjoy hearing about them. It is certainly a unique vehicle and there is something slightly charming about being bold in your design choices.
I kind of did at first, and at certain angles I still do, but now that I've seen them at a lot of angles, I had begun to see them as a bit of a laughing stock. Like it's the goofiest design ever when you see what it actually looks like
I kinda like the way it looks too. Not 100% but maybe 80%. But I generally like the look of the 80s style retro futuristic, highly angular vehicles like the DeLorean, Lamborghini Countach, and the Hyundai N74.
I don't want the cybertruck simply because I don't want a huge ass truck and the build quality, but if they had made a Ford Maverick sized one without the quality issues I'd be seriously considering it.
Itd look a lot better if they had given the body panels some subtle dips to break up its monotony. Kinda like the Jeep Wagoneer or Cherokee
I respect that they actually followed through on the original concept, and made something that looks like nothing else on the road.
I dig the look, but they're wildly impractical. Sucks as both a car and a truck. And that's not to mention build quality and inherent issues. Hard no.
I would never own one because of (a) the disrespect for my right to repair and modify and (b) Piss-baby Musk baggage, but I admit I kinda like the styling too.
I'm also a fan of DeLoreans and other '80s sports cars.
I saw one painted black, that was the second time I thought "huh that looks kinda cool."
The first time was when they first unveiled it. Concept models always look futuristic on the floor, but would look ridiculous in the real world. Unfortunately the cybertruck never evolved past the concept model stage.
I didn't like the design when it was unveiled but it has grown on me a bit. I don't hate it and I'm excited for the day I get to see one in person.
I think the vast majority of modern vehicles all look the same. I welcome anyone whose trying out something new. This applies to vehicle modifications as well; even if I don't like what you did to your car, I'll still rather see customized ones like that than the boring gray goo that is the rest of them.
Become a comedian. Make people pay to laugh at you.
My opinion of Musk has nothing to do with it. For the price of it, its ugly as fuck.
I'm not a fan of priuses either, but priuses don't a) take wild swings in design in order to be "edgy" and b) price themselves according to supposed "cool points".
With or without Musk, your choices reflect who you are. This guy bought an overpriced vehicle in order to be "cool" and now he's butt hurt that no one agrees with him.
Cringe
Do you have functioning eyes?
To me, it's not even just about what it looks like. It's what it represents. One cyber truck, if were unique, could be a legitimately cool work of art. But as a mass-market vehicle it's just ridiculous.
Like, if there was only one cyber truck, and it was something a local gearhead had welded up in his garage, I would legitimately respect it as a cool and unique work of artistic expression. It would show that they have creativity and are willing to make a bold statement to the world.
But if you just buy one of thousands of cyber trucks that exist in the world? That no longer represents your original creative expression. That just represents having bad taste and having poor personal finance skills.
Building your own art car is cool. If Ford decides to start making them by the millions, then that would just be sad.
It should have been just one made for elon to drive around in. I'd still laugh though.
"I don't agree with Musk politically, but I just gave him 50k by buying an overpriced vehicle, why do people hate me?"
I've been flashing the loser "L" at them since the first time I saw one.
Because the front face of the car looks like it's exasperated by itself.
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Life. Don't talk to me about life.
This one will never die https://lemmy.world/post/20776341
you cant pick up chicks in a cyber truck
Not true. It would be a huge turn off to pick me up in any gasoline powered truck. An electric truck would be the only type of truck I'd be down to get picked up in
Personally, I like trucks that have passed crash tests with good ratings.
I believe a Rivian R1T is literally your only choice. No other truck has good ratings across the board, that includes gas trucks.
nah I drive a 1967 chevy c10. It passes all the crash tests by breaking the wall.
hell yes.
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When I saw what community this article is posted in I almost choked.
Remove all the hype and it looks stupid
Hell, include the hype, and it looks stupid
I drive a model 3 and I too point an laugh when I see a Cyber truck.
Keep it up.
The cyber truck is the vehicle for the man who wears a fedora with a t-shirt.
Ok @Charly™, did ya farm enough internet points? That site is a bigger pile of dogshit than the truck thing.
I have a song I sing whenever I see a Cybertruck. It's sung in a low, gravelly, MANLY voice. The lyrics go like this:
Cybertruck! I'm a douchbag with too much mon-eey. Cyberbruck! I'm a fan-boy making bad decisions! My mon-eey makes me cool. Look at me compensating! etc...etc
Does anyone remember how, back in the early 2000s, some people would take picture of their hand flipping off a Hummer they saw on the street? I'm getting a similar vibe.
I hate to say this: the Hummer is actually more practical.
How many women own cybertrucks???
We don't need to compensate for dick size.
Unexpected futa?
My two closest friends that justifiably own trucks are women. They are dirty and beaten up base model chevrolets. They certainly don’t need to compensate for dick size. They just have big dogs and work together on a farm!
aluminum frame, steel skin. they put the horse in the cart and had the fare-payers pull the whole thing lolol
Despite how he's painted in the article, I actually quite like the guy. He bought an overpriced product but genuinely seems to like it and is a bit annoyed that people are laughing at him not because the product is expensive, but because of the association of the product with the manufacturers shitty politics.
It'd be like laughing at someone who bought an Apple Mac after the founder of the company has repeatedly been seen washing his feet in a toilet. Despite how overpriced and unnecessary the Mac is, people seem to like it and no one is making toilet associations with them. He's asking for the same concession to be made for him.
Well I would, but I really hate the manufacturer, so I'm guessing I'm standing with my fellow mob of pointing and laughing. Sorry about that, my dear.
More like the founded buying cobalt from slaves and using factories that manufacturer their product with children. Which is the case for Apple.
I genuinely believe that Apple's fan culture is just as bad as Tesla's fan culture... with the caveat that Apples founder wasn't visibly trying to sway an election with misinformation.
Again, I see a cyber truck, I point and laugh. I see a Mac user, I raise an eyebrow but say nothing.
I swear most of you are just assholes looking for manufacturer moral justification to bully people.
Simple solution. Move to a town that isn't fully of pretentious haters. You could always live around normal people. But some towns are cursed with these kinds of people.
People who hate shitty unsafe cars?