Lots of cynics here can’t separate the baby from the bathwater. You may need to get off your device and try driving one. Moreover, it’s an EV and i know reducing carbon emissions is a value that’s widely held here. It might be that you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
It just feels folks here want to align the people with the things with the beliefs and then let the negative opinion span across all of it as if it were one thing. It feels intellectually lazy. Or is it stereotyping?
i wonder if these detracting comments are meant to be persuasive or just score points with like the like-minded. Consensus indicates something, i suppose, lol.
It’s sad to me that this type of car is street legal. It’s so clearly unsafe for everyone on the outside of it (other cars and all humans who share the streets). It’s a massive steel battering ram with acceleration that has no purpose other than entertainment and peacocking. Meanwhile I’m pushing my child in a stroller in fear.<p>I’m glad the NHTSA is going to start actually testing car safety with pedestrian dummies. That’s a start.
The competition are selling trucks that are significantly less capable than gas trucks selling for loads less.<p>Tesla is selling a very expensive conversation piece out of a sci-fi movie. There's nothing else really like it.
"In June, Cox Automotive noted that the Cybertruck was the best-selling vehicle in the United States priced over $100,000."<p>That's very surprising. Almost more so than the headline.
In San Francisco this week, and saw one for the first time (from a Waymo; presumably the cybertruck’s computer was seething with jealousy at the spinning lidar thingy as we passed). Burst out laughing (in my defence I’d had a drink or two, but it’s really an amazingly ridiculous looking object in the flesh.)
They now seem to be as common as any other car in my area. I see one or more every day. I can’t imagine what would make someone want to buy one besides the “hey look I have an obnoxious new thing” effect, and that appears to be quickly diminishing.