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- NBQ000
Tesla unveils Optimus Gen 2: its next generation humanoid robot
- monNom0
The crumple-zones seem to be a non-issue per this video. They're incorporated into the design of the front and rear castings.
- @6:30 front, and @7:15 rearmonNom
- probably fails the Euro NCAP. European regulations require a 2.5mm minimum radius on all exterior corners of a vehiclejonny_quest_lives
- https://cdn.euroncap…jonny_quest_lives
- the munro channel leans into clickbaitey assessments now I used to enjoy themjonny_quest_lives
- i feel they are less objective in the last 3 years since they figured out their youtube monetization nichejonny_quest_lives
- this truck will definitely sell to a niche buyers... over 50 disposable income types on HGH and maybe this guy:jonny_quest_lives
- https://youtu.be/a2T…jonny_quest_lives
- jonny_quest_lives0
New Ford Christmas Ad dropped...
- argh I cringe whenever I hear AI voice overs._niko
- Wouldn’t that just be a tire thing?Gnash
- tire psi, weight, power... off roading isn't the easiest the problem was it left the road. most people believe 4x4 vehicles =instant offroad adaptabilityjonny_quest_lives
- Weight is the enemy of performance in every single respect and circumstance.jonny_quest_lives
- at least that's how i feel on my morning runsjonny_quest_lives
- Nairn0
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Didn't the recent public unveil show crash-tested Cybertrucks with crumpled fronts? Doesn't even America have stringent safety tests that would ban non-compliant motors from manufacture? Isn't the steel actually less than 1.8mm thick?I know we all love to shit on the melon, but let's try and stick to facts, eh?
What I do find interesting is the complete lack of Tesla branding, which I'm guessing the management have kind of insisted upon.
Also, the more I see of this thing, the more embarrassed I am that I originally thought it looked quite cool and game-changing. Its looks like complete shite to me now, but what the hey.
- It's a dystopian idea.
Syd Mead designed better cars in the 70's and had a much better vision for the world those cars inhabited.PhanLo - The idea that you would drive a bulletbroof car in public streets that is almost twice the height of a sensible sized vehicle shows where Melon's head is at.PhanLo
- He's a new Detroit futurist.
People do seem concerned with the crumple zones on the rigid body https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- It's a dystopian idea.
- PhanLo0
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"now i’m not saying it’s going to be funny when a cybertruck massacres everyone inside of it because the autopilot hit a concrete barrier going 40 mph, but when the car made out of thick sheet metal with no crumple zones transfers the entire force and energy of the impact into the now liquidated bodies of its driver like a mortal kombat x-ray move, i might laugh"
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"the crazy part is it’s so much worse than old cars. old cars were made of 1-2mm thick mild steel usually. the cybertruck is made of 3mm thick STAINLESS steel. in like the 1930s some car manufacturers used to try to make stainless steel cars to stop rusting, but stopped because it was just killing people on impact. the cybertruck is the only stainless steel car in literally decades, and the only one with steel this thick.elon knows his moron customers are the kind of people who think their car needs to be literally bulletproof because they’re too scared to drive through a city and think they’ll get shot, so that’s what they made. a car that kills you and everyone around you to entertain suburban fascist fantasies. its the most american car ever made"
- neverscared1
Tesla loses legal action in Sweden as dispute with Nordic unions escalates
Court decides postal service does not have to deliver licence plates, for now, in latest twist in row over collective bargainingTesla has lost a legal action against Sweden’s postal service as a dispute with Nordic trade unions escalates.
A Swedish court said on Thursday that PostNord did not, for the time being, need to deliver licence plates to the electric carmaker that were being blocked by the postal service’s workers, in the latest twist in a battle over collective bargaining agreements.
- neverscared4
Danish union joins strike action against Tesla by Swedish workers
Pressure grows on US electric car company to grant collective bargaining rights to employeesDenmark’s largest trade union has joined strike action by Swedish Tesla workers, piling pressure on the US electric car company to agree to collective bargaining rights for its employees.
Members of the Swedish trade union IF Metall have been on strike for six weeks – attracting support across industries, including from postal workers, painters, electricians and dock workers who have all launched secondary action.
- nb0
If you haven’t seen the truck in person, don’t rush to judgement. It looks silly in pics and video but up close it looks fucking dope.
It is by far the most interesting product design of the year. Kudos to Tesla. Now if they could just work on designing an interior with physical controls and stop making dumb handles and get better at quality control, they’re going to sail past the competition
- lol https://twitter.com/…neverscared
- does the car come with a thompson ?...classicneverscared
- Gnash0
- weird futuristic cartel vehicles is a growth market https://www.rezvanim…jonny_quest_lives
- I like these rims better that the stock LEGO looking rims.fooler
- monNom2
Say what you will about the man, he knows how to shake things up. He could have made a body on frame truck like everyone else, and put a tough looking body on top of a ladder frame,
It would have been the easy thing to do. But instead he tried the more difficult thing: to reinvent the truck from a clean-sheet. He apparently looked to his experience with aerospace manufacture to build a stressed-skin structure similar to an airliner, a rocket, or a modern armoured personel carrier (wonder where those design lines and "bullet-proof" marketing come from?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP…It's weird looking. But it is fucking cool. From a design and engineering perspective, this is the stuff I love to see.
- this right hereYakuZoku
- agree. he's had the balls to do something different and has stuck to his guns.microkorg
- It looks like a truck from an 80's low budget scifi film where they welded sheets of metal on a van to make it look futuristic. Like all his ideas.PhanLo
- did i miss something cuz i thought it was revealed as a unibody with panels bolted on like any other vehicle months backjonny_quest_lives
- https://www.autoevol…jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.motortre…jonny_quest_lives
- It’ll have issues in cold weather. People will lose fingers on those ridiculous no handle doors and the windshield wiper is Homer Simpson absurd._niko
- And the weight coupled with the sharp angles of the bulletproof frame and instead of crumpling and absorbing impacts it’s going to slice cars in half_niko
- But I do love the fuckyouery of it all_niko
- 'his experience with aerospace manufacture'
Jesus fucking Christ. He has money, that's his experience. Hust like he'll buy you a pony for writing this.face_melter - Agree. All other car brands just do stupid concepts that never see the light of day instead of having balls to do it.NBQ00
- yes thats true... def. more balls than neurons... the mafia..drug cartells will love this car... will make police work much more difficult...saving civilisationneverscared
- with a car that crushes smaller cars....very charming... well, most people always prefer muscles over mind... aerospace manufacture...lol.neverscared
- needs the interiour bunker highly likely because his self driving is literally the killer...neverscared
- pushing civil cars towards to military protection..u can only ask whats next ? his faible for apocalyptic vibes clearly materialized..neverscared
- antisocial wanker carPhanLo
- Those head-on crash tests look a bit concerningwordssssss
- I think a proper unibody has zero structural contribution from the body panels. You wouldn’t use 1/8th inch thick stainless if not structural.monNom
- A typical body panel is 22ga steel which is about 1/4 the thickness of the cyber truck’s cladding. You just wouldn’t add that much weight for no reason.monNom
- And the cybertruck is the same weight as an aluminum bodied, steel framed F150 lightning. There must be something interesting going on to achieve that.monNom
- To be clear: I’m not a Tesla fanboy at all, nothing they’ve done before has really perked up my antenae. But this is cool.monNom
- neverscared-3
cybertruck amercian vibes....big fat car will be laughed off the streets in europe
- it won't even get on those streets to be laughed offhans_glib
- was rhetoricalneverscared
- NBQ001
- i guess we will c more of that when lunatics can get military style protected in their cars https://slate.com/bu…neverscared
- more and more...neverscared
- and easily for a lower price..neverscared
- https://slate.com/bu…neverscared
- police chases next level... kinda sucks..neverscared
- it really does look like a low budget 80s sci fi prop.hans_glib
- Nairn3
It's so delicilously-awkward
- Also deliciously, but what the hej.Nairn
- wooooooooh yeah!PhanLo
- I gotta say, if i was in any way positioned to buy a dickhead truck, I'd be one of these.Nairn
- So I have to have an account to view the meaningless shit posted to his meaningless site that only assholes and idiots visit?monospaced
- No thanks. I guess I’ll live not knowing what that link goes to. Keep up the good work Elon.monospaced
- NO OFFENSE especially to those utter dickwads around here who actually look up to this guy or his companies.monospaced
- +1monospaced
- ok mono, okNBQ00
- the far right wing dreamcar... bullet proof douchebag ... de santis can drive it right up to disney world and show off is pompous ass and cowboybootsneverscared
- apocalypse enginneering.... #doomprophetneverscared
- fella design a bullet proof truck.....the woke mind virus must be fueling paranoia exuberantly...neverscared
- looks like a deluded "arms race" who builds the car than can crush the other cars.. if u are not game u are fucked... male hard dick measure at its finestneverscared
- thatneverscared
- PhanLo-1
- According to the NFPA, over 10 million highway vehicle fires caused about 19,000 deaths and over 70,000 injuries in the US from 1980–2015.sted
- Pinto was manufactured between 1971 and 1980 only 3,173,491 units produced. Tesla made 1.3 million units in 2022.sted
- Beginning in 1973, field reports of Ford Pintos consumed by fire after low-speed rear-end collisions were received by Ford's recall coordinator officested
- We would hope that in 50 years car safety would have improved?PhanLo
- It has improved obviously.monospaced
- NBQ000
- Everyone is entitled to make their own choices in life but people who convinced themselves the Tesla yoke is superior to a steering wheel are an odd lot.jonny_quest_lives
- nb1
Tried a new ridesharing app that only uses Teslas. The driver was fucking unhinged. I guess what you’d call a “bro”, but also he was a crazy person. I felt a little unsafe like he might snap or something. but his driving wasn’t too bad. Not good, but nothing super dangerous and it was nighttime nyc traffic so we weren’t going fast. I kinda wanted to get out of the car though. Didn’t feel safe around this guy.
It’s just one experience but now I’m a little bit thinking like “are Tesla drivers insane?”