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Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • P [email protected]

    You are acting like they don't have an interest in arming/militarizing local police...

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    You act like you don't understand police departments need grants to buy those things also.

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      Trump lifted the tariffs. At this point I think it was just a smoke screen so there would be less coverage of Elon taking over the Treasury.

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      He delayed them for a month.

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      • aeri@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

        I wouldn't take a cybertruck if it was free, ignoring musk entirely it's just a bad vehicle.

        The only place I'll drive a Cybertruck is in Fortnite because there I want my car to be unsafe.

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        My boys specifically go after anyone in a Fortnite cyber truck.

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          Fucking why dude? Elon shit aside, you ostensibly knew what this thing looked like, right?

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          I honestly don't mind the design. Sure some people hate it, but I didn't care about others opinions on my car. That's why my current vehicle is 25 years old. At that time, I was looking for a larger EV and during that time large EVs were nonexistent.

          What sold me was the functionality. The concept had bench front row seating so I could seat 6(which they removed in the final). It had a usable trunk unlike the EVs at the time. There was frunk which was only on Teslas at the time. Also Tesla at the time had the highest safety rating among all cars. A promising auto pilot (which is a lie).

          It also claimed to have a bullet proof shell and glass. While Seattle is relatively safe, there have been many instances where people have been murdered for road rage or just existing at a red light

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            I honestly don't mind the design. Sure some people hate it, but I didn't care about others opinions on my car. That's why my current vehicle is 25 years old. At that time, I was looking for a larger EV and during that time large EVs were nonexistent.

            What sold me was the functionality. The concept had bench front row seating so I could seat 6(which they removed in the final). It had a usable trunk unlike the EVs at the time. There was frunk which was only on Teslas at the time. Also Tesla at the time had the highest safety rating among all cars. A promising auto pilot (which is a lie).

            It also claimed to have a bullet proof shell and glass. While Seattle is relatively safe, there have been many instances where people have been murdered for road rage or just existing at a red light

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            And it was the first electric truck for a little while, even though it ended up being delayed for so long and being an AWFUL truck and totally outclassed by both Ford and Rivian.

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              It certainly doesn't look very useful. It looks like you asked a 5-year-old to draw a "cool truck."

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              I'm generally all for that idea. Everything is the same gravel color now, and oversized and shitty. They could have made something that looked different but was still useful. They just failed.

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                I knew they should have built a real smoke and engine noise generator into the cyber truck. So that all those who insist on polluting, don't have to be left out.

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                • F [email protected]

                  Tesla just needs a new slogan or a good marketing campaign.

                  Something like:

                  Tesla - power by joy

                  Or "Kraft durch Freude" in German.

                  All that would perfectly fit the brand image.

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                  I'm pretty sure that the new employee orientation has a banner that says something about work setting me free.

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                  • ian@feddit.ukI [email protected]

                    I knew they should have built a real smoke and engine noise generator into the cyber truck. So that all those who insist on polluting, don't have to be left out.

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                    They could put a big diesel in that large unused empty space in the back.

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                      You act like you don't understand police departments need grants to buy those things also.

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                      You act like they won't be replaced or disbanded by Musk if they won't do what he wants. He has enough money to buy anyone and anything. And he shows he isn't scared in doing so.

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                      • aeri@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                        There are a lot of testimonials from people who own the bastard things declaring that they're virtually unsellable, by the way.

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                        Can you sell it for resources? There have to be some rare metals in them.

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                        • S [email protected]

                          I realize the American educational system has gone downhill, but surely at some point somebody taught you the concept of nuance? That not everything is black or white, good or evil? That sometimes things are shades of gray? Sometimes good people do bad things, bad people do good things, etc?
                          And that not everything is as it first appears at face value, you have to look deeper to understand?

                          I for one am very much a student of nuance.

                          I think we would both agree that of late, Elon has somewhat gone off the rails.
                          But that doesn't mean everything he has ever done or ever will do is automatically bad. I can dislike his current politics and the way he is approaching this efficiency project, without having to shit on everything he's ever done.

                          Thus, I remain a fan of SpaceX and Tesla, for the simple reason that they both lead their respective fields technology-wise. As someone who has owned a Tesla for years (going back to the days when everybody loved Elon), I can confidently say from personal first-hand experience that it is a fantastic car.
                          The fact that I now disagree with many of its founder's politics doesn't change the car in my driveway. It was a fantastic car when I bought it and it's an even more fantastic car now as FSD gets further refined.

                          I ask, for the good of our nation, please avoid black and white thinking. A population unable to grasp nuance and uninterested in looking deeper for motivations and questions below the surface is easily manipulated with range bait news. Republicans have been doing this for decades. Democrats have just started in the last 4 or 5 years.

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                          I don't do nuance with Nazi shit, sorry.

                          Didn't bother reading past that nonsense. Glad you got some writing exercise in, though.

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                          • lordwiggle@lemmy.worldL [email protected]

                            If you do not revolt against the government, you will receive a free cybertruck as a replacement for your house, which will be too expensive to live in.

                            Each immigrant willing to leave voluntarily will receive a free cybertruck.

                            The US military, firefighters, EMT's and police force will get new vehicles! They will all start to use cybertrucks.

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                            Do they still let you charge for free on the Tesla network?

                            Charge it during the day, run your house off of it at night when you are home. Save electricity.

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                            • aeri@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                              I wouldn't take a cybertruck if it was free, ignoring musk entirely it's just a bad vehicle.

                              The only place I'll drive a Cybertruck is in Fortnite because there I want my car to be unsafe.

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                              I even purposely avoided the free Fortnite Cybertruck.

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                              • P [email protected]

                                Fucking why dude? Elon shit aside, you ostensibly knew what this thing looked like, right?

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                                The thing is, for a truck that’s used for truck shit, functionality, practicality, and reliability are probably the most important. Styling will always be relevant to customers, but should be a secondary concern for a tough utilitarian vehicle.

                                It’s too bad they flipped those priorities and made an overpriced junky status symbol. I think Elon wanting people to see the “amazing” design was one of the main drivers behind it getting released when it did. It was clearly not ready 5 years ago since it’s still not ready now.

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                                • panarab@lemm.eeP [email protected]

                                  It is not a good pickup truck regardless of Musk being a fascist

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                                  It looks like musk gave a verbal description of a truck to someone who never seen one before and they just went with it.

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                                    Do they still let you charge for free on the Tesla network?

                                    Charge it during the day, run your house off of it at night when you are home. Save electricity.

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                                    Thanks to Elon, inspecting governmental bodies, regulations and regulators will be dissolved, so probably the cybertruck will be an amazing camp fire, better known as a dumbster fire, due to spontaneous combustion like Chinese cars in China. Then to blame it on trans people or something.

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                                    • monstrosity@lemm.eeM [email protected]

                                      I don't do nuance with Nazi shit, sorry.

                                      Didn't bother reading past that nonsense. Glad you got some writing exercise in, though.

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                                      There are a lot of moneyed interests who want us all fighting each other. They want that so they can continue to extract the wealth of the nation for themselves. So while you explain why you've no need to listen to anybody, you are helping them.

                                      Ever see a magic show? The magician sets up the trick and the cute bikini clad assistant jumps around and flashes her hands to capture your attention so you don't notice the magician has just palmed your card instead of shuffling it.
                                      Elon is the assistant here. Everybody is focused on him and his stupid salute and all of the crazy things people like him say and do, and people are not focused on the real question of how to stop the fact that Americacs people are being bled dry.

                                      I would encourage you to read the story of Daryl Davis, he is a black musician, most famous for becoming friends with a number of KKK members. Those people were used to being hated by black people and vice versa. All Daryl did was talk to them, listen to them, find elements of commonality. I think like 40 or 50 KKK members have left the organization because of him.

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                                        There are a lot of moneyed interests who want us all fighting each other. They want that so they can continue to extract the wealth of the nation for themselves. So while you explain why you've no need to listen to anybody, you are helping them.

                                        Ever see a magic show? The magician sets up the trick and the cute bikini clad assistant jumps around and flashes her hands to capture your attention so you don't notice the magician has just palmed your card instead of shuffling it.
                                        Elon is the assistant here. Everybody is focused on him and his stupid salute and all of the crazy things people like him say and do, and people are not focused on the real question of how to stop the fact that Americacs people are being bled dry.

                                        I would encourage you to read the story of Daryl Davis, he is a black musician, most famous for becoming friends with a number of KKK members. Those people were used to being hated by black people and vice versa. All Daryl did was talk to them, listen to them, find elements of commonality. I think like 40 or 50 KKK members have left the organization because of him.

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                                        Look, you can make friends with as many KKK as you want.

                                        I'd rather follow the example my Grandfathers set, thanks.

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                                          I saw my first cybertruck in traffic yesterday, I initially thought that some redneck had every part you need to make a car except for the frame and body, and was like "I don't need none of that fancy shit, I got square tube and steel plate!" and welded together the laziest design they could think of. Then I realized it was just a cybertruck, and promptly laughed at it.

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                                          If it was part of a trend of Redneck shit mobiles itd be respectable but stupid, the fact that they are built out of a factory and not Bubba'd out of scrap metal and random parts in a garage makes them thoroughly stupid and infinitely trashy.

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