Modern Vespa

I'll say again: Elon Musk is a fraud.

nope

Reminds me of a certain make of motor scooter!

I'm not casting aspersions on unibody construction, though. I'm casting aspersions on anyone dumb enough to cut the roof off of a unibody car without other stiffening reinforcements.

I just can't figure out why he made it so weird looking.

The Rivian, F-150 Lightning, and Hummer are all electric trucks that look like, well, trucks. The Ford can even be fixed by a regular body shop should it get dented, and can reverse power your home with the right gear.

Tesla makes normal-ish looking cars, but they beat the poor Cybertruck with an ugly stick.

Saw one today with the license plate FRIDGE

Cool.

Looking at my own fridge ... they aren't wrong.

Ran across this statement:

Windshield and electrical components removed. Ready for cutting. Tape line is where the top gets chopped. Windshield and side windows will be trimmed to match.

You won't take it personally if I downvote that post?

Just to be clear I'm an ICE guy. That's what I make my living working on. I think this vehicle is silly. To each their own and I'm totally cool with that.

My good friend got hired to make this thing an open top vehicle. The owner obviously has enough money to take a chance on ruining it and probably thinks it'll work. I think its a bad idea personally. My work is just across the way so I get to see the carnage unfold. Just sharing the progress of the mod with MV. If you have any comments please post them. You won't hurt my feelings at all. I've had many laughs from this thread already! Hope my friend is getting paid well.

My nephew just got his:

All that cutting is sure to create a lot sparks. Did you have to drain all of the petrol to limit fire risk?

Is the yellow one in the background one that he's already done. If so, awesome job, it looks so much nicer.

I can't help but think that if the owner finds an old mattress or a moth eaten sofa chucked in their ride one morning, they've only got themselves to blame!

The house next door seems to be selling to some folks with a cyber truck. There goes the neighborhood.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBALTfaJb-K/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

From, Being John "Elon" Malkovich,
If I were building stuff on earth, I would put the RnD and build like it was going to Mars. He already took so many of my ideas off twitmo it's ridiculous. He hated my suggestion of an ant farm as a pre-requisite, to sending humons to marz. His little dome project didn't work, so..
His track record for safety in his operations are terrible.

What I'm most intrigued by is nasa firing up their plans with European Space Agency for Jupiter.
We have the technology to see into atmospheres, into the bottom of the oceans from space. Jupiter is likely to have life right now. I think they know this. Like all my relativity rants, finding life on such a toxic planet as Jupiter could be detrimental to our soft cozy existence, meaning life that spawned there is exponentially more hostile by its very nature than all of our pissy infighting.
Mars may have underground water where life still exists. But the governments are going to..
I think they have better intel.

I got to ride in my nephew's CyberTruck over the Thanksgiving break.

While I still think the design is horrible, I have to admit that it is very nice inside, it rides great, and the Self Driving technology is pretty damn good.

It did bother me that everything was touch-sensitive buttons. There are no door handles, either on the outside or inside. You have to push a button to open the door. And all the controls are on the large LCD touchscreen, so you have to know how to navigate to it. My nephew was telling me that he'll get OTA updates to it and things will move, but it will have a notification that the control has moved, and will ask if he wants to move it back.

Based on the features, I wouldn't mind having a Tesla, just not a CyberTruck.

Wouldnt you find the lack of physical door handles a bit unsettling though?

Yes, but I'm sure I'd get used to it after a while.

I know that the cars have external door handles that extend and retract as needed. And I'd hope that there's some sort of mechanical override to be able to get into/out of the truck if it loses power.

Apparently you have to yank off the door side panel to get to something to pull. I'm told that just a few days ago some people got burnt up because they didn't know how to get out.

Yeah...I'd hate to accept a ride from someone I didn't know well....

I'm still not over the doofus trying to turn around in a driveway in front of me on my way to work this summer. I'll excuse him if he was getting a test drive (doubt we have a dealer here tho...). Took forever while my scooter idled, eventually positioned himself in the oncoming lane and waited, I guess for me to proceed, but it was anything but smooth. I did have time to admire it close up, however.

The other night I was entering a parking lot with a cybertruck leaving, got to see the front LED strip lit up. After my "WTF is that?" moment, I was left fully uninspired. I have seen innovation that made me a bit envious, this wasn't it.

If you were an early purchaser of the Cybertruck, there's some not so good news out late last year. Tesla dropped the price low enough that they qualify for the tax credit, so someone can pay about $73K for the same truck that people preordered for more than $100K.

They'll need to discount it more than that before I'll be interested.

A lot more.

14:20

I hadn't twigged they were illegal in the UK!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0lldd30xlo

In Europe too...

They are legal in Chechnya, and come with a rather unique system to discourage drivers from holding up traffic.

Got my Cyber Truck all polished up ...

Pretty small wheels. How good is it offload?

For the price it's never going to see anything but pavement, man.

That looks like a real hot ride!

Is it wrong to down vote Dad jokes like this one?

We need a :groan: emoticon.

You could have a real sausagefest with that.

Yeah, I looked for one, DNF, so just let it lie there.