• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      111·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, it looks like shit. But it also can’t be taken out in the rain or through a car wash, falls apart constantly, catches on fire, and traps its users inside.

    • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      The way it looks isn’t the issue, it’s the way it functions (or doesn’t). I can 100% tell that this truck was designed by someone who a. has never owned a truck, and b. doesn’t know why people own trucks.

      • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
        14·
        3 days ago

        b. doesn’t know why people own trucks

        Seems like it was designed for the people who buy trucks for the wrong reasons (i.e. pavement princesses and emotional-support trucks).

        • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          One of the things I do all the time in my truck is reach over the wall into the back of the bed. Literally I did that a week ago to move a large box of printer filament from the back of the bed toward the front where I could get it.

          In a Cybertruck, you can’t do that. If you slide something to the back of the bed, you just have to crawl into the bed to get it. I hate crawling into the bed of my truck. The grooves in the bed that guide water away from whatever you’re hauling huuuuuurt to crawl on. So, whoever designed the Cybertruck (Musk, I assume), has never actually used a pickup truck long term.

          There’s also the fact that the frame of the Cybertruck is aluminum, meaning if you tow with it, it’s a matter of when, not if, whatever you’re towing (plus the part of the frame it’s attached to) will snap off your truck and continue down the highway, meeting whatever or whoever unfortunately is driving ahead of you.

          • titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I’m just saying, why would you crawl into the bed? Climb up, walk to the front, just saying there isn’t a reason to crawl across the bed.

            • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
              11·
              2 days ago

              I can’t step up three and a half feet, so I have to either crawl up or step up onto the back tire and climb over the wall. When I’m parked in my driveway, because of the angle of the driveway, I can make it so the tailgate is only about three feet off the ground, then I can step up, but that’s only if I’m parked at my house. And if I have the cover on my bed, then I actually do have to crawl all the way into the back, but then I wouldn’t be able to reach over the wall anyway, so that case doesn’t matter.

    • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
      85·
      3 days ago

      I like the way it looks, I think modern car design is incredibly boring. I don’t like the guy who makes it or the mountain of design decisions that make it a rusting turd, but I like the aesthetic.