... and you feel nothing.

At first glance it reminds me of a 1990s video game where they don't have the polygons and the graphic card horse power to display what a Pontiac Aztek would look like.

Graphic cards have met a hard limit, and we now have to reduce the visuals of reality to make games look more realistic.

Hey, you support Elon, you get what you deserve.

Play stupid Elon games win stupid Elon prizes!

That's a very ugly vehicle...

I think it's beautiful as an art piece. A perfect testament to a rich manchild's inability to be told "no".
And now people get to drive around in this embodiment of hubris.
- I respect how provocative it is because that's a very hard thing to try for intentionally. As a concept car it absolutely works.

Wait was it really 100k I thought the whole idea was it was super cheap to produce and buy because flat metal plates are way easier to manufacture

Because everyone knows 90% of the manufacturing cost of a car is bending the bodywork panels.
- Got me on that one ahah
- One of Musks pitches for selling the car at 40k was that bending the steel panels is cheaper then making curved and painted ones.
  Of course, the cars lowest trim is 60k because Musk is a liar, but that was part of the hype he was selling.
It’s a special alloy and it turns out it doesn’t like to make big flat parts, or something like that.
- Yea I started watching the MKBHD video on it and turned it off at the part where he was kinda justifying how sophisticated the metal pressing process had to be because it has some elasticity or something and was hard to get consistent … the upshot of which was, as MKBHD admitted, that the panels were inconsistent and you were going to get random gaps in the plating. He kinda showed some examples, and to me, even over YouTube, it just felt cheap and I no longer understood how someone could feel ok spending the money.
Just think how much more expensive it would be.
This is the largest battery, three motor version of the vehicle, the performance model.
The smaller battery/single motor version will be cheaper, it will also be the last one produced
- "'last one produced" meaning never produced in elon world.
  It's bait to get bros interested and impatient so they eventually cave and leap on one of the other models. Also, if they miraculously did get to the "cheap one" by the time that would happen, they'd raise cost of all models by $20k so it's still the cheapest or some other similar bullshit.

I honestly thought that at launch they would drop away the metal panels to reveal a kickass vehicle underneath.

Nope. That's actually the thing.

lolwtf

I love taking the wind out of Elon's sails because he is just a horrible and cringe person to an extreme degree, but I personally like the cybertruck aesthetically. It definitely different from anything we have seen in a truck, and I'm all for it. It's also basically a concept car that is somehow actually making it to market, and if it motivates the bigger auto makers to take more chances with their designs and ideas, I think it's great.
That said, its so ludicrously expensive, and so impractical/not advisable for all the reasons I would personally use a truck, because it's basically an SUV with a bed. It's like a Chevy Avalanche/Honda Ridgeline mashup. This thing is the ultimate pavement princess. If there's one thing I wouldn't be an early adopter for, it's something thats whole purpose is to get beat the fuck up.
- It really does just look like a Lamborghini you'd get on an N64 if you didn't have the expansion pack.
- I really can't fathom anyone seriously thinking this is good aesthetically without assuming they have a serious bias affecting their judgement in form of payment, cognitive deficiency, misplaced Musk sympathy, or otherwise.
  Other auto makers are doing just fine with their designs overall, we don't need to include children's scribbles of a car when talking about where car designs should be headed.
- I personally like the cybertruck aesthetically
  I can understand liking the idea of the cyber truck but its aesthetic is so different from convention that I think people need to see it in person to decide if they like it.
  There are so many things in it that are different in ways that might be better it is hard for me to imagine it selling well.

Don’t forget that you can’t haul much because the dumbass designers sloped the walls of your bed. You have plenty of room for friends though, if you could make any.

Wasn't sure what your meant...
Bottom is release version
- That's about the level of craftsmanship I expect to see in a wheelbarrow from Harbor Freight.
People with big trucks didn't haul anything anyway. It's all just manly cosplay.
Just like most pickup trucks sold with too short beds and a crew cab lol. At least this one is electric despite being fugly
- The vast majority of pickups don’t have sloped bed walls. The only other one I can think of is the Chevy Avalanche, and they aren’t sloped the whole way to the tailgate, only part way.
- I mean to be fair most pickup trucks and SUVs are fugly too, just not quite this bad.
Fuck my ridgeline feels big!

I actually thought it would look cool at least since it's wildly different. That's just plain genuinely ugly.

It looks like something the top gear guys would have made for a laugh before dropping it into the sea
- True tho. In some episodes they just solder random panes of metal together for a joke and those look better. Id rather drive the two sided car than this.
Similar concept to the discrepancy in the pictures of food in a restaurant menu vs what you're actually served.
I still think it looks really cool, but I'm still in favour of more accessible public transportation eating away at the space cars have taken from us.
Also I will never ever buy a Tesla, for wide ranging variety of other reasons.
It's like driving a doorstop in reverse.

Plus you can't leave it parked anywhere. Anyone who sees it will want to recreate the famous steel ball test. Dude will spend a fortune at the tesla dealership getting his "bulletproof" windows replaced every week.

Honestly this just seems like the best way to have both sides of the relevant conversation hate you. The urbanists will hate you because you bought a Cybertruck which exemplifies all the problems with large cars in urban areas and car dependency in general, not to mention techbro dependency. And the truck people will hate you because you bought a liberal socialist soy boy electric truck instead of a noble, God-anointed, by your bootstraps diesel truck.
Wouldn't be surprised if someone comes back to the parking lot to see a line of alternating rednecks and railfans all taking turns keying their truck.
It’s definitely going to be very popular with some ~~crews~~ groups…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Sxq5LPtPM

LPT: Don't buy anything chasing after happiness.

IMO it depends on what you're buying. Exercise and training to compete in sports that I do brings me some of the most happiness I have in my life, so buying sports equipment really does improve my happiness because it lets me do what I enjoy. I enjoy astronomy and just bought my first telescope recently and it has brought me a ton of joy. OTOH I have also been pulled into the cycle of buying shit because it's new and shiny and once it transforms from a "new thing" into just a "thing", it loses my attention.
I bought a house with an extraordinarily beautiful view. And I can say without a doubt it’s definitely made me a happier person.
Years later, and still enjoy that view as much as I did the first day I moved in.
- Really not what I meant. I mean you don't chase after happiness with purchases. You know how like people chase after happiness with alcohol, drugs, etc. These things won't make you happy, you have to find happiness in life at a more fundamental level.

you sit at a red light. a bicycle passes you on the side of traffic. you grow obscenely, irrationally angry and vow to get all bike lanes removed from your city. the traffic gets worse.

Ughh it just looks like a fridge with wheels

Most fridges do have wheels, especially the large ones.
- Fridges also don't crush people all that often.
- I have wheels, Greg... Can you milk me?

Hot take: It's no stupider than any other pickup truck, and at least it stands out. Don't get me wrong, it's fugly as hell, but that's still better than being indistinguishable from every other vehicle in its class.

Plus at least it's not spewing exhaust everywhere.
As a pick-up it however absolutely fails compared to everything else in its class.
- Why does it fail any more than all the other dumb American pickup trucks that also fail at being pickup trucks?
Why would you want your car to stand out?
- Because that's the purpose of a posermobile, which the vast majority of pickup trucks are.
- Social status. The main reason for wanting to stand out (other than your own ego) is because having a higher social status will offer the individual more opportunities in these social games we play.
  Perception matters more than the truth for most
- To find it faster in a parking lot?
I agree, won't stop me from making fun of it though!
I would have to disagree. A new Tacoma is about $60,000 less stupid than this.

but, but, the only way to fill the void in my heart is to consooooooooom!

Coom

If they get a square wheel it'd be perfect 😌👌

[Puts on stupid, ugly, expensive sunglasses at night]

🎶 "Reluctantly (chuckled at by teens), at the starting line..." 🎶

Pointing, and laughing and cringing inside
The green light flashes, the jig is up
Buyers. Remorse. A divorce creeping up.
- The son chose the mom, and they both moved out,
  He stormed off to Hooters, drank til he passed out,
  He's now home yelling, and crying, snot lining his face, the light of a Twitter feed in an emp-ty, place...
  Cuz he's going to post now, he's going in-cel, he's all alone, ALL ALONE, and he's buying what the nazis sell....
*cries behind my Ray-Bans"

You feel worse than nothing.

You cant remember what that joy you were chasing felt like

Why would anyone go into debt for something like this? If you can't afford it, you should clearly not be buying something like this.

Other than that, it is largely foolish to consider other's opinions on a lot of our actions.

News flash, easily over 50% of cars on the road are bought with borrowed money and therefore debt.
- Even people that don't need loans still do some sort of financing option for their credit score.
Should someone tell him? Who is going to tell him?
Alright, I will do it. People make bad decisions.
- Noooooo! Every person makes decisions optimal for their risk profile!
  Sometimes a good label for their risk profile is "stupid".
It's OK to go into debt over a depreciating asset if you can afford to default on the loan, and it substantially improves your ability to make money. Businesses do it all the time. If a sole trader could work better with the cybertruck for some reason(I've got nothing) and could borrow off their house as collateral, that's a financially savvy business decision.
But a lot of people fall victim to predatory marketing. We need to recognize that it's not just them being dumb, they were manipulated, tricked and lied to by a powerful machine.

Doesn't look too bad in this light, it's the even daylight where the idea of it doesn't show. I think it's ugly but can look cool in certain light like this, the top section bright and the lower shadowed. Should have been a concept car cause of obvious reasons producing it at scale.

Part of me respects a design that can be so provocative. It shows how people care about design, and reminds me how boring and "nothing" a lot of the objects we interact with on a daily basis are.

why is the background image reversed?

To fit the text better

Just let people enjoy things

What if they are feeling good and happier? You're just making up feelings

This kind of post on here gets auto praise. There are specific buzz words/images/brands/rich people you can use on Lemmy to be praised how they’re saying people praise Elon.