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I’m not getting in one of those. I will walk. No thank you.
Can’t wait to read the same headline for the Robo Taxi and androids.
This thing is The Homer, but if Homer watched back to the future and was a nazi.
From the first demo of the bullet proof glass shattering, it was obvious this was trash.
There’s a guy near me who drives one, he parks it next to the garbage dumpster and it fits in perfectly.
Are you kidding, the Homer had a domed windshield, two of them! … full 360 degree unobstructed view of the world … what does the cybertruck have? Angles! … The Homer was way ahead of its time
Racket pinion steering!
Not rackin peanut station?? Not buying it without the peanuts
THE HOMER HAD A LA CUCARACHA HORN. BIG AUTO KILLED IT.
Now I want a LA CUCARACHA horn for my vehicle
The first thing my grandpa did when we he bought a new car was install one of these lol
Also a siren. I don’t know why he wanted a siren so bad.
The CyberCab will have a horn that plays Kid Rock’s Bawtidaba.
The Homer itself is full of practical decisions (see things well, keep the noisy kids away), my analogy is Homer knew nothing about car design, designed something nobody wanted, and the company invested so much into the idea it basically ruined them.
The Homer was fugly, but it was fun.
CyberDumpster is fugly, and lacks fun. Even if you take Muskrat’s politics out of the equation, the dumpster isn’t functional, and is outperformed by a Honda half its price.
There is someone who has one in my area and taking a look at him…he just looks like a guy who has always tried so painfully to be in the cool crowd, so he jumps first into new things, but just keeps failing. And, it’s very clear that he can’t do anything else with it because he dropped so much money on it and likely can’t afford to “trade-in” for half its value.
The Simpsons predict the Cybertruck
bullet proof glass shattering
Bullet proof glass is supposed to shatter? That’s part of how it absorbs the energy from the bullets…
It shattered from the power of Musk’s arm which means it probably won’t stop a bullet.
have you seen the demo? it was quite obvious they didn’t want it to shatter.
Yeah, it seems more like he’s just doesn’t understand how bullet proof glass works and thought it means “indestructible”
You can’t legally put shatterproof glass in a car. The side windows are designed to shatter to allow EMT rescue.
Musk engineers knew this, they were just too scared to tell him it was another fucking stupid idea.
These ones don’t. Many people have died because fire fighters couldn’t break the glass.
Hey just wanted to comment about the EMT rescue part:
US sold vehicles can have laminated side windows that don’t shatter open, and it’s been a huge educational issue for years because people are using traditional window breakers on them in emergency situations and the tool won’t open them. It’s only gotten worse since that article, as auto manufacturers are installing more laminated side windows to prevent ejection during a rollover event.
Might want to check if your vehicle has them. Best list I could find was from 2019.
I was curious as my car has laminated side windows, and dug into it possibly far further than was entirely sane. The summary is yes, you can indeed use shatterproof glass in passenger windows.
This can be found in 49 CFR § 571.205 S5.1, which specifies all glazing materials must conform to ANSI/SAE Z 26.1-1996. If we look at ANSI/SAE Z 26.1-2007 (a later update of the standard which is not meaningfully different for our purposes - I have elected to link to it here rather than 1996 as it is able to be found online without a paywall) and go to Table 1, Page 10, Items 1, 2, 10 and 11A, we can see that standards are given for the use of laminated glass for all positions (item 1), all positions except windshield (item 2), bullet-resistant glass for all window positions (10) and specifically laminated bullet-resistant glass for all positions except windshield (11A)
Windshield glass is all laminated.
The regulations stipulate windshields must be made of laminated glass, insulated glass (a Multiple Glazed Unit), bullet resistant glass or (except in convertibles or other vehicles without a roof) glass-plastic. It also allows for equivalent-or-higher performance materials that may be developed in the future but are not covered by the current standards.
Yeah, when it’s shot.
Road cone goes on cybercab
Imagine what getting replacement parts for that “truck” will be now.
Thanks, but I already have a Samsung fridge.
No thanks.
Those things are so comically ugly. Even the most goose steppingest nazi fucks can see that. They must have bought them just to say “fuck you” to the general populace.
If we have fully autonomous cars, why would we need cabs?
1… Buy fully autonomous car
2… rent it out as an autonomous cab
3… use an autonomous cab to get around
4… ???
5… Profit
This works if most people don’t have an autonomous car too, so they are forced to rent one. The business case for this is such level of poverty where most people cannot afford owning a car; and then a petty rentier class exploiting them for pennies. Welcome to neo-feudalism.
I don’t want someone riding around in my car unsupervised. Give me good public transport instead!
Exactly.
It’s a matter of who owns the resource, and your current state assumption is what oligarchs want to change.
Just like PCs, they will structure it so you won’t be able to afford one. For vehicles they’ll use the insurance industry as a wedge as well, and as more and more people lease/rent their vehicle with included insurance(this will be one of the talking points for the owners class selling you one), those trying to not have a rent payment will see their premiums ever increase.
Think about how insane car prices have gotten ecen for used vehicles in the last few years–and It’s not improving even though all the “supply chain” issues attributed to COVID have long ended. It’s the same system phenomenon that happens in gentrifying areas with the existing minorities; property values go up, as do property taxes and even long-time residents who own their home free and clear can’t afford the property tax increases–it snowballs into additional gentrification.
It’s a matter of who owns the resource,
Yes so Musk wants us to drive cabs as in not owning our own cars, and Sam Altman wants us to not own our own AI but rent it from ChatGPT.
THEY want it that way to monopolize a service and make more money.
The question was why would WE want it?
