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Of course they picked a more deadly option.
Loooool. That's pathetic. A truck you have to baby or it stains and discolors.
Not just more stiff, the sharp angles on the body are also much more likely to cause serious injury to pedestrians and cyclists (there's a reason modern vehicles have rounded edges). Unfortunately the lack of regulations in North America on safety features vis a vis anyone but the vehicle occupants means these death machines remain street legal.
Rounded edges and soft panels that crumple easily yes.
I'm glad these things aren't permitted here in Europe.
the whole point of a truck is to get shit done.
this truck destroys itself if you try to get shit done with it.
how they fucked up so badly, i have no idea.
Easy, the guy who wanted to make this truck has never worked a day in his life.
No the whole point of a truck in America is for men who have self confidence issues to feel better about themselves. You think people are hauling shit on the reg in a cyber truck or those other lifted shiny shits people drive around?
What is the escalade for? Not getting shit done just like this POS
It's a typical status symbol, nothing else.
Usually defended with excuses like "I have kids so I must protect them with a 2 tonne tank"
"If I get to an accident I want to make sure I live!"
But what happened when you hit a vehicle the same size or a semi?
Never thought of that, time to get me a semi! - some American most likely
Truly the work vehicle of tomorrow
Built ~~Ford~~ Tesla tough!
Oil is corrosive? Doesn't it usually prevent steel from rusting?
Refined oil yes. But crude oil can be because it has impurities. Honestly in unsure about that sentence. They might have conflated all of the substances and effects together to save space. I imagine oils cooked definitely stain unprotected metal though.
Crude oil isn't really something you'd find outside the shipping or refining industry though.
I think they're just covering their assess with the oil thing.
Every car has a similar disclaimer.
Maybe. I read my manual cover to cover and nowhere did it say you had to immediately wash off bird shit. And I haven't and it hasn't stained or rusted. This car is pathetic.
Bird shit will damage the paint of any car. Your ignorance doesn't make this a bad vehicle. A simple web search will clear this up for you.
There was a time when yes it did. Back when the manufacturers switched to more environmentally safe paints in the late 90s/early 00s.
But they got their ducks in a row quickly, these days it's fine. Similar to the many solder ball cracking issues caused by lead free solder when it first appeared.
Ten years of bird shit and no stains. 2 days of water and it rusted. Lol.
Or you could just continue on being ignorant, that's a choice too 🤷
How are they being ignorant? The Tesla is clearly built like Swiss cheese.
I've been very clear about why they're ignorant: they don't understand that bird shit damages the paint on all vehicles.
Lmaoooo, it's the severity and how fast it happens people are shitting on.
ROFLCOPTER What severity are you referring to? Damage only takes a few hours in either case.
You get you can treat damaged paint, right? Like have you ever buffed and polished a vehicle? Yes paint may get damaged, but there are things you can do to make it look good again. You simply cannot do this on the Cybertruck.
...of course you can?
Why would you think you can't?
Lmao, because it's not paint bud. It's straight steel.
Roflmao you think you can't polish metal, bud?
Wow. That was so deep.
Elon specifically said that if a CT gets into an accident with another vehicle, the CT "wins". Which is such a fucking horrifying way to think about automotive safety. Same thing from people who bitch about how "your car gets totaled in even the lowest speed crash nowadays" when doing so is precisely what saves your life. Totalling a car and allowing you to walk away with only minor injuries or none at all, it is the point, but people like him have this idea that it's more manly to die in easily avoidable ways than it is to observe safety measures that we've known about for decades.
Exactly. Cars that didn't deform from damage were death traps. I think there was a Mass Men episode with this in it too.
The next one should be matte black teflon as an exterior. Or some other non-stick surface.
Stainless steel is good for kitchens I guess. It always takes a special spray to get clean. Unless you want to scrub at it all day.
Teflon aka PFAS that we now know we really don't want crumbling off into the environment. Please no