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Remember those million pre-orders Tesla allegedly had for the Cybertruck, according to CEO Elon Musk? It's getting tougher and tougher for the company to explain where all of them went.

After putting around 50,000 Cybertrucks on the road, according to a recent recall filing, the company appears to be out of pre-orders and desperately looking to juice demand. Case in point: It's now offering up to $10,000 off certain Cybertrucks it has in inventory.

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[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I won’t drive the cybertruck or any of the other newer generation X’s and S’s since they all have yolks instead of steering wheels. A few years back I was rear-ended by a drunk driver on a highway. With about 1/2 second warning I suddenly found myself spinning 360 degrees across 3 lanes, and I was trying my best to steer out of it. I seriously doubt I would have been able to do that with a yoke. My hands likely would have missed as I tried to reposition them.

The yokes, like so many other “features” seem like nothing more than glitz that Musk demanded to differentiate Teslas from other cars. If an independent authority tests yokes vs. wheels in situations like that crash and finds the yokes are as good or better then I’d consider driving a car with one. But given Musk is now trying to kneecap things like NHTSA I’m most definitely not going to hold my breath.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Don't they also lack fucking door handles to get out in an emergency quickly? Tesla and genuinely shit made cars, from start to finish.

I just hate the fact that liberals helped boost his wealth by buying his shit.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Liberals purchasing vehicles didn't boost his wealth, stock speculation did that.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

That speculation was fueled by liberals buying Teslas.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Let's take this in a different order without changing ideas presented:

liberals [...] buying his shit

That pushed correlation == causation by labeling environmentally concerned people and people who like a post-petrol system as liberals. Not an accurate overlap, and inherently a bad-faith comparison ...

helped boost his wealth

... used to demonize 'liberals', whoever the fuck that villianized label means today

I'd assert no one on the planet said "I want Elon to be richer and so I will pay way more for this car" despite its - honestly when it had lidar - best positioning for one-day self-driving and raft of amazing features alongside those abjectly dumb decisions about door-handles and (now) frame concerns and other safety requirements.

I'd want to see some kind of justification to this accusation those mean librulz were conspiring primarily to make fElon richer .

I just hate the fact that

Claiming this as a fact is just beggaring the question. And that's what I hate.

[–] Rob1992@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They do have emergency handles underneath some paneling, but the defacto way of opening is a (touch) button

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It's not underneath anything, you pull up behind the handle in the door. It's mechanical, so you can always get out. Not that you'd want to get in one in the first place.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

Wow, that's about the best argument for the traditional, time-tested wheel! How do the yolks even work, can you turn them more than 90°? Because if not, they'd have to function like a videogame controller, or have you risk losing your grip as the yolk moves out from under your grasp when you go hand-over-hand...