Cyberstuck

I’m in the same boat as you.

Disclosure: I used to be a Tesla shareholder. And I made a few pennies off the hype.

Alas, Elon is a giant cunt, and Tesla sucks (and is obscenely overvalued as well).

The saddest part about Elon’s mask falling off, for me personally: explaining to my son - who aspires to be an engineer, and who idolized Musk as a modern-day Iron Man mythic hero - that Musk is, sadly, a con-man who succeeded wildly for awhile at grift (and he’s a shitty father, and a fascist, at that); that was a huge bummer for me.

Don’t forget to add: When it became clear how poorly designed the vehicle would be even in regards to incredibly simple, already solved problems. Like, the fucking thing can’t even do what their regular cars can and those are built exceedingly poorly by today’s standards.

I was a little excited about the potential of the CT, too. The idea of a cheap outer shell folded from cheap sheet steel, something that can be welded, beaten, and easily repaired was a good concept, to my mind. On top of a mass produced cheap chassis with a beefy battery for worksites and a reasonable amount of storage, it could have been great. I don't even mind the look of it.

I sold my Tesla stock last year at the 400 mark. Still had to keep 100 shares to back a call option.

Yeah. They're ugly as fuck, but I want a vehicle that does what a truck does and is electric. The initial reveal was like, 80% of what a truck does. Close enough when there were no other options on the market.

Then they watered it down, didn't even deliver something remotely reliable, musk went full Nazi, then Ford and rivian made trucks that fit the bill better anyways. Not that it really ever bothered me, but also their trucks are not ugly as sin.

Cybertruck will probably be studied in business schools for centuries as the textbook monumental fuck up that it is.

Lol at the thought of a large company paying taxes, that is a good one.

What's sad is that, even though he was supposedly inspired by Cyberpunk, the final design goes completely against the Cyberpunk aesthetic ethos. Everything about cyberpunk is style forward. Bling. Flash. The Cybertruck "style" is minimalism to the extreme.

Here is a quote from Cyberpunk.

There's nothing as unforgiving as leaving a bad looking corpse.

-- Dr. Halman Thompson

Dystopian futuristic maybe, in the way that a tank car is futuristic if you assume society is going to collapse into a lawless hellscape

I'm from the UK and we have laws about sharp edges on on sky cars to minimise deaths to pedestrians. As soon as saw this thing I knew it was never going to be sold in Europe. Such a weird design choice with limited marketability.