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Does anyone else have the thought whenever you see one of those silver Cybertrucks

Ah, another video dropped to feed my schadenfreude:

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Unsafe at any speed.
He built a "Red-Neck's" idea of a "Cool Truck".
That operates as a Poor-Man's Tank.

Obviously it was going to be banned in many countries.
 
Oh, we have lots of people with no discernment who'd be itching to drive these monstrosities on our roads. If they could do so while only being a danger to themselves and not expect the national health service to sew them back together, I wouldn't stop them. However, they can't meet either of those conditions and thankfully the legislators haven't bowed to pressure from Tesla to certify the cybertruck - and it seems that Tesla hasn't even tried to apply such pressure.
 
Oh, we have lots of people with no discernment who'd be itching to drive these monstrosities on our roads. If they could do so while only being a danger to themselves and not expect the national health service to sew them back together, I wouldn't stop them. However, they can't meet either of those conditions and thankfully the legislators haven't bowed to pressure from Tesla to certify the cybertruck - and it seems that Tesla hasn't even tried to apply such pressure.
Un-Fortunately we don't have enough legislation against larger vehicles.

You know how we have a Over-Growth of > 3-ton vehicles in the US.

That's why everybody feels the need to have a Ford F-150 or SUV of some sort.

It's so silly, we're going in the wrong direction in terms of Vehicle Popularity.
 
Well, flat panels are a bit easier to produce.

I just hope we learned a valuable lesson when the Saturn HLLVs were killed to make way for some tiled monstrosity that was supposed to revolutionize spaceflight.

Why, America would never repeat such a bone-headed move…right?
 
The Saturn V was a very expensive rocket to build. Even near the end of the program, NASA was thinking of ways to make it cheaper while increasing its capabilities.

 
Yikes........ Maybe that's what Musk wanted all along
He thinks our reality is a simulation, even a game - therefore nothing matters to him, it seems - possibly not even the thirteen progeny he's won in this game and almost certainly not the millions and billions of other people he seems not to believe are real. That is a desirable trait in a Nazi as empathy is unnecessary and remorse becomes impossible.
 
Live in the uk and they’re not road legal. Some people have tried importing them only to have them confiscated by the police.
I be curious to have a look in one if I ever see one in person but I’m not that fussed if I do or don’t.
 
Live in the uk and they’re not road legal. Some people have tried importing them only to have them confiscated by the police.
I be curious to have a look in one if I ever see one in person but I’m not that fussed if I do or don’t.

They had one on display here for an annual car rally and apart from the size it didn't look at all impressive...
 
Nope. They look like something that emerges out the back of Ark II. Hopefully, a chimp is not behind the wheel. :)
Absolutely what I was going to say.

Why do I shrug off so much of the doom and gloom of our age? Because when I was a boy THIS was what was considered a good idea for kids' TV.

"For millions of years the Earth was fertile and rich. Then pollution and waste began to take their toll. Civilization fell into ruin. This is the world of the 25th Century. Only a handful of scientists remain. Men, who have vowed to rebuild what has been destroyed... This is their achievement: Ark II, a mobile storehouse of scientific knowledge, manned by a highly-trained crew of young people. Their mission: to bring the hope of a new future to mankind!"
 
That they look like something you would see fleets of being driven around menacingly by government agents in a dystopian future?
I was behind one on the interstate last month, and I could not figure out what it was.

I ended up passing it, partly out of curiosity as to what the heck I was following, and I really could not dismiss the idea that Musk based the design of the Cybertruck on Lara Croft's chest in the original PlayStation Tomb Raider game.
 
I was behind one on the interstate last month, and I could not figure out what it was.

I ended up passing it, partly out of curiosity as to what the heck I was following, and I really could not dismiss the idea that Musk based the design of the Cybertruck on Lara Croft's chest in the original PlayStation Tomb Raider game.


Damn those polygons
 
To me it looks like if someone tried redesigning the DeLorean for a new era and failed. Seriously, could you see BTTF using it? Hell no. It would probably end up blowing up at 88mph or fail before even the Flux Capacitor could kick in. The DeLorean is more timeless looking and even with its known problems, it's still likely more reliable than the Cybertruck.
 
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