I can't decide if that's higher or lower than I expected.

Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge each sold over 700k half-ton pickup trucks last year, while Toyota sold only 130k Tundras. I suppose it's possible that there are a quarter million suckers out there.

It harms my soul looking at this vehicle.

Hard to understand the calculus of people who would still be willing to buy a Tesla at this point. They're literal death traps with shoddy manufacturing

I saw one the other day painted neon yellow. Believe it or not, it actually seemed like an improvement.

It's amazing, they look awful in videos and pictures but then you see one in person and it's just stunning to look at, not in a good way. They're the stupidest looking things.

You get the thing that represents all cyber truck owners: a lollipop, or as it's also known—a "sucker."

It’s a trip seeing them around. Somehow they look even worse in person.

I don't really care what they look like. If any truck actually could meet the promises these made, I'd buy the shit out of them:

-All electric

-Sophisticated sensor suite to improve operational safety

-Working performance comparable to F150

-low maintenance

-Can be used as home power backup

-not a Deathtrap

-not a Killing machine

It hits the electric points, but that's it. It's a bad truck. It doesn't fulfill any of the "smart" promises. Death trap killing machines in constant recall that can't handle rain... Let alone do work.

The aesthetic doesn't even make my list of complaints. It's like the whole industry has been trying to make trucks as shitty as possible for like 30 years. Give me a '94 ranger electric conversion kit and it's game fucking over cyber truck.

I doubt they’ll ever come to Europe. They don’t meet even the most basic crash safety standards. These things are designed to annihilate pedestrians, not to try to reduce harm.

I'm from Europe and I already met one in my hometown. The other day, it even damaged scaffolding on the Powder Gate in Prague, while it was, hilariously, riding on the bed of a tow truck.

Edit: The individual approval itself is already highly controversial: https://www.wired.com/story/a-rubberized-cybertruck-is-ploughing-through-european-pedestrian-safety-rules/

They look like they have been on the streets for 10 years. Turns out stainless steel isn't all that stainless.

I'm pretty sure the EU banned them on the basis that they are death traps for their drivers, other road uses, and pedestrians alike.

It looks like they purposedly made it that way.

I'm pretty sure they know they will never be able to "fix" the car, so they just hope that people give up.

Enshittenification