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Tesla Cybertruck [video]
- goohex 7y agoThe stream is unlisted on YT - so if you don't feel like volunteering a (fake) email address to watch a commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcROXiN_cdE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcROXiN_cdE
- technotarek 7y agoApparently you just posted a link to Tron.
- rtkwe 7y agoWeird move to put it behind a email hoover. Wonder if it does anything more than just evaluate the email format.
- dmix 7y agoThe crowd is extremely loud and distracting this time. Are they in a smaller acoustic space than usual or is it just poor micing?
- thewd 7y agoSounds like they have a mic in the crowd. I can't believe the jeering from the crowd. Who do they they invite for these events?
- singron 7y agoThe video just got switched to private.
- martythemaniak 7y agough, where can we watch it non-live? Edit: this may function as a mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwtrXGOW_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwtrXGOW_o
- dmix 7y agoalso https://youtu.be/SwvDOdBHYBw https://youtu.be/SwvDOdBHYBw
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- Proven 7y agothey removed it seconds ago as i was watching anyone know of other copies available on the web?
- nodesocket 7y agoRunning late, a little amateur hour. When is the last time you saw an Apple event start late?
- leesec 7y agoTesla events always start late. It's a marketing thing.
- JNRowe 7y agoThat is 04:00 UTC, to save others the `TZ=America/Los_Angeles date`.
- NullPrefix 7y agoWhich day?
- pfundstein 7y agoThis one.
- hinkley 7y agoIt started 5 minutes before you posted. "Now. It's starting now."
- dingo_bat 7y agoWhat's with the cheesy music and future British girl?
- King-Aaron 7y agoSurely what they've just rolled out onto the stage is a joke?
- hinkley 7y agoI can just hear the Terminator theme song playing.
- Kyragem 7y agoIf a hummer and a delorean had a baby it wouldn't be as ugly as the cybertruck
- SomewhatLikely 7y agoI kept waiting for them to reveal that was a shell hiding the real truck... Not sure wtf I just watched.
- sheldoneth 7y agoOmg. Please tell me this is a joke.
- slg 7y agoI am sure Tesla will sell plenty of them, but I just can't help think it looks like a bad prop from a low budget 80s sci-fi movie.
- sidcool 7y agoI think that was the idea. This is not something Tesla hopes to sell like Model 3, it's a fun side project for them.
- nodesocket 7y agoI don't think it's a side project. Trucks are hugely popular here in America. F-150 sales nearly single handedly keep Ford alive.
- brojonat 7y agoThat's exactly why it doesn't need to be Tesla's flagship product.
- slg 7y agoI didn't get that impression from the intro Musk did about how the three best selling cars in the US are trucks and how important it is for those to become more sustainable.
- TMWNN 7y ago>I am sure Tesla will sell plenty of them, but I just can't help think it looks like a bad prop from a low budget 80s sci-fi movie. How did you miss the crew of people dressed like characters in a low budget 80s sci-fi movie exiting the truck? Or, more briefly, thatsthejoke.jpg
- slg 7y agoI realize that. I just don’t view that aesthetic as a good thing and apparently Tesla does.
- dingo_bat 7y agoIs this an April fools' prank?
- rtkwe 7y agoWow, looks pretty hideous to me. And it doesn't seem to even have a proper bed. Not really what I was imagining when I heard Tesla was making a truck, look more like they made a trophy truck. https://imgur.com/a/ewbWXwy https://imgur.com/a/ewbWXwy
- eduren 7y agoSame energy: https://i.imgur.com/TwfJ8v1.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TwfJ8v1.jpg
- sidcool 7y agoNot something I expected...Not sure how I feel.
- yaacov 7y agoCars are supposed to crumple when you crash them. This looks horribly dangerous.
- throwaway5752 7y agoThey are a mid-sized car manufacturer with a relationship with a rocket company. I am not interested in buying the truck but I'm pretty confident they considered passenger safety while they were designing the truck. And if they didn't the NHTSA requires certain performance in crash tests before a vehicle is roadworthy.
- rtkwe 7y agoOh don't worry the other car will crumple enough for both of them. And being a higher vehicle you in your Tesla truck won't hit the bumper but the trunk instead for extra crumple.
- mavdi 7y agoI had to stop watching with that cringe shattered glass test fail. I felt for them.
- Magi604 7y agoThe Tesla Armor Glass demonstration on the actual truck was such a fail. And now the broken glass is on full display to everyone watching.
- Forge36 7y agoDid they not test this?
- mavdi 7y agoFailed twice consecutively. Aren’t the side glasses meant to be breakable by regulation for escaping situations when the door is jammed?
- hinkley 7y agoTwo crazy theories: They'd been testing on the front and rear windows and someone thought it would scan better on stage to do the side. Or if they've been testing on this exact car and repeated strikes delaminated the mylar layers enough for it to fail.
- rtkwe 7y agoI think the explanation is much simpler, the guy threw it faster than it was falling in the earlier test. After ~8m (more than the 20-25 feet someone else estimated) the ball is only going ~45 km/h or ~28 mph which is pretty slow actually.
- jayd16 7y agoYeah I was thinking about this. Would such a flub to forget only the windscreen was the new glass though.
- bluealienpie 7y agoCan't believe they didn't test the vehicle prior to demo. Very amateur
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- dmix 7y agoThe Matrix crew walked out of it. Definitely going for the 90s cyber look.
- kylecazar 7y agoHeh. Trying to demo the strength of the windows, he had someone throw a steel ball at it. Shattered instantly. That doesn't mean it isn't an improvement though.
- dmix 7y agoThe steel door certainly took a beating though. I wonder what this means for car accidents. Aren't they supposed to crunch in on impact? Or is that why they chose the door instead of a front/hood impact?
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- belltaco 7y agoCrumple zones are usually on the front, back and side fenders to absorb impact, not necessarily the doors.
- leesec 7y agoTo be fair it didn't shatter. The steel ball did NOT make it through the glass.
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- snake117 7y agoIs this a truck or an APC? I'm starting to warm up to it. Definitely will be turning heads when driving.
- slovette 7y agoThat is the ugliest, most impractical thing. Guess I’m not the target audience (I’m rural, farm country). What a let down.... I was really excited for this too. I don’t think I’ve ever in my life heard anyone with truck say: “Man, it’s amazing off road, but the glass shatters too easily!” disclaimer I have a 3. Love it and Tesla in general. I don’t love this.
- almost_usual 7y agoNo, I think plenty are let down. I thought it was a joke when it drove out.
- chaostheory 7y agoHow is it impractical?
- slovette 7y agoSee above. :)
- chaostheory 7y agoYou haven’t given any good reasons to back up your claim. You don’t make any specific points ;) It sounds like you made your comment before the presentation was finished. This is also ignoring the fact that most luxury pickups and SUVs are also impractical gas guzzlers https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/04/28/what-does-your-work-truck-say-about-you/ https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/04/28/what-does-your-wo...
- slovette 7y agoI did in another comment in regards to goose necks. The bed is where it’s at for practical truck use outside urban areas. This design ruins a lot of obvious uses in my opinion (reach ability, tie downs, latter racks, tool boxes, loading and hauling). The slope bed sides are really what stand out as a mistake to me. I see this being a great replacement for the Chevy Avalanche though
- almost_usual 7y agoOff roading a steel limousine without a winch. This thing is designed to get stuck.
- beaner 7y agoI know Musk is typically awkward on stage, but this one is the worst by far. He seems like he's on drugs. It's not even the way he speaks, it's like looking around paranoid. The car failed the glass demo, and he seems completely out of sync with the presentation and the videos. The audience cheers seem staged, too. Whoever's responsible for managing this did a disaster of a job.
- goohex 7y agoHonestly I just wish they'd give him a clicker for the presentation. He was like this for the neuralink reveal but at least then he had other people talking to add some structure.
- lettergram 7y agoAgreed, came back here to write the same thing. That was very uncomfortable to watch.
- sorenjan 7y agoEveryone want's to play Steve Jobs. I guess it's an ego thing that makes him want to be up on stage, but it feels like a school presentation and isn't a good look.
- kjeetgill 7y agoMaybe I'm alone in this, but I think it's kinda nice. It makes it feel less commercially where you worry the claims are dubious and more like someone awkwardly showing you their new pet project? Maybe I'm just getting sold on the shtick. This is the first of his presentations I've seen.
- beaner 7y agoIt's typically endearing for everyone the first time they see Musk present, and I agree with that. But after seeing it enough times you wonder why it's getting worse, rather than improving.
- Mandatum 7y agotesla.com/cybertruck redirects to a dead Spanish domain, no TLS..
- hinkley 7y agoDecades from now when we are doing biopics comparing Elon Musk to Howard Hughes, this may well show up as the pivotal moment in the narrative.
- outlace 7y agoAt first I was like "what the hell is that thing" but it grew on me by the end of the presentation.
- tdiggity 7y agoWebsite updated: https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck Interesting observations: - Reservation is only $100 whereas the Model Y is $2500. - 500 mile range on the Tri Motor, nice. - No info on the ATV
- dmix 7y agoThere's also a utility trailer on the back in one of the pictures. Maybe just a 3d concept though.
- tdiggity 7y agoTesla Lifestyle addon, hopefully. The photo at the campsite has a bunch of accessories in there, too.
- dmix 7y agoThe camping one is easily the best picture aesthetically. Makes me think this could be more of a cross target for middle class and wealthier people who drive Landrovers and jacked-up Jeeps. Rather than a country farm's workhorse, which I noticed was a setting oddly not included in the homepage pictures. Maybe that includes the demographic who would have bought Humvees or more likely the ones who obsess over (or needs) personal safety while driving, ie being the "bigger car in the accident" type of thing people talk about.
- taborj 7y ago> Reservation is only $100 whereas the Model Y is $2500. This doesn't surprise me. The Cybertruck is going to be a harder sell than the Model Y, so they want to keep the barrier to entry much lower.
- tomc1985 7y agoWow, that video went private right as I was watching it. The glass demo must have failed real good.
- Infernal 7y agoHmm... video was just made private while I was scrubbing through it. Strange.
- snake117 7y agoWith the built in ramp and their electric ATV pulling up and actually plugging into the Cybertruck was just unreal. Ford and the rest are going to have to change things up big time.
- taborj 7y ago> Ford and the rest are going to have to change things up big time. Actually, I don't think they will, at least not anytime soon and not exclusively because of Tesla. Even if this was a more conventional design, truck owners can be tough nuts to crack. Plus, a huge number of trucks are purchased as stripped down fleet vehicles, designed to be workhorses that are fixable/maintainable by on-site crews. The Cybertruck won't appeal to that large segment. The fact that this isn't a conventional truck design leaves a huge door for the conventional truck makers to step into with simply an electric version of their existing lineup. Add Rivian to the mix, which looks way better than this IMHO, and I think conventional-style pickups are here for a long while.
- gexla 7y agoLooks like what you would get if Delorean came out with an SUV. It's as ugly as I imagined it would be. I want one!
- dmix 7y agoIt'd look better in black and with a licence plate or something more on the front or back.
- puranjay 7y agoThis is not a good looking vehicle. It reminds me of something from a dystopic sci-fi movie, and not in a good way. Too Bladerunner-ish
- booleanbetrayal 7y agoPaint it black and write POLICE on it.
- ilaksh 7y agoPersonally I fucking love it. But I like things that are actually different and balsy. As opposed to minor changes that are easy for people to comprehend. On the other hand, this is so different that there is a slight chance it is a joke. But I hope not.
- geonnave 7y agoThe only "explanation" is that this thing has been made to run on Mars. And still, didn't need to be so ugly, my eyes hurt.
- chaostheory 7y agoIt looks like the truck has a lot of inspiration from the cars in the original Total Recall movie. It also feels like a Saab in aesthetics. You will either hate it or love it with little in between. This will be popular in cartel country
- starpilot 7y agoGoing to stick with the Rivian truck...
- lawrenceyan 7y agoPretty legit. Really amazing prices too. I wonder how much money they'll make per car.
- mythz 7y agoUnderwhelming, even without the glass demo fail. Looks like it was designed by an outsourced rogue design team trying to design an 80's sci-fi car for kicks, that somehow it made it to production. The demo was lacking in interior, technical specs, real-world examples of why its design is superior, etc, overall I'd say its Tesla's worst unveil. Though the design of the ATV did look pretty cool - unfortunate it lacked any details. Luckily I was never interested in trucks so not disappointed by it's lack of appeal, still looking forward to the Model Y tho.
- snake117 7y agoContrary to what most are saying, this was an awesome presentation. They kept it incredibly short, gave basic facts about the car (although nothing on the interior), and blew everyone's mind, for good or for bad, with a new truck unlike anyone would've believed, especially putting it against the F-150. Even with the glass shattering, the fact that it didn't go through was still amazing (they definitely have to work on this though). I say it was a mind blowing presentation and I will definitely be thinking through this.
- tdiggity 7y agoThey did this for the Y too. I would have liked a quick run through of the interior and other accessories they show on the website. But it's fine, not everything is finished yet. For example, the Model Y has a 7 seat option and we know nothing about it. All we have is one photo with the seats down.
- dmix 7y agoThe interior is shown on the homepage website: https://www.tesla.com/xNVh4yUEc3B9/09_Desktop.jpg https://www.tesla.com/xNVh4yUEc3B9/09_Desktop.jpg
- 1e-9 7y agoMy progression: 1) Looks ridiculous. 2) Impressive hammer demo. 3) Embarrassing glass demo, but impressive nonetheless. 4) 500+ mile range, tows 14,000 lbs, adjustable ground clearance to 16", yanks an F-150 uphill in a tug-of-war... Wow! 5) Cool ATV, tailgate ramp, and retractable bed cover. 6) After watching video at Tesla website... it actually doesn't look that bad. 7) A few more minutes go by... I like the way it looks. 8) I want one.
- King-Aaron 7y ago> 2) Impressive hammer demo. Honestly, I was a little annoyed by the hammer demo. The guy swinging was clearly loosening his grip/effort just before impact, compared to him actually putting effort into the previous white door he hit.
- 1e-9 7y agoThe first hit was tentative. I imagine the guy was nervous about whether he might dent it. The second hit was a hard smack with full body weight behind it. I suspose he felt more confident after Elon asked him to hit it harder. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvDOdBHYBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvDOdBHYBw starting at 3:14.
- Keverw 7y agoPretty interesting. The most expensive model tows 14K pounds. Wonder if anyone would try to RV with one of these. Seems like going from RV park to RV park in a day it would work... But wonder about dry camping or even boondocking since state or national parks don't all seem to provide hookups. I'm not sure how you'd charge it then, maybe a generator as not sure if solar would be enough. For a RV park with hookups, probably someone could create an adaptor to hook it up the the 50 amps on the pedestal. The geek inside of me thinks this is really cool, but wonder what the practicable side of this is. Does seem like something from the future for sure, amazing times we are in right now. Science fiction is becoming reality. Also wonder if the range when towing would end up being less compared to not towing... I know some people are happy with 7 to 9MPG when towing their RV. However Diesel seems to do better than Gasoline... I know I heard Diesel has a lot of torque, but electric is even better.
- jacobn 7y agoWas it just me or did the ramp to the flatbed have solar cells on it? Based on the 6.5’ bed and measuring the image on the product page, it looks like the vehicle will be ~210” long - has anyone seen an actual official number?
- dang 7y agoMain discussion is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21602437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21602437