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The article has about equal time about what Cybertruck owners dont care about, safety, reliability, etc. > Similar to other critics (earlier this year, a CNN r
by sitkack 2y ago
The article has about equal time about what Cybertruck owners dont care about, safety, reliability, etc.
> Similar to other critics (earlier this year, a CNN reviewer called the pickup a “disturbing level of individual arrogance in hard, unforgiving steel”)—Drury believes Cybertruck buyers are people “who think ‘I don’t care if I kill people when I drive this thing down the street,’” he says. “There aren’t many of those people out there, so there’s a relatively small market for the Cybertruck.”
The Josh Johnson on this one is gonna be good.
- nahwut 2y agoWhat's the term right wing folks use? Virtue Signaling? The cyber truck is that. People buy them because they are politically charged, and you can be seen as a tribe member. But I kinda think it's sad, because I think most tribes make fun of the cyber truck buyer, so they've bought a very expensive, very shoddy ticket into an in group, only to mark themselves as an outsider who bought their way in.
- flapadoodle 2y agoLike nearly all gigantic trucks driven in cities (and almost never off road), though the cybertruck is a new low in likelyhood to kill innocent pedestrians. The most accurate term for this phenomenon is either Emotional Support Vehicle or Gender Affirming Vehicle.
- the_clarence 2y agoI'm a leftist and would definitely buy a cyber truck if I could park it easily
- yyuugg 2y ago[flagged]
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- mst 2y agoThere *are* a bunch of people who've bought them because they genuinely think they look cool. I ... do not agree with that opinion ... but people are allowed to have different taste than I do, even if I think theirs is terribad.
- qwerpy 2y agoCT owner here. Maybe I’m just more boring than the usual person who gets this truck, but my reasoning for getting one was a lot more simple than this. “My Teslas have been great, this one looks cool, my family can benefit from having a truck, I’ll put down a deposit!” Not sure which group I was supposed to be buying a ticket into. Around where I live the group seems to be Asian men with families, but I was already a member of that group before the truck :)
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- wtcactus 2y agoThe article is a smear piece. As it was expected coming from Wired.
- ehnto 2y agoThe numbers do somewhat speak for themselves. It is an unpopular car.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoI hate the idea that just being a hater is a bad thing and horrible and you're smearing the good, honest, hardworking Tesleratti. Sorry, these are expensive, multiple-ton machines being sold at incredible profit, and we all deserve to get to take pot shots at it. We collectively pay for the privilege
- mst 2y ago5/6 recalls so far have been for physical problems, not software ones. It's not a particularly positive article but (unusually for articles about Tesla, admittedly) calling it a smear piece is counterfactual.