turns out that making a truck whose repair costs run into the thousands of dollars for the slightest bump makes the normal realities of car ownership somewhat impractical also: lol, lmao
Hahaha this rules
Turns out "let's design a vehicle with no crumplezones and an extremely rigid exoskeleton" doesn't do wonders for the safety of people you crash into.
Much like it did for blood pressure; the insurance industry is our best hope for climate change mitigation.
I finally saw one in the wild yesterday and my god they are even uglier in person than in pictures. My mother exclaimed, "What is that monstrosity!?"
Hahahaha like it's some homemade custom built RV with wood
When the insurance underwriters will no longer write a policy on the pile of garbage — I’m certain that people who build “experimental” airplanes from kits can even get policies covering their pop-riveted aluminium flyboxes, which says a lot about the Cybertruck
"fuck you, putin zero!" - small, adorable gecko mascot
I like to think insurance companies saw the videos where the truck was leaving the lot and started flashing alert signs to go for repairs immediately, or the one where they were doing donuts and the wheel flew off, and they went, "Yeah, no, we're not doing this."I like to think insurance companies saw the videos where the truck was leaving the lot and started flashing alert signs to go for repairs immediately, or the one where they were doing donuts and the wheel flew off, and they went, "Yeah, no, we're not doing this."
Imagine owning a cyber truck and being so badly owned by a lizard then Geico does this to you TRY THE FUCKEN FISH
What's hilarious is that one of the big benefits of EVs is lower maintenance costs because they don't have, you know, engines.