Micah: I am unironically thankful that the Cybertruck exists what other vehicle can provide us this level of schadenfreude day in and day out art comes in many different forms

I am unironically thankful that the Cybertruck exists what other vehicle can provide us this level of schadenfreude day in and day out art comes in many different forms

The Cybertruck was released on Nov. 30. Today, Tesla announced it was recalling the vehicle for the fourth time, an impressive rough average of one recall every seven weeks. apnews.com/article/tesl...

For Tesla's futuristic new Cybertruck, a fourth recallapnews.com Tesla is recalling its futuristic new Cybertruck pickup for the fourth time in the U.S. to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose, and failing front windshield wipers.

Every time you see one, it's tangible proof that Musk is an entitled white guy who is decent at working a crowd and has a brain made of cheese. But is it art? Absolutely.

can art be involuntary, though?

If art can have meaning that the artist didn't consciously intend, then I would say yes.

Sometimes the artistic intent is so subtle.

You know the person doing the wrap was utterly at a loss for how to make this look good. (Akin to a dressmaker being told they're making a ball gown for an ostrich)

It is certainly a statement piece.

If that's supposed to make it easier to tell the front from the back, it's still a failure.

Now do Three Wolf Moon truck!

there are also very few red flags as openly visible to everyone as that. People should keep driving cybertrucks if they want to, cause it lets us stay away from the type of people who want to drive cybertrucks.

Someday there'll be NTSB data to demonstrate how many casualties/fatalities were caused by the Cybertruck, with a breakdown of how many of those happened to people IN the Cybertruck vs. those NOT in it. I'm 90% sure that first number is larger at present.

And you don't even have to read their stupid bumper sticker to know it.

It’s the perfect visualization of what happens when no one is allowed to say “no” to EM

It’s X in car form

I love "owners will be notified by letter on August 18." Nearly eight weeks of waiting and wondering if a(nother) piece of your vehicle is going to fail or fall off (or both). I can't help thinking, "Not only were you stupid enough to buy that, you're also stupid enough to keep driving it."

Lol, car that can be remotely disabled if you annoy the wrong person at Tesla, but they can't just put a message on its screen or send an email.

It's like every generation or so has it's rich guy with no sense who builds a metal deathtrap car and calls it genius.

Superficially it seems more like a Delorian but is it really more of a Bricklin or an Edsel?

When an El Camino and a DeLorean share a night of passion followed by 9 months of hard liquor...

Not enough experimental submarines to keep the dialogue going. Just enough Cybertrucks that they aren’t breaking down on the expressways every day.

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Pushing the boundaries of poor design. It's like if Coleman Francis had been a car designer instead of a filmmaker

this is a slur on Coleman Francis

He deserved it for Red Zone Cuba

If the Cyber Truck is "futuristic" then the future of personal transportation is garbage.

Some future person is going to publish a treatise on how the cyber truck was never a serious vehicle. It was always a social experiment art project.

When cybertruck discourse ends, I may well delete my acc.

it’s the only communal joy we have on this platform

My brother bought one and he stopped by to drop off a trailer. In person it's cool in a "designed by Minecraft players" way. Still fun to make fun of it.

It took me a while but now I love it

The Delorean, if John Delorean were a malignant narcissist on a ton of drugs ::cracks open John Delorean's Wikipedia page:: ............oh

look, if they'd just let the free market do it's thang, they'd have identified all these flaws by the time the cybertruck 2.0 rolls out with it's own equally vast but completely different set of safety concerns, gawd!

It really is going to be called that, isn't it. Fuck's sake... it's already the Cybertruck 1.4

Let's be honest, it's the Cybertruck 0.1d

That's the version the engineers use, they tell Elon 1.4 so that he'll employ them until they make a sixth generation with nine revisions.

Nice

probably. "Cybertruck 2.0 - this time, the windows are *actually* unbreakable! honest! We wouldn't lie about that twice, would we? Also, it comes with 300% more windshield wipers!"

people will inevitably mock the quadwipers, revealing themselves to be basic bitches who don't appreciate genius when they see it.

On brand would be if the quad wipers were less effective than the single wiper.

I'm imagining them being in the corners, long enough to collide with each other but doing a beautifully orchestrated dance to provide very rapid, 100% coverage...under laboratory conditions only.

This is fair. You really can't make jokes about the Yugo anymore.

It brings out a sense of community. There’s one in the wild in my town. Whenever I see it in a parking lot, strangers come together to point, snicker, and wonder aloud “who’s the dumbass that brought that?”

It’s not art until Ron DeSantis tries to ban it

I still kinda feel left out that I haven't seen one yet.

I have had the baffling experience of not having seen one yet but HAVE seen a DeLorean in the past few months barely out of salt season, which is wild when you're aware they were not much better built than elons bloated electric knockoff.

I've never seen one in motion, they must spend a fortune just to keep it running

Oh you will, you, will...

I have a feeling that they will become collectable in a few decades* in a "so bad it's good" way. *barring the complete collapse of society

OTOH neither the Edsel nor the Delorean were prone to randomly killing people

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