35+ Unbelievable Design Flaws of the Cybertruck That Are More Than Just Aesthetic: ‘If you lose power, you lose 100% of your steering’

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    SALLY BIG LOTS
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    What exactly is it about the Cybertruck that makes them so ? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure they are. They look like that car Homer Simpson got to design.
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    But since I've never even seen one in real life, I have no idea if they really are or not, or it's just people hating on it because of Musk. Those that have driven one or own one, what are the aspects that make them , and do they have any redeeming features?
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    PercentageMaximum457. There have been many videos where, if you shut the door too hard, it breaks.
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    WhatsMyUsername13. Along those lines, the door has also cut people's fingers off
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    midzy91. There's a video on tik tok where a guy peels off the metal paneling, the paneling was just glued on. The same guy uses the cyber truck to pull another truck only to have the cyber trucks frame to snap. So yeah, design and build
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    marcodave Crazy. How many cybertrucks do you think are on the road without insurance coverage? I just found an article online about insurers asking for 5k/year for the cybertruck, lol
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    dr_dimention · They are even uglier in person. 2.0k Reply Share gringottsteller Someone in my neighborhood has one, and it looks ridiculous. It looks like a futuristic car that a six year old would draw.
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    Responsible-King-317 2 days ago 2nd this. I can see how these would be a stylish way to get around the desert wastelands after the apocalypse but they appear utterly absurd at the middle school drop off.
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    currently pooping_rn They can't even handle potholes or a little water, idk how they'd handle the apocalypse. They're not a ford taurus
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    wine_and_dying. I don't know how it wasn't a bait and switch at this point. It should open them up to lawsuits for full replacement. They aren't really safe for anyone specifically, driver or pedestrian.
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    Style aside, how they got on the road in such an uninsurable state is beyond me. An entire continent said no to the things. Reasonably SO.
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    CiderDrinker2 This is what happens when an over-rich man-child who surrounds himself with yes-men and throws tantrums if he doesn't get his own way is put in charge of an organisation: stupid things get done, because no one says, 'No'.
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    csonnich I'm imagining Muskrat in the design meeting for a normalish vehicle like, "Hmm, I like the shape, but can we go...more angular? ...no, more....yeah, more. ....Here, let me show you." [draws kids' version of a car]
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    thereverendpuck. The biggest recall was because the rubber slip cover on the gas pedal could slide off and get stuck.
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    Hotdog_disposal_unit They're a hideous and poorly built car that was rushed through production so they're also basically useless apart from going fast in a straight line. If they'd been subjected
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    to any sort of testing then many of the problems would've been ironed out but because that ran his mouth and then rushed them out they're terrible vehicles that only idiots are throwing money at.
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    Asphalt Animist The welds holding the frame together are about what a first-day apprentice would do. The electrical system is run on a single wire rather than
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    the "one wire per component" auto standard, so if anything breaks, the entire car stops working. If the battery dies, you're trapped inside because the doors are electrically opened
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    and the manual open is so hidden that you'll never find it before you burn to death. No crumple zones, so all the force of an impact goes to the occupants rather than being used up by crumpling the crumple zones.
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    It's heavy enough that guard rails won't stop it if you go off the road, so you get to die in a ditch. People's cyber trucks are breaking literally less than a few miles from where they're picking them up and then Tesla just.... doesn't fix them.
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    IONaut They forgot to mention people getting trapped in it inside of car washes because it got wet and shut down and how Tesla refuses to fix any of the problems with it. If you want an electric truck get one made by literally any other company.
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    Super Ad9995. Don't you also have to wait 2 years until you can sell it or you pay a fine?
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    stupidfock The steering has no mechanical redundancy, you lose power you lose 100% of your steering
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    oofyeet21 While everyone here is talking about individual bad elements of the truck, allow me to actually explain why it is bad as a truck. Compared to basically any other truck of it's size, the cybertruck is more expensive, far heavier, has a
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    much lower range, has less horsepower, has less off-road capability, has a much lower towing capacity, has much less cargo space and requires specialty infrastructure to "fuel up" that isn't super convenient. In essentually every aspect getting a cybertruck is a worse idea then just getting a similar sized conventional truck.
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    cOdebreakOr . Hmm so its a car advertised as a truck that fails at everything a truck is good at while being more expensive than either a normal car or a truck.....why do people buy this??
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    QuillQuickcard. Disregarding all aesthetic and safety features, the Cybertruck is simply poorly constructed. The majority of the vehicle is molded out of large, uninterrupted pieces of steel.
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    This limits the number of failure points on the body and frame of the truck, which sounds like a good thing, but what it really means is that only a few select areas will receive persistent and repeated strains, making them far more likely to crack, break, or
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    otherwise fail. The front panel is under a constant bending pressure owing to its shape and the challenge of the piece's manufacture and installation. So even sitting passively, the truck is experiencing a strain trying to warp its shape.
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    ByAnyOtherName Watch the Whistling Diesel (WD) channel, he's doing a torture test between a F150 and a CyberTruck. Turns out wind can rip off the panel above the doors because it's just glued on.
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    car It's not a truck, it's a shaped like a truck, it's only claim to fame is being fast in a straight line. Okay great but I need it to do actual truck things reliably.
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    Cretaz ⚫ The funniest part imo is that they are illegal in Europe cause of they way they are built.
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    Dr-Satan-PhD. It's an 6,600 pound razor blade on wheels that was cheaply slapped together. It's almost like it was designed to do as much damage to a pedestrian as possible. There is a video out there of a guy
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    trying to tow a Ford F150 with a CT, and the CT frame snaps. Some poor in Texas just burned to death in one because it's near impossible to put out those battery fires.
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    CydeWeys The lack of physical door handles preventing quick egress in the event of a total electrical malfunction is the veto point for me. That's not an "improvement" that anyone needed.
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    NOGOODGASHOLE. I've driven one. It drives like a Colorado, which I drove for work. The real issue is that from the original design to the final product, it is very different, and that is upsetting. I will say that the tow capacity is where they said it would be.
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    JJDoes1tAll -Video of the rear frame ripping off during a pretty routine tow, frame damage on a truck, thin lightweight frame
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    -Video of steering input lag between the video game controller steering wheel and the motors that move the wheels -Video of wheel just falling off, whole wheel suspension tearing, during generic donuts/burnouts
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    -Promised 500 mile range. Gets 200-250ish. -Did not have self driving features until this newest software update, that people are still waiting for their car to download
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    -The Model X can haul an 84 inch long box from ikea. The cybertruck cannot, it has less room. -It's a $40,000 truck selling for $100,000 -Lots more...

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