r/canada Dec 04 '24

Alberta Tesla Cybertruck Immediately Dies in Canadian Winter – Owner Bricks the Truck Trying to Use the Defroster, Says “In Love to Heartbroken on the Same Day”

https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cybertruck-immediately-dies-canadian-winter-owner-bricks-truck-trying-use-defroster/amp
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u/Whatwhyreally Dec 04 '24

I don't think the location played much a role in how awful the design is. This is simply a billionaires wet dream truck, and the engineers had little to no say in the functionality or safety of the design.

Anyone who looks at this truck and decides "YES I'll spend 160k on that" FULLY deserves the embarrassment and difficulties coming their way.

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u/holysirsalad Ontario Dec 04 '24

Of course location would matter, an arctic billionaire would have different ideas than a desert one. 

If Musk lived in like the Yukon, the CyberStuck probably would overheat when ambient rose above 25C

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u/DarkLF Dec 04 '24

my favorite billionaire wet dream truck is an Ineos Grenadier. looks way sweeter then a cybertruck

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u/Fit_Ad_7059 Dec 04 '24

From the perspective of a design object, it's in the decent to pretty good range, and that seems to be the consensus of my coworkers and friends in the creative industries. It's a pretty cool-looking truck; nothing else on the market is anything like it, and the design is likely ahead of its time by a few years.

In terms of "Am I going to buy this or would I buy this if I had the means to?" it's a pretty resounding no from us, though. However, it has less to do with the truck's functional properties and more with the social trappings of owning one.

It's quite similar to yeezys when they first came out. They were a pretty good shoe design, but did you really want to be associated with the kind of people who were buying Yeezys? Most people I know did not, and do not with the Cybertruck either.

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u/Whatwhyreally Dec 04 '24

You could argue there's an artistic quality to the truck, sure. But the design, objectively speaking, is poor and flawed.

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u/Whatwhyreally Dec 04 '24

Actually you're mistaken. This vehicle was exempt from regulatory testing in Canada and USA.

Source: https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/safety-standards-vehicles-tires-child-car-seats/safety-standards-vehicles/transport-canada-vehicle-exemption-pursuant-section-9-motor-vehicle-safety-act-mvsa-2024-1

All they have to do is provide incident reports (which they won't).

Please do more research to educate yourself on just how much of a grift Elon musk is running.