Automotive IndustryI like that anyone who bought one made a really bad investment
I went with a Silverado EV and love it. Tows like a champ.
Fuck the CT.
You're saying a car with a bad build quality, no resale value, and looks butt ugly didn't sell like the drugged up Nazi business owner wanted? Wow.
It's incredibly fucking funny they had to do this now, too. Dealerships all over can't keep EVs on the lot because so many people are making the switch. Even shit ones like the Mach E (which I begrudgingly confess is fun as hell to drive but sucks on every other metric) have waitlists. I haven't seen last quarter's statistics published yet, but in the quarter before EVs made up ~1\3 of new vehicle sales in the US and another other ~1\3 went to pickup trucks.
And yet because of how fucking ugly and useless the cybertruck is, and how much everyone hates musk, they're stuck with what should have been a money printing machine but instead it just keeps cranking out coupons for Kmart...
Unfortunate.
Now how will I identify dooches so as to avoid them?
There will always be Ram trucks.
Tesla kick flip roadster duh.
Just as relevant as the CyberDumpster™.
They were still producing this shit box?
I thought they stopped long ago - or did they just finish the pre orders for the suckers?
They were selling 1-2 thousand per month. Which is baffling lol
For reference, other more popular vehicles might sell 4-5k per month. Car factories have a much higher capacity so not meeting that demand is just a waste of resources.
It’s a relief knowing the number of these things I see on the roads will only go down. They’re dangerous. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s poorly designed and hard to drive in the city, or just because the people that buy them have a hard time driving in the city.
Oh it's largely the design, the things have absolutely shit visibility especially for close in driving. No idea how they're even street legal.
They aren't, in most of the developed world. In the US they are because there pedestrian safety is an afterthought at best.
Sure, but the question was an entreaty of the void wondering how they're legal in the US when they seemingly violate US vehicle regulations regarding driver visibility. They weren't designed for the non-US market, so it's not exactly a shock they're not street legal in those markets.
(I actually did go and look up the answer after that comment, and the explanation is that they were able to demonstrate in the Model S that their blindspot cameras were both reliable and comprehensive enough that they could supplement the physical mirrors, which has honestly been a huge win and has lead to something of an explosion in modernizing NHTSA regulations. While they are fascists and the cars have aged like something that doesn't age very well, this spurring on of regulatory agencies did clear the way for broad rapid adoption of now-common features like ADAS, driver awareness monitoring systems and integrated blindspot cameras. There's talk that they're going to make reverse cameras mandatory on new cars soon, which will be nice as well. None of this is the result of the cybertruck, to be clear. That thing, and tesla, and especially musk, are all still awful. It's just an interesting peek at how the the vehicle regulatory landscape has changed shockingly quickly.)
Are there actual studies demonstrating that all those cameras are really as effective as a car with good driver view and mirror coverage? After all, things don't get easier if there are even more locations you have to look at for getting a good picture of the environment.
Well no not exactly, every study I've found shows they're far more effective than a car with just mirrors. Which does make sense! Having to fully shift your attention away and manipulate your head vs. glancing down both keeps all the things you need to be monitoring at least in your peripheral vision, and is much faster than fully turning your head.
Effectiveness of a blind spot visualization system with a video camera for safe lane changes
Effects of blind spot monitoring systems on police-reported lane-change crashes
I was coming from the point of pedestrian safety, one of the key reasons that the Cybertruck had no chance of becoming street legal in the EU. The first and third link is not relevant for that, the second link is not just about video monitors but active assistance systems but also does not really discuss pedestrian safety either.
Additionally, none of these links discusses the comparison of a car with good view lines with a car with terrible view lines, compensated by camera systems. Assistance systems can also enhance cars with good view lines as well, so it would be relevant to compare that as well.
NGL, this is starting to feel a little sea-lion-y. I don't know if anyone has done a study that satisfies the requirement of explicitly determining if poor visibility + camera improves beyond good visibility, because I don't think that would be possible to quantify. However it's trivial to show that it increases visibility to beyond what is available from a standard car (and that blind spot systems improve pedestrian and cyclist safety) and all the previous studies I provided demonstrate that it provides increased driver awareness, so if we want the facile-but-still-correct answer then yes it absolutely does.
