First Cybertruck Accident

[AZjeff]

I value performance and driving dynamics way too much to buy the mainstream crap the average buyer wants. Pass.

I value off road ability and towing ability way too much to buy some little zippy road car. Guess we value different things. I didn't call zippy cars because I don't like them though. Have fun your way.

 

[Torrid]

I value off road ability and towing ability way too much to buy some little zippy road car. Guess we value different things. I didn't call zippy cars because I don't like them though. Have fun your way.

I think some value offroad more than they actually offroad though. Obviously not everyone, but you can't miss this purely on road "offroad" builds.

 

[AZjeff]

I think some value offroad more than they actually offroad though. Obviously not everyone, but you can't miss this purely on road "offroad" builds.

There are plenty of new wranglers that had the cool parts cannon shot at them that never see dirt for sure. Kinda like the built performance cars that never see a track or strip eh?

 

[Torrid]

There are plenty of new wranglers that had the cool parts cannon shot at them that never see dirt for sure. Kinda like the built performance cars that never see a track or strip eh?

A track is for competing really, if I had time for that. It’s probably been 20 years since I’ve been able to regularly do track events. I plan to take my car to an open event at Road America when I can get the time off, but that’s a great elevation change road course, which really is a simulation of a good back road. I’m going for the California canyon car type of build to put it in popular YouTube terms. I’m not exactly trying to set dyno records though. While I find drag racing interesting I don’t really have a desire for that type of racing with my car.

I’ve got a daily with a bit more boost in simple terms. It’s more about the feel than it is proving something. That and I don’t try to drive around cutting people off and swerving my vehicle at people in an aggressive manner because I don’t approve of someone else’s vehicle which happens on a regular basis by lifted full size trucks when driving my EV. I will say I’ve never had a problem with Jeep people and I’ve never talked with a driver that wasn’t polite and respectful. It’s almost always modified HD trucks and I have multiple dashcam videos of them aggressively swerving across traffic to play chicken.

It’s not just that I think heavy vehicles are stupid, it’s the mentality of some of those so brazen driving them. The police don’t seem to do anything even with the video evidence though. I think it would take an impact to do something.

 

[dumkid]

A track is for competing really, if I had time for that. It’s probably been 20 years since I’ve been able to regularly do track events. I plan to take my car to an open event at Road America when I can get the time off, but that’s a great elevation change road course, which really is a simulation of a good back road. I’m going for the California canyon car type of build to put it in popular YouTube terms. I’m not exactly trying to set dyno records though. While I find drag racing interesting I don’t really have a desire for that type of racing with my car.

I’ve got a daily with a bit more boost in simple terms. It’s more about the feel than it is proving something. That and I don’t try to drive around cutting people off and swerving my vehicle at people in an aggressive manner because I don’t approve of someone else’s vehicle which happens on a regular basis by lifted full size trucks when driving my EV. I will say I’ve never had a problem with Jeep people and I’ve never talked with a driver that wasn’t polite and respectful. It’s almost always modified HD trucks and I have multiple dashcam videos of them aggressively swerving across traffic to play chicken.

It’s not just that I think heavy vehicles are stupid, it’s the mentality of some of those so brazen driving them. The police don’t seem to do anything even with the video evidence though. I think it would take an impact to do something.

Those people are called bro's. They drive their lifted 2500 with bald Chinese m/ts or the most expensive tires they can find well over the speed limit everywhere you go. Nobody likes them but the other bro's, and they basically dissapear once you get on an actual off-road trail.

I don't often see them towing stuff either.

However there's tons and tons of big trucks that are just work trucks and spend their lives hauling stuff from jobsite to jobsite, occasionally across adverse terrain.

Funny thing is the Tesla drivers here like to pull out right in front of people and they either floor it but you already slowed down, or they don't accellerate and block up traffic.

 

[TimeFlies]

Oh yeah, big truck vs little car. Big trucks are here and not going anywhere so maybe don't buy little cars?

The Cybertruck isn't a big pickup truck. The International CXT is a big pickup truck.
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Never seen one in person, but that is really cool, even if not the most practical vehicle.
But then again, I drive truck for a living, and it's a small truck basically.

 

[Cujet]

It's completely ugly.

So ugly the real finished product in whatever year won't look like that. It can't. I mean I think.

What? It's stunningly beautiful......

Oh wait...

It kinda looks like an Aztec from the back.

Anyway, that looks to be minor damage. I'd repair that.

 

[97prizm]

When I said who's going to know the cost of repair in response to PB's note that it would be the first data point about repairing stainless steel bodies I meant who in the general public would know what this repair costs unless the owner releases it? The shop that repairs it certainly shouldn't publicize it. Maybe the owner will if it totals it like the battery deal in the Hundy EVs. The entire body is structural in a Cybertruck they say.

It's not. Tesla engineers repeatedly told musk to can it as the "exoskeleton " design was never going to be a real thing. If you hit a vehicle with an "exoskeleton " there's nothing underneath to support it so the entire body folds in on itself.

 

[97prizm]

Those people are called bro's. They drive their lifted 2500 with bald Chinese m/ts or the most expensive tires they can find well over the speed limit everywhere you go. Nobody likes them but the other bro's, and they basically dissapear once you get on an actual off-road trail.

I don't often see them towing stuff either.

However there's tons and tons of big trucks that are just work trucks and spend their lives hauling stuff from jobsite to jobsite, occasionally across adverse terrain.

Funny thing is the Tesla drivers here like to pull out right in front of people and they either floor it but you already slowed down, or they don't accellerate and block up traffic.

Yep some lady in a model Y the other day had to fly around me because I was going 40 in a 40 with traffic in front of me.

 

[chris719]

Yep some lady in a model Y the other day had to fly around me because I was going 40 in a 40 with traffic in front of me.

Careful, 40 in a 40 could get you stabbed in NJ. Can't leave those gaps of more than 1 foot either.