Crucially for Tesla's future, we may have reached a tipping point: The Cybertruck has become a punchline in a way that its owners cannot get out from under. The joke is that they are dupes who paid through the nose for an extremely expensive vehicle that looks like it was designed by a child and does not actually perform many of the functions we expect from a truck, and that they'll put up with any design flaw whatsoever.
Every CyberTruck owner is like, “I paid $80k for this and it almost killed my entire family. Small issue. Love the car!'”
So I finally saw a Cybertruck in person, today. It was kinda astonishing, honestly. I was walking through the parking lot, and there, right in front of the store, was this massive, hideous thing. It looked like it was from a N64 game. Banjo and Kazooie were fixing to rev up the engine and vehicular manslaughter Gruntilda with it, or at least they would if they weren't immediately turned into paste by the impact. The Tesla Cybertruck really is just a deeply unattractive machine. It both looks and is, mechanically, stupid. Of course the guy who owned it only came in to hassle us for allocated bourbon. Walked up and the first word out of his mouth was "Blanton's." Fucking typical. Hope he enjoys his $122k death trap and his $90 gasoline.
Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The recall caps a tumultuous week for Tesla. The company laid off more than 10% of its workforce on Monday, and lost two of its highest-ranking executives. A few days later, Tesla asked shareholders to re-vote on CEO Elon Musk’s massive compensation package that was struck down by a judge earlier this year.
Watched a few videos and reviews of the tesla cybertruck and like I can't even joke about it anymore these things are legit death machines and it is truly horrifying that they are allowed on the road at all. I'm not kidding, we are like days away from our first cybertruck fatality. And it will not be the last.