https://archive.is/BbLLI

The other car, a sedan, had its entire front sheered off and it looks like the cybertruck might have been at fault. This intersection seems to have a speed limit of 40mph/64kph

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      When I visited Tampa, the people I stayed with hated having a car there because the environment was so hostile to them even a few miles from the sea. Between that and the bright sun reflecting off the steel, there's something particularly death drive-y about wanting to own a cybertruck in Tampa. They doesn't care who they hurt, be it others or themselves, so long as the world is worse for someone at all times. I will bake in my evaporating truck if it means the chance to destroy a normal car or cause extra injury to a pedestrian.

      • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        I know that. Each summer I spend a week on the coast and the windows are grimey with salt from the ocean air by the end of it. A giant iron box on the Gulf Coast can only be worse. It is Juvenalian rather than Faustian in its attempt to be an exemplar of Floridian individualism.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    There is something uniquely American about the cyber truck. Actively making yourself and everyone around you less safe while doing the "right thing" ie driving an electric vehicle and also being gaudy as hell the entire time.

    Each and every one of them is a micropackaged universe of shit.

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      All because you want to crowdfund a crude finance capital parody of Henry Ford as he writes The International Jew because you have a weird parasocial relationship with a billionaire. When people write damning histories of this era, I hope the cybertruck is on the cover. It ties together everything bad.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Before the term "enshitifcation" I had a similar observation. Like, even our villains are shittier versions of previous villains. Gone is the era of the golden age oligarchs. Now we just get some k-holed asshole that makes bad cars. Even capitalism was made shitty via capitalism.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    i went to a baby shower the other day in this rapid gentrification area of town that i have been avoiding for years. i saw like 3 teslas in as many minutes.

    i also heard 2nd hand about a cybertruck parked in the most truly bourgeoisie shithead area. incredible how many rich losers are out there driving around in their L's.

  • Ecoleo [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    The damage to the other car, jesus. It's been said before, but it's only a matter of time until they start selling people literal APCs