We all know that Cybertrucks have had a less-thank-lackluster release. Not many of these trucks could have been made yet.
Nonetheless, video-after-video of these beasts keep getting stuck in the mud snow in this case, now with snowy weather blanketing part of the north-east. Jalopnik is blaming tires, which sounds like a possibly valid issue.
But given the failures in the mud last month, I’m now wondering how much of this is perhaps a bad traction-control algorithm, or other feature of the cybertruck? Maybe its just the shear mass alone that is wrecking the traction.
In either case: the Cybertruck has no staying power in mud or snow. I can’t imagine this going well in any offroading event or other similar trucking duty. If the cybertruck loses traction in these simple snow cases, there’s no way it could be used as a plow for example.
Hold on, I thought the truck was a joke, a publicity stunt like the robot… Did people actually pay real money for one? PS1 nostalgia?
It’s too heavy. Tires don’t matter much if it’s just sinking like a lead brick.
Probably because they’re pieces of trash that way a bajillion tons.
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I wonder why Ford never designed a cyber truck…
They ughhh didn’t ughh have the ugh ugh mental ughh fortitude ught that ugh the ugh Musk ugh has ughh… Right.
i think it has too much staying power in snow or mud, and not enough going power
That’s a stupid truck, and it probably has a billion flaws in addition to poor traction control.
But that’s more snow than anyone should be trying to drive through. It’s at least 18 inches of uncompressed powder, judging from the tire tracks which are probably compacted ice.
Snow tires might help, but that should be plowed or shoveled before you drive over it.
Edit: Jesus fucking Christ, I don’t give a shit if you go rally racing in the Himalayas in a Ford Pinto. Congratulations, you win the Golden Shut the Fuck Up. This is a 5 second clip of a cybertruck spinning out because they pulled into an unplowed driveway. My point was just that you shouldn’t do that. Shovel your fucking driveway. Would a proper 4wd vehicle handle that? Probably. But ice is ice, and you shouldn’t expect a car that’s still loading polygons to have magical friction powers.
What? I used to go skiing in worse conditions with my peogeot 106. I never got stuck, the worst that happened is that someone had to sit on the hood to get going when we had to stop on a hill.
I used to drive my 2004 Xterra through 2 feet of powder. A good SUV should be able to handle some snow if it has decent clearance under the body.
They were dumb enough to buy a cyber truck and you think they would drive through snow responsibly? They’re lucky it got stuck when it did or they would have frozen to death in the thing.
18 inches? 12 at most and I would be laughing my ass off going through that in my XC60.
And fresh? I’m not even putting chains on, my FWD hatch back with TC turned off will get through that fine with snow tires
