Finally a truck can I draw
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WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
Gerard Van der Leun
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
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my usual cynicism:
stainless steel is very difficult to repair, I’m speaking as a fabricator who worked with it. it responds to the required heat uniquely- look at the St Louis Arch and recall the surface was supposed to be smooth, not wrinkly. difficulty acheiving proper results will be measured in cost.
I don’t want to clean the interior of the windshield nor deal with the relection of the dash it will bear, or maintaining the other window interiors.
I’m waiting for my dinner and this is just going to get worse…
If it can haul 40 sheets of plywood and costs less than $20k cash, I’m your huckleberry.
Didja note that it is made from 30X cold rolled stainless steel? The video only mentioned that about six times.
I suspect the angularity is for the same reason the DeLorean was all angles and planes: as GWB writes, bending stainless is difficult. No doubt especially so for 30X cold rolled stainless steel.
It does seem to be resistant to impact damage and gunfire, probably because of that 30X cold rolled stainless steel. I looked up the bed size for you, Ghost: 57 inches, no wheel well intrusion. So you can getcher plywood in there.
Full of toxic materials. Earth-killer to make (I’m playing the enviros because this ecological vehicle is not that big a benefit to the ecology). Where TF to get a charge? I need an onboard computer to guess me where my next power “hit” is going to be. Can I carry a little red can to the nearest service station, and return to my truck with a can of electricity?
Vehicles used to be steel. I’m good with that.
Looks dorky. I bet there are blind spots all around that, but who cares since it drives itself? Ford wanted vehicles for the people. This one is for Californiacs.
I will admit when I saw the shitter on the back, I did put that in the plus column.
No blind spots (supposedly) because there are no mirrors. Cameras that give a 360 degree view. Musk wants nothing hanging off the outside to create drag.
Of course (as Heinlein noted in Starship Troopers) we might drive over a cliff or into a wall while your eyes are glued to the 17″ flat screen. Probably while trying to look down the blouse of the blonde in the convertible in the next lane.
I’ll never forget the time the vehicle flashed a message: don’t look at this back-up camera, you might hit someone! Right then and there I swore off robots, and automotive engineers.
The insanity…the insanity…
Betcha the extended vehicle warranty on that monstrosity is gonna cost an arm and a leg. (!)
nice first try. certainly interesting. But… stainless steel rusts, yes it rusts. and like others have said, it is very difficult and expensive to repair.
First ones go to rap stars, hollywood types, and James Bond. those of us who actually use trucks for work, not so much.
When the gas or diesel model comes out I’ll consider it.
I’ll give him his due….Elon Musk is a billionaire.
But part of me thinks he is also a huckster. YMMV.
OK – nice promo video. Several claims are too outlandish that I am surprised they are in the video – faster than a Porsche 911 (60 mph in 6.2 sec is not close to the 4.0 sec of the stock 911 which also has a top speed of 182pmh), it can pull a nearly infinite mass (14k lbs is a lot but it’s NOT a nearly infinite mass and I imagine battery life would be about 10 minutes), etc. Is the Cyber Truck unique? Yes in many ways but the hyperbole is silly.
Just doesn’t pencil out. Seen a couple electric vehicle fires. Fireman were hurt badly. Requires a very specialized approach to fighting electric car fires, zero Water, Some sort of dry powder only.
Is cool,,,,,, kinda.
VI
This video gives off a vibe, like one of Goebbels bragging about the V2. It is yet another example of engineers working from some “everything is possible” fantasy. These types do not live in the real world.
Elon Musk may be a genius—as if that matters at all—but he most certainly is a weirdo. And without the massive subsidies granted him by the US government—subsidies paid for out of your tax dollars—he would be nothing more than a clever manager of a Starbucks.
Where does all the electric come from? Certainly not solar/wind/wave power! Where / how do we recycle all the “green” lithium batteries? For that mater, where do those batteries come from? This vehicle is not sustainable or practical for anyone but the 1%. In the near future we will still need polluting fossil fuels from Russia, the Middle East and elsewhere. Why would Americans want to use our own natural resources?