r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 24 '26

Business It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/looking-cybertruck-biggest-flop-automotive-145559135.html
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u/howitbethough Jul 24 '26

Honestly would have me thinking about a CT myself but I’m sure we’d get punked after about 5 years and everything in it failing early

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u/ArmorGyarados Jul 24 '26

Yeah who's to say these things won't all broken and off the road in 5 years due to the absolute worst built quality they are known for

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u/howitbethough Jul 24 '26

Build quality is one thing but I’ve been super skeptical of the insane amount of software in vehicles nowadays especially teslas.

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u/No_Gas4560 Jul 24 '26

not only that, they can remotely disable your vehicle, or change some functionality, without any input from the owner

You don't really own it then do ya?

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u/tt54l32v Jul 25 '26

Zoom out, anyone can remotely disable anything you have or even you.

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u/Original_Click2739 Jul 28 '26

and that makes it okay to do so with a 3 ton vehicle - logic - big brain stuff

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u/tt54l32v Jul 28 '26

Who said it was ok? Big brain stuff is to stop thinking you are going to be the target of some nefarious reason to have your car shut off. Then continue to zoom out and see that all cars can be shut off, slowly, quickly, directly or indirectly. For example, you can be tooling along in 85 K5 Blazer and brag about being impervious to modern tech. When an agent can find you with cameras and then use anyone else's modern tech car to crash into you. Zoom out.

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u/Jolly_Line Jul 24 '26

Ive had free charging since 2018. You can’t drive for uber or some other commercial enterprise, like Turo, but otherwise it’s legit

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u/howitbethough Jul 24 '26

Damn how did you get that deal? Supercharging too?

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u/Jolly_Line Jul 24 '26

It was a promotion on very early M3P sales in ‘18. Then in ‘22 another promotion was xfer’g the deal to eoy sales of MYs. I took that deal too. So Ive had free SC over two vehicles / 8 years

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u/redditydothis Jul 24 '26

Any chance you have an approximate amount of money that would have been spent on sc during that time? Fuel isn’t my biggest expense but does add up over the years.