Seems like those factory tires aren't good for much when the flakes start piling up

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.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.