Tesla Cybertrucks Keep Getting Stuck In Snow
Tesla Cybertrucks Keep Getting Stuck In Snow
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.
Article says the tires are probably optimized for efficiency...
Which makes it even worse their range is so bad.
Put actual truck tires on so you can use it as a truck, and range is going to plummet
Hahahahaha, fucking idiot that Muskrat is, so is anyone who bought this POS
People want new things and New ideas and they habr the money to risk it. I'm sure those people know just about as much of trucks as you do
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?
Elon's Folly sure doesn't seem to have any specific niche it performa in a except drawing attention.
And yet he is financially rewarded for all of it. Disgusting, ain't it?
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.
- weigh
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.
but that should be plowed
Pickup Trucks are traditionally the vehicle you hook up snowplows to.
Cybertruck fails at one of the most basic, and assumed, pickup-truck duties. Driving through the snow reliably. Now yes, bigger trucks (F250 or F350) are used, but F150 class (roughly where Cybertruck competes in) can handle light-duty plowing. But it has to be able to drive in the snow reliably first.
Unless you plow the snow in front of the truck a snow plow would also get stuck in the snow.
Snows plows work by removing large deposits of snow so the vehicles don’t bottom out and have less snow to get through to get traction.
You don’t seriously think trucks are magically immune from getting stuck do you? They require the right gear and equipment first, like anything else.
Welcome to rural America.
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.
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.
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.
18 inches? 12 at most and I would be laughing my ass off going through that in my XC60.
I would probably put on 4wd in my Jeep but that kind of snow doesn’t even merit 4lo.
Permanently Deleted
The ground clearance on the cybertruck is about 17 inches and change, and it appears to be brushing against the snow even with an inch or so of compacted snow under the tires. I could be wrong, though.
LMAO I've driven through that with all season tires on my Ford Fiesta.
