Even the Tesla Cybertruck’s Brake Lights Don’t Make Sense::Brake lights shouldn’t be confusing, but Tesla’s determined to be different with the Cybertruck, for better or worse.
Someone actually bought this n64 piece of shit?
Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense
Submitted 6 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.thedrive.com/news/even-the-tesla-cybertrucks-brake-lights-dont-make-sense
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Mandy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
A7thStone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
N64 had more polygons than that. This thing is more like a virtualboy game, and it gives you a migraine when you look at it just like virtualboy.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I remember the virtualboy and the dire warnings that we were told about it.
ours@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A now ex-colleague pre-ordered straight away. It came up during a lunch discussion where he was convinced Teslas (which he owned) were at a more advanced self-driving class (3 or 4 versus the actual 2).
Some people really drank the Musk Coolaid and that was back before he went full-on alt-right troll.
RealAndOfficial@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It totally reminds me of playing Deathtrack on my 1989 PC. Especially Preying Menace’s car… Preying Menace’s car
Tronn4@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It should come with an expansion pack to get rid of the sharp edges
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That will take the 32-bit hardware upgrade.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
to get rid of the sharp edges
Or you blow a little air into it…
Uniquitous@lemmy.one 6 months ago
More like Atari Jaguar or the 3DO. Absolute trash.
r00ty@kbin.life 6 months ago
Actually kinda reminds me of the cars you see in the old arcade game Hard Drivin.
indigomirage@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Assman@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If the Homer and Canyonero had a baby
indigomirage@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
“Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero…🎵🎵🎵”
bemenaker@lemmy.world 6 months ago
everything about this truck is ugly, and fucked up. Just scrap it and start over.
TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m convinced that Elon himself drew a shitty sketch for the truck on a napkin and said “make it exactly how I drew it!” and they did unfortunately.
zaphod@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I’m convinced it’s worse than that. I think he originally drew this thing when it was six years old and never lost the obsession with his little crayon and fingerprint creation. It was also at that time that he became obsessed with the letter X because he loved pirates and treasure maps.
ikidd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Malicious Compliance.
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think he learned a 3D modeling program like just enough
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
It looks like an uglier version of the Aztec, and that’s really saying something
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think the CAD program they uaed for design was based on the Logo language.
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Funny enough the Aztec has this cult following now
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I actually love the way it can look in some of the promo materials and concept art. They should have left it as a concept car and showed it off at events and shit. The things that make it work as a concept, like the striking geometry under certain lighting at specific angles, I haven’t seen a pic of it on the road that looks cool yet. The smaller details like these lights take away from the minimalist geometry and make it look messy and busy instead of sleek and weird, and it just looks like a bunch of rectangles haphazardly arranged.
bemenaker@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good concepts look good on the road. They have all the lights worked out. You’re proving the point this is a bad design. Leave it a rudimentary sketch and never building it, means it’s a bad design.
ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 6 months ago
That looks like a shitty future car mock-up for a late 80’s future/action movie. Like Robocop or an Arnold movie 🤣 Only Elon would fund something this unappealing.
NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Much like naming a company “X”
Slovene@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Maybe he’s hoping people will start calling him the X-man.
UnspecificGravity@lemmings.world 6 months ago
It looks like something RIGHT out of Robocop, which is funny because the stupid fucking cars was actually a point of satire in that movie.
ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 6 months ago
I think Elon missed the the obvious joke, as per usual lol
Dave@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
Ok call me crazy but wouldn’t the requirements be written in law? I’d expect in many countries it simply wouldn’t be able to be sold.
jve@lemmy.world 6 months ago
From the article
The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards regulate taillight design, mandating minimum area, placement, quantity, and visibility according to vehicle category, dimensions, and weight. However, the FMVSS does not appear to prohibit deactivating taillights during braking, so the Cybertruck’s taillights as seen here seem to be legal—even if they are perplexing, and potentially dangerous.
I still can barely believe this thing is real, and not something out of a bad 90s movie where video game characters come into the real world.
Dave@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
I was more meaning in a wider sense. A car manufacturer who can’t sell their cars outside the US is shooting themselves in the foot.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can. Look at that weird VR thing Facebook tried. No one says no to these people the result is they just go with any sci-fi movie they liked.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As with most laws, first someone has to do something really stupid for others to say “we should probably write this down in the rule book and not allow others to do this.”
Elon and his designers are basically doing things that other car designers aren’t dumb enough to do.
Dave@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
But there are countries all around the world. You can find yourself a loophole in one country but then you can’t sell your car in all the countries that loophole doesn’t exist
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
But they’ve been doing the same dumb shit with brake and turn signals for decades and no one has done anything about it. They’ll have one set for Europe to comply with local regulations and then design and engineer a whole other set for the US just to have the wrong colors.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
Yes they need to be separate lights and yellow here in NZ. We mostly follow japan’s car safety rules so probably the same in many countries
Dave@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
Yellow? Brake lights are red, reversing lights white (which could be considered yellow).
ryan@the.coolest.zone 6 months ago
There's a video in the article and... oof, that's good to know in case I end up behind one. It's definitely a bit confusing and likely won't alert distracted drivers because the red light is always present. (Not that drivers should be distracted on the road, but it happens often.)
nothing@lemm.ee 6 months ago
We’ll turn off the lights to show just the brake lights! Brilliant!
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks for specifically mentioning that there was a video. I’d glanced at the article, didn’t see a video and left. Had to click the extra link!
Looking at that, I almost feel like it could be pretty cool if instead of what actually happens, that middle part that stays lit up was actually a LED display that flashes the word braking.
quinkin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It must “look like the future”…
I guess, if you are stuck thinking the 80’s are the future.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
The Huyndai N vision 74 looks like the 80’ future, and it looks amazing.
The Cybertruck just looks like a bad Playstation 1 game model.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean, it also looks like “80’s future” aesthetics but unlike the cybertruck, it does looks amazing
Iamdanno@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If you take the wing and ground effects off, it looks like a 30 year old Toyota Supra.
ikidd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Back to the future. Since the thing looks like an ugly DeLorean on steroids.
zaphod@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
This is what happens when you think you’re smarter than decades of vehicle safety design. Elon Musk is truly a dumb person’s idea of a smart person.
Yawnder@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
It just makes that vehicle illegal to drive in Canada with its gate open. Or maybe even illegal to be sold here.
YES!
scarabic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They say they have a million preorders…
I ordered a Tesla S way back in the day when it was a 6 month wait. I had to put down a $2000 deposit. But I got it all back when I cancelled the order a few months later.
So I have to wonder what those million preorders actually mean. Because boy howdy people are going to have some fucking buyer’s remorse once these eyesores start shipping.
They make the Pontiac Aztec look good. And that’s saying something!
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Love that Walter White had the Aztec pre-Heisenberg. Went well with the character at that time.
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The deposit was only $250, fully refundable, so there was no reason not to. At the time, there were no EV pickups, so this was announced to be first, and starting price target was $39k.
So now, it’s not first but last to release, price is way higher, and it’s not coming together as expected. I wish they’d stop reminding people about the preorders because they’re going to lose a lot of them
scarabic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And if the million preorders did hold up, it would still be bad for them because they’ll need two years to produce them all.
UnspecificGravity@lemmings.world 6 months ago
That is insane. The “brake lights” are effectively just the regular tail lights turning OFF and being replaced with smaller less bright lights. That is assinine.
applejacks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
please god stop with the elon musk headlines
naticus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This may actually be important if you end up behind one of these. Besides, this isn’t specifically about Elon so maybe make your whining relevant.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
There’s nothing about Elon Musk in the headlines…
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Some lemmy clients allow filters by word. I have those two names filtered (Memmy app). I still ended up here but this article doesn’t mention those names so, no complaints. Maybe you need filters for Tesla, SpaceX, and X in addition to those I mentioned.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Same here. Getting rid of fat head makes the Internet much better.
applejacks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sadly, the actual site does not have this functionality.
ram@bookwormstory.social 6 months ago
rustbuckett@lemmings.world 6 months ago
I legit didn’t think this thing was real.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m not the biggest fan of modern car desing in the first place, but these unibrow head- and tail lights are definitely among what I take the most issue with. I’m not sure if I’ve seen one car on which they look good. Not that it really concerns me as someone driving only +10 year old vehicles but if by some miracle I aquired one of these the first thing I would to is to lift the tailgate and hood and cut the wires to these lights only leaving the ones in the corners.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
911, g wagon. Look great.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’d rather have a Nissan Cube, or a PT Cruiser, than this shitty thing.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 months ago
You know I was about say I really like the kia soul thinking that is surely what you meant since I have never heard of a car called Cube before… And then I looked it up first.
And giggled for a few minutes on the couch like an idiot.That is such a derpy car. Thank you.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why the F isn’t the brake light at the top of the read windshield like any other car ? Well, it was probably not easy to CAD on a Sony PS1, they had to make compromised.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Wow, what a dumb design. It actually looks less like it’s braking with the brake lights on.
andthenthreemore@startrek.website 6 months ago
I don’t get how that’s legal in some parts of the world.
mycatiskai@lemmy.one 6 months ago
American manufacturing don’t want to have to change anything in their production lines so most American cars have only a red taillight that flashes the same bulk for brakes and turn signal.
It is lazy and unsafe but it would probably cost a few pennies to have an orange turn signal light so it is more profit not to do it.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Mixed brake and turn signals are not legal in several EU countries.
It’s been an issue with imported Jeep Wrangler US models, which run afoul not only of not having separate brake and turn lights but also not meeting spec about minimum surface of brake lights.
Some people were skirting around the regulations by registering them as off-road vehicles but those have to meet specific criteria (such as not being used primarily as a cool ride in the middle of an urban area…)
Carighan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It would not be in Germany AFAIK. But there’s also no chance it’ll ever come out over here, and frankly trying to sell a pretty is a tall order here. Nevermind something with a design only it’s deranged nazi inventor could love, if even that.
UnspecificGravity@lemmings.world 6 months ago
Im not even sure its legal in the US.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
My model 3 has red turn signals. Model Y? Literally exact same taillights? Yellow. Model S? Yellow. Model X? Yellow.
Why!?
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s called mood swings IIRC :-)
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Aren’t there US states that require red turn signals to pass inspection?
Sarcastik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
$
variaatio@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Specially in say foggy conditions and little bit distance. At which point you won’t clearly maybe differentiate individual elements and more like that’s the rear and “block of light in middle, left and right”. At which point it all little blending one might infact be under impression “the light intensity lowered at the rear, huh, not braking then, did they have they parking break dragging they released or something… ohhhjj shuiiiiiit no it is braking hard”.
My two cents from here north of Europe and land of snow, rain, fog and occasional white out conditions.
UnspecificGravity@lemmings.world 6 months ago
I know! Lets make the “brake lights” just be the normal tail lights turning off. It’ll look way cooler that way!
xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 months ago
It’s honestly amazing because a decent amount of work had to go into making the brake lights work like this. The number of people involved who didn’t notice or care how bad this is, is baffling…