I need to understand why people still keep giving that man money. Willingly. It’s mind boggling.
Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek
Submitted 8 months ago by filister@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://electrek.co/2024/03/08/tesla-shipping-cybertruck-tent/
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rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 8 months ago
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t either. People love being shit on I guess. It’s what makes huge companies like Apple and Tesla so popular.
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Apple makes some really stupid products that they charge ridiculous money for and their usual stuff is more expensive than it needs to be but at least their core products are of very good quality. The same cannot be said of Tesla
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
It really is.
I’m just amazed anyone would buy the truck, let alone a $3k tent for it.
Just tattoo idiot on your forehead. At least you’d still have most of your money.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
It must be because not everyone follows him around like us on reddit/Lemmy. I think this sort of thing is not reported in mainstream news. So the average person is barely aware of who Elon Musk even is.
oce@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Ego dream marketing. Same as any people buying SUVs after seeing an advertisement with a handsome business man in a suite with a big watch driving across the Alpes.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Ego dream marketing
Lol for real, I was thinking just that when I watched the Charger EV commercial.
the_third@feddit.de 8 months ago
But then they’re taking off from a traffic light in the Chicago suburbs which at least straightens out the somewhat rough idle that the check engine tape didn’t really fix and the glovebox falls open for the third time that day due to another pothole. Turns out the 20" wheels from the spirit package were wasted money on top of wasted money.
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 8 months ago
They like being scammed pretty much.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
That’s like Bethesda fallout backpack levels of quality
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I have one of those 76 “canvas” (vinyl) bags sitting around somewhere. Anytime somebody I know gets excited about a new Bethesda game, I just send them a picture of it and tell them that I’ve got a great bag to sell them.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Can I see the Pic of the bag?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It does literally compare it to that whole debacle in the article
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I had the exact same thought, and was about to make the same post
“Oh god, its the Fallout preorder bags 2: electric car boogaloo”
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 8 months ago
This one looks like a fleshlight. Where can I find dye bleach?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I’m guessing the dragons fucking cars community didn’t migrate over to lemmy yet
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
New plan baby. New Pontiac Aztec plan…
erwan@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Still, what’s the point of this kind of tent vs a regular one?
filister@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
That is a chonky boi. Too chonky for their own good 🙁
ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 8 months ago
Ow lad he's coming
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“We’re sorry that you aren’t happy with the tent. The tent shown in the media was a prototype and was too expensive to make. We aren’t planning on doing anything about it.”
suction@lemmy.world 8 months ago
OK Elon, thank you! How much money do you need next? No need to tell me for what. Just let me send you some money.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you really think they’d get a reply, and not the usual poop emoji?
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
That’s the famous honest bethesda support reply to giving a cheap nylon carrying bag with a special edition of fallout 76 instead of a high quality canvas one
Notorious_handholder@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Light wood laminate!
bfg9k@lemmy.world 8 months ago
$3,000 will get you a really nice regular tent
Why spend it on a tiny little swag that sits on your ute back, I can do that already lol
Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Depending on your requirements (e.g. are you planning on camping in hardcore places or just regular spots in fair weather), you could get not only the tent but all the rest of the camping gear as well for that price.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You can get a good tent for $50, or a tarp and some rope for $30. You can get all your camping stuff for $1000. Less is more with camping.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
If you’re taking that shitty truck, from early reports, you aren’t going to anywhere hardcore. Maybe the park down the street.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
500 dollars will get you a really nice regular tent.
3000 will get you a fucking glampers dream setup.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ok, but like… You’re talking about people who’d waste money on buying a “cyber” truck in the first place. At that point it’s like people buying Apple products; it’s less about having the best possible version of the thing and more about having something from Tesla/Musk.
Snapz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
These idiots just line up to be grifted publicly and then willingly drive around advertising that they are broken trash people. Never stop ridiculing these chuds
machinin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A theory I follow is that Musk got hold of some findom customer lists and built his customer base from those. His customers love getting financially fucked by that guy.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I finally saw one of these ugly things (the truck), down in Miami a few days ago.
3volver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Holy shit this had me laughing hard. Someone paid $3k for that shit? 😂
This is what happens when you let billionaire leeches like Elon make decisions rather than real engineers.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wait, 3k? My $50 tent is better and larger.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
easier to setup and will probably last longer.
tills13@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is proveably true since Rivian offers similar gear and those actually work. And they didn’t reinvent the wheel so existing truck tents just work.
tastysnacks@programming.dev 8 months ago
Definitely does not have the Steve Jobs talent
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 8 months ago
Idk, he is still managing to sell way overpriced versions of existing tech to people. Albeit much less polished. His main mistake is exposing himself as an idiot at every opportunity, rather than keeping the mystique to make it seem cool.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
The guy single-handedly moved IT from astronomy to astrology in the eyes of masses, thank God he’s dead.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
C’mon, Tesla. Pontiac had this shit figured out almost 25 years ago with the Aztek. This isn’t difficult.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 months ago
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I actually kinda like those things.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They were huge at multi day music festivals with camping, probably still are.
You only got so much space for camping, so camping on your car saved space and helped make sure you got a breeze being higher up than everyone.
Like a treefort.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Third party Cybertruck tents will probably have an easy time competing.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Its a continuing mystery to me why people want these vehicle-integrated tents. If you want to go into town for a burrito, you have to break down your camp. If parking is only by the road that’s where you sleep. If parking isn’t level you aren’t sleeping level. Your tent is exposed to road dirt and water all the time. They are way more expensive than a regular tent. They are locked in to one vehicle. They make your gas mileage worse. They are hard to install and remove.
If you could have HVAC in the tent then ok. But sounds like that isn’t a thing here either.
puppy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If it cost like $100 max that’s within realms of sensibility. If I bought that thing for 3000 I’d probably die from embarrassment.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Hefty! Hefty! Hefty! Wimpy, Wimpy, Wimpy!
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man, they really fucked that up…
From the original concept it looks like it started out as a camper shell that could be lifted and had fabric flaps that would keep it sealed. And with the shell closed it would have a relatively flat top.
But it got cheapened to all tent before announced, and then a shitty tent by release.
But that camper shell idea? That would be worth 3k and incredibly awesome.
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 8 months ago
I guess if you were going for that post-apocalyptic mad max vibe the cybertruck offers then this is the perfect accessory!
Really looks like someone made a makeshift shelter out of trash bags over the shell of a wrecked old shitty truck.
hark@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Over-promise and under-deliver, that is the tesla way.
suction@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And here I was thinking all of Elon’s fanboys carry a permanent tent anyway?
warm@kbin.earth 8 months ago
What do Tesla fans expect at this point? Every product is made as cheaply as possible and sold on marketing bullshit.
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Ebben Eastern Germany had a better solution: vezess2.p3k.hu/app/uploads/…/trabi-700x467.jpg
Mango@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I could literally do better myself.
Source: I’m just a guy on the Internet.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 8 months ago
Stop preordering things.
Don’t preorder games or unreleased cars.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As a seasoned camper the original design doesn’t look even remotely weatherproof. So to me, this is an improvement.
The lack of tent mode (suspension self levelling) is disappointing but in reality other vehicles don’t have that feature either and the world is full of level campsites. It’s also not that hard to manually level things up with ramps or a jack.
More disappointing is there’s no way to connect the tent to the HVAC system - that would have been a massive selling point if they could manage it and surely wouldn’t have been difficult? Just need some sort of opening or pipe to the main cabin and a few software tweaks to make sure you don’t drain the battery overnight.
WoahWoah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t want a cybertruck and I think Elon is an ass, but it would pretty cool if you had a tent like this that didn’t suck on a truck that wasn’t stupid and you could hook the tent up to the climate control and have it vented through the tent. Like, winter camping, toasty warm, summer camping, nice and cool. That would be pretty baller. Is that a thing already?
pixelscience@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You can see the awful, misaligned panel gaps in those photos.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
$3000 is way too much for a tarp stapled to the back of an overpriced pile of shit
einat2346@lemmy.today 8 months ago
At what point does it become cheaper to just have a W-2 menial stand around you with an umbrella?
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
When you order your ugly truck tent from Wish
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The Rivian that was announced a few days ago has a nice feature, rear seats and the two front ones all fold flat to the interior can fit a twin air mattress in the cabin. That seems a better solution than … whatever the fuck this is.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Motorcycle (and backpacking) camper here, so right there are my credentials for being able to shove a camping loadout into a vehicle.
For $3000, you can buy an entire high end backpacking setup, and also be able to use it without the presence of your stupid truck. And when I say entire, I mean it: A nice free standing tent you could probably pitch inside the truck bed if you had some creativity and really wanted to, a premium cot or inflatable pad, very competent sleeping bag, backpack, stove, water filter, hiking poles, a chair, a nice knife, the whole lot.
With change left over. I just added up the full list prices of everything in my core loadout and you could buy it all (including the backpack, which you don’t need for truck camping) for $1418.82.
So just do that instead.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, even a high-quality truck or SUV compatible tent is a minor fraction of the cost here. I could walk into an REI with $3,000.00 and end up with an incredible kit of camping gear. This is highway robbery.
CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m pretty sure what happened is that they were essentially pitching a shell for the back of the truck. And if it’s rigid and made of metal and maybe folded down to act as a cover while driving, fine. That’d still be a lot more than what the average truck/SUV convertible will cost. But it’s Tesla so it’s expected.
But then they changed to this BS and couldn’t reduce the price without recognizing the drop in expectation so here we are.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
It’s the price you deserve to pay if you support Tesla.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, but none of that helps convince me I didn’t buy a shitty truck and stave off the buyer’s remorse for another few months!
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
It’s not rust, it’s a P a t i na
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Even in the same kind of class of hardware, a Thule roof-tent is vastly superior for less money.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And! You can move that to your next vehicle when your Cybertruck inevitably disintegrates.
ikidd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When you factor in the roof rack you need to get, most reputable RTT are in that $3k price range.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The cyber truck bed is ~72x51(I have also seen 49"). Most 2 person tents are 50-54x78-88. I couldn’t find the bed length with the tailgate down, but the interior height with the cover closed is about 20", so we can assume the available length would be over 90". The other issue is most 2 person tents are side opening and getting out would be a bother, but a head or foot opening tent could totally work.
You could squeeze in a very nice 2 person head opening tent and spend under $800 easily, you can have a nice tent for $250. A custom 4 season tent is still only about $1,000.
But truck bed tents do exist, and those would fit easily and are under $500 all day.
Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 8 months ago
Hell, for 3k you could hire someone to haul a tent out to you. Maybe even air drop the damn thing to you.
The self-assembling tent I used to use was only $50.