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Yes, I have driven both light and medium duty trucks, as well as a bit of heavy duty (although I don't drive a truck for a living or have expert-level experience). My expectation is that the CT will be a *completely* different vehicle than e.g. an F-150 or 1500. If your intended purpose...

It's an interesting discussion about structural design, but your posts seem to imply that you believe the design choices that Tesla's vehicle engineers are making are poor, and will lead to a weak or vulnerable design. And you prefer that they do things a different way. I'm pretty sure Tesla...

Yah, the difference is you can have a pretty significant impact to a unibody, OR body-on-frame vehicle, without doing frame damage. If someone slams into one of your doors, or the back of your car, it can be fixed without any frame issues. If someone slams into the exterior of the CT, by...

Was Wasn't the Model S so strong it broke the crash testing machine? Hate to imagine what the CT will do..break the machine and then crash through the side of the building?

I don't want a metal roof, I want a glass one. If you want a metal roof, buy a different truck. The Cybertruck doesn't come with one, either standard or as an option.

Oh, we know. At Autonomy Day, Elon specifically said they were foregoing Model 3 buyouts so that they could amass a fleet of Robotaxis. If you lease a Model 3, you're paying 60% of the total purchase price, which is the CapEx required to produce the car, and then handing it back to Tesla after a...

Ah yes.. there is ZERO lingering in the passing lane. Love it!

Very cool, thanks for providing that info. Of course, my relying on information from a year and a half ago, when dealing with Tesla, made me way out of date. And I believe they mentioned they were already working on HW4 back at that point. The InFo SoW product sounds really cool and I'm sure the...

A short story to paint the scene of Germany.. I was in Germany for the past two weeks and just got home to Texas on Sunday night. It's a beautiful fall season right now, with lots of colorful foliage, nippy air, and light rain like a New England autumn. I left the day before their new monthlong...

The leader of the chip design team said during autonomy day that the FSD chips are fabricated by Samsung in Austin, Texas. I would argue that "designing" and "making" your own computer chip are pretty much the same thing, in the eyes of the layman. Who actually fabs it isn't super important...

Yes, we can agree with the way radios works being defined by physics, and OK maybe the "best" place for a mobile antenna is the center of a metal roof. But it can work equally or almost as well in other locations if properly implemented, and LOS with a strong signal can easily be established...

A metal roof is nice, but not needed, for RF communication. It's very easy to add a ground plane to an antenna where none exists (e.g. on top of a glass roof). It's called an artificial ground plane and there are various ways to accomplish it (google). You should honestly just choose the...

You do realize, don't you, that metal roofs are made of thinner metal than other body panels to reduce weight, and that glass is actually stronger than a metal roof? If you are doing something to the CT that will cause the (incredibly strong) frame to flex to the extent that it could crack...

It is WAYY bigger than 79 acres. I drove up there last weekend and drove around the perimeter to check it out. There are signs up that say the land for sale is "450 Acres +/-", but the map on Tesla Motors Club shows it as 1500 acres (including some small farms, so I guess they rolled up multiple...

I ordered on launch day (RWD) and then another the next morning (tai-motor), and then when they switched production order, I changed my RWD to dual motor. Place #26k in line. I initially hated the design and thought there's no way I'll get one, but for a $100 refundable deposit, decided to make...

I was gonna get this one, but now maybe it's a TERA? ?‍♂️

By the way, if there is a tricked out Baja edition, and it costs 80-90k, I'm saving up for that one.

Larger, please. And needs a lifted and chromed out Texas Edition.

3% smaller is fine for California, but I'm in Texas and need a version that's 12% larger.

I am considering "True FSD" to mean that the steering wheel can be removed from my car, as Elon has suggested.