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That’s because the dude in the passenger seat is a friggin’ WIFI HOG and won’t share. So the driver had to get his own!

Seriously, I imagine one of those is hardwired into the CT to allow “home base” (IYKYK) to get realtime access to the computer and maybe make some changes on the fly. At a minimum, realtime monitoring.
I can guarantee you that there are more people on that test in the factory looking through telemetry, than those sitting in the Cybertruck driving the test. We started doing that back in 2012 when we were developing the UAV CV recognition for SAR. In that we had people from Canada and England, let alone around Australia, logging in to the aircraft over 4G mobile connected to the onboard computer. Makes a world of difference in scheduling and getting eyes on time for development.

They'd probably have to stop to do drive train type updates for safety reasons, but otherwise they would probably be pushing updates on the fly, for non-safety related stuff. I wonder how they set up the Starlink link back to base, as Starlink is NAT-ed so you don't get a static IP, meaning it's more difficult to route to the UAV from the outside. We had the same problem with 4G carriers as well, but then used Zerotier to create something like a VLAN to punch through, and it also does so by finding the shortest, and therefore lowest latency route which is helpful for time critical stuff.
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They traveled 1000's of miles on terrain so bad they had to put new seats with 5 point restraints and folks are complaining about rattles and squeaks, really? I mean, even if they've never been off-roading, just a primitive conceptual understanding of physics gained from living on planet Earth should allow one to understand how machines with more than 5 parts work.
 

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For posterity, here is the current state of superchargers and destination chargers down there:
Tesla Cybertruck Cybertruck off-roading in Baja (live streamed by Tesla)! 1696917286201

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That is a lot more destination chargers than the last time I checked, I think there were like five and I was thinking I'd really have to plan hard to make it. Now it looks more flexible, though suboptimal.

Anyway, by my estimation, they doubled or tripled the number of destination chargers in the last year.

If you want to see superchargers in Baja, don't forgte to suggest and vote: https://www.tesla.com/supercharger-voting
 

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Well in Australia, the places we saw the CT travel on, are just called roads.

Many of the roads outaside of the urban areas are just red gravel roads, given that most of the country has some local iron ore (which we export the most of, over half of it comes from Australia). If not directly underneath the topsoil, then nearby, making our roads just rusty old pebbles of iron, that we happen to use because it's there. To a large extent this is how they will stay, because there is a) not enough traffic on them to warrant sealing them and b) not an overabundance of bitumen and asphalt like in the USA, from the excessive and decades of use of fossil fuels, from which these products are directly derived.

As a part of the EV revolution, I'm still looking for someone who is seriously considering the impacts of reduced fossil use, and what implications that will have on road construction an infrastructure. So maybe in the future we will all need a CT to drive "off-road" and Australia will end up having the best (gravel) roads in the world!
My point was more towards those who pooh poohed the video as weak sauce, not demonstrating "real" off road capability. We haven't seen the other 970 miles.
 

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My point was more towards those who pooh poohed the video as weak sauce, not demonstrating "real" off road capability. We haven't seen the other 970 miles.
I'd like to see the CT rock crawling and traversing all kinds of major obstacles. Let me see how it does in Moab over solid rock inclines and crazy bowls or other obstacles. How about a desert of sand dunes or along the beach with soft sand. Then head across rocky mountain streams. Up over mountains using fire lookout roads. Bring an electric chainsaw to clear downed trees. Charge the chainsaw from the bed outlet. Oh, and make some rescues using a winch. Or use a tow rope to pull a vehicle to safety. And show them airing up and down at various locations depending on the terrain.
 


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I'd like to see the CT rock crawling and traversing all kinds of major obstacles. Let me see how it does in Moab over solid rock inclines and crazy bowls or other obstacles. How about a desert of sand dunes or along the beach with soft sand. Then head across rocky mountain streams. Up over mountains using fire lookout roads. Bring an electric chainsaw to clear downed trees. Charge the chainsaw from the bed outlet. Oh, and make some rescues using a winch. Or use a tow rope to pull a vehicle to safety. And show them airing up and down at various locations depending on the terrain.
Oh I'm sure you'll get your chance to see it doing all of these things. Maybe not before the launch though. I expect it will perform at least well if not better than equivalently equipped half ton pickups. Will it match a Jeep Wrangler No but no pickup does that
 

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Oh I'm sure you'll get your chance to see it doing all of these things. Maybe not before the launch though. I expect it will perform at least well if not better than equivalently equipped half ton pickups. Will it match a Jeep Wrangler No but no pickup does that
It might not match a Jeep but I'm not sure my head and heart would continue to work if I tried to drive a Jeep in some of the ways I've seen. I sense that my CT will out perform me so I'll be happy with that.

Now if FSD gets so good that it can take off road trails at the full capacity of what the CT can do... Then I might start worrying about my head and heart again...
 

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Damn, this dude called it back in March!

He also called that the CyberTruck doors will both open and close, it’ll have all 3 dimensions, and be composed of atoms

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"OFF-ROAD" yea really, more like cruising down a country dirt road. Off Road NOT.
 

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I'd like to see the CT rock crawling and traversing all kinds of major obstacles. Let me see how it does in Moab over solid rock inclines and crazy bowls or other obstacles. How about a desert of sand dunes or along the beach with soft sand. Then head across rocky mountain streams. Up over mountains using fire lookout roads. Bring an electric chainsaw to clear downed trees. Charge the chainsaw from the bed outlet. Oh, and make some rescues using a winch. Or use a tow rope to pull a vehicle to safety. And show them airing up and down at various locations depending on the terrain.
I agree. I laughed when I saw the label "Off-Roading".
I have seen driveways rougher than this peaceful country lane.
 

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Damn, this dude called it back in March!

He also called that the CyberTruck doors will both open and close, it’ll have all 3 dimensions, and be composed of atoms

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More like "Off-Interstateing"
 

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FYI, Rivian has:
  • Off-Road Drift (30 seconds in)
  • Off-Road Auto
  • Off-Road Rock Crawl
  • Off-Road Rally
  • Off-Road Sand (not in video as added later)
Rivian's latest update added battery temp, each wheel motor temp, pitch, roll, elevation (high/low), compass, etc.

They also have 3 settings for different trailers. They will automatically try to calculate the weight of your trailer (sounds like they have to you a modest accel test). Sounded like the formula for this uses curb weight + 400 lbs payload (max_curb=max_GVWR-max_payload).

Rivian is letting some of the engineers go on ride along to show some of this stuff and answer questions. Chevy did this with the Silverado EV as well (ie. supplied engineers for Q&A). Wish Tesla was more transparent!

Tesla Cybertruck Cybertruck off-roading in Baja (live streamed by Tesla)! QaOthNe


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