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- The most dangerous thing
about the Tesla Cybertruck
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is not the pointy edges and corners.
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It's not the fact that
it weighs over three tons
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and goes from zero to 60 miles an hour
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faster than a Corvette.
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It's not even the way that reflections
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glare off the stainless steel
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and can blind people on the highway.
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No, the most dangerous
thing about the Cybertruck
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is the way it makes other people
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around you on the road behave.
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Okay, I genuinely can't
tell if the Cybertruck
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is good looking or not, and
I'm being completely serious.
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Like if you just check the
comment section online,
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it's actually mostly negative.
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Most people are saying it looks horrible.
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It looks like a refrigerator on wheels.
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It's a disaster of a design.
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But once you start living with this thing,
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you drive around with it and
you talk to people about it
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who have never heard of it,
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they're saying things
like, "This is crazy.
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This is like a movie prop.
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It's sci-fi, looks something alien."
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So there's a lot to it.
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Here, first of all, stainless
steel and black plastic.
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That's mostly what
you're working with here.
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And the front, I think
it has a good angle.
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To be honest, I'm a
sucker for a light bar,
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but the actual headlights are down here
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so they stay outta people's eyes.
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In general, it's like a square jawline,
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no curves, just angles.
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But the back, the back not so much.
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You know, it's still
technically a bar, yes,
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but it's a little bit
dinker in my opinion.
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And also just tons of
black plastic in the back.
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Really high tailgate.
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I'm getting like, dump
truck vibes from back here.
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I don't think I'm the only one.
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I just, I don't think the
back is its best angle.
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But if I had to narrow it down,
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I'm pretty sure the most
iconic profile is the side.
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And the two elements of this truck
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that really stand out are this
slope, these high shoulders,
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and then the pointy
corners on the other side.
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See, most pickup trucks have
basically this general shape.
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It's the traditional pickup truck look.
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And so we're not used to
seeing this angle right here
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and this huge slope right here.
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It's unusual, it's weird, it's
very visually interesting.
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So I've been living with the Cybertruck
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for about a month now,
well over 1,500 miles.
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And you notice a couple things.
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First of all, people, whenever
you go park somewhere,
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always wanna come up to
you and talk about it.
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Naturally, I've entertained
a lot of these conversations
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'cause they're fun.
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And they usually say two things.
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One, you'd be surprised
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how many people have never
heard of the Cybertruck.
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I know for us online people,
people watching this video,
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you're like, how could
anyone have not heard
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of the Tesla Cybertruck?
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But you'd be shocked.
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And two, most people just want to know,
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how much does that thing cost?
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And I got asked that so many times,
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eventually I just started
having people guess.
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And 100% of the people
who guessed were too high.
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People were guessing
$250, $300K, $180K, $150K.
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They're all way over.
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But you know, how could they know?
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They don't know what the
rest of the truck is.
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They've just seen this thing
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they've never seen for the first time.
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And so I guess the conclusion is the looks
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are really distracting
people from the rest
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of what makes the
Cybertruck, the Cybertruck.
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Okay, let's play a little game.
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I'm going to name a feature
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and all you have to do is
think about it for a second
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and think about if you believe
it's overrated or underrated.
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And then I, someone who's
been driving this truck,
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will tell you the real answer.
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So first feature, steer by wire.
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I've seen a few good pieces cover
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what's actually happening here,
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talking about the complete
physical disconnect
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between the steering wheel you're holding
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and the wheels that are
moving under the truck.
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Instead, it's a bunch of
sensors reacting to your input
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like a video game controller.
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But combined with the
variable steering ratio
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and the four wheel steering,
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this is the most nimble,
agile-feeling truck
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that I have ever driven.
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And I don't think a lot
of people realize that.
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So I'm going underrated.
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It's one of those things
where Tesla definitely
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didn't have to do this.
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Like, they've made their
headlines already with the looks.
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It could just be a Model 3 underneath.
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But they went through the extra measures
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and the extra engineering
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to ship a full steer by wire system
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and all the redundancies that
come with making it safe.
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I believe they're the
first ones to do this.
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But the variable steering ratio is really
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what gives it all of its utility.
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So at low speeds, the ability
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to turn really quickly gets dialed up.
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It's a much more
responsive-feeling steering wheel.
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So if I want to turn right
here, I only have to give it
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what, half a turn, a quarter turn,
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and I'm fully maneuvering.
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The way you can pull into parking spots
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and make 90 degree turns and everything
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is a total game changer.
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But then at highway speeds
it softens that ratio a lot.
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So you have a little bit of steering input
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to sort of glide left and
right between different lanes.
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It's much more subtle.
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You kind of need that.
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But then on top of that, throw
in the four wheel steering.
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So four wheel steering is not new,
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lots of vehicles have done it.
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But the amount of steer
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that you get from these rear
wheels is pretty dramatic
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to the point where you
can look in the mirrors
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and see those wheels turning.
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And this can also be
adjusted with software.
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But that really lets this
huge truck basically pivot
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around a much smaller axis.
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The steering ratio now I think gives it
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the same steering circle as a Model S,
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but it feels really, really impressive
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just because of how big
the actual vehicle is.
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It definitely takes some getting used to.
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You can't ignore that fact.
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But once you get used to it,
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you literally feel like when
you go back to like, an F-150
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or any other truck where you have
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all this hand over hand
steering to do the K turns,
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that feels weird, it feels archaic.
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It feels like you
shouldn't have to do that.
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So again, Tesla definitely
didn't have to do that,
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but just the way you can
drive it like a smaller car
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and really point the nose,
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I don't know, it's definitely underrated.
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All right, next feature,
bulletproof stainless steel,
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overrated or underrated?
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I'm going with, you probably
saw this one coming,
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I'm going with overrated.
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Now look, first of all I get it.
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Obviously having a very durable truck
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is super useful of course.
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But bulletproof up to
nine millimeter rounds?
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(Marques thumping truck)
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(sledgehammer thunking)
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Yeah, I'm not gonna test that.
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But you know, there are some
other YouTubers out there
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who totally will.
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And apparently it can
literally stop smaller rounds
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without being punctured.
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But also, the glass
windows aren't bulletproof,
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they're more of just
stronger than regular glass.
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And then it's regular
wheels, regular tires
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that can still get slashed.
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So don't go getting any ideas
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that this thing is invincible
or anything like that.
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But clearly, cold rolled
stainless steel alloy
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is going to be much stronger
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than the regular outside of the vehicle.
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So that's the shopping cart in
the back of the parking lot,
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that's fender benders.
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Or if someone hits you, you'll be fine.
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You'll be fine.
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But guess what?
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It also means your truck is now made
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of an extremely fingerprinting material.
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And it also doesn't
have normal door handles
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so you just cannot keep it clean
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if you use this thing daily.
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And then steel just happens to
be really hard to manipulate.
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Apparently Tesla had to create
new machines strong enough
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to stamp this material together.
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There's a reason why there aren't a bunch
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of other cars rolling
around looking like this.
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So when I say in the Auto Focus review
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that low VIN Cybertrucks
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will have low VIN production issues,
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that's not actually new to Tesla.
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They've had to spin up
manufacturing for different types
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of vehicles before,
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and usually the first few
thousand of them aren't pretty.
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But then they learn from those issues
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and then one or two years down the road
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they're making millions of the thing
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and they're much better
quality controlled.
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So this particular Cybertruck
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is the dual motor all-wheel drive.
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This was borrowed from Ridge.
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Shout out to Ridge by the way.
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I'll leave a link below
if you aren't caught up
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on my partnership with them.
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But on delivery, this one
had a pretty big panel gap
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on the driver's side door.
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And you know, I never really
care about panel gaps,
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but this one in particular
actually started growing
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and getting worse.
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It literally looked
like the door was open,
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and then it started making
weird noises while closing.
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Until one day it actually broke.
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So turns out it wasn't a panel gap,
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it was actually a manufacturing
issue where the bolts
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that hold this latch in place
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were actually not torqued tight enough
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and they loosened over
time and it fell out.
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And so Miles actually had the bright idea
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to just gaffe tape the latch
securely back in place.
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And now when you close the
door, lines up perfectly.
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So Elon Musk addressed this
on Twitter after my video.
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Apparently only 15 trucks had this issue,
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so lucky me, I guess.
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So if you are one of the few,
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then you can apparently just take this
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to a Tesla service center
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and they'll be able to fix it in no time
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as long as you get an appointment.
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The Cyberbeast that I took
delivery of under my name
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has been flawless so far.
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But I think the point
I'm trying to make is
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these early Cybertrucks, as
with any other early Tesla,
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they're going to find,
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I guarantee you, more issues like this.
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And they'll work on 'em and fix 'em.
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But yeah, this Foundation
Series badge right here,
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kind of clouted in the Tesla community
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'cause it basically means
you got one of the first few.
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But it also kind of means
willing beta tester in a way.
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So you know, these materials
and this new stamping technique
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and all this should
eventually make the vehicles
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much easier to produce
en masse, and cheaper.
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But that's eventually, eventually.
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All right, next feature, truck stuff.
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I'm talking about the
theoretical reasons why someone
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would logically buy a truck
over any other vehicle
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like a van or an SUV or a car.
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And that would be for towing,
hauling and off-roading.
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And I know it looks like
this truck would be amazing
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at all of that stuff, but I'm gonna say
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that this one, it's overrated.
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It's overrated here,
and I'll tell you why.
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Now, don't get me wrong, the
Cybertruck, very capable.
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It's much more capable than
any other Tesla, obviously.
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I can confirm it handles
winter weather really well.
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Like it has heated windshield
wiper and the heated mirrors
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and the door can in fact
open in icy weather.
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They added a wade mode
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that lifts the suspension all the way up
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and pressurizes the battery
so that you can drive
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through really deep water.
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It's insane.
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And it also has off-road driving modes
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and towing modes right
here in the settings.
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There's also only one
wheel and tire option
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right now with Cybertruck.
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Every single Cybertruck ships
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with the same Goodyear Territory
Wrangler RT Tire, whatever.
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It's a pretty popular tire
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and they ship them on, you
know, Jeep Grand Cherokees
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and F-150s all the time.
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And it's reinforced
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and it's capable of
some light off-roading.
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But I think if we're being honest,
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most people will be driving
this thing mostly on the street,
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like a glorified SUV.
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So here's a number to think about, 63.
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63% is the percent of truck
drivers who admit to rarely
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or never towing anything at all.
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And that's just the ones that admit it.
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Like, look at this chart.
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This is from a survey of F-150 owners,
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so the most popular truck in the country.
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People are almost never actually
towing with these things.
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So before we leave a comment
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that this thing sucks for
towing, yeah, they know, we know.
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Everyone buying it kind
of should already know.
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If you're buying a truck
specifically for towing,
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then you have a short list
of trucks you're considering
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and none of them are electric.
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But I think my main
realization with this thing
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is there are millions of preorders
for this thing right now.
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Because it's Tesla, it's
going to be very popular.
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This is gonna be a lot
of people's first truck
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and it will come with all of
the first truck realizations.
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Like to a lot of people,
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the Cybertruck looks absolutely huge,
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but it's actually smaller than an F-150.
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And these people, when they get the truck,
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they'll think they're invincible
and they can drive off road
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and just go wherever they want
without even thinking about
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strategically going certain routes
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or airing down the tires
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that literally come at
50 PSI from the factory.
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They're gonna start
getting stuck in all sorts
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of embarrassing situations, which means
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of course then there will
be countless articles
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written about them
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because of course no other truck has ever
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been stuck in the snow before.
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And it's just, sorry,
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I'm definitely getting ahead of myself.
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But look, we will be using a Cybertruck
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at our video production studio
for a lot of the same reasons
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that we've used an R1T.
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It's got a tow hitch, it's
spacious, it hauls a lot of gear,
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it's quick, it's quiet, it's great.
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But I think the point
I'm trying to make is
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most of the millions of
people who will end up
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with these Cybertrucks eventually
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are going to use them on the street
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just like a glorified SUV
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just 'cause they think
this one looks cool.
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And that's fine.
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All right, next category, performance.
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Overrated or underrated?
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Well, you might have
seen this little video
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that Tesla did on their YouTube channel
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racing the Cybertruck
against a Porsche 911
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while towing a 911 and beating that 911.
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And that, that was a very clever video.
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It's an ad, of course,
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but it also takes advantage of the fact
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that EVs all have this commoditization
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of this enormous straight
line performance,
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great acceleration.
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Anyone can get it.
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But you know, I'd normally
never compare a pickup truck
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to a sports car, right?
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But well, we're here.
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(energetic music)
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(music continues)
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(music continues)
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(car revving)
(truck humming)
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(race signal beeping)
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(car roaring)
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(music continues)
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(music continues)
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(music continues)
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So like most drag races,
this one was just for fun.
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But while we have some
time at this drag strip,
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we did a bunch of these, we
did back to back to back races.
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And it shed a lot of
light on Tesla's video
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and on the Cybertruck in general.
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So first of all, EVs are quick, right?
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We've known this for years.
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Ludicrous mode, Plaid mode, Beast mode.
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This is not new information.
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But cars with gears can be faster.
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So there's a difference
between quick and fast.
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So when you go to a real drag
strip with timing equipment
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and all that stuff, you
get one of these after.
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This is a time slip.
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Breaks down in both lanes,
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not just the end of the 1/4 mile
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but multiple points along the race.
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And so I've expanded it here.
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So this was the triple
motor Cybertruck's best run,
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one of the first runs.
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It runs a 10.9 second 1/4 mile,
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which if you don't know,
is absolutely ridiculous.
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There are bonafide sports cars
that don't run in the 10s.
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And for a 7,000 pound pickup truck
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to do it on all terrain tires
is just kind of hilarious.
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But when you actually
look at and break down
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each of these times,
this shows the difference
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between quick and fast.
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So first of all, off the launch,
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just from zero miles an hour,
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the Cyberbeast with its triple motors
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and with its 1000 hertz traction control
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managing slip at the rear
wheels basically in real time
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is able to explode off the line
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through the first 60 feet of the race
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faster than the 911 Turbo S,
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one of the fastest-launching
cars ever made.
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Now from there, it holds that lead,
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continues putting down all of this power
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all the way out to 330 feet.
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So you can see that at 330 feet,
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4.4 versus 4.5, it's still out ahead.
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But by the time you get to 660 feet,
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which is roughly halfway through the race,
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that's when the 911
has changed gears twice
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and continues to pull.
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And this is when it shifts
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and passes the truck around
halfway through the race.
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Physics just takes over,
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and the lighter car with many
more gears continues to shift.
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It passes the truck.
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Crazy enough, the Cybertruck hits
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its 114 mile an hour
electronically limited top speed,
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probably 'cause of the tires,
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well before the end of the 1/4 mile,
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while my child, I mean the car,
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continues to pull into the 140s.
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No, it's not stock.
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Now Tesla made this video
that I've talked about,
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and they wanted to showcase the Cyberbeast
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against a Porsche 911.
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And they know all of this
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so they had to get clever, I'll say.
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So if you haven't seen
it, I'll link it below.
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Their video shows the Cybertruck
pulling up to the line.
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It's racing a Porsche 911.
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It beats the 911 in a drag race
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and then it's revealed
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that it was towing a 911 the whole time.
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So they're saying you can
beat one while towing one.
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And then it flashes the 1/4 mile time
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on the screen, 11 seconds.
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So first of all, there's
about 50 different models
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and variations of the Porsche 911.
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So just based on what we saw
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and from the performance in
the video, I'm gonna guess
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that they went with the cheapest
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and slowest possible 911.
00:17:56
So that would be the 911 Carrera T.
00:17:58
It's a manual transmission.
00:18:00
It does zero to 60 in around 4.3 seconds.
00:18:02
So now the Cybertruck with
its 2.6 second zero to 60
00:18:05
has a massive advantage.
00:18:06
And so they're able to handicap it
00:18:09
by having it tow the
911, like 3,000 pounds.
00:18:12
Okay, so then they run the race.
00:18:13
And if you watch the
video, they run it out
00:18:16
to this yellow mark right here.
00:18:19
Which it turns out
00:18:20
is actually the halfway
point of the drag strip.
00:18:22
So shout out to Engineering Explained
00:18:24
for doing the math on this one.
00:18:25
I'll leave the video below.
00:18:27
But it turns out the Carrera
T, thanks to its gearbox,
00:18:30
is still eventually
faster than a Cybertruck,
00:18:33
especially if it's towing 3,000 pounds,
00:18:35
but it's really an 1/8 mile race
00:18:37
that they're showcasing here,
00:18:38
and then they quote the
1/4 mile time at the end
00:18:40
as if they ran a 1/4 mile race.
00:18:42
But as we've learned today, quick, fast.
00:18:46
People will point out that difference
00:18:48
but I'll let it slide.
00:18:49
It's just a drag race, it's fun,
00:18:50
it's not that huge of a deal.
00:18:51
But I will say, if you can,
00:18:53
from stoplight to
stoplight be just as quick
00:18:56
as basically any other car
in a 7,000 pound truck,
00:19:00
that's incredible, that's
hilarious, that's really fun.
00:19:03
But hopefully, at least now
you understand why I'm saying
00:19:05
performance is a bit overrated.
00:19:07
It's more of a one trick
pony in a straight line.
00:19:10
Now that one trick is very fun
00:19:13
and very appealing to certain people.
00:19:14
There are people every day
who pick the F-150 Raptor
00:19:17
over the F-150 for stuff like this.
00:19:19
But you know, then you get to
a turn and it's a truck again.
00:19:23
But also one more thing
I just wanna highlight,
00:19:24
again, in our best run
we got 10.995 seconds
00:19:29
in the Cybertruck.
00:19:29
Is this the fastest?
00:19:30
Is this the world record
00:19:31
for fastest Cybertruck 1/4 mile?
00:19:34
I haven't seen any faster,
so lemme know if you do.
00:19:37
But shout out to Miles, the driver mod.
00:19:39
I think we might have a world record here.
00:19:44
All right, the 800 volt architecture
00:19:46
and the 48 volt low voltage system,
00:19:47
both new to the Cybertruck.
00:19:50
I'm going underrated, if only
for the fun fact that this,
00:19:53
this is technically the lightest
fully electric pickup truck
00:19:58
in the world.
00:19:59
Which is not the highest bar to clear.
00:20:01
But yes, thanks to the lesser wire weight,
00:20:03
it is lighter than the Hummer EV.
00:20:05
It's also lighter than
the F-150 Lightning.
00:20:08
And it is lighter than the
dramatically smaller Rivian R1T.
00:20:12
So that's an accomplishment.
00:20:13
I was also hoping it would charge like,
00:20:15
just as fast or faster than other Teslas.
00:20:17
But it seems right in line, you know,
00:20:19
250 kilowatts out of V3 Superchargers
00:20:21
for about the first 1/3 of the curve.
00:20:24
You know, it looks like less
as far as miles per hour
00:20:27
that you're adding to the battery,
00:20:28
but that's including driving efficiency.
00:20:30
Which is, thanks to the
aerodynamics of a refrigerator,
00:20:34
not great.
00:20:34
Now I also wanna give a shout out
00:20:35
specifically to the suspension,
00:20:37
just the suspension on the Cybertruck,
00:20:39
which I think is underrated.
00:20:40
First of all, there's
a huge amount of travel
00:20:42
between the lowest and firmest
00:20:44
and the highest and softest settings.
00:20:46
And no one's gonna say this
thing drives like a sports car,
00:20:48
but it is pretty impressively low and firm
00:20:50
in its lowest setting,
00:20:52
and it's very high,
00:20:53
and it can move between those low
00:20:54
and high settings really quickly.
00:20:56
And I was also very impressed
00:20:58
by how little roll and yaw there was.
00:21:01
Typically a big truck, you hit accelerate
00:21:03
and the nose comes up a lot.
00:21:04
This one goes up a little.
00:21:07
Not bad.
00:21:08
But then also we gotta talk
about, just for a second,
00:21:09
Tesla's minimalism.
00:21:11
Because it's kind of a staple
of Teslas at this point,
00:21:15
especially with the Cybertruck
here with the design.
00:21:17
But also on the inside and with materials
00:21:20
and the choices they make.
00:21:22
I think a lot of us would agree
00:21:24
that a physical button in a lot of ways
00:21:26
is better than a digital button.
00:21:28
I don't think that's a hot take.
00:21:30
But one of the reasons
00:21:31
Tesla's been so successful business wise
00:21:33
over the past couple years
in such a competitive market
00:21:36
is because they've figured out a way
00:21:37
to make a profit on every vehicle,
00:21:39
and they minimize all of the extra pieces,
00:21:41
all of the moving parts.
00:21:42
And they've gotten rid
of a lot of buttons.
00:21:44
Actually, they've gotten rid of basically
00:21:46
every button in the Cybertruck.
00:21:48
But because of Tesla's success,
00:21:50
I feel like auto manufacturers
have started to copy
00:21:53
a lot of what Tesla does,
00:21:55
to the detriment of
some of their vehicles.
00:21:57
I would've liked to have
seen in the Cybertruck,
00:21:59
this big special vehicle,
maybe a cool key fob
00:22:03
that has access to a button
to open the front trunk,
00:22:05
or maybe real climate control buttons.
00:22:07
Or maybe, we all know they
should have done a mirror
00:22:10
that's actually a screen
00:22:11
so you can see out the back of the truck
00:22:12
without looking down at the screen.
00:22:14
But they didn't do that.
00:22:16
So I'm saying Tesla's minimalism,
kind of overrated here.
00:22:20
But I also do need you to know
00:22:21
that despite all the other
interesting technical stuff
00:22:24
that I've talked about in this video,
00:22:26
this is still a Tesla under the hood,
00:22:29
and all of the things
that we love about that
00:22:31
and all the other stuff
that comes with it.
00:22:33
That means it works
with Tesla Superchargers
00:22:35
all over the country.
00:22:36
That also means it has a super heavy
00:22:38
123 kilowatt-hour battery in the floor.
00:22:41
It means that the quiet
interior of the vehicle
00:22:43
makes the speaker system sound way better
00:22:46
than it probably should.
00:22:47
And it also means a bunch of things
00:22:48
are missing about these early
trucks as they deliver them.
00:22:51
The super heavy additional
range extender battery
00:22:54
in the back isn't shipping yet,
00:22:55
and nobody knows when it will.
00:22:57
The screen also has no
CarPlay or Android Auto,
00:22:59
but the software is really
good and super fast.
00:23:03
But there's also no Autopilot right now,
00:23:06
even if you paid for it.
00:23:07
No light bar right now,
even if you paid for it.
00:23:09
No aero caps right now,
and you did pay for those.
00:23:12
The locking differential at
the rear axle doesn't work
00:23:15
in the dual motor version
of this truck yet.
00:23:17
And there's only one
tire option, for a truck!
00:23:19
All of these are
decisions that Tesla makes
00:23:22
knowing the priorities
of the probable buyers,
00:23:25
the millions of pre-orders
of the Cybertruck.
00:23:28
They know what people are
probably going to do with these.
00:23:30
They know what people think
they're going to do with these.
00:23:33
And they know what people want
00:23:34
when they buy one of these things.
00:23:36
It's a Tesla under the hood.
00:23:37
So I was driving to the
studio the other day,
00:23:39
and on my way there I'm
coming up over this hill,
00:23:42
and on the other side of the hill
00:23:43
is this biker across the street.
00:23:45
And as I came over the hill, he looked up
00:23:47
and he saw the truck
for about two seconds.
00:23:49
And then he reached out
and he just did this
00:23:52
as he biked past me.
00:23:54
But later that same night,
00:23:56
I was on my way home from practice
00:23:58
around the bridge somewhere
in New York City at night.
00:24:00
And slowing down in traffic,
00:24:02
this car pulls up next to
me, kind of in front of me
00:24:05
and all four of the windows roll down
00:24:07
and these super happy faces all stick out
00:24:09
and just like, give me thumbs up
00:24:12
and they're grinning the entire time.
00:24:13
And I'd say that's about the ratio of joy
00:24:17
to absolute disgust
00:24:18
that you bring into the world
00:24:19
driving the Cybertruck around,
it's probably like 80-20.
00:24:22
So what's the verdict with
the Cybertruck, right?
00:24:25
I think there's a lot going
on between those four corners,
00:24:28
a lot of interesting choices
and materials and technologies
00:24:32
and steer by wire and 800 volt
systems and all this stuff.
00:24:36
But a lot of it frankly is
overshadowed by the design again.
00:24:41
So we keep coming back to the design.
00:24:42
And I feel like we can use
that word again, iconic.
00:24:48
I would say as a product person,
00:24:49
I do think this is
already an iconic design.
00:24:53
Now, that comes with a lot of baggage.
00:24:55
I feel like when you say that word,
00:24:57
it's kind of like joining the rare air
00:24:59
of like, the bedroom poster
of some on some kid's wall.
00:25:03
It's like the Lamborghini
Countach or the Bugatti Veyron
00:25:07
or something like a Tesla Cybertruck.
00:25:09
But the thing about those iconic cars
00:25:13
is they're also almost always rare.
00:25:17
And that's the thing, it's like
if you saw a Bugatti Veyron
00:25:20
on the street, that's probably
the only Bugatti Veyron
00:25:22
you're gonna see on the
street for a long time.
00:25:24
There's not that many
Lamborghini Countaches
00:25:27
out on the world.
00:25:27
Now the Cybertruck today is super rare.
00:25:31
And there's all these
articles about, you know,
00:25:32
celebrities driving them around.
00:25:34
And when you see one, it's an event.
00:25:36
That's why people are
reacting the way they are.
00:25:38
It's probably because it's the first time
00:25:40
they're ever seeing one.
00:25:41
But the Cybertruck is
slotted to be mass produced.
00:25:46
So I feel like this actually
has to wear off after a while.
00:25:50
Like obviously it hits different
00:25:51
seeing your 10th or 50th
00:25:54
or 100th Cybertruck of the day, right?
00:25:56
So how does that match up?
00:25:58
I think there's like, two
million plus pre-orders
00:26:01
of the Cybertruck, and more coming.
00:26:03
There were only ever
00:26:04
about 2000 Lamborghini
Countaches ever made.
00:26:07
There was less than 500
Bugatti Veyrons ever made.
00:26:11
So it's kinda hard to
find a comp for a vehicle
00:26:14
that starts off its life as iconic,
00:26:17
but then is mass produced.
00:26:19
And there was this really
interesting comment
00:26:20
on the Auto Focus video
I made about this truck
00:26:22
on owning the PT Cruiser
when it first came out.
00:26:26
And I wasn't really old
enough to remember this,
00:26:28
so I'm purely taking their word for it,
00:26:30
but it apparently it was
a crazy enough design
00:26:32
that it got a lot of attention
00:26:34
when it first started being made.
00:26:35
You know, it's a weird shape,
had some odd material choices
00:26:38
and all that.
00:26:39
But eventually Chrysler made
over a million PT cruisers.
00:26:43
But now we know exactly
how cool the PT Cruiser is.
00:26:47
You know, it gets humanized more and more
00:26:49
the more you see them on the road.
00:26:50
You see them get in accidents
00:26:53
and have to maneuver through traffic,
00:26:54
and they're just regular
people and regular cars,
00:26:57
and they're everywhere.
00:26:58
And I guess the question
is, is that the arc
00:27:02
for the Tesla Cybertruck?
00:27:03
Like, we don't know.
00:27:04
But it has to go from being
this crazy unobtainium
00:27:07
that it is right now, to being something.
00:27:12
Only time will tell.
00:27:14
Thanks for watching.
00:27:15
Catch you guys in the next one.
00:27:17
Peace.
00:27:19
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