• @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    Mobile dumpsters? Port o potties for the homeless? The possibilities are endless.

    There’s probably a tax write off in there somewhere for Elon. Nice silver lining.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      A part of me wants the police to have them so they can be a cluster fuck for them to maintain.

      Unfortunately, they’ll maintain it with my tax dollars.

  • bizarroland
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    I would consider picking one up for cheap to tear apart and use as parts for an EV conversion for my old jeep.

    Well, depending on how locked down the software is. Probably would prefer to have no infotainment system, just a pedal.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      $0 worth

      I’d be willing to pay that for a cyberdump. Wouldn’t mind the pubic lovingly trashing it either. It even traps passengers while burning like a complimentary self-cleaning oven feature. The disposal fee might be a bitch.

      On further thought, it might not be worth it.

      • 18-24-61-B-17-17-4
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        32 months ago

        Just keep the windows down at all times. Then you can jump out and laugh at it when it’s on fire.

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          No, we don’t want the article to make us read. We want the article to grab our heads, pull our ears out and talk the information directly into our faces. You know, “tell us.”

      • @[email protected]
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        232 months ago

        Last I remember they sold for $80k, plus that makes the math trivial, so… 10000 vehicles?

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          162 months ago

          Wow that has so much more impact to me, I can really visualise the endless parking lots full of them.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      I was gonna say. Doesn’t seem right that they can just add up the MSRP like that and claim it’s millions worth of something if nobody’s buying. Plus, I’d wager the manufacturing cost of all that is significantly lower.

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        12 months ago

        I’d love to know how much it costs to build each cybertruck, and visualise the other revenue loss of storing these, designing the machinery to build this shit and anything other costs that were factored into sales.

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          The big 3 used to need to sell something like 1/2 million cars before covering R&D costs. But that was also back in the 60-70s when they sold a million cars a year and designed it all on paper.

          The cyber truck’s design was so stupid that it may have approached that level of r&d costs. Since bonding and forming such thick Stainless steel isn’t trivial.

  • aramis87
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    If no one wants them, they’re not worth anything.

    • snooggums
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      192 months ago

      There’s always scrap metal and selling the batteries for other purposes!

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      I guess they’re worth the money spent to make them? But yeah, it’s just a pile of trash. I can’t believe I still see so many on the road. I do live in a reddish hell though

  • @[email protected]
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    172 months ago

    Tbh I’d take one for free. It might look kinda cool in my garden with plants growing out of it.

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        22 months ago

        There should be ways to elegantly conceal the obscenity of a cybertruck, if we’re talking about a picturesque garden .

    • @[email protected]
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      192 months ago

      i would keep the battery, buy some solar panels, an inverter for my house, and sell the chassis as scrap metal

    • sunzu2
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      242 months ago

      Because modern stock market is not controlled by buying and selling but rather by derivative markets esp off the book derivatives

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      The Boring Company is propping up the price with the sales of NotAFlameThrowers to DOGE.

  • IninewCrow
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    142 months ago

    Sell them to ocean shipping companies … they can tie a chain around them and use them as boat anchors