Elon Musk has decided pull the plug on his vanity project of the hideous Cybertruck.
Elon Musk has announced that Tesla will wind down production of its Cybertruck, marking the end of a failed effort to take a chunk of the lucrative market for pickups in the US.
The billionaire chief executive said production of the car would stop in about the middle of next year at the company’s factory in Texas in order to use the plant for the Cybercab, its self-driving taxi.
This has not been a good week for Muck. He spent nearly half a billion dollars supporting Republican candidates most whom lost.
[Musk] put his support behind Republicans in 106 House and Senate races. As of right now, 18 of those people have won and they were primarily in extremely safe red areas. He lost 45 races and another 43 are yet to be called, though many are leaning Dem.
He spent over $200 million against James Talarico for the Texas senate seat but his man Ken Paxton got walloped by a whopping 12 points, 55%-43%.
Good times!
Nit: In the title of the article, the word is missing the “r” from “truck”. Also, much as I loathe the vehicle, the word, as a brand name, is usually capitalized.
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But if you change it to “Cyberschmuck”, I won’t argue.
[I corrected it. Thanks! Mano]
I’ve wanted to create a meme by making an image of a Cybertruck upside-down in the sand, and use the words from the Voight-Kampff test from the film Blade Runner:
I just noticed that the one being subjected to the Voight-Kampff questions in the film is named “Leon”, an anagram of the Cybertruck’s creator’s name
lol Owlmirror!
Yes, I saw the spelling mistake but didn’t report it. I think I got too distracted mulling over what a Cybertuck might be. Is it a cosmetic surgery procedure performed by, or on, androids?
Seems like Musk finally realized the Cybertruck was more hype than horsepower. Good thing the plant can switch gears to the Cybercab – maybe that will actually get some real traffic.