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Ford's CEO says he definitely didn't pay for that viral video of a stuck Cybertruck needing a rescue on a snowy hill

Ford's CEO says he definitely didn't pay for that viral video of a stuck Cybertruck needing a rescue on a snowy hill::undefined

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"... I would have though if I thought of it."

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Ads cover everything in that shit site.

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- Ooh that's why it looked so empty with ad-blocker. I was super confused why 90% of the page was just blank white space.
  
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  thanks, with nothing visible below, I thought the 3 bullet points was a sorry excuse for an article.
  But I just had to scroll a lot, then there was some actual content. 😀 👍
  
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- You need some Adblock in your life
  
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There’s nothing a dressed up truck driver likes more than pulling out someone stuck in the mud or snow. It’s like justification for everything they think they have a truck for and guaranteed they’ll tell you about it.

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- Or they actually just help out of kindness, weird thought I know
  
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  You can help someone out of kindness but also tell the story to every single person at the family party
  
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- It's bizarre. All my neighbours have massive pickups built in the last five years, and use them to commute. I own a bar and use a 1983 gm pickup twice a month to make my liquor and supply run (Warehouse is twenty miles away but they want 50 for delivery)
  
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  I have a small farm and a battered 12 year old F150 XL. It moves once a week, and I commute by motorcycle. I bought the truck in 2022 and it was bizarre. It had half the miles of the next cheapest truck on the lot, and it was half the price. It's a base model, no option truck and nobody seems to want one of those.
  
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  Big pickups are nasty af. Actually useful pickups are sexy.
  
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  Better get a ford raptor
  
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It looks so old now. And those little wheels are ridiculous. What a waste of money.

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I believe him. You don't need to pay for that kind of comedy, the Cybertruck is a joke on wheels

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Considering the state of trucks today I can absolutely buy a cyber truck getting stuck and needing a tow. Like seriously init that thing like 100 grand. It's just a another sedan with a tailgate instead of a trunk.

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- It’s just a another sedan with a tailgate instead of a trunk.
  
  Except when your attention drifts away from the road at the just exact wrong moment and you get into a serious car crash with a small vehicle or pedestrian, instead of the image of the murdered human bodies crushed under the bloody hulk of your stupid pickup haunting you (and potentially your family) for the rest of your life, the low sloping hood of your sedan scooped the pedestrian up onto your hood or the bumper/crumple zone of your sedan engaged with the other vehicle and a bad day was just a really bad day.
  
  Fuck huge pickups
  
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  I mean, the CyberTruck is much lower than those pick up trucks, and also has a slanted hood.
  
  The truck could also pop the hood like the model 3 (edit highland, this is new feature) does to add a cushion zone for them, but it's probably still too high to be as effective on a car?
  
  I mentioned this before, but I'm really curious if any vehicle with an air suspension could drop the car lower before the pedestrian is hit. Just like they pop the hood on the 3, could it go lower it if there's an imminent crash? Is there a way to go even lower than the lowest setting in emergencies? Seems like a good safety feature to add if not.
  
  I'm still worried about the edge causing damage though even considering all the above, and it is still higher than a regular car.
  
  Edit: Also if they raised the back suspension before an accident would that make for a better or worse hitting angle?
  
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People can't really be this stupid, right?

People can't really think the Ford is some sort of badass off-road machine because it can pull a cybertruck up a snowy bank with a winch while it sits completely still on a dry patch of pavement?

Drive that Ford off the cliff, it won't make it up either.

The only vehicle that will make it up that cliff is the one (any one) with sufficient size snow tires with low air pressure. I meaning barring some bizarre vehicle like a tank, bombi or a Sherp.

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Just a piece of trivia. Look at the CEO of Ford. Crazy to think the family had a comedian and CEO.

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- Did you not see Tommy boy? Car and car part companies are in their blood.
  
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  That is why I find it so funny. It's just very fitting.
  
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- Maybe he was inspired to not be a guy living in a van smoking doobies down by the river.
  
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- Comedians. Don't forget about Kevin.
  
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  I have never heard of Kevin. I must google now
  
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Why did the CT fail? Is it only 2WD? Bad power distribution algorithm to wheels? Stranded on belly (low clearance)?

EDIT: Yes possibly bad power distribution, but I don't necessarily trust the source.

He said on Instagram that the Tesla didn't have locking differentials — a mechanism that can help improve traction on difficult terrain— "due to software issues." He also said the tires had not been "aired down" to improve traction.

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- Iirc it was mostly a stupid driver with improper tires on terrain that didn't quite look as bad as it actually was.
  
  The cybertruck doesn't have differentials at all, so it shouldn't need locking diff's.
  
  The entire point of having differentials is to make sure the power from the engine isn't being misdirected to a wheel with no traction, but the cybertruck has independent motors for each wheel.
  
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- The couple of seconds' worth of video I saw told me a few things:
  
  the truck had been spinning out for a long time there
  
  that situation was going to be tough for most trucks
  
  it had terrible traction, possibly a matter of not having all-season or snow-specific tires
  
  it appeared to be driving all wheels, can't say whether or not they were distributing traction or slip intelligently
  
  couldn't tell if anything was high-centering anywhere but it didn't look it
  
  driving in situations like that are why I leave tire chains in my truck
  
  the tree sticking out of the back was comical
  
  The cybertruck is a pavement princess
  
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- Based on the older video of the CT failing to climb a rocky/dirt hill, I'd say they have a lot of work to do on their power distribution/traction control systems. Thankfully since it's all controlled with electric motors and not a traditional transmission/transfer case/solid axle setup, it should be able to be fixed or mitigated with OTA updates.
  
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