Silly human. You used earthling mathematics. On Mars (where Lonnie is from), physics works a different way. See? Lonnie is the genius all his sycophants say he is.
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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Like when he said that the CyberTruck beat a Porche 911 in a quarter mile whilst towing a Porche 911, but Engineering Explained did the math and called BS. Then backed up the math by actually doing the quarter mile to prove it.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
It’s Porsche. Sorry to be that guy but that bothers me.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
No I’m happy to be corrected. I actually don’t know what’s come over me as a pedant myself m, I should be ashamed.
Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I read that a few times…is he saying Porsches break down a lot so ya the truck would win. But then I noticed the spellings. So ya a cyber truck would beat a Porche, they’re cheap knock offs of Porsches
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The entire gimmick was “cybertruck is faster loaded with an entire car and towing it, than the car itself”. They didn’t mention they didn’t go for the entire 1/4 mile. They didn’t mention they cherrypicked the slowest Porsche there is. They didn’t mention they lightened the trailer etc. It was 100% made in their favour, yet they still lost.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IMO a lightened trailer is fair. It’s really all about power to weight ratio. If a cyber truck could tow a car faster than that car can drive itself, then it means the power to weight ratio is that much higher. Torque also plays a role. They’d have to use a negative weight trailer for it’s weight to change that.
Guessing they ran the numbers and realized the instant torque of the electric motor would give them an edge at the very beginning, based on the “didn’t go the entire 1/4 mile” bit, which just means it takes less than 1/4 mile to make up for the higher torque in that particular scenario.
Also the skill of the drivers would play a role unless they set up an automated system (and tuned it right for both vehicles).
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
OP is referring to this story:
jalopnik.com/heres-more-proof-tesla-faked-its-cyb…
Yet another lie by Elon/Tesla.