One man has put a Tesla Cybertruck through its paces with a test, and it didn't pass with flying colours...
In terms of 'the car of the future' Tesla's Cybertruck looks the part. Not looking out of place in something like Cyberpunk 2077, the electric pickup is supposed to do it all as a sort of rugged electric all-terrain vehicle.
Unfortunately, while most owners stand loyally by their pickup and think it's the best thing since Karl Benz invented the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1885, others are more critical of the stainless-steel beast.
YouTube account Now Teslafy has put the Cybertruck's self-driving capabilities through its paces, testing out what it can really do. For Christmas 2024, they upgraded from their Tesla Model Y to the Cybertruck, but is the bigger brother really better?
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Loading up the latest self-driving updates, they're off to a good start on the OP's typical chapter loop. Although the Cybertruck made an early pass where the previous version 12 would screw up, he's shocked when it ends up in a right-hand-only lane instead of going straight. A clearly annoyed Teslafy says: "Oh, that's a disengagement. Wow, why did it get into the right-hand turning to go straight? So, that's a fail."
He calls it 'frustrating' and then gets on with the rest of his drive.
In the end, the Cybertruck passed all of his other challenges and he summed up by saying it's his 'dream car'. Although a lot of this is down to the V13.2.2 software, he still referred to the disengagement as a 'travesty'.
Someone else in the comments passed their thoughts on the Cybertruck's self-drive capabilities, adding: "What happens when it's a rainy night? My understanding is that Tesla FSD shuts itself off in certain fairly common conditions.
"This means it really can't be a total FSD solution for a car with no steering wheel and pedals... which makes it pointless."
Teslafy also joined in the comments, saying that he has a current concern about driving in snow for this exact reason: "As it stands right now, FSD will limit the max speed or not be available under heavy rain or what they call 'inclement weather'. So it’s something that still has limitations.
I’m sure it’s a matter of 'feeding the machine' training video.
He uses the analogy of what would a human do, suggesting that we'd pull over if the weather got really bad and wait for it to pass.
There's a fierce debate over fully FSD vehicles, and we've all heard horror stories about self-driving Teslas running into a deer and then driving off, or what about Cybertrucks running a red light?
Still, the company seems committed to its FSD capabilities and recently showed off its totally autonomous Cybercab. Even though that might've been slammed by tech YouTubers and caused Elon Musk to lose $15 billion, Tesla continues to update its driverless technology in hopes of becoming the standard for the automobile industry.