hey guy uh want to start this video by telling you about something very dumb that I did recently and I'm going to preface a story by saying that this was entirely my fault there are probably 50 things I could have done differently to avoid what ended up happening but I didn't and that's on me so I got a new car last month for most of my adult life I've been driving a 2012 Honda Civic that I bought from CarMax in 2015 I'll never forget the day I rolled up to my job at Popeye's and felt like the coolest guy in the parking lot took the max part of the sticker off so it just said car on the back had a lot of fun back then and even though this car was very reliable for pretty much the entire time I had it it was starting to show its age and I got to a point where I kind of just wanted something that felt nicer to be in so I splurged a little bit uh traded it in for one of the coolest sports cars on the market right now A 2021 Hyundai Sonata now that's not the dumb part there are so many things about this car that are massive upgrades over what I had before there's a rear viiew camera there's blind spot indicators I don't have to plug my phone in anymore to play music it beeps at me if I move one in in either direction on the highway it's a great car but there are also things about cars made in the past decade that aren't necessarily better they're just different for one why as a society did we get rid of the Prindle I have spent the past 15 years of my life building the muscle memory of yanking around my car's joystick to tell it where to go and now it's just buttons and I don't have the muscle memory for that I'm starting to develop some due to time passing but for the first couple weeks I own this car I would have to stop looking this way so I could look down and see where the backwards button is so that brings me to my story 6 days after I bought this car I was leaving a U-Haul storage facility and the exit gate was open now I've been there enough to know that sometimes even though the exit gate is supposed to close it'll just not so I gave it a couple seconds decided yeah it's going to stay open and started driving forward and you will never guess what happened the exact moment I made that decision yeah gate started closing so naturally I'm like uh-oh this gate is going to hit my new used car I should move out of the way so I hit the reverse button start accelerating and my car moves forward now if you've ever been operating a motor vehicle that starts moving in the opposite direction that you intended it to you probably know about the Panic that sets in and I was running out of time I could feel the gate inching nearer and nearer So In the Heat of the Moment I very wisely decided to do the exact same thing that didn't work the first time I hit the reverse button hit the gas pedal and once again my car moves forward at this point the only thing I've managed to do is get more in the path of the gate and before I could try my foolproof strategy a third time it uh crashed into the side of my car and the alarm went off and it made a big old scratch that'll probably cost a couple hundred doar to get buffed out and repainted I don't know the exact amount yet because I'm too embarrassed to tell anyone what happened anyway I've had about a month now to process this and I'm of two minds on one hand it is kind of hilarious that I waited 9 years to buy a new car and I couldn't even get through one full week without [ __ ] it up I would love to see the security footage of me stopping in front of a closing gate quickly accelerating stopping accelerating again stopping again before getting out and yelling godam damn it it probably looked really funny but then on the other hand I am kind of like well what the [ __ ] happened cuz like I know that I hit the reverse button two separate times and both times my car just decided not to do it I tried recreating this exact scenario in a parking lot to pinpoint exactly where I went wrong and my best guess is just that I hit the accelerator and the reverse button at the same time which triggered the car's computer to be like hey you can't do that you're going to hurt the transmission let's hurt the side of the car instead and like it's a good thing that there's a mechanism in place to prevent the car from changing gears when you're moving too quickly if I hit the reverse button while driving 70 mph down the highway I actually would want my car to ignore that I'm pretty sure there was a similar mechanism in my old car the difference is though that if this exact scenario happened while I was driving that one there would have been physical feedback to tell me it was still in drive and maybe I would have been less likely to floor it twice in order to get the same confirmation from a button you have to press it look down at the dashboard find the part that indicates what gear the car is in process that information and then react accordingly and even if you can do all that very quickly it still takes longer to send that information to your brain than if you can just feel where your hand is and again I'm the dumbass here there are so many things I could have done differently if I had just immediately accelerated as soon as I got to the gate I would have made it through with time to spare I also could have taken three extra seconds to just type my code in I even could have stayed in bed all day and never gotone anywhere near this gate and that would have been a better decision too but unfortunately I didn't do any of those things I did this and I'm going to have to live with that for the rest of my life but my funny little mishap got me thinking about all these things I've seen over the past couple years of people getting screwed over by like modern features in their cars and it made me want to do some research about it and my takeaway is that while it would be untrue to say that cars have gotten worse I do think they've gotten Dumber I looked up why cars made the shift from the Prindle stick to just buttons or a touchscreen on the ceiling or a wheel that's right next to the volume knob that hopefully has never caused a hilarious but unfortunate accident and it turns out the main reason is just that the stick is not necessary anymore because you're not physically changing the gear you're just telling the car's computer what to do which like I get it you know I'm not here to stand in the way of progress I just think that if you have to create a new problem in order to fix something that wasn't really a problem to begin with you're not being as Innovative as you might think you are without a doubt my biggest personal gripe with how cars are made now is touch screen dashboards almost 80% of new cars in 2022 had some kind of touchscreen display built into it it's just the norm now and on the surface it seems like an improvement I mean obviously this is more advanced technology than this gross I bet this one doesn't even have 12 different menus I can flip through to try to figure out how to get my turn signals on it just doesn't make much sense to me when there's already such a massive increase in distracted driving and accidents and deaths that happen because of it that they're adding this thing in into cars that you literally have to look at to be able to use there's a Swedish magazine that ran this test a couple years ago where they had people drive 12 different cars down the highway and timed how long it took for them to complete the same series of tasks in each of them and the winner by far was a 2005 Volvo now this doesn't mean that 2005 Volvo is the best car it just means that for basic tasks like changing a radio station or turning the AC on physical IC buttons that you can memorize the location of are the quickest and safest way to do those things you don't have to look away from the road to be able to find where the button is I think ideally modern cars are built with the right combination of actual buttons for basic tasks and the touch screen for more advanced features most of which you don't really need to use while driving anyway and it does seem like some of the companies that maybe over Embrace this technology a few years ago have started to peel back and find a happy media but what absolutely drives me crazy is cars that have Consolidated the entire dashboard into one giant iPad windshield wipers we put it on the touchcreen want to turn the air down a little bit we put it on the touch screen I think the irony of these kinds of interfaces is that they give the illusion of luxury this certainly seems like the more Innovative option Until you realize that the main reason they're so prevalent in cars now is because it is the cheapest way to build one it actually costs a lot of money to engineer all of these buttons and switches and to have the wiring doing all of that in software is a lot cheaper it is more expensive to produce actual knobs and buttons than it is to just throw every function onto one screen make it compatible with apple carplay and call it a day and then when something goes wrong it's just a software problem we'll figure it out or maybe we have to replace the entire thing and it's going to be $4,000 who's to say and I didn't even mention the fact that if the screen does end up malfunctioning in a car that's entirely reliant on it it's not just a minor inconvenience it means means you can't drive the car until it gets fixed some of the extra Hoops I've seen people have to jump through in order to accomplish basic tasks now are mindboggle you know how sometimes you have the AC on but it ends up blasting right into your hand so you have to reach over and change the direction of the vent well that's [ __ ] dumb okay that's how a caveman would do it it makes way more sense to go on over to the car tablet find the AC control button select the air vent you want to change and then drag it where you want it to go all while barreling through a school zone while watching a bunch of videos of car dashboards I happened upon this 1989 Toyota and there's something so beautiful about it look at that subtle burgundy interior the tasteful thickness of those buttons oh my God it even has a seat belt but I'm aware that I'm over romanticizing the past a little bit cuz if I truly wanted a car that looked like this I could have just bought one like I do want modern features I do want a car that's able to do the things that my phone can do but if these things are implemented in a way that forces you to look away from the road in order to be able to use them I think we should reconsider how we got here at this rate it's only a matter of time until cars start shoving ads in our faces this car ride is brought to you by Opera the smarter way to browse the web oh I was being kind of factious about that I've never been more organized online since I started using Opera the fact that it'll automatically sort my different tab rabbit holes into their own 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to the car and it's not like it's making things worse right what's that if it gets too cold outside the handles don't work anymore yeah no I could see how that might not be great Tesla fixed this problem with the software update last October you can just press this to pop the door open when the door handles are frozen great news everyone we've updated the app so you can now get into your car during the winter so uh consider that problem solved but didn't you create the problem in the first place we actually not taking any questions at this time my favorite thing about these door handles is no matter how many times I get an Uber driver that's in a Tesla I don't know how to get inside I'm sure it's very simple but clearly I'm struggling enough as it is one thing I haven't seen as many people talk about but has driven me crazy for the past few years is headlights are getting brighter right like that's not just me I cannot tell you how many times I've been driving down a two-lane road at night and a car passes me with headlights so unbelievably bright I cannot see anything for like 10 seconds hopefully I'm still in my Lane I guess I'll find out soon now this is one of those things it's a double-edged sword right cuz in theory brighter headlights should make driving safer because visibility is improved but I feel like it has to negate a little bit of the safety when those headlights don't just hit the road and instead shine directly into the eyes of oncoming drivers I looked it up and the two things that are causing this are one manufacturer using LEDs now instead of the softer and yellower hallogen Bulbs from the last couple decades LEDs tend to be brighter and more compact so they hit even harder when you're staring down the barrel of one oh this one for sure but the other reason for this is a byproduct of something that I think is in itself a problem which is that cars are so much bigger now than they've ever been so if you're driving a sedan in the opposite lane of a brand new Suburban those lights are going to have to go through your eyeballs in order to hit the Ro there's something a little paradoxical about the safety of cars now where they are much safer than they've ever been while also posing more of a threat than they ever had a brand new truck may have great safety ratings because it's twice as big as every other car around it but now every other car around it has to worry about getting demolished by a truck that's twice as big as them pedestrian deaths in America have skyrocketed over the past decade and I don't think it's a coincidence that that's happening while cars continue to get taller and heavier for mostly no reason other than because they can because there's no regulations stopping them from doing it and if a truck being way bigger than it needs to be is what convinces someone to sign up for a $1,200 a month car payment why would those car companies have any incentive to stop it's created this cycle where I think a lot of people feel like the only way forward is to Fight Fire with Fire everyone else has a giant car well I guess I need to get one for myself I remember seeing this post a few months ago where this guy talked about how lucky he was to have been driving in such a gargant into an SUV when he got in an accident because he and his family were able to walk away unharmed and obviously that's great that they're okay this could have ended very tragically and I'm happy that it didn't but for someone to see this and their takeaway to be see this is why everyone should buy the biggest SUV they can because it's the only way to keep your family safe you're not taking into account the fact that in a lot of cases these giant trucks and SUVs or the danger since the introduction of SUVs there has been a massive increase in what are called front overs a person usually a child getting run over by an SUV by a driver who can't even see them over a 10-year period over 500 American children were killed by being run over by SUVs I mean [ __ ] why stop here I think every American citizen should drive around in a military grade tank yeah we might run over a few more kids but as long as they're not my kids who gives a [ __ ] now of course I cannot make a video about cars that are bigger than they need to be and dumber than they need to be and more dangerous than they need to be without talking about the one that lies squarely in the cross-section of that vend diagram the Tesla cyber truck welcome to the Cyber truck unveil it is literally bulletproof alra hard stainless field really hard of course it will come with autopilot Center France could you try to break this glass please oh my [ __ ] god so this awesome car which looks like when you first boot up a video game and not all of the textures have loaded in yet was announced a couple years ago as starting at $40,000 fast forward to today anyone who is driving one of these right now the bare minimum that I've seen any of them spend 100 Grand one of the biggest reasons for this absolutely Bonkers price jump is this $20,000 Foundation fee that's right there's an additional fee tacton that is almost as much as what I spent on my entire car so you're probably dying to know what that bonus gets you well some people who paid for it don't even seem to know $20,000 for it being a foundation series now I don't know what that really means or anything but yeah I paid it because I wanted the truck so at first I thought it was just that it says the word foundation on it which would be really funny but apparently most of what that fee is meant to be attributed to is the self-driving feature that you would otherwise have to pay a separate monthly fee to access of course it will come with autopilot center now one tiny little thing to note about this feature is that it is not available yet and no one can even Hazard a guess as to when it will be so as it currently stands the only thing this $20,000 fee gives you is priority access to a car that's littered with problems oh [ __ ] oh we already broke it all right so my cyber truck is completely broken my foot is on the floor and it's not moving this gear selector at the top it just dropped down something's going on with the windshield what I got all All These Warnings I never seen before I'm trying to open up the trunk it won't respond I'm going back and forth trying to close it it won't close it won't close it won't close when the tailgate down the camera is showing you the street I have had enough at this point I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth I have to say I have really enjoyed watching videos lately from people who may or may not be in denial about the absurd amount of money wasted on this stupid car they'll make these update videos where they complain about so many things they hate about it and then be like and that's why it's a perfect car and I have no regret this car is definitely worth the hey this thing right here is a fingerprint magnet I just got my car wash yesterday and there's still water spots I noticed that my roof was starting to come off their navigation system sucks there's resting on the inside it was like this when I picked it up I definitely think it's worth $100,000 so included with the foundation series you get all weather formats and if you look right up here there's a little cyber truck logo wait did you say floor mats for all weather well never mind then they should have charged an extra $50,000 sorry I should be more sensitive these people are going through enough right now it's bad enough their car is falling apart but they're also getting relentlessly bullied cyber clown trucks for stupid give it to the stupid clown to spend their life away and this guy just said gay truck that's like a truck owner's worst nightmare I will say one thing I do really love about this car is that the rear view mirror doesn't work its view is completely obstruct Ed most of the time I mean if you want you can just look down at the screen at the rear view camera but that also becomes useless if it gets even a little bit dirty and isn't driving through dirt kind of the whole point of having a truck that's all they do in commercials now if off-roading is the thing you want to do in this truck good luck because it doesn't seem to know how to do that my friend in the Forerunner wanted to take that incline Challenge and he killed the Subaru also went up that incline the Cyber truck did not make it up that incline and once we got to about the middle of the incline it would stop you tried airing down to 30 PSI but it still did not make it up the hill also you're not going to believe this but part of his car broke while he was doing this how does this keep happening to be fair though look how easily it navigates this puddle of Mud I mean if I tried to drive through that in my old Civic I literally would have drowned but this truck can do things that I've never seen any vehicle do before yes technically this road is paved but there's still in the woods that's got to count for something this truly is the all-in-one vehicle you can drive out in the of nowhere and sleep there if you want even comes with its own tent that you can attach to the back of the truck uh for an additional $33,000 now considering you can get a pretty big tent for like a hundred bucks you'd probably assume that this thing is decked out with premium features no it's just a tent a 1-in thin mattress a couple of straps a zipper that barely works but since it's an official Tesla product you know you're getting that signature highquality engineering oh that sound good it's broken it even comes with a bicycle pum pump so you can spend 10 minutes manually blowing it up for $3,000 you should be able to hit a button and watch this thing assemble itself it is crazy to me how much they're able to overcharge for the most basic [ __ ] cosmetically this stainless steel absolutely gorgeous it does pick up the occasional fingerprint if you touch it at all but as long as you don't get in the car or anywhere near the car you've got nothing to worry about and if it does get a little spotty not a problem just take it through a car wash but if you do do that make sure you put it on car wash mode first otherwise it'll break the truck and void your warranty the Cyber truck does not work anymore listen to the noise this thing makes that was a weird popping sound so what did I do different today I went to the beach took it through the car wash make sure all the Sand's off then I pulled it in the garage and nothing this thing is practically Invincible you can hit it with a hammer you can hit it with a shopping cart but if it gets any bugs on it you need to clean that off immediately or you will ruin it forever truck is also famously bulletproof for some reason although I'm not really sure why they've made that one of the primary selling points when you shoot a normal truck the bullets go in one side straight through and out the other side you cannot hide behind the vehicle to be safe so it's something to keep in mind keep in mind for what who are you marketing this car to John Wick the things they chose to prioritize while making this truck are baffling to me who gives a [ __ ] that it's bulletproof if the material they had to use to make it that way makes it so razor sharp you cut cut your hand every time you open the door who cares how strong the interior is if it can't even get wet they're calling it a car made for any Planet guys why don't we start with making it work on this one as far as safety goes I've seen conflicting reports about this there's a crash that happened between a cyber truck and a Toyota Corolla and if you look at the photos from the accident you might think wow this truck is Invincible it barely got a scratch on it meanwhile the guy in the Corolla is probably seriously hurt right no he's fine the problem with this rigid outer body is that cars are designed to crumple in an accident that's their way of absorbing as much force as possible if your car doesn't crumple that force will be passed on to the passengers inside of it so while the Cyber Tru may look like the world's most indestructible car a lot of people who know more about physics than I do aren't so sure this is a good thing I think what Tesla has done the most successfully with this truck is make it so their target audience doesn't care about any of these problems I've seen people online who are actively in during nightmare situations still go out of their way to defend this company cyber truck broke down on my first road trip with my family lost the back motor and was unable to drive had to get it towed 2 hours back home first year problems always good to wait a year or two on a brand new model I know this is an early 3/ y owner but man come on I had to grab the cyer truck no you didn't and it definitely seems like you shouldn't have I found this guy on Twitter whose experience perfectly encapsulates the cybertruck launch his truck broke pretty much immediately he got that patented flashing red critical service error couldn't even drive it had to pull over since then it's been in the shop for weeks with no word on how long it's going to take to fix there's apparently at least 10 different things wrong with it wire harness needs replacement Ripple and windshield driver seat rubbing on center console headliner sagging chip and Foundation series dashboard Trim mobile connector provided with cyber truck not charging the truck past 6 amp front misalignment one side is higher rear side Arch misalignment sticking up it could be another mon before this guy gets his $100,000 car back in the meantime they're making up for all the trouble they've caused him by letting him borrow a regular model 3 Tesla which he himself described as being filthy with a strong unpleasant odor that has persisted even after he went to the trouble of cleaning it inside and out and it is fascinating to watch this guy who has been absolutely [ __ ] by Tesla continue to go to war on elon's behalf people often criticize when they don't fully grasp but the moment you take the wheel of a cyber truck Everything Changes you'll quickly discover that all other trucks pale in comparison becoming obsolete in the Cyber truck's Shadow hey guys it's been like 2 weeks since you took my car are you almost done fixing it or they've got it all twisted instead of comparing the Cyber truck to other trucks they should compare the other EV trucks features and capabilities to those of the Cyber truck then it becomes clear just how Superior the Cy truck is and how the other trucks are stuck in the dinosaur era hey my car has been in the shop for its entire life so far do you think I'm ever going to be able to drive it again while other trucks are busy playing catchup the Cyber truck is already in the future being the Undisputed Champion hating on the Cyber truck might get you more engagement and clicks but I'll never fake it to make it I love my cyber truck really wish I could get my tuck back this weekend still no update dude if I was this guy I would be furious he has every right to be pissed off here but he seems to be more mad at the people telling him he's been scammed than at the company that actually scammed him I spent so much time this month watching videos of people driving this car and talking about this car and hating on this car but at the end of the day it's not fair for me to fully judge something that I've never even seen in person let alone actually driven sure I can pick and choose clips that fit the argument I'm trying to make but can I really condemn something I've never even stepped foot inside No but then I found out there's an app you can use to rent other people's cars for a day so I spent $700 to pretend I own a cyber truck love that sound this is my nightmare everything on the screen nothing's here I don't like how many buttons I have to press to like turn the AC off for a truck as big as this is I don't love how sensitive everything is the steering wheel wheel you barely have to turn it you don't need to break I instinctively when I'm slowing down I want to take my foot off the accelerator and break but it breaks when you let go of the accelerator so it's like really jerky I guess I I would get used to that if I drove it more often but so far it's just like I feel like I'm really drawing a lot of attention to myself going to a Costco parking lot probably a bad idea everyone is turning and looking when I drive I do not want to be perceived or looked at that guy right there is stopping to to look at us right now another Tesla is looking at us he's like oh my big brother when we got inside Costco though something weird happened people stopped looking at me I had to get out of there as soon as possible look at all these normies only I'm in the Cyber [Music] truck okay so many steps to open the mirror they have something called Koke me took to me shook me feeling me singing from hard like a lot of reviewers said you cannot use use this rearview mirror it is just complete darkness in there it is very smooth to drive it doesn't feel like you're driving a giant truck but I kind of wish it did if you forget that your car weighs 7,000 lb and you're driving it like it doesn't like I just feel like it's way too easy to accelerate as fast as you can and slice someone in half which I'd rather not do it was a beautiful spring day outside so the next thing on my agenda was a romantic picnic in the park with my lovely wife what's wrong WR you've hardly touch your cereal if we don't want cinnamon sa crunch I got a banana instead I've driven a little bit now I'm pretty sure every time I've parked and gotten out so far I've left the car on because I don't know how to turn it off there's not like a button or anything but I finally figured out it's very intuitive you hit this and then was it safety right and then you scroll all the way down and you want to scroll past Joe mode don't put it on Joe mode um then you just hit power off and then and then that's it and that's how you turn off the Cyber truck getting the truck to fit into my garage was a lot closer of a call than I expected it to be if I did own this car this would be quite the fun little adventure to get to go on every single day and that's how you park a Tesla cyber truck in your garage despite all my issues with the truck the more I drove it around the city and felt the enamored stairs from mesmerized bystanders I was reminded of what the guy I rented it from told me you'll feel like a Sal celebrity and God damn it he was right I've never felt more popular what is that freaking Brad Pit over there nope just little me driving the best truck in the world please no pictures I'm a regular person just like you I like the way this car makes me feel I don't care how much it costs if it's not solid gold I don't want it hey can I talk to you for a sec sure but make it quick ever since you've been driving that car you've been acting kind of of weird how exactly do you mean you're like a completely different person now oh I see you're jealous what you're jealous because I own the world's most awesome car you don't own the car you're renting it for one day oh tell me how I knew you'd bring that up because it's true Drew I'm sorry I can't deal with this right now I need to go clear my head I'm going to take a ni Scenic Drive dangerously close to the edge of a cliff we interrupt this slow motion Carmon with some breaking news somehow the Cyber truck just got even dumber Tesla has officially recalled all 3800 of the vehicles due to a problem with the accelerator pedal turns out the pedal has a cheap plastic cover over it that's been fastened on so poorly it's sliding off getting lodged under the piece in front of it and causing drivers to go as fast as this stupid car can go it held the accelerator down 100% Full Throttle this is a real thing that's actually happening we here at channel 300 news urge you if your husband is about to drive one of these death traps near or around a cliff you must go stop him his life could be in danger honey I just saw in the news who's a big strong truck that's right you are I had to give the truck back last night it was one of the hardest moments of my life technically I still had a few hours left on the rental but Amanda said she felt weird or something I don't know it's all a blur final thoughts on the truck I think it should cost a million dollars and I wish it had two accelerator pedals and no brakes so I could drive twice as fast and never have to [Music] stop please subscribe