And no, no one really uses this or an ICE truck in a way that would require them to have one. Even people who haul shit in the back would usually do with a more sensible roofed vehicle, but that would be less “cool”.
Wait, no one has a legitimate use case for a truck? Like transporting building materials and tools? Large furniture and appliances? People who live along an unpaved mountain road, or work somewhere similarly remote, like forestry? Towing fifth-wheel trailers? When it snows here, I’m stuck at home until someone with a truck comes by to plow… They have large dedicated snowplows for the highways and stuff, but for out-of-the-way residential streets, the city contracts private pickup truck owners with their own plows. I’m glad they’re around.
Like don’t get me wrong-- The majority of truck owners pretty much never do these things, and it’s an extremely wasteful vanity display for them. That’s bad. Most people who buy Cybertrucks will not be doing truck stuff with them. That’s bad too.
But I think some people have a good reason to own a truck.
We’re talking about less than 1% here. And yes, most of even your examples do not require a pickup truck, or even your own hauler. Just look at other countries. People transporting tools? They have little vans or nowadays even cargo bikes. This whole pickup truck thing is very much an US fetish.
Wait, no one has a legitimate use case for a truck? Like transporting building materials and tools? Large furniture and appliances? People who live along an unpaved mountain road, or work somewhere similarly remote, like forestry? Towing fifth-wheel trailers? When it snows here, I’m stuck at home until someone with a truck comes by to plow… They have large dedicated snowplows for the highways and stuff, but for out-of-the-way residential streets, the city contracts private pickup truck owners with their own plows. I’m glad they’re around.
Like don’t get me wrong-- The majority of truck owners pretty much never do these things, and it’s an extremely wasteful vanity display for them. That’s bad. Most people who buy Cybertrucks will not be doing truck stuff with them. That’s bad too.
But I think some people have a good reason to own a truck.
We’re talking about less than 1% here. And yes, most of even your examples do not require a pickup truck, or even your own hauler. Just look at other countries. People transporting tools? They have little vans or nowadays even cargo bikes. This whole pickup truck thing is very much an US fetish.