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submitted 8 months ago by salarua@sopuli.xyz to c/fuckcars@lemmy.ca

image descriptionTwitter post by @DirtyTesLa: Thankful to have Cybertruck to help me with the real work and big loads 🙏 (image of Cybertruck with several bags of soil in the trunk)

Reply by @KralikLj: Hell boy that would fit in a bicycle. Way more carbon free than that wankpanzer. (image of cargo bicycle with several bags of soil strapped to the front)

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 75 points 8 months ago

Meanwhile in a real truck...

[-] Plavatos@sh.itjust.works 40 points 8 months ago

This image broke me, 95% of the trucks I see everyday are used as commuter vehicles with nothing in the bed. And the ones that do are hauling a single sheet of plywood. I plum forgot people use trucks to move stuff.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago

Couldn't you do that on a cybertruck as well?

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago

The most similar bed for regular trucks is about 14 cu ft more than in the CT (about 70cu ft vs about 56 cu ft) but technically yes you could load a Cybertruck like that, although I wouldn't want to see the sloped sides after a loader dumped a couple of yards in it...

[-] lud@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago

Yards? What the hell? You measure volume in yards now?

[-] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 34 points 8 months ago

Yes and it's as annoying and stupid as it sounds

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

The cubic yard is common among contractors in the US. You buy concrete in yards

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A cubic yard is about 30% less than a cubic meter. And a ton is like 10% less than a metric ton.

Water volumes in reservoirs are measured in acre*feet. By comparison a cubic yard is pretty sensible. And for comparison if you know of any big lakes near you, a million acre feet is about 20% smaller than a cubic kilometer.

[-] TheChurn@kbin.social 14 points 8 months ago

You got some special edition yards or something?

A cubic meter is 30% more than a cubic yard, meters are longer than yards.

A tonne (metric) is 1000kg, about 2200 pounds. A ton, often called a short ton, is 2000 pounds. A long ton is 2240 pounds. A long ton is 1.6% more than a metric ton.

[-] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Considering the insane mathematical conversions you people have to constantly do, I wonder why the USA isn't full of mathematical geniuses?
Ah right, because scientists use metric.

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah I was backwards, but either way if you’re estimating in units of “truck beds”, they’re close enough to be interchangeable.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Nah we just add another dimension to cubes in us customary. So it’s 1yd^4

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

But then you'll have to pour like 4 cans of barkeeper's friend all over the car to clean it up immediately after

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Meanwhile in Europe in a vehicle with a smaller footprint:

An American mind cannot comprehend this

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Bonus picture:

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah so... Both these things exist in North America... I mean, do you really believe we don't have tractors when there's a chunk of territory a third of the size of Europe that's plains?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Of course I know tractors are a thing in the US

But in Europe we don't see many SUVs, simply because if you need to haul a lot of things you get a van. And if you don't you get a normal car.

An SUV simply isn't efficient at anything. It is the worst of both worlds.

The tractor is more about when you need to haul even more stuff.

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