From the May/June issue of Car and Driver.Is that real? A woman standing next to the 2024 Tesla Cybertruck outside a hotel in Venice, California, is pretty certain she's looking at an escaped movie prop. 'Like, is there a car underneath that?' she asks. We inform her that yes, it is real, but if any vehicle will cause you to question objective reality, it's this one.
For instance, that steer-by-wire system is essentially a byproduct of Tesla's determination that yokes are cooler than steering wheels, which means you absolutely need a variable steering ratio to avoid multiple hand-over-hand turns. While variable-ratio steering can be accomplished mechanically, no mechanism can deliver this truck's level of variability while maintaining 0.9 turn lock to lock.