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I'd venture to say that this locker function being delayed is a good thing. It'll force people to learn how to drive their truck off-road instead of hitting the Locker button, getting themselves stuck even worse, and then blaming Tesla.

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Every offroad comparison I've seen of the Cybertruck uses the same driver for all vehicles being tested. If a driver (even an inexperienced one) can make it up a small hill with a Subaru, but not a 4x4, locking diff, tri-motor, Cybertruck what does that say?

You can't bolt on 4x4 engineering skills.

It tells me that the involved driver doesn't know how to get the most out of the Cybertruck... probably. A Subaru of any size is a much lighter vehicle that's going to handle completely differently. Getting out of that and into a Cybertruck would be like getting out of a Corolla and into a Suburban. Just completely different vehicles.

That being said, Subaru is renowned for being a highly capable off-roading car. Cybertruck is highly renowned for nothing so far :D

I used the Subie as a placeholder for at least a half a dozen different vehicles that I've seen besting the Cybertruck on X (of all places)

> Cybertruck is highly renowned for nothing so far

Exactly. Yet the Tesla fanboys crowned it offroad king from the jump!

Can you explain how any of this is related to a discussion on making expected features of a vehicle “coming soon”?

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> I'd venture to say that this locker function being delayed is a good thing.

I edited my comment to lead with that, because that's the main point. Thanks for helping me see that.

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