Doomsday Preppers Say the Cybertruck Is a Horrible Choice for the End of the World

Prior to its release, Elon Musk touted Tesla's futuristic-looking Cybertruck as "apocalypse-proof" — but the reality, according to those who are prepping for the actual end times, falls far from that mark. As The Guardian reports, survivalist types have grown concerned that Musk's supposedly indestructible, fully electric truck is not only easy to damage, but also has become too negative a status symbol. The Cybertruck's blocky aesthetic has, as Slate noted in a recent deep dive, become tied to policing and security in a similar manner to the Cassipir armored trucks that patrolled apartheid South Africa when Musk was a boy. With that evocative look — and that's putting it far too kindly — comes the kind of undue attention that, frankly, anyone looking to survive war zones simply would not want. To the mind of Arthur Bradley, a NASA engineer and "prepper" hobbyist, the reputational damage Musk has done to Tesla and the Cybertruck specifically may make it a dangerous vehicle to drive ... Read full article.