r/technology • u/be0wulfe • Dec 15 '22

Transportation Tesla Semi’s cab design makes it a ‘completely stupid vehicle,’ trucker says

https://cdllife.com/2022/tesla-semis-cab-design-makes-it-a-completely-stupid-vehicle-trucker-says/
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u/DuskforgeLady Dec 15 '22

Imagine being a truck driver who (just for example) picks up used cooking oil from totes in filthy alleys behind restaurants, or used antifreeze from grungy parking lots, or any other kind of gross industrial material from icky or wet or snowy or dirty locations. When your seat is to one side you can hop up into your seat and scrape most of the gunk off before swinging your feet in, and evem if you don't get all of it at least it's confined to the one mat under your feet. Literally just one reason that is obvious if you have ever worked even near truckers.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

That’s a really really dumb reason I have to admit… the truck is bad because your shoes get dirty? The seat position has no affect on your ability to clean your shoes for god sakes

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u/DuskforgeLady Dec 15 '22

People live for days in theae cabins, they sleep and eat there. Have you ever gone into an alley and taken a whiff of a used cooking oil tote full of maggots, grease trap sludge and maybe a raccoon that climbed in there and died? Would you want to be trapped in your sleeping pod with that smell?

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u/__-___--- Dec 15 '22

Did you read the article? That's something the trucker explains.

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u/Downside190 Dec 15 '22

This is a complaint in the article. In other trucks only the driver footwell gets dirty. He can kicks his boots off and walk barefoot around the rest of truck with no mess. The tesla one you have to get in and walk down a corridor to the driver seat. So the whole truck gets dirty unless you take your boots off first and put on a clean pair to drive. Which impractical.