<story><title>The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks</title><url>https://twitter.com/torynski/status/1600968583055826944</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elijaht</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see how that is relevant. Nearly all of the criticisms posed (maybe not the snow one?) would still be relevant to a driver in the situation you describe. This has nothing to do with range or even the fact that it&amp;#x27;s electric</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Tesla knows all this.&lt;p&gt;This truck is for a very specific niche: owned fleets near two warehouses or within a 500 mile round trip from a major port. Basically: all the warehouses in the Inland Empire near LAX and Long Beach and the warehouses in the Newark area that service the NYC metro area. It has the potential to dramatically reduce costs for some routes&amp;#x2F;corridors.&lt;p&gt;It will be a big hit in these areas. It will have a large impact on a very specific niche. There&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with that. These aren&amp;#x27;t going to be used by independent truckers. It&amp;#x27;s not for them. It&amp;#x27;s for drivers making the same 80-100 mile or so trip from port to warehouse every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>braingenious</author><text>These sorts of posts always show up &lt;i&gt;anywhere&lt;/i&gt; that somebody posts anything remotely critical of a Tesla product. They could make a combination trash compactor-bassinet that randomly switches modes and somebody would come out of the woodwork and post “People don’t realize the value in maximizing functionality in small spaces”</text></comment>
<story><title>The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks</title><url>https://twitter.com/torynski/status/1600968583055826944</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elijaht</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see how that is relevant. Nearly all of the criticisms posed (maybe not the snow one?) would still be relevant to a driver in the situation you describe. This has nothing to do with range or even the fact that it&amp;#x27;s electric</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Tesla knows all this.&lt;p&gt;This truck is for a very specific niche: owned fleets near two warehouses or within a 500 mile round trip from a major port. Basically: all the warehouses in the Inland Empire near LAX and Long Beach and the warehouses in the Newark area that service the NYC metro area. It has the potential to dramatically reduce costs for some routes&amp;#x2F;corridors.&lt;p&gt;It will be a big hit in these areas. It will have a large impact on a very specific niche. There&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with that. These aren&amp;#x27;t going to be used by independent truckers. It&amp;#x27;s not for them. It&amp;#x27;s for drivers making the same 80-100 mile or so trip from port to warehouse every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I largely agree with you, there are at least a subset of the complaints in the Twitter thread that are pretty inconsequential if the truck is only intended for &amp;lt; 500 mile routes (for example, the &amp;quot;no space for a bed&amp;quot; complaint).</text></comment>