I wanted to buy the new Cybertruck when it finally launches, but when this first came out, it became impossible for me to ever buy one.
EDIT: I'm fully on board with the idea of electrifying cars and it wouldn't be a thing at all without Tesla. That they can alienate a potential super fan like me with stupid own-goals like this is super sad.
Manually-closing doors have pinch points, but every major manufacturer that has auto-close doors includes force sensing to avoid damaging things (or people, or digits). Power windows usually have this as well, at least on modern cars.
I will say that the automatically closing Tesla trunks I've seen won't crush someone if you get in its way. The video in question implies it would crush anything in the path of the hood when they actually found a very particular unprotected spot. But, Rivian for example does protect against this happening at that particular location, so it's still a fair criticism.
Why? I don't get it. Most people don't need a truck. And if they do, the Cybertruck is probably far from what they need. It has little use except showing off. (Well, I guess that might be true for most trucks bought, though..)
If they'd just done it as a concept car it would have been cool.
I've also read that the range is far below advertised and below that of a modestly priced mid-range EV due to the Cybertruck being so heavy and chunky.
But I'll probably buy a Jeep or a Ford next because those employees don't watch me as I drive
But they do need better internal controls on customer data, obviously. This is table stakes for any big company, and Tesla is huge. Somebody there, probably in their legal department, has some appreciation for how tempting a target they are with those deep pockets.
Andrej Karpathy has a talk about this. That's probably how it's happening.