When you ever drive in a new electric vehicle, especially a Tesla vehicle, what would your first reaction be? For me, it’s a completely new experience to see what it looks like inside. And as for the Cybertruck, the first word that came to my head is ‘modernization’, because we live in the times where companies have to upgrade their designs of everything just so it doesn’t look like the same old thing over and over. I filmed a video of Mark Rollins of the Geek Church driving the Cybertruck and trying out the mechanics, and it mostly comes from the screen even though it still has a steering wheel. Before that video was recorded, we were given a simple guide from a Tesla employee, which I like so that we don’t get so lost on how to work with the Cybertruck. As you drive out of the parking lot, the top left corner of the screen shows you where you would be going. You swipe up, you go forward, and swiping down would be backward. When driving backwards, you can see that there are three cameras, one showing the very back of it, while the other two are from the rear view mirrors at the front part of the Cybertruck. Everyone knows that driving forward or reverse usually happens from a stick, or a dial for other cars, so it’s unusual for that to be coming from a simple swipe from a screen.

I do like how there’s a back camera even when you’re still driving forward, just so you can see the activity going on behind you, considering that you can’t get a view from behind the seat of the Cybertruck. Speaking of the activity, I also like how you can get alerted whenever a car is passing by you. Just from that, I can see that Tesla cares about their owners and their safety. They also, for some reason, have a limited amount of games on the screen but we never played them because we were just driving the whole time, while having a GPS on the other side of our screen. You can also connect your music accounts such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and more, though I didn’t connect my own Spotify to the Cybertruck considering it’s only a demo drive an we just had a whole Rage Against the Machine playlist playing for us.

When driving, you can see the cars and pedestrians all around you just by looking at the screen. Though it is recommended to keep your eyes on the real road because you won’t know how fast it’ll show up on the screen, plus the road screen might glitch. The GPS on the screen is incredible, it gives you the ETA and the estimated battery life when you arrive at your destination. Even when the Cybertruck is NOT connected to the internet, you can still have access to GPS. However, I suggest that you set your destination when being in the internet range because while we were filming our demo drive, we couldn’t set our destination when we were in a whole national park that has no internet, so it works like your own Maps app on your phone. You also have the ability to open and close the trunk, in a garage door speed, by one simple touch, and even pause the opening and closing on the screen and they would still instantly pause. It is good that they have the pausing feature for the trunk because I think people would prefer a cover for when they put their own items in there.

Another thing I admire is the auto-pilot driving mode. We didn’t know what would happen if we didn’t have a destination set on our GPS and still had the auto-pilot mode, but the auto-pilot mode still made the turns that the GPS guided us to drive on the road. We didn’t even know that it could still make the turns, and we drive a KIA electric vehicle, called the EV6. Comparing with the auto-pilot on the EV6, it only has a limited time of using only hands-free driving, depending on the road and how it has curves or another road to turn to, and you would still have to keep your foot on the pedal on the EV6. But the way the Cybertruck drives for us is incredible. It even slows down before it turns onto a different road by itself. It felt weird for us, considering we were super used to driving cars by ourselves, but I’m honestly fascinated about how it kept going as long as we had our destination marked on the GPS.

So, as someone who’s never driven an electric vehicle, I’d say that the mechanics of it were super incredible even if we did drive further away from town. It was still an amazing experience to see what it’s like inside the Cybertruck and I was super astonished by the features of it. It’s good that Tesla offers demo drives so people can have an open mind of their opinions on Tesla’s vehicles. I was a little bit shaky because I never really knew how the Cybertruck could really drive, and I’ve barely took rides on trucks where I felt that I’m a bit higher than the other cars that we passed by on the road. The Cybertruck definitely has a unique design on the outside that not even other trucks could look like that. Also, not to mention the steering wheel and the way it’s shaped like a rectangle and also looks very small for a truck. So, I do like how they have different designs compared to even non-electric cars.