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This is nothing to do with the Cybertruck and everything to do with tires. Although weighing 7k lbs. doesn't help.
That's part of the story (though, why did Tesla ship a luxury truck with such trash tires?). Weight is a actually good thing in light snow. If you have low traction, you can actually add weight to the truck bed to get better traction. Folks in my neck the woods put sandbags and stuff in their beds to do exactly that.
Keep your eyes on what the tires are doing in the video. See how they're rolling at all the wrong times, and then locking up at all the wrong times? That's an electronic system failing, that's probably the Automatic Traction Control, and evidently it doesn't know what the fuck to do with snow.
They're not "trash" tires, they're just not snow tires.
That's a common misconception. No, it is not.
Another common misconception. You don't put sandbags to increase weight, you put them in to redistribute the weight over the drive axle. Ideally you would relocate the engine into the bed, but that obviously comes with it's own problems. CT is actually an advantage in this regard since the vast majority of the weight is low and central.
No it is not.
It cannot do anything with tires that are not intended for snow.
You're also starting fights over on another thread of mine so... I guess this scratches some itch for you!
Boss, you do you. Call me if you need a tow.
Sorry, who are you? If you consider correcting disinformation as "starting fights" then sure, I have a penchant for that. I wont need a tow because I don't drive a CT (or any truck for that matter) and it doesn't snow here, but I appreciate the offer.