Not Quite Ready For Prime Time At first glance the Cybertruck’s off-road specs are quite robust. However, it’s when rubber meets dirt that the façade begins to fall. A prime example of this is found in the truck’s differentials. Months after customer deliveries began, Tesla has yet to make the truck’s electronic lockers functional. On dual-motor Cybertrucks such as our Foundation Series test vehicle, the locking diffs are mechanical units that are either off or on and require little in the way of programming. Still, the switches remain grayed out while they await an over-the-air update for activation. Parts of Pilot Rock Traill were still covered by a thin layer of sticky mud from overnight rain when we rolled up in the Cybertruck. Normally this wouldn’t be an issue for a 35-inch mud-terrain tire. However, as the tire treads quickly packed with slop, we began to suspect something was amiss with the Goodyear Wrangler Territory RT tires fit on the Cybertruck. Checking our support Chevy Silverado ZR2, which was fit with Goodyear Wrangler Territory MT tires, we found the Tesla-spec tires have a similar tread pattern but 4/32 of an inch less tread depth. This equates not only to thousands of miles of lost wear but also to far less traction when it’s needed the most. Despite the enormous panes of glass that encase the passenger compartment, outward visibility is not one of the truck’s strong suites. With its high beltline, low seating position, and massive dashboard, we often found ourselves needing to lean up and out of the seat to get a visual on the trail ahead. Tesla’s cameras, though copious, prove largely useless. The forward-facing camera is aimed too high and focuses too far in front of the truck. And strangely, the rear-facing side cameras become active while in the off-road modes instead of the forward-facing units. They provide nothing useful to the driver, and there’s no obvious way to change this. We also ran into the rather unique issue of needing to be experts in Tesla’s screen-based vehicle control system to operate the complex collection of drive modes. On several occasions we found ourselves in the wrong setting for the terrain, which caused the truck to act in seemingly erratic ways. For instance, having the drive modes set to Overland, All Purpose, with a stopping mode of Roll meant the truck would slow itself with regenerative braking when approaching an obstacle while letting out of the throttle then suddenly let go of the brakes and lurch forward freely. Had we been better versed in the controls, we would have known to ensure the truck was in the Hold stopping mode. Similarly, we experienced far more wheel slip than should be necessary from a well-calibrated traction control system. Putting the system into the Rock terrain mode would have in theory reined in the wheel slip, though we still contend the traction control system as it exists today is half-baked, at best. See All 4 Photos