--- title: "The Cybertruck Is Much Improved by Adding Googly Eyes" description: "One way to improve your Cybertruck? Add a pair of googly eyes, and watch the world finally embrace your choice in vehicle." date: "2024-08-07" modified: "2024-08-07" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-improved-googly-eyes" categories: - "Advanced Transport" tags: - "cybertruck" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # The Cybertruck Is Much Improved by Adding Googly Eyes ![One way to improve your Cybertruck? Add a pair of googly eyes, and watch the world finally embrace your choice in vehicle.]() *\Image: @timmerenginerd via X\* ## Brave Little Cybertruck If you were wondering how you might make your $100,000 Tesla Cybertruck look less like a grill on wheels and more like silly cyberpunk goose, a solution has emerged: googly eyes. Yes, googly eyes. According to the internet, Cybertruck owners are slowly but surely figuring out that slapping a goofy pair of extra-large crafting eyeballs is, without question, the best way to decorate their stainless steel vehicles. "Vote for your favorite \[googly\] eye placement on the Cybertruck," one Tesla customer wrote yesterday in a post to X-formerly-Twitter, along with a series of images of his electric vehicle decorated with the white-and-black eyeball attachments. https://twitter.com/timmerenginerd/status/1820984029744710020 Beautiful, magnificent, sensational, no notes. No longer does this [finger-slicing]() electric fridge look like a midlife crisis — now, depending on eye placement, it either looks like the [Brave Little Toaster]() (complimentary), or a stainless steel tribute to the [Cookie Monster]() (also complimentary.) Five stars. ## Upgrade Ya Some Cybertruckheads were less enthused by the trend. "No," wrote one such Tesla fan, along with a photo of googly-eyed Cybertruck. "Do not do this." But it seems that this wasn't the most popular take. "You're not the boss of me," [responded another X user](), posting yet another picture of an eyed-up Cybertruck. https://twitter.com/RetiredEnginerd/status/1816548180315766981 Anyway, we love it. And if we have to see these things on the road, we'd argue that adding a pair of googly eyes should become the standard — and judging by the comments section, we're not the only fans. "It actually makes it look better," [said]() one X user. "Love it," [added]() another, "going to have to get a big box of \[googly\] eyes to improve every one of these monstrosities I see." On the practical side, for owners, perhaps it'll distract from the [smudges]() and [rust](). **More on Cybertruck mods:** [*First Cybertruck Ambulance Has One Small Problem: Nowhere to Put the Patient*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()