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In the end it boils down to: Tesla has an edgelord CEO problem.
If you watch the interview with the people who made the cybertruck it is clear Elon was like “you know what would be cool” and then gave them ~90 days to make a working prototype. Honestly it could be cool if it didn’t look like a shitty polygonal car from a PS2 game
PS2 might be pushing it. PS1, absolutely. Angles everywhere.
Thought about PS1, but wasn’t sure. Guess that makes more sense, but the original Halo warthog is pretty angular so i was thinking something like that
Fair enough, but when I think “oh, the angles!”, I think PS1.
I’m an engineer that gets recruiting messages from Tesla and I don’t reply cuz I’ll never work for that piece of shit
Unpopular opinion: I think it’s great that a car exists that wasn’t designed by committee and says “fuck it” to sensible design principles. It’ll be a commercial failure, but a collector’s item in 30 years.
I would agree with you if it wasn’t a design that ignored safety regulations. Current design is not even road legal in the EU due to steel panel thickness being against the maximum allowed limit.
I see people mention this a lot but I’m not sure if Tesla as a company really cares. Pickup trucks are not huge sellers outside of North America from my understanding.
And that’s just pickups in general, the Cybertruck is pretty big. I’d imagine a majority of the sales would be for smaller pickups.
I think you could have both a unique looking car, and one that is somewhat sensibly designed.
So many sacrifices of the cyber truck are done just to be different. Like the $100 windshield wiper that spans the entire windshield. That’s just bad design for the sake of uniqueness.
Tbh they are not the first car manufacturer to do that. Think Citroen did it about 40+ years ago.
Thats why I always have a soft spot for french cars, everyone else is just following the germans.
Just to play devil’s advocate here, that also means that you’d be wasting astronomical amounts of time and money to develop something the market doesn’t want. It doesn’t make much business/financial sense to sink so much into a failed project but since musk came up with it we have to look at it.
The Design of Everyday Things isn’t the book I most want to staple to Musk’s forehead, but it is on the list
Can we just put staples in his forehead instead?
Its name is Elon Musk.
