Have you seen that Tesla "Robovan" design?
It belongs in a Mel Brooks spoof of science fiction movies — the Spaceballs aesthetic applied to sci-fi which isn't Star Wars.
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I'm certainly not surprised: Elon Musk Invented A Worse City Bus
https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-invented-a-worse-city-bus-1851670591
"Elon Musk is notoriously opposed to public transit, even going so far as admitting that his whole “Hyperloop” project was just a way to divert public money away from high-speed rail projects. It’s quite clear that by making electric city buses look flashy and dystopian retro-futuristic chic, he hopes to pull money away from public transit investment in cities all over the world. The worse he can make public transit [look no farther than the Las Vegas Tesla tunnels for his genius vision] the more appealing Tesla’s road cars become."
Tesla's Robovan reminds me of the Mercury streamliner, an art deco locomotive train design from the 1930's.
It's an apt metaphor for Musk's fantasy future, stuck in old science fiction tales. A fantasy of endless resources for personal transportation, endless public money for infrastructure, and where technology will save us all. Ridiculous. Even dangerous.
...But the retro-cool appeal of art deco design never fades.
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Musk Bus, or Toaster Oven?