ByteOnBikesIt all started when he invented the Emerald Mine...
I wouldn’t doubt that Elon designed the Cybertruck. I mean just look at how ugly and impractical it is. He probably drew it on a napkin or MS Paint or something.
Honestly it might have been fine if he managed to keep his public image under control or it was not so tightly coupled with Tesla’s brand. Most large trucks and SUVs are suburban grocery getters or used to take Timmy to soccer practice so they don’t actually have to be practical at all.
I honestly like the blade runner look. At least it’s a little different than the ubiquitous cross overs that all look the same. I would never buy one though because Tesla has shit quality and Elon is a wanker.
I was his fan at the time and at the reveal and it still looked like a joke to me. He also didn’t deliver on range and price.
Was that the reveal where he said the windows were indestructible, then proceeded to smash one on the first try?
ThatWeirdGuy1001You can taste the embarrassment in this photo.
Yeah, lol.
He kept boasting that it was “bullet proof”. Meanwhile I could easily imagine the engineers in the back really badly hoping he would shut up about that because they understood the gravity of the costs and compromises that would have been required to actually make this car bulletproof
Guess what, turns out it’s not bullet proof after all. What a shocker.
Apparently he has a bad habit of telling the engineers to do things that are literally impossible, and then firing them when they can’t do it. So they actually have a guy who’s job it is to distract Elon Musk so he never talks to the engineers, because it’s either that or keep hiring new ones.
They should have made like 10 and raffled them off for charity.
Then he gets the goodwill of “They actually delivered a car that looks exactly like the prototype” without the expectations on quality and performance of a made-by-the-thousands serial production product.
The firm who makes a few carbon-fibre Batmobiles for film sets and rich geeks doesn’t get the same guff that GM would if they started selling them in Buick dealerships.
I won’t ever win a wank mobile, but some of the components and castings are really high quality. Some are really fucking poor design decisions to though.
Indeed, what Tesla’s REALLY selling isn’t an electric car, it’s the idea that Elon Musk is this ubermensch, the real life Tony Stark… he’s the mascot so to speak.
This is the problem with having your mascot be a real person in the social media era.
Tony The Tiger can’t go on a drunken twitter rampage about how we need to make America GRRRRReat again. Colonel Sanders can’t ruin KFC’s image because he’s fucking dead.
That’s the thing. Design implies engineering decisions. Decisions requiring huge amounts of expertise, talent and work. All Musk did is get in front of his lead engineers, handed a crudely drawn triangle on a piece of paper and said “It must look like this, make it happen”. He did the easiest 0.001% part of the work and the rest was done by people who are far more intelligent and talented than him. And yet he is the one giving himself all the credit for it.
The fact that the Cybertruck is a stupidly flawed, barely functional monstrosity with tons of production issues and insane price tag are side effects of all the compromises that had to be done to fulfill Musk’s demands. It is literally Musk’s equivalent of The Homer car from the Simpsons.
I know there’s a lot of reasons to hate about Steve Jobs and I’m not contesting those, however what you said reminds me of this quote:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Yow6rd-lw
where he talks about taking an idea to product
Steve Jobs - Product Development from Idea to Product
Watch Aliens. The armored personnel carrier is clearly the inspiration for the cyberpunk.
reddit.com/…/teslas_new_cybertruck_looks_familiar…
Huh, I thought its inspiration is the lego car I’ve built when I was 3. They didn’t quite manage to capture the more intricate details of my magnum opus tho.
I was thinking Minecraft blocks.
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AnyOldName3I consider this an insult to one of my favourite Sci-fi vehicles. The one from Aliens looks much better, much more practical, and much more like something humans should try to build.
Its really impracticle. Its riding so low to the ground. What kind of combat terrain could it possibly be useful in othet than a perfect undisturbed urban street?
It’s obviously for a perfect undisturbed urban street with aliens on it.
Canonically, this is the lightweight model meant for flatter ground, roads, and the insides of spaceship corridors, and it was deployed to a colony with paved roads and indoor corridors, so it had its adjustable suspension set to minimum ground clearance for better handling. Obviously, this was retrospective to explain away the exact point you’re raising after they’d already made the prop and possibly released the film, but being a sci-fi vehicle, adjustable suspension, something that’s available in cars you can buy today, would be something safe to assume it must have just from watching the film and noticing the lack of ground clearance.
Thats a clever way to explain away the flaw. Ok ill buy it. Its scifi afterall. I can suspend my disbelief
BlackmistIt’s definitely his Homer Simpson car. I bet he drew it in crayon with his tongue out.
Ironically I’d buy the Cybertruck because its design reminds me of the polygonal models of my gaming youth, but… it’s too expensive…
Elon also has never lead a government. In case he starts saying that after the orange hits the ground.
He is one thing and one thing only. A walking bankaccount that sells money for ego.
Chemical WonkaI’ll share this with my mom, she believes Space Karen is the new messiah.
I you already know how that will turn out.
Musk is only good at one thing, which is play investors like violins to generate hype and secure more investments for the company. The rest of the company’s success is owed to the extremely competent and talented engineers and workers making those extremely ambitious projects a reality.
Every time Musk tries to pretend he’s an engineer and tries to micromanage engineering and design decisions we end up with things like the Cybertruck.
I’m going to keep repeating it until it becomes common knowledge: When Musk stole the company from its original founders in a board coup, he specifically demanded that the cars have flush-fitting door handles despite his engineer’s objections. Reinventing the door handles was excessively time and cost prohibitive because of the crash safety requirements involved but Musk would hear none of it. And it was. It nearly bankrupted the company early on and it was only saved by government grants from the Obama days.
agamemnonymousEvery time Musk tries to pretend he’s an engineer and tries to micromanage engineering and design decisions we end up with things like the Cybertruck.
I read a comment somewhere by someone who worked at SpaceX, and they said a crucial part of the job was tactfully distracting him while he was in the facility. Otherwise, he would make nonsensical design suggestions and expect them to be implemented.
This is there title from a Blomberg article:
SpaceX’s Secret Weapon Is Gwynne Shotwell
She launches spaceships, sells rockets, and deals with Elon Musk.
I think it’s that, she is one is there most influential person that made SpaceX successful.
Cybertruck is what happen when people don’t say no to Musk.
It saddens me our government has been funding this foreign apartheid bastard piece of shit this whole time.
Oh fElon woulc have hated that: a Black guy bailing out an apartheid guys business.
Ever wonder why Musk’s talks about Tesla are so stilted? Because he didn’t do shit at the start, he doesn’t know anything about how it started.
Listen to Tarpening and he talks in and out about EVs and Tesla’s business model. He knows because he did it. youtu.be/JW95LCkxlb4
Mentor Series :: Marc Tarpenning (Tesla Co-Founder)
He probably designed that stupid rescue pod for the kids who needed rescuing
It’s obvious he’s not an engineer because he obviously didn’t even speak to the divers about the requirements before hand
And jobs didn’t helm the iPhone 🙄
The man has invested and profited an absurd amount. He has been the most successful tech entrepreneur of this decade.
Surely full-self-driving next year?
Roadster?
Man on moon?
Semi that beats rail?
Mars?
Shitty tunnels?
Hyperloop?
X-everything-app?
Your idol is a fucking fraud and a moron that sumbled into some money.
Lololol acting like you’d be driving an EV right now or haven’t used a pay pal clone .
Yes he exaggerates and lies. It doesn’t make his investments and ability to pick out disrupters.
Name a person who has been more influential over tech in the past decade.
I think the really funny part is you’ve invented a story and background for me. You already have me pegged as some Nazi tech bro because I can admit bad people do amazing things. Your seething rage has blinded you.
I can’t, these people…
“Yes he’s a fraud, but…”
I mean, he wouldn’t be a grifter if he didn’t have gullible fanboy kids to grift…
It’s almost like you live in a world where someone can be more than one thing at once.
I know. Hitler was great at painting, but somehow people only remember the atrocities he commited.
That money that musk scammed people out of, could have done wonders in the hands of competent, intelligent, honest people.
Enjoy the landfill and the rocket exhaust, that’s as close as you’ll get to his ‘tech innovations’.
What money has he scammed? Cybertruck pre orders? I don’t think they word means it does. Nobody tricked or scammed PayPal users. Nobody was scammed into buying Teslas. He’s going to get sued on over promising self drive. That’s the only thing remotely close to a scam. Other than that you are just mad because he’s a successful asshole. Nothing about that is a scam.
Oh, so you’re just oblivious. I’m not going to google shit for you. Keep your ears plugged and your eyes shut, don’t look up!
Trust me bro just Google it
Pure intelligence, this one.
Uses their gut for knowledge.
Go ahead, keep on attacking me because you are unable to explain these “scams”.
You are just seething and making shit up and lashing out like a school yard bully. SAD!
You’re not entitled to my time.
Lay off the copium muskboi.
Pitty, more attacks. Still can’t name a scam.
I’ve literally listed a bunch of them in my first reply.
Classic musk fanboys… Not very “into” reading, are you, brother of tech.
Ahh, so we’re back to you not understanding what a scam is. Now I understand the confusion.
You’re not allowed to use the word “understand” lmao
Wtf is this facebook shit…
You don’t have to sign your comments. Everybody on this site already knows you’re a weirdo.
Forgot to add in “Was fired for incompetence”.
The Simpsons S26E12 is almost a decade old. It’s basically a depleted uranium lickspittle snapshot before his veil combusted.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Musk doesn’t even have an imagination.
GHiLAHis mind is the film Underworld on repeat, next to a bowl of pizza rolls, a PlayStation 2, and a stack of cyber-goth monthly with any attractive girl torn out and taped to the wall.