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…