Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they ‘hated’ it::“They were like, ‘You can’t be serious.’ They didn’t want to have anything to do with it,” Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Am I the only person besides Elon who likes the cybertruck? I hate agreeing with that idiot on anything, but I think the cybertruck looks cool.

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      It’s intentionally designed to look polarizing. You’re not gonna find a lot of people sitting on the fence on this one and since it looks so different from every other car on the market there’s gonna be a lot of people who aren’t into the change. But yeah I hate it.

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      2 years ago

      The concept version scratched an itch I’ve had about seeing cyberpunk influence in modern car design really well. The more recent images remind me that it’s indeed a soulless corpo who would create a cyberpunk hell scape in a heartbeat if it could.

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        2 years ago

        It’s this. I want a Tron themed EV and I want it to not look stupid driving around suburbia.

        And I’m afraid that those two things are mutually exclusive. Part of the cyberpunk aesthetic is the lack of soccer moms and hotdog stands.

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      2 years ago

      It looks like a cheap, “futuristic” car that would be in a vintage sci-fi movie.

      I mean, there is nothing else on the road that looks like it for better or worse

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      2 years ago

      I like it, but honestly, the bigger reason I want it is the supposed 14k+ tow capacity.

      If it doesn’t actually achieve that, which I’m definitely dubious it will, it’s a nonstarter for me.

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        2 years ago

        I’d expect that to arrive at the same time as the unbreakable glass and the full self driving.

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      2 years ago

      I think it’s mostly that the roof comes to a point. If it had a flat roof it’d look a lot better.

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      2 years ago

      I love it too. It’s completely ridiculous and ugly in a way that appeals to me.