It was designed that way specifically because Musk wanted a truck that looked like it was from Blade Runner.
“Elon Musk unhappy with Cybertruck’s poor quality, calls for Lego-like precision“ (Ars Technica)
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You know the designers tried to explain to him how modern designs use curves to mask acceptable deviations, but building with all hard lines will magnify every single thing that's even a millimeter off... But Musk has a god complex and can't be told no, so he probably fired them...
Honestly this looks more like something out of the game Hard Drivin
Horrendous design. Also how does this qualify as a truck with the closed cab?
Horrendous design. Also how does this qualify as a truck with the closed cab?
Why is he unhappy, this Nissan all under his supervision, the quality is shit because of you pal
And when we say "cars" we mean the entire automotive spectrum, including pickups, SUVs, crossovers as well as sedans, wagons and hatchbacks, but the first three are most dangerous to people.
The fact that it's called a Cybertruck is baffling to me. How are you supposed to haul anything in this contraption?
Who cares? Most people don't haul anything in their trucks anyway.
Let me tell you about the number of people that never has placed a speck of dirt on their Mega Truck 2500 Heavy Duty ManlyMan Ranch Earthquake Edition. I've heard with my own ears that "it will scratch the truck".
We have a small truck and we use it to haul things all the time. A truck with no bed isn't a truck IMO.
I'm not gonna lie I actually really love how ugly they are. They're the kind of ugly that makes me happy.
Like I'd never buy one because I don't trust the ecosystem in the slightest but I actually dig how they look so fucking ugly. It's like the fucked up the model order so the low poly version got loaded up close and it's a beautiful stupid mess.
Would never get it but lmao, I kinda like it.
Like I'd never buy one because I don't trust the ecosystem in the slightest but I actually dig how they look so fucking ugly. It's like the fucked up the model order so the low poly version got loaded up close and it's a beautiful stupid mess.
Would never get it but lmao, I kinda like it.
While there were some of those people later in the thread as most moved onto other things, reaction was pretty overwhelmingly negative from the start.
I was just about to post the same thing, just yuck. Star Fox car.
I'm almost there with ya. Needs a paint job that looks like a warped PS1 texture map to complete the look.
Some from 90s do. I had this one and it floated (it had special counterweight you attached to bottom of the boat).
But the Tesla look like elegant Sedans. You can't really compare Tesla's to cybertrucks and say people liked then both because of Musk.
omg big red racing! that's a deep cut
I'll take mine in red
Every Lego set can briefly serve as a boat.
Build and display EiA at least. Luckily if you don't care for unopened Lego, you can usually sell it for more after a few years.
Does Elon even know how a soda can is made and how it can reach such small tolerances?
It takes at least 13 steps in a machine to just form the can part, before you put the lid on.
It takes at least 13 steps in a machine to just form the can part, before you put the lid on.
Never mind that Lego's entire business has been built around their massive advantages in large scale ultra-precision manufacturing, right?.
First hand accounts I've heard about him suggest he has a profound lack of respect for the time and capabilities of those he works and competes with.
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"Now we are entering the final crunch on this directionless vanity project of mine, I have decided that you all need to make sure that a key requirement I never planned for is not only met, but actually exceedes all industry benchmarks and norms to an extent that haters would say isn't physically possible. To prove them wrong here are two world class examples from unrelated industries, using very different materials and processes that clearly show this is actually a totally trivial to do. I will not be taking questions." /s
Lol
Also manufacturing techniques are more like kitchen doors - you need tolerance to allow for rapid fit and you can adjust later. If you need that insane tolerance that won't work - it has to fit perfectly in a single position/orientation
Add to Tesla already iffy QC and this ain't happening.
Also not sure why it has to happen. I'd have though uniform gaps would work ok (if similarly difficult for them)
Call me paranoid if you wish, but I think that in Elon's mind, the Cybertruck is the future armored car wealthy people will use in the post-economic collapse era to move around without being bothered by the unwashed masses.
When you take a hard look at every project Musk is pushing, from Tesla cars to hyperloop or going to Mars, it is clear that the future he has in mind is for the upper middle class and the wealthy.
So gaps that said masses might pry open with crowbars or something are unacceptable to him.
When you take a hard look at every project Musk is pushing, from Tesla cars to hyperloop or going to Mars, it is clear that the future he has in mind is for the upper middle class and the wealthy.
So gaps that said masses might pry open with crowbars or something are unacceptable to him.
so able to drive on water as boat is also part of his plans to escape from the mass of poor people attacking him in the post apocalypse?
Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' the original concept
Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' the original concept, according to the new Elon Musk biography
"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.
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Um, Elon Musk is a brilliant man with lots of well-thought-out, practical ideas. He is insuring the financial security of this company for years to come. Oh yes, and his personal tweets are above reproach.
There's giving your staff lofty goals to aim for, and there's telling your staff to make unicorns.
My brain just unlocked a whole period of my youth! Fuck I forgot about this
This thing was ugly from the jump upon first reveal. I thought that was part of the meme package that appealed to Musk fans?
Ha... I can see people putting some interesting skins on it.
No. The boat part is just some random bullcrap he spewed, just like when he claimed his X app would caputre over half of financial transactions. Not something he really wants or thinks he can achieve.