• supplier [none/use name]
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    3 hours ago

    Reading these amazing design failures always makes me feel a little bit better.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    4 hours ago

    America has to be the most absurd nation out there. Imagine hating regulation so much that this is street legal. They shouldn't even be allowed to build them.

  • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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    5 hours ago

    By throwing out 100 years of design knowledge because you want to redesign the wheel in a disruptive bazinga way

  • chickentendrils@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Someone pointed this out in a montage of all the problems with these things. I think for them it was mud. Might be in Some More News' video.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    I've been mulling over a design for a public book box in my head for the past 4 weeks or so and I've stumbled onto this problem despite having 0 engineering background or other relevant experience just by thinking about how weather would interact with it so I feel confident in saying this was a management decision

      • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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        38 minutes ago

        Soviet deep sleeper agent Ayn Rand planted seeds of "rich = good and smart" into the brains of Americans and other Westerners. Such a mindset was designed to undermine technological advancement.

        Now their worship of billionaires and their products as flawless and foolproof will only harm themselves.

  • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, null/void]
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    7 hours ago

    it is a 'design' that spits in the face of aero-and hydro- dynamics, it invokes the wrath of the very elements if not the gods themselves. it is not 'designed' as much as 'not designed' as in: 'the cybertruck is not designed to withstand a pressure washing' or 'the cybertruck is not designed to be safely handled by unprotected human hands' or 'the cybertruck is not designed to cross even shallow water without failing'

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      5 hours ago

      It's Happy Fun Ball of cars: Defined more by what it doesn't than what it does

  • lnxtx@feddit.nl
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    7 hours ago

    They skipped real world tests. Like extreme heat, extreme cold, extreme wet (including PRESSURE WASHING).