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    • SkibidiToiletFanAcct [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      It's ugly and aggressive like a G-wagon. It's gonna be a suburban status symbol like a Hummer or Gladiator, not a work vehicle becaue turns out, there is barely a market for armored pickup. Maybe it's musk's Boer DNA that inspired this though. He should ask his South African friend if he can license the anti-carjacking flamethrower from them.

  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Flat panels are the easiest to model and render

    they gotta be the easiest to manufacture too, right?

    • skunk@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      They lack rigidity in flat areas from the lack of contouring, so need to use a thicker gauge material to to keep panels stiff. You can even see the unintended curvature in the door panels

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Elon Musk wondering why engineers use arches in construction and concluding it's because they're old-fashioned fuddy duddies

      • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yea, and also, like - the human eye is incredibly good at noticing any deviation from perfectly flat, especially if you're talking about a semi-reflective bare-metal surface. Any little imperfection will immediately draw your eye because light bounces off it weird. There's a reason every car manufacturer ever only evokes the sense of flatness, but usually incorporates some more complex bends, light lines, stuff that both serves stability functions, helps when the panel will inevitably contract or extend due to thermal differences annnnd makes you not see little imperfections in the geometry as easily.

  • girl@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    the single ugliest car I have ever seen. my FIL showed me a picture when it was first revealed and I burst out laughing at the 90’s video game car. he was very disgruntled, turned out he actually liked it lol

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Ahh so the target market for this truck is middle aged men?

      I'm sorry but getting a Tesla cybertruck has to be the most uncool mid life crisis ever. What happened to motorcycles and sports cars?

  • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Finally, after all these years I've wasted staring at stainless steel refrigerator just thinking "I wish I could crush a family of pedestrians with this"

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I think they chose the design because they thought piecing together and welding flat panels would be cheaper/faster than a curved fiberglass/carbon fiber body.

    But it just looks like something someone made in their backyard. Like when a dad buys a Harbor Freight welder to make their kid a little play car. It looks like it's going to rust and cut the shit out of me.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      They chose the design because Elon Musk is a child and wanted to have a car from Bladerunner and then the engineers had to cobble something feasible out of Musk's stupid demands

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    At this point, I think comparing it to the Homer is a disservice to the Homer

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  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Listen, maybe I just want every single part of my car to be a slightly differently oriented fun-house mirror, ok

    • neo [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I'm looking forward to the inexplicable pressure implosion at 1 atm

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Anyone who buys one of these deserves the imminent auto-pilot-induced lithium fire wreck they can't escape.