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It looks like some high school kids made it in shop class after they learned how to bend sheet metal.
You're not even joking.
Back in the early 2010's my engineering team in HS built an electric Hummer, looks basically the same as a cyber truck but with more diamond plate.
It looks like a drawing my 5yo would do if I asked him to draw a truck.
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.
Flat panels are the easiest to model and render
they gotta be the easiest to manufacture too, right?
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
Elon Musk wondering why engineers use arches in construction and concluding it's because they're old-fashioned fuddy duddies
Elon Musk showing Tesla engineers the car he designed on poly bridge
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.
Imagine what these things are going to look like going from -10c to 50c
Large flat surfaces also create a shitton of drag, which makes driving at high speeds a pain in the ass.
Wonder how blinding this thing will be when driving behind it while the sun is shining.
Oh fuck, I hadn’t thought of that before. It’s like a lifted truck with a chrome bumper at eye level (I drive an affordable sedan), but it’s the whole fucking thing.
Maybe the accidentally convex side panels will start fires.
It's going to be a road hazard and I imagine (hope) people will start vandalizing them
Don’t worry folks, the NTSB would never allow dangerous vehicles on public roads
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
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?
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"
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.
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
i have to figure he just made a drawing on a napkin and said "this is the future, make it for me"
"Polygons are neat, can you make the warthog from Halo 1? Not any of the sequels" - Elon Musk
TFW you can't get the fillet tool on FreeCAD to cooperate so you just make everything with sharp edges.
At this point, I think comparing it to the Homer is a disservice to the Homer
Show
Stop trying to reinvent the pickup truck. Its form was mastered decades ago by the kei truck
Listen, maybe I just want every single part of my car to be a slightly differently oriented fun-house mirror, ok
Anyone who buys one of these deserves the imminent auto-pilot-induced lithium fire wreck they can't escape.
I too like to build my cars out of parts acquired at Home Depot
Methinks it's structurally sound up to somewhere between dense fog and heavy mist
the shape makes no sense, it reduces the space in the back for no reason.
it's kind of approaching the ideal "truck" for the average american, which is to say, the bed exists only for vanity not for putting things in
He's got a solar panel on the back that will definitely generate enough electricity to power the vehicle, yes sure. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just a hater.
If they're gonna make it so ugly, why not lean in and make it perfectly rectangular and practical?
