Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck. Apparently, many people think it's ugly. I absolutely love it. It took the jellybean esthetic of modern vehicles and ran it over. Twice. There's simply no point in saying anything about this truck -- you have to look at the pictures:
In order to make this TFS less short, a few specs, but really, they don't matter until you see if it appeals to you which it either will or won't in spades. The low end 250 mile range version is supposed to be about $40k. The body is unpainted cold rolled stainless steel. Upmodels will have a towing capacity variously described as 10-14k pounds and at the top end, a 500 mile range. They'll cost a lot more.
Elon Musk bragged that his "cybertruck" was bulletproof to a 9mm round, but two separate attempts to demonstrate just how tough it is failed when ball bearings thrown by hand literally caused the windows to come crashing down in pieces. So much for safety glass; even on cyber trucks, windows sucks.
We created an exoskeleton," Musk said to rapturous whoops from those attending the Los Angeles launch. "It is literally bulletproof to a 9mm handgun."
Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla's chief designer, asked Musk if he could lob a metal ball at the window of the vehicle. "Really?" said Musk. The window smashed. "Oh my fucking God," said Musk. "Maybe that was a little hard."
Showing confidence in the vehicle, Von Holzhausen then suggested he should lob it at a second window. "Try that one? Really?" asked Musk moments before the rear window was also smashed. "It didn't go through, that's the plus side," a stunned Musk said.
Also at Ars Technica and Wccftech.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Friday November 22 2019, @10:52PM (5 children)
This is one of the things about so many people that drives me crazy. Focus on the superficial, on their totally subjective ideas of beauty, which are strongly influenced by what they find familiar, and ignore the functionality. They won't use wheel skirts or vortex generators, because that's "ugly". Used car shoppers are way too easily swayed by a car wash, and shiny applied to the black plastic and rubber parts of the engine and tires. It's not the paint that makes the car go!
I say that if it works, it is beautiful. Form follows function.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Friday November 22 2019, @11:10PM
Familiar? it looks familiar, if you know about the Pininfarina Modulo, the Carabo, the Countach, the Lamborghini LM001, and the cars you drew on your schoolbook in primary school. I'd say it's late 60s first 70s design. As seen by a kid. By a kid who hates automobiles.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by slinches on Friday November 22 2019, @11:17PM (3 children)
I wouldn't say that the design is ideal from a functionality standpoint, considering the limited bed accessibility and poor rearward visibility (it needs a video rear view mirror). Although, the overall shape really is functional from a structural perspective. It is shaped the way it is in order to be folded up out of a sheet of steel like origami. That means there's minimal tooling costs and special machinery required to produce the body. It's an entirely different way of thinking about constructing a vehicle.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday November 23 2019, @08:09PM (1 child)
So, replacement is the only option. And given the poor record of fit and finish for Tesla, and how the term FUGLY describes it to a T, it better be self driving because only incels would be caught dead driving it. Looks like an old Ranchero reimagined in aluminium foil.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 24 2019, @06:14PM
and that mac-using fag obviously pulled his swing when he hit the tesla.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday November 23 2019, @08:14PM
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