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"
Stop trying to reinvent the pickup truck. Its form was mastered decades ago by the kei truck
Objectively correct take
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"
this dumbass tin box is the car equivalent of the titan sub
I'm looking forward to the inexplicable pressure implosion at 1 atm
tolerances aside this thing looks like complete shit
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.
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.
Don’t worry folks, the NTSB would never allow dangerous vehicles on public roads
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.
At this point, I think comparing it to the Homer is a disservice to the Homer
Behold another recent collection of photos showcasing a proclivity for gaps and readiness to look absolutely filthy.
At (a rumored) $50k-100k this really is the bazingamobile par excellence.
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
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.
Elon Musk wondering why engineers use arches in construction and concluding it's because they're old-fashioned fuddy duddies
So it will slit your throat as well when it runs you over?
Also if that's untreated sheet metal, which it sure looks like and has duct tape on it so wouldn't surprise me, you'll actually be able to hear the salt eating holes in your vehicle in real time in the winter.
this looks awful lmao, looks like itll look perpetually dirty af
So any imperfection in the metal (e.g., poor manufacturing; dings, dents, chips, etc.) will be super blaringly obvious on these trucks, right? Like, maybe they'll look 'good' during their first week or when you're in light that doesn't produce hard shadows or reflections, but it's gotta be a steep and almost immediate decline thereafter?
is that rear panel oxidizing??
This is just the car that every kid makes their first time using Google Sketch-up or whatever it's called
this is the car Homer designed in that Simpsons episode. Musk is literally as smart as Homer Simpson.
No way this is real, is that duct tape on the driver side fender??
They've rolled a duct taped prototype out to a car expo before and allowed everybody in the crowd to film it, i don't see why this wouldn't be real.
Oh I had no idea, that’s even worse
Very lukewarm take but holy shit is the cybertruck the ugliest vehicle ever made, doesn't even have an aesthetic in a bazinga way.
Let me be clear, Sub 10 µm accuracy!
TFW you can't get the fillet tool on FreeCAD to cooperate so you just make everything with sharp edges.
The duct tape and uneven panel edges
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
So that exterior is just straight-up regular ass sheet metal right? It doesn't even look like it's been treated in any way. I don't know what you'd tread it with or how, but like that is just going to show every dent forever, right?
Turning a car into a boat is easy, it's turning it back into a car that's the tricky part
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