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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It looks like some high school kids made it in shop class after they learned how to bend sheet metal.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tolerances aside this thing looks like complete shit

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flat panels are the easiest to model and render

they gotta be the easiest to manufacture too, right?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wonder how blinding this thing will be when driving behind it while the sun is shining.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

It's going to be a road hazard and I imagine (hope) people will start vandalizing them

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 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"

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

TFW you can't get the fillet tool on FreeCAD to cooperate so you just make everything with sharp edges.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop trying to reinvent the pickup truck. Its form was mastered decades ago by the kei truck

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this dumbass tin box is the car equivalent of the titan sub

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I too like to build my cars out of parts acquired at Home Depot

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the shape makes no sense, it reduces the space in the back for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Absolutely touching of Elon Musk to make some 6 year old boy's dreams come true by bringing his truck designs to life 🖤

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Damn that's ugly.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Look at those G A P S.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it will slit your throat as well when it runs you over?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Efwis 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What really makes it funny though, is it’s on a flatbed gas powered truck

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you click the link it's actually a Tesla semi, not to do melon-musk apologia

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

this looks awful lmao, looks like itll look perpetually dirty af

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

I wonder if that duct tape came from the factory.

Actually, of course it did.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought the Riven looked goofy, but this is so much worse.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

is that rear panel oxidizing??

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is just the car that every kid makes their first time using Google Sketch-up or whatever it's called

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No way this is real, is that duct tape on the driver side fender??

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very lukewarm take but holy shit is the cybertruck the ugliest vehicle ever made, doesn't even have an aesthetic in a bazinga way.

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