Sub 10 µm accuracy

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

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

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

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"

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.
- i like the g-wagon :(

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.
- A mobile Archimedes platform
Don’t worry folks, the NTSB would never allow dangerous vehicles on public roads
It's going to be a road hazard and I imagine (hope) people will start vandalizing them

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.
- Sorry to hear about your five year old's broken hands.

They're immaculatey fitted though, duct tape and all

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.

Damn they look even more like cheeks then I expected

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

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.

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?

- Worked for the Delorean
- Couldn't you get some sort of chrome paint to achieve a similar effect but with the added layers of protection. Though you're probably just going to be shining the sun into other drivers' eyes regularly.
Like, maybe they'll look 'good' during their first week or when you're in light that doesn't produce hard shadows or reflections
Cybertruck: the best looking vehicle for people who live in a PS1 video game engine.

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.

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

Let me be clear, Sub 10 µm accuracy!

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?

The duct tape and uneven panel edges

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?

It's to trick people into thinking you do off roading and haul shit, when it's only ever been used to haul some grocery bags.

it's also a boat! https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/teslas-mythical-cybertruck-will-also-be-a-temporary-boat-because-why-not/

Turning a car into a boat is easy, it's turning it back into a car that's the tricky part
- Turning a car into a submarine is easy, it’s bringing it back up that’s the tricky part

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

Hideous as fuck.

The DeLorean from Back to the Future at least had some charm and creative design.

This shit here just looks like what'd happen if you put the DeLorean into Blender and decimated the polys down to PS1 levels

This shit box is just a tin toy coffin on wheels.

- You know the DeLorean came before Back to the Future, right?
  I actually did not know this. Thanks for telling me. I never see any on the road so I wasn't aware they were a thing before the movie.
  It's a sick as hell car though, I would love a modern, electric version.
  Agreed. It would be a treat.
- Didn't the Delorean guy got rekt by general motors?

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

What depth do you think the cybertruck is rated for?
- 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?

Looks like something they would have made for a challenge on old Top Gear

Hammond you bloody pudding roll, you’re supposed to use that glue for the INTERIOR of the automotive don’t ya know mate

from Mr. "The Stack Is Brittle"

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

I used to have a vcr in the early 90's that looked like this car. I'd rather that.

if they tinted it yellow and put big googly eyes on it, it would be the Coupe from Stunt Race FX on SNES. and the googly eyes would be the best thing about it. what a literal box of shit.

Just add some green paint and mount a gun on the back there and you'll have the Halo CE version of the warthog.

WTF do people buy this thing? Like I've seen teslas but the vibe is that it's just pretentious young arriviste wankers who wanna look like they're breaking some kind of glass ceiling, ironically.

Like are the top level bougies actually buying these things?

No, no one is buying this. There's a preorder form that allows you to pay $100 to have the option of buying one of the first ones when it ships. It's 2 years behind schedule and every display model that they've brought to conferences and expos has been nonfunctional or broken. maybe some time next year they'll rush vehicles out to reviewers and it's going to suck so much ass that only the most delusional early adopter fanboys will actually shell out for one.
- Unfortunately >only the most delusional early adopter fanboys will actually shell out for one.
  Is a non insignificant consumer base
There's a lot of bazinga bougies out there. It's less than a year ago that I witnessed my boss drunk at a party ranting about the brilliance of the minds of Musk and Peterson.

I wonder if that duct tape came from the factory.

Actually, of course it did.

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

Damn that's ugly.

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

They're NEW??? But they look scratched up like shit already
- I was thinking the same, it already looks dirty and scratched up! I would have thought it was being towed if not for the context lol
If you click the link it's actually a Tesla semi, not to do
apologia
- that seems like more significant news than these dorky trucks, guessing they still aren't delivering the tractors to anyone yet though
- Forgives. And I was hoping there wasn’t anything to take the winds out of my sails.
  Of courses, it’s still funny that it is being transported, unless it’s a new drop off

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

The Rivian actually looks like a functional pickup at least

What an ugly pile of scrap metal!

Look at those G A P S.

Everyone's hating on it but I actually love this design. I love the futuristic feel. Still not a fan of Musk obv

I also love stupid, ugly vehicles. The Aztek is dope, to me.
- Yess and the Fiat Multipla. Where other people see ugliness, I see function and intentional design
It'll look even more futuristic when it catches fire after cutting open a pedestrian with a glancing blow because a road marking was obscured by a paper bag.
- That's not the kind of future I was envisioning it as a part of. Unfortunately I also wasn't envisioning it to be made by Musk's company. In my future it would be produced by, yes, a workers cooperative, user-reparable, with open technologies and tested to strict EU standards.
  Edit: whoops forgot what instance I was on.
Thank you for your service
It looks like a prop from a PS1 game
Everyone's hating on it because it's the dumbest, ugliest fucking thing ever on four wheels. It's futuristic in the way 70's silver-jumpsuits in a bad sci-fi B-movie were "futuristic."
The fucking Delorean looks ten times more "futuristic" than this lump of shit, and that was made literally over 40 years ago.

Guess I'm in the minority that actually likes this. I hate washing my car and I hate the maintenance of gas cars. I literally dgaf about what it looks like. I've never cared. Probably why I drive a beat-up Nissan leaf. Can it haul my shit around and go 400+ miles on charge? From what I've read, it's got a 6ft bed with added space in the frunk (or whatever they call that). If they can make that for under $50k, they'll have plenty of people buying it. These release candidate builds aren't meant to be final products. Now, if it looks like this when they deliver to customers, then people should complain.

It looks like it absolutely murders the shit out of pedestrians
- Agreed. That's the problem with trucks in general and US regulators.
Not that many people that far left on the bell curve, so of course you're in the minority.