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Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it::"They were like, 'You can't be serious.' They didn't want to have anything to do with it," Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.

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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Any day now, the cyber truck will come whizzing down the hyperloop with its sub 10 micron build tolerance and tornado proof glass, fully autonomously driving of course. Any day now.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With its flat body panels flapping in the wind.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was pretty painful. Not even a rumor that he said it, he tweeted it lol

Literally any vehicle can be briefly amphibious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

$10 says he'll sue to call the vehicle amphibious, autonomous, airborne, and explosion-proof, just because it can briefly be those things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Any car is amphibious (briefly) 😉

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

It's a finisher car!!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I really want to see one after it's hit by a heavy hail storm.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

hit by a heavy hail storm.

...or even a champagne bottle!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Obviously, it will have front-mounted flamethrowers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just after the Tesla semi!