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Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks

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

If Elon would have looked back, he would have seen that Delorean has already tried bare metal, and it's nearly impossible to fix. Dent your truck? May as well paint it.

I mean, Elon obviously doesn't care about repairability, but the first few fender benders will result in a pile of articles about how unfixable the body panels actually are.

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

But at least John DeLorean didn't demand that the parts be accurate to within a few microns. Maybe he was too busy making cocaine deals to do it, but still...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just realized how accurate the comparison probably is...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Although Musk is famously on Ketamine instead.