I think the general shape is fine from an aesthetic point of view, it just needs a bevel modifier on it.
From a utilitarian perspective, its sort of shit, Its better than not having a truck i guess? But there’s a reason trucks are designed the way they are. Its so you can keep tools and haul things back there easily. Those triangle walls look incredibly frustrating. It would be nice if there were an option to have them hollow or something.
No real mirrors is also super sketchy. If this thing is supposed to be working hard, you dont want the cameras to get jostled and stop working for some reason, and now you can’t merge lanes safely on the highway, or park or whatever you need to do.
I don’t like it.
Somehow people praise it for being brave and bold design. Well there are thousands of brave and bold designs that don’t look like bricks.All you have to do is look online at vehicle designers personal work(that never gets approved) and you have tons of cool,brave and just amazing looking designs. This looks like someone made it in his garage. The post above suggests stealth design…but question is…“why? what’s so beneficial in stealth design?” Is it to reflect bulltets?To be undetectable by radar?If so…then considering that no doubt the AI inside uses radar technology to detect it’s position ,relative to other vehicles(I doubt they relay only on processing camera input), why make a vehicle that will make it harder for the AI to calculate the distance to it.
Anyway, I never liked Tesla’s vehicles…the design of them that is. Recently I saw this comment for the Cyber Truck " In its desperate attempt to be a unique looking vehicle, it forgets to look like a vehicle." That being said…still the technology under that ugly design is really cool.
i think they fell in love with the stainless steel from spacex’s starship and then they had the idea to also use it for the truck. it can’t be bent and pressed as easily as the usual steel used in cars because it’s much harder. that’s why the cybertruck looks so angular.
and it doesn’t use a frame like other pickup trucks but uses the triangular shape for stability. kind of like the statics for a bridge. so the triangular walls at the back probably couldn’t be removed even if they wanted.
i wonder how final this design is. i don’t know the laws in the usa but this can’t really be street legal in europe because of the crash behavior (and other small details).
While I appreciate that they didn’t go with a more traditional look, it does however look quite… Ugly. Looks more like a military vehicle than anything a civilian would use. It also looks like they took a bunch of fridges and merged them together with oversized Lego pieces (those wheels, man). XD
i am no expert on this but there are different kinds of hard to bend.
maybe stainless steel simply has very bad behaviour in the forming processes that usually get used in car factories. the delorian was very angular too.
…and maybe very thick normal steel behaves ok and can be bent with a lot of force. most military vehicles don’t have very round shapes either though and bullet proof cars often have the protection in inner layers.
I think everyone is looking at it the wrong way. We are looking at it from a consumer point of view. Think about it from a manufacturing point of view. Telsa has had problems with its assembly line in the past. What if the truck was designed to be easy to assemble? Especially by assembly line robots.
There’s really no complex curves to deal with. The frame should be pretty easy to put together. The parts probably come from the Tesla line.
It is genius, from his point of view.
So your argument is that people should pay a lot of money for a vehicle, and get cheap design, simply because the Comapny that produces it, has problems on assembly line?
It’s like saying that smartphone users should not complain when their are sold shock proof touchscreen but in reality it is a chap touchscreen, simply because they didn’t knew how to make shock proof touchscreen in the factory?
So users should just suck it up,not complain and be happy they have a Tesla.
Except the military has no need for craft that look nice, the only thing that matters is that it is better than what the other nations have and that it can win wars.
I don’t think the Zumwalt class look would sell that well as a recreational boat
Simple design isn’t necessarily cheap. Simple design however, makes it possible to manufacture at a lower price. And this thing is relatively cheap for a truck.
exactly like that
apart from “not sexy aesthetics”
there is all utility. it is a car to all effects and with better performance and endurance and price. those who complain that “it is ugly” do not see the substance …
and to provide these extra things, it has to cut down on building costs.
I kind of doubt that. I bet that weapon manufacturers have design teams to make their stuff “look cool”. The deciders in the government responsible for buying tanks and planes are not immune to “cool” looks.
If he thinks he can construct a full blown city on Mars (in a period of decades), surely he can invent a stronger press to add more curves to his truck.
On this
I try not to join the bandwagons where it is considered trendy to hate a person or a company, but I don’t see why he can’t make an effort to improve the aesthetics.
During the 20th century, a number of socialist governments worldwide tried to reduce residential areas to nothing more than raw utility and functionality, the result were ugly concrete oblongs that were the only option for people to move into. Aesthetic design has always been a key pillar of everything from product design to buildings since ancient times, I don’t think our brains can handle living in a world that gives the appearance of the Vogons running and building everything.
Possible tangents aside, I know there are tons of rabid Tesla fans that already want this, but it remains to be seen how it will sell among those who traditionally rely on pickups.
At the anthropological level these last two decades have been “women” in the constant search for curves and aesthetics, sacrificing the rest, now there is a change of trend …
Trust, as nations are moving, many men and not only will find this “substance” a change of air, an interesting novelty , and as people get used to it, they will like it more and more.
Not to everyone of course …,
(women will always be more beautiful and attractive )
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