Elon Musk

the entire "look, it won't dent" thing is kind of dumb because if you're actually using a truck for work, nobody cares if the vehicle gets dinged up. the worst risk is enough paint gets scraped off that you end up with rust and corrosion

now, if you're worried about people throwing bricks and rocks at your fancy rolling fortress for... reasons.. then having a dent-proof exterior makes sense

why dont they just made the whole car out of the plastic cladding

lmao the volvo comparers tweet has zero likes but someone telling him to stfu has hundreds

Lol mh xpost

My dad designed and made a couple of recumbent bikes in the late '80s that used 100% riveted structural sheet metal instead of a welded frame. Apparently he was 30 years ahead of the (nonexistent) curve.

modern cars are designed to crumple in a crash so that the people inside them don't die

yeah good point wonder if this thing would pass a crash test, not that theyre ever going to release it anyway

this stainless steel truck hauling freight

Freight? You mean a sack of potting soil and a couple grocery bags from Costco, right?

cars should be made of NERF

We know a place where Floam cars go

Musk stans are my least favorite stans of all

For all you haters mocking Musk's future-tank, well, I'll have you know that Ignaz Semmelweis was the first to discover the importance of hand washing to maintaining basic hygiene, and he was mocked, too. In the future *all* cars will look like vintage 16-bit video game vehicles, and Musk will be counting money. Until he dies from a communicable disease easily avoided by hand washing.

vintage 16-bit video game vehicle

It does have some Battlezone lines going on there

i am a very very function over form guy and can def be won by proving the former. But that looks like shit, and surface deformations like that usually don’t mean good things at all wrt design or production competence.
wrt layout design, there seems a small market for a truck that is functionally truck with also uh, another thing (hello Ridgelines which i love). but here the skyhigh bedwall and… it’s all 100% wtf to this amateur.
in a world where hummers became dick extensions i dunno.

I still think about the moment he introduced this monstrosity to the world and demoed its "indestructability" by throwing a giant metal ball at the window, which shattered instantly. Then tried it again and shattered the back window too. That was such a funny moment that I almost can't hate the guy completely. Few people get to be a part of such a widely broadcast, pure comedic moment like that.

It looks like there's a smaller car inside of it and someone stuck a whole bunch of protective sheets of metal on in, post-apocalypse style. Like Dead Reckoning from "Land of the Dead:"

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zombie/images/4/42/Dead_Reckoning.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20171207033908

lol I pulled a Musk
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8e/b5/e4/8eb5e493f9a86ab751eb6a15196cddff.jpg

I'm getting a broken image on that which coincidentally also resembles the Cybertruck

Let me know when Musk makes this one and I'll sign the check
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/amv-prod-cad-assets/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MMFR_PlymouthRock.jpg

brb designing and market planning an aftermarket 3 ft tall android doof warrior

Ran across this gem in the twitter roasting:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUrXjMgaAAAJMca?format=png&name=small

lol, that's fantastic

frogbs otm, one of the great self-owns by a blowhard. on a par with geraldo and the empty vault. you’ll be able to judge the quality of the obituary by whether or not it includes that moment.

not that I should expect any differently but it’s weird that that moment didn’t really dim his star any among the stans (not surprising) or tech and mainstream media (a little more surprising)

shit, it looks like they've added a windshield wiper! This thing ain't no joke:

https://electrek.co/2022/06/07/tesla-cybertruck-updated-interior-and-windshield-wiper/

https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/12/Tesla-Cybertruck-tailgate-open.jpg

Bed looks good for a hefty load of laundry and a labradoodle puppy

They really cheapened scaled down the tires from those first renderings, huh?

They prefer the term "value engineering."

The richest person alive doesn't have an ad block or YouTube premium. https://t.co/XrK1WoxMEt

— Whack, with a silent 'H' (@WhackNicholson) June 7, 2022

i haven't seen a youtube ad in like a decade, no idea what he's talking about

also sounds like the ad algorithm has pegged him as a guy who might fall for scams

I wonder what he watches on youtube

lol

This company I found is giving away these planet bracelets to spread awareness about climate
change, just cover shipping! grab one before theyre gone #Savetheplanet ✅ https://t.co/3Arhhwgz1J pic.twitter.com/zNLf5bluf3

— Whack, with a silent 'H' (@WhackNicholson) June 8, 2022

Also, don't forget to to check out these awesome Yoga Mats which have different yoga positions printed over them. Get one while they're on SALE and FREE SHIPPING at https://t.co/3Arhhwgz1J pic.twitter.com/QWjs02CZ8x

— Whack, with a silent 'H' (@WhackNicholson) June 8, 2022

I have a hunch Musk saw this show at a formative point in his youth and has spent his life trying to match its promise:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2QxOTk4NzctYmFmYS00M2ZiLTgzYmItM2YyOGM5ZGZlYTgxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzMzMjU5NDY@._V1_.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98Kb55ZWLM

https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/366993-stunts-amiga-screenshot-the-race-has-just-begun.png

You pay more for red.

offered in support of? it may happen again.at least john delorean had big coke deals. because he was not a billionaire i spose. bring back scrappy coke dealers making stainless steel cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt924g5lZ7w

Ha the first two sentences are residual from prev non post

third one was def a con

Can you imagine hitting your head or your elbow on one of the sharp seams / corners?
How will this vehicle pass pedestrian impact safety standards? or are all the guys at Tesla holding their breath so nobody tells Elon?
edit: turns out that the USA is almost the only place that doesn't give a fuck about anyone except the driver.
https://www.governing.com/now/can-american-cars-be-made-safer-for-pedestrians

haha i know about that situation in the article with the flex posts, i live pretty close to there. according to my nearby nextdoor posters, flexposts cause accidents because cars will slow down (???) and they are ugly and you should just drive over them. any improvement for pedestrian safety makes people SO mad.

driving makes people psychotic, the famous car is one of the worst things

Yeah more than 20 years ago idiots in Charlottesville, VA were complaining that traffic calming to slow traffic down will “cause accidents”.

driving makes people psychotic

this is a truth bomb. I'd add that driving only a few times a year makes you realize that the act of driving a car is fucking insane, just a lunatic idea that mega-distracted dummies like me are all tooling around in these heavy death machines while having feelings

Cars dehumanize the drivers in everyone's eyes. I had a premonition that you could get widespread support for any kind of mass extermination as long as the victims are behind the wheels of cars.

How will this vehicle pass pedestrian impact safety standards? or are all the guys at Tesla holding their breath so nobody tells Elon?

feel like Elon has not given so much as a passing thought to this

its not a real car its a shiny object for the media

How will this vehicle pass pedestrian impact safety standards? or are all the guys at Tesla holding their breath so nobody tells Elon?

feel like Elon has not given so much as a passing thought to this

― frogbs, Thursday, June 9, 2022 11:04 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Elon: Pedestrians? more like pedo-strians

I don't blame anyone for being cynical about this after a decade of functional impunity for Tesla, but I'm telling you: NHTSA is coming for Autopilot/FSD. https://t.co/s94HgKUZsX

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) June 9, 2022