Elon Musk

everyone sounding like Trump

destroying astronomy, the night sky now

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-risks-astronomy-space-junk-2019-11

The world needs fewer big stupid pickups rather than more but this might be the first tesla to actually look interesting.

Destroying science so that Musk can call anyone a pedophile anywhere on the globe.

same energy

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whoops

Elon Musk’s glitzy unveiling of the first Tesla “cybertruck” descended into farce when a PR stunt testing the “bulletproof” body strength of the electric vehicle resulted in smashed windows.

The Blade Runner-meets-cyberpunk themed launch of the $39,900 (£30,000) futuristic armoured vehicle was meant to take aim at the traditional Detroit carmakers, proving that Tesla could make a credible electric version of America’s favourite vehicle, the pickup truck.

In a theatrical series of demonstrations hosted by Musk, black-clad Tesla staff attempted to demonstrate the vehicle’s durability with tests involving sledgehammers, a simulation of a 9mm bullet strike and hefty metal balls.

Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s chief designer, asked Musk if he could lob a metal ball at the window of the vehicle. “Really?” said Musk. The window smashed. “Oh my fucking God,” said Musk. “Maybe that was a little hard.”

Showing confidence in the vehicle, Von Holzhausen then suggested he should lob it at a second window. “Try that one? Really?” asked Musk moments before the rear window was also smashed. “It didn’t go through, that’s the plus side,” a stunned Musk said.

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hefty metal balls

a rival weighs in:

Nobody *expected* the Land Shark either mate and it’s completely bollocks https://t.co/n0sY49WZa9 pic.twitter.com/DMUSf8LUlf

— GrumpySkeletor (@GrumpySkeletor) November 22, 2019

This is incredible.

https://i.imgur.com/y8tWsr4.jpg

Whatever its flaws, I love the design of this thing and hope they make it work eventually.

I mean
https://image.businessinsider.com/5dd7fb96fd9db26df212a4d8?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp

that's a deformed Honda Element right there

the haters are dead wrong, you're just not ready for it yet, it's beautiful

I'm into it. idk. Normal pickup trucks are the dumbest looking things on earth. At least this looks like a dumb sci-fi thing. I don't specifically care if you can throw a rock through the window.

I'm into it. idk. Normal pickup trucks are the dumbest looking things on earth. At least this looks like a dumb sci-fi thing. I don't specifically care if you can throw a rock through the window.

― ☮ (peace, man)

look, i try really hard to be a law-abiding citizen, but if i saw one of those things on the street i'd have a hard time _not_ throwing a rock at it

can we stop acting like this dude is a genius now

as my dad would say, "Who's 'we', Gunga Din?"

i mean

did this guy just commit some kind of fraud or is he just an idiot

― frogbs, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 7:46 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

if the first then the second

― mark s, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 7:50 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

some thoughts:

• Musk looked like a David Hasslehoff impersonator in that all black outfit
• the truck looks like a DeLorean draw by a four year old with a set square
• what happens if you're a pedestrian and you get hit by it?
• well at least BMW and Lexus SUV drivers won't be the biggest d-bags on the road now

I'd love to be somewhere where the BMW and Lexus SUVs are the worst

somehow the worst drivers here are driving suburbans or the fuck-off cadillac version of the same, still

ford raptors and their ilk easily the worst

The proper comparison is the APC from "Aliens:"

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f3/b7/09/f3b709697adb5fce00256d73d0451b2b.jpg

xp oh god they made the "badass" pickup not just with a huge engine but giant off-road shit too?

I think I've seen a couple. very bad, never used for practical cargo or tasks

lol I looked upthread and briefly thought the Muskrat (that's what it's called, right?) had a built in pool table.

https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a2a31264584499416b/master/w_660,h_363,c_limit/the-homer-inline2.jpg
L-R: car, Elon Musk

got a sudden urge to play PS1 games

He should do the RoboCop 6000 SUX next.

musk is just so not "a car guy"

A Florida dog put a car into reverse and drove it in circles for nearly an hour https://t.co/UrmKTDZCOh pic.twitter.com/MBWx4rXmLD

— CNN (@CNN) November 22, 2019

honestly that truck looks cool

yeah, it looks cool

i continue to 1) think elon musk is a sign of everything that is wrong with the world, and 2) hope that he succeeds in making people replace their vehicles with low-poly flatshaded electric vehicles with solar panels on the top

At best he's going to succeed in getting Trump to go all-in on a Musk military contract.

can't wait to see one of these ugly pieces of shit outfitted with a Punisher and Blue Lives Matter stickers, aggressively tailgating ppl on the freeway

Cybertruck Nuts.

How are you supposed to roll coal in an electruck tho

there's a button for that, but instead of undercombusted diesel fuel it spouts vape smoke

xp yeah I also think Musk is a tool and a freak but I also appreciate that he's behind the only US automaker that doesn't seem completely mired in the groupthink stupidity of the US auto industry, both in terms of fuel and just in having to make everything look and seem exactly the same as every other car.

tbf that's not just the US auto industry! worldwide, most vehicles look very similar

vehcicle designs are boring as fuck. we've been stuck in the 1980s for my entire fucking life

making distinction between "US" auto industry and other countries is increasingly meaningless

trucks have been getting more militaristic, this is just an extension of that, like the Ford F150 Black Ops

his cars suck tho so basically u guys r just applauding dumbass startup thinking

I think Teslas are awesome. Most of them are too expensive for my taste but they're still great cars.

theyre really not, just completely unrigorous from both a quality and design stand point right down to that amateur logo

yeah tesla and musk suck, i just think this truck looks cool. looks like master chief would drive around in this thing

lol yeah that about the level of thinking that looks like went into it

dang is that a DJ booth opened up on the right side of that Tesla camper.

i like it better than the other electric trucks proposals though

who on ilx actually owns a Tesla car or rides in one regularly, please speak up

I used to have a Dyson vacuum, is that close enough?