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@arstechnica worse design ever. like a low low LOW budget 80s Sci-fi movie prop

@PetterOfCats @arstechnica I guess I'm the only one who thinks that sounds awesome, or would if it weren't an oversized POS made by a bumbling nazi.

@NIH_LLAMAS @arstechnica if you're into "Delta Force"-core, that's cool. I can dig it, especially if created for precisely that reason and also not created by a Colonel Klink wannabe.

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"All parts for this vehicle, whether internal or from suppliers, need to be designed and built to sub 10 micron accuracy."
Absurd. I've worked with jet engine parts that don't have this kind of precision.

@sandbender @arstechnica Musky likes using "science-y" words because it makes him look like he's smart. unfortunately, those that know, know he's a damn fool and those that don't know he's the smartest man humanity has ever produced.

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A quick search turns up coefficients of linear expansion for stainless steel turns up values on the order of 10 microns per meter degree Celsius. With parts on the meter scale, even minor temperature variations will throw parts out of tolerance.

@arstechnica and it looks shit lol.

Elno is a clown car salesman.

@arstechnica That’s the inspiring leadership style we all respect and celebrate from Musk!

@arstechnica Elon tells workers to make Cybertruck less like all their other stuff

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Vehicle looks like 6 year old's drawing. Does Elmo understand scale and what will happen when a shopping cart does battle with all these flat panels?

@arstechnica regardless of building quality, the truck is still ugly. So yeah, why bother? On the other hand the sales performance of it might finally convince the board to make Elon step aside. The roadster is so much better looking than this poor excuse of a tank.

@arstechnica $10 says Elon sketched the Cybertruck design and it looks like something he saw on Saturday morning TV back in Pretoria.

@arstechnica maybe add a second wiper while they are at it

@arstechnica ..."Judging by ongoing complaints from new owners...Tesla might want to start including its own measuring tape with each new car because...it appears the OEM's problems have not gone away..."

@arstechnica AKA…not releasing anytime soon barring a few, essentially, hand built examples to “influential” buyers. Simply to remind people it exists. Weird, expensive, buggy, and late to the party doesn’t engender confidence anyway.

@arstechnica I like how Musk can’t understand simple concepts like Compare & Contrast.

Building Legos and soda cans is nothing like building a car for many different reasons. I know nothing about these things but just off the top of my head I can think of many important differences, from the materials used to how the products are used. But Musk has tunnel vision so context eludes him.

@arstechnica When my dad was building his own wedge body dirt track late models in the eighties...they looked less garage built than the cybertruck. Did he save on budget by not hiring metal workers or designers?

@arstechnica This is an almost perfect example of GIGO. The original design is so unwieldy that it requires ludicrous precision to meet the most basic visual standard.

The lesson: "do not work for Elon Musk"

@arstechnica Isn't that what Tesla stands for (bad build quality )? 😂

@arstechnica fair point:

"every image we've seen of the Cybertruck thus far—including those posted by Musk to his social media account yesterday—shows shockingly inconsistent build quality, particularly at the front of the vehicle where multiple stainless steel panels meet at angles that remind some of a deli slicer."

@arstechnica Almost as if a bong water stained napkin is not a design spec that leads to a quality product