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Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it::"They were like, 'You can't be serious.' They didn't want to have anything to do with it," Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.

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[–] EpsilonVonVehron@lemmy.world 164 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Any day now, the cyber truck will come whizzing down the hyperloop with its sub 10 micron build tolerance and tornado proof glass, fully autonomously driving of course. Any day now.

[–] Techmaster@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With its flat body panels flapping in the wind.

[–] abaci@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was pretty painful. Not even a rumor that he said it, he tweeted it lol

Literally any vehicle can be briefly amphibious.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

$10 says he'll sue to call the vehicle amphibious, autonomous, airborne, and explosion-proof, just because it can briefly be those things.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Any car is amphibious (briefly) 😉

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's a finisher car!!!

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I really want to see one after it's hit by a heavy hail storm.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

hit by a heavy hail storm.

...or even a champagne bottle!

[–] ours@lemmy.film 5 points 1 year ago

Just after the Tesla semi!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Obviously, it will have front-mounted flamethrowers.