Even up close?
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I hadn’t seen that! A friend got a Tesla a bit before the Great Elongation began, and I must say the fit and finish was not what I expected. He got rid of it for a Hyundai.
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Or as Tesla likes to call it, “Go Truck Yourself”.
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And Ronald Reagan owned one.
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Aww man, now you ruined them for me. 
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No. And the truck will be emerging from a different orifice altogether.
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but, the same article also points out that since that shape is dictated by the desire to build a car that somehow doesn’t have to meet a car’s standards, electric vehicles have more design flexibility.
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You know, pattern languages. It’s like when you are young and read about Buckminster Fuller and go “yay domes for homes built in factories like cars and planes”. And then you encounter architecture and building and heat and noise and furniture and sealing and all those other things and you go “hooray for rectangles!”
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The wikipedia article makes it seem like Christopher Alexander would have called that a pattern phrasebook rather than a pattern language.
- A pattern* is a careful description of a perennial solution to a recurring problem within a building context, describing one of the configurations that brings life to a building. Each pattern describes a problem that occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use the solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice."[3]
He was, of course, somewhat invested in making his scheme seem more profound than it might have been.
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The book and those who swear by it give off a bang of cultiness to be honest but as an appreciation of vernacular architecture as design it is compelling.
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I actually saw one in the wild a couple days ago near the Microsoft campus and can report- it was even more hideous IRL
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And that pesky budget!
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now?!?
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why???
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It’s weird looking and those bare panels are going to get scratched to hell but eh… ugly appeals to some people. See: pugs.
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For a long while the press and popular culture went really hard on the idea that Elon Musk was some sort of tech genius because he happened to say words like “AI” and “Mars” a lot. It’s proven shockingly slow to dispel despite him spending the last year doing nothing but stepping on rakes. Some people really want the rich not to be useless morons. 
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Yeah, I saw that movie….
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Apparently the production spec fitment isn’t quite as awful.
The design seems to be growing on some people and the guy who designed the DeLorean defended it. Of course, Musk said the design was influenced by another car that guy designed, the Lotus Esprit S1, so…
I don’t know. This seems like one of those eye of the beholder situations. Unfortunately, my opinion is super clouded by Musk being a jackass and his cult being so cringy so pretty much everything he does is tainted by my probably-not-psychologically-healthy desire to see him fail.
Edit: grammar
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