as far as I remember, it wasnt. gaffs cop-car was flying, deckards was just a normal ground-vehicle. but I could be wrong.
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âWarte bis die Bullen weg sind!â
Back in the â70s when increased visibility was seen as a good thing. Nowadays itâs perceived as a better design choice when you literally canât see children/women as you mow them down in your monster truck.
I have a lovely book with his designs in it including that.
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I though it was more similar to Totall Recallâs JohnyTaxi, but even that had a bigger front window.
Comparing the cybertruck to Syd Mead designs is⌠I was going to say misguided and unfortunate, but is Space Karen weâre talking about. Syd designs combined sharp lines and beautiful curves⌠Here are the drawings for Blade Runner.
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Yeah, it looks to me like a lot of the designs from the R.Q. Riley catalog I pored over and devoured as a kid in about 1982 (Total Recall used a bunch of 'em as background vehicles).
Check out their (mostly now defunct?) webpage - these are the same designs I was obsessed with in '82, and they look a LOT like cybertruck:
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EM: Yeah. Video is the highest bandwidth way to consume information. Sometimes people wonder [about] Gen Z, âIs their mind rushing or something because theyâre just watching short videos over and over again?â But actually, video is the highest bandwidth means of communication. Certainly, what video you are watching, of course, that can be dubious, but obviously, that is the best way to consume information. You can think of a meme as really compressed information, where youâre conveying many different ideas in a single image with some text.
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If Syd Mead (or his studio) had designed the cybertruck it would look good. And be functional.
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Watch the cybertruck struggle to negotiate a stretch of (sand? dust?).
Bulletproof (well, subsonic) but not crossbow proof. The future is here, and itâs even more dystopian than we feared.
What kind of nonsense is that? Unless youâre a person with reading difficulties you can almost always get more relevant information on a topic by spending 5 minutes reading an article than by spending 5 minutes watching a news clip. What a dope.
[ETA: to be clear this quoted text comes from Musk, not @vermes82]
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Well it is the âhighest bandwidthâ mode alright.
Unless you count VR which is even higher. I think he thinks itâs a good thing. Heâs not alone. Edison thought that too.
Edison was a lot of thingsâŚ
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I hate how the quote function makes it look like this was Vermes82âs opinion 
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Okay, so they maybe were a tad too optimisticâŚ
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Fidelity says itâs less, and they tend to value it optimistically.
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I think he would have done a better job on his deathbed.
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I guess Dilbert Stark never solved the icing problem.
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elron of mars was. as usual.
edit/ 2 years old, but should still be relevant;
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Yet another elaborate pump and dump.
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