Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/21/tesla-engineer-pleads-stop-shooting-your-cybertrucks.html
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While I don’t condone shooting someone else’s cybertruck, I sure don’t care if those idiots shoot holes into their own trucks. It’s not going to be covered by warranties or insurance, it’s just a pile of money being wasted by stupid people who might be slowly learning that they’re stupid.
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Those are speed holes. They make the car go faster.
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Turns out that if you remove the battery on a Cybertruck then you’ve got a Flintstones-mobile all ready to go!
(The battery is the floor of the truck)
Also, build quality sucks but we already knew that.
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I mean, it’s always nice to prove to yourself that your new vehicle is immune to things like post-apocalyptic biker gangs, T1000s, and the jaws of life.
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Angela Chao?
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Be sure to aim for the battery packs. They’re extra bulletproof.
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I guess I’m not surprised that a Tesla engineer mangles a quote, but it also makes no sense if you’re trying to say that the truck is tough, since the black knight gets completely de-limbed.
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Just in time for Furiosa!
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I finally saw one of these in person. From the photos I’ve seen, I was expecting a certain brutalist charm. Nope. They are hideous. The proportions are all wrong, the huge areas of flat panels and straight lines make every misalignment of the panel gaps and riplle in the panel jump out at you. There is just nothing appealing about them at all, and I actually like the look of some Teslas (S and X).
Shootin’ is too good for ‘em.
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At best a beta version when it was released… and it’s a Tesla. Figures that geniuses would be early adopters.
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It’s been said that it looks like a small child’s first drawing of a car. Oh. And this. A friend of mine is on the Nextdoor website. Someone in the community posted a pic of a cybertruck, and added this note: “Look folks! A cybertruck parked outside Home Depot.” The result was a bunch of laughing emoji responses.
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LOL, no. Absolutely no surprise there.
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In an ironic twist, apparently bullets from America’s favourite rifle, AR-15 and derivatives, go right through. You know, what many guys use for plinking cans when the 40 to 50 feral hogs don’t show up.
(I mean, no surprise when it comes to .50-caliber rounds or (subsonic?) 9mm, but this? Ouch.)
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Some 1980s Citroen 2CVs came with factory-installed fake bulletholes.
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I don’t like teslas, but I love Lotus bodies.
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When I was a young teen, many centuries ago, I used to save my pennies to play an arcade game called “Battlezone”, which had low-polygon vehicles drawn with crude vector graphics.
I cannot see a Cybertruck without thinking of “Battlezone”.
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This seemed like a good idea to someone, did it? I guess the designers never played Car Wars.
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