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Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it (www.autoblog.com)
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the thing is a giant slab of angled metal, when it crashes into things my guess is the hood will slide backwards and "dissect" entire people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a threat with most vehicles and is easily engineered for. Aside from visibility problems, we can't know what real safety issues it might have until we get crash test data.