But that’s literally what the article is about: a person with tons of experience looking at prototypes of every level and saying “this thing is atrocious by any standard, but doubly so for something so close to production, and even worse that they’re proudly showing it off to the public.”

I’m extremely neutral on Elon, he has his pro’s and con’s and I largely just don’t care about him either way. Prototype or production, this is an objectively bad design for a pickup truck.

I won’t bother to engage

Yeah I’m not going to listen to aesthetic advice from a site that falls over itself to applaud Kia / Hyundai for their design choices.

I don’t think Telsa is stupid enough to release a car looking like the black cybertruck in the pics above.

Look, I’m not a Tesla Stan but:

...just partisians (sic) and activists.

Or people just trying to live their lives and trying to enjoy the view and the normal las vegas experience that F1 is fucking up lol.

AKA taxpayers who shoulder the burden of this BS.

I’m seeing sub-20k Mazda3 hatches in my area again, well-equipped 17' and 18's.

That’s strange, I briefly drove an automatic and thought it was delightful! A manual would have made it perfect, but I drive nothing but backroads. I can see how it would be a bore at more highway speeds.

I think the ideas of “new car” and “warranty” are still pretty powerful. If my family needed a car and I had only $20k to spend, I hope I’d be willing to get a lesser car with a warranty rather than something that feels fancy but risked costing me a lot after I’d already bought it. My recollection is that Hyundai got…

I’m telling you, the choice by big manufacturers to sell “premium” vehicles, almost exclusively, makes them prime targets for disruption. Some somebodies are going to look at flat (or declining) wages into the future and start making money on lower-priced volume. Vinfast might be one of them. Korean cars sucked for a…

I’m still trying to figure out the selling point of this? I’ll assume it’s because brodozer alpha male types are scared of electric vehicles, so this way they can be allowed to buy one and still keep their man card. “IT’S BULLET PROOF!!!”

So uh... Depending on the arrowhead used, compound bows can have better penetration than 9mm bullets or even .22 bullets...

But Johnny Bladerunner, protagonist of the movie Blade Runner, never had to go offroad when he ran all those blades. So why should we expect anything more from the Cybertruck?

I’d never seen the full-frontal view of this thing, and now I kind of wish I had not.  Ugh, terrible.  And to think this will be the last thing many a deer and pedestrian will ever see.

Hypeloop is not a typo :)

The Vegas Hypeloop is peak Gadget Bahn,  as evidenced by the colored lights and probably ruinously high cost per passenger mile. 

I took it between convention center locations this year at NAB. I would describe as being driven down the street by someone in a Tesla.