Also, this picture of the cybercan really shows the incredibly disgusting design. Nevermind the straight lines and outline, even if it's stupid and all, it is fine, but then look at that unaligned front corner.. god damn that's bad design. It's like two designers were working from the front and the back and had to meet their lines somewhere. It's like a 2D design being transferred to 3D and then instead of looking at the third axis, they just snapped it to fit.
The measurements are completely out of proportion too.
And while I'm at it, those pentagonal angled wheel fenders, it's pretty clear that the designer department hadn't run out of available angles to use. Oh, you're using a palette of angles? Well, here's the wheel fenders going by system default truncated to a pentagon, no or maybe it's a hexagon being cut above the middle. Who cares.. It looks like shit.
Edit: Having looked at the picture twice, I'd appreciate if you could also take a moment to appreciate the design of the trashcan. The slightly angled sides have a purpose. It makes it easier to avoid anything getting stuck when emptied and if fitted with a bag it'd come out without a massive pressure from the vacant air that would be in a fully vertical sided can.
The angles on the top also serves a purpose. It can be accessed from any angle, unlike trashcans that have vertical or horizontal openings. The push opening mechanism simply works better this way and naturally swings back to balance without adding a spring. In case a malicious person were to position trash to obstruct it, it can be pushed from either side and realign after the next user. The only thing I could ask more was if it was round.
Also, the car is not available in Europe. Not for the usual reasons like because of the engine, the weight, the milage or the safety for the driver. No. It was not allowed because the design is shit. It was not approved because its design is unsafe for anyone nearby.
I still feel hurt by just looking at it, but here's the thing: I understand why the designers couldn't make it better... There's no purpose for this car.
How can you design for something that doesn't have a fucking purpose?!
Yeah sure we'd all like an electric van, but this is soooo far from fulfilling that purpose. The bed is to too small to carry a fucking Christmas tree. There are already much better electric vans available for less.
The only purpose of the cyberdumb and all of Tesla's vehicles is in the design.
Mission Failed.
It's unfortunate because I think we need way more weird looking cars. Creative, just out there shaped vehicles of all kinds. It sucks that the company to do it was an unethical garbage fire led by a fascist. We deserve more ugly and weird heterogeneous consumer items.
Since cars are a neccessity for most buyers to move from a to b, they are optimized to use as less energy as possible for it (running costs the manufacturer can't profit from). Which lead to airstream optimized vehicles, all looking about the same.
Ironically, since they are also still a status symbol for a lot of people, they got bigger and bigger, leading to heavyweight Van's, SUVs and "trucks" being more common, using more energy/fuel than is saved with the optimized surface.
Good point. Ironically there have been a lot of smaller than usual, efficient vehicles that have been banned or not sold in my country. I don't think they were weird looking, but it does go to show how the factors that go into what cars show up on roads are not always logical. I wonder if we had a more competitive market with more manufacturers if we'd have more exciting shapes or colors. Prices would probably have to come down for people to buy them though. I saw a video a while back about car paint colors having a moment with matte paint and I thought, this is cool but also stunningly boring as far as trends go.
EVERYTIME I look at it I spot a new flaw, how is this even possible, I'm not even being memey, I'm just so shocked, how something so terrible could ever be released? how long did they work on that? 10 minutes?????
Ugh, we're still at this? Folks that claim to have their eyes melt out of their face every time they see a Cybertruck sure spend a lot of time posting pictures of them online.
I see about 100 of these hurr-durr cybertruk dum posts for every one I see out on the road. Funny that 99% of the Cybertruck I see is coming from the "haters".
I liked it in pictures, honestly thought it was really cool and didn't want to admit it.
But then I finally saw one this summer up close and personal and it's just really bad. Like bad bad. Like they had tons of ways they could have made this sharper box design good, and they didn't try.
I see plenty of them around here on the road, but I also see endless regurgitating of this shit online. I kinda get it what it's boomers on Facebook, but I expect the Lemmy crowd to get tired of the same joke after seeing it the nth time. Guess I place too much confidence in you all.
The worst fate a car that begs for attention can suffer is fading to obscurity. Why keep giving Elon all the attention and engagement he wants? Ignore the stupid thing.
You've never seen one in person have you? You've never read the seemingly endless laundry list of issues they have, have you?
I have, and the Cybertruck is just as terrible, ugly, and ridiculously expensive as they say. The ongoing memes are to educate people why they shouldn't even consider buying them, and to get a sad chuckle at the fools that actually did buy them.
Dude talking like he's never even heard of Schadenfreude... Not only is it cathartic, but it's educational if you pay attention to what people are making fun of.
What to learn from the cybertruck? That billionares are fucking morons and that the meritocracy is a lie. They, in fact, do not deserve their wealth. Any of them, but especially not Elongated Muskrat.
As the saying goes, "the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."
Elon/Tesla designed this truck to be controversial, to generate discussion, and engagement. The best way to disengage from exactly what this thing was designed to do is not to meme about it, it's to ignore it completely.
The more I see these posts the more I think this was the strategy. They figured it doesn’t matter how dumb or ugly it is, in fact, that’s a good thing because it draws so much attention. I don’t see many on the road but man it sure is fucking noticeable when I do.