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Indulging Elmo

Tesla’s styling update cycle is way too slow. People lease EVs because they’re improving fast. Leases end every 2-3 years. Model 3 is 7 years old, Model Y is 4. A legacy automaker would’ve done a Model 3 refresh in Y3, full redesign Y5-6. E.

Highlander

Surprisingly, the new Model 3 Highland isn’t as fun to drive as the Chevy Bolt. It’s quiet and cushy, corners much better than Bolt on stock tires, deep bucket seats, swaddled, limited visibility. Feels like a Honda. I loved driving the old Performance trim, effortless power and maybe

Steer-by-wire

Steer-by-wire gives you variable ratio turns, which eliminates hand-over-hand wasted motion. It also lets you control multiple parts (front and rear-wheel steering, plane aero surfaces) without complex mechanicals. Used on Cybertruck. Accelerate- and brake-by-wire are already common. EVs smoothly blend physical and regen

Tesla’s Lisa

Cybertruck is Tesla’s Apple Lisa: new tech in a model with poor price / performance will be reused in more successful models. Also like NeXT: design curator gets high on his own farts, demands shell of pointlessly posh material which makes product a bad deal. Core tech reused elsewhere.  Next-

Knife missile

On regular cars, panels curve over corners and meet on flat planes, protecting people from sharp edges while shielding internals from rain and snow. Each panel has rounded edges covered in several layers of paint. On Cybertruck, flat steel panels have gaps at sharp origami corners. This exposes the internals

“No one wants a weird-mobile”

Here comes the rake-stepper. #Cybertruck [arstechnica.com] Most of the reasons for this weirdmobile Elmo gave at his Kickstarter / stock pump years ago were fake. Exoskeleton. Bulletproof. Radically simpler to make. Stainless is hard to bend. It’s hard to bend consistently because of variations in stainless rolls. Flat,

Dawn of the Goobertruck

Cybertruck’s not just ugly, its name is unbelievably poseur. Guy pretending to be an engineer named it “cyber,” which is nails on a blackboard to techies :D That prefix is used by DOD, old guys in suits, and ’80s fakey hacker flicks. It’s not just Elmo being déclassé,