by n1b0m on 5/14/25, 11:39 AM with 16 comments
by jqpabc123 on 5/14/25, 1:26 PM
Musk's ego.
Musk's design ideas are elevated above common sense. He just can't resist the urge to "fix" things that aren't broken.
The Cybertruck is exhibit A but two more mundane examples --- dashboards and door latches.
These are two of the most frequently used aspects of a car that have been refined by over a century of design and user testing. Musk threw out convention --- in favor of his own ideas which are actually less user friendly and functional.
You can't get any status feedback (speed for example) without taking your eyes off the road and looking at the touch screen.
To open the door from the inside, you have to jam 2 fingers down inside the door handle and feel for the latch. As opposed to virtually every other car on the road which has a readily visible and accessible mechanical door latch.
Tesla needs to focus more on the user and less on Musk.
by alexjplant on 5/14/25, 2:58 PM
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I stopped reading here:
> Fictional concepts such as Mad Max’s tanker-based War Rig are often the inspiration for real-world creations like Ford’s custom-built F650 Supertruck, a tractor-trailer sized monstrosity that can carry 120 gallons of fuel, tow 30,000lbs, and be reinforced with bulletproof armor. The truck is how insurgent fighters get around war zones and what storm chasers use to run down tornadoes.
The linked articles make no mention of the F-650 Supertruck. All I could find with a quick Google search regarding these use cases are Hiluxes/imported F-150s and domestic customized F-350s respectively. There's also nary a mention of said trucks being inspired by latter-day Mad Max films. Inquiries via Kagi's LLM facilities confirm my conclusions.
Why bother writing any of this if it simply isn't true? Such glaring falsities don't inspire confidence in the more substantial parts of the article... there's more than enough wrong with the Cybertruck to write about without resorting to whole-cloth fabrications to make the point.