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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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[–] EpsilonVonVehron@lemmy.world 153 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Any day now, the cyber truck will come whizzing down the hyperloop with its sub 10 micron build tolerance and tornado proof glass, fully autonomously driving of course. Any day now.

[–] abaci@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was pretty painful. Not even a rumor that he said it, he tweeted it lol

Literally any vehicle can be briefly amphibious.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

$10 says he'll sue to call the vehicle amphibious, autonomous, airborne, and explosion-proof, just because it can briefly be those things.

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