[Itaxpica]

“Strength” is the last thing you want in a car. Cars crumple in an accident because that significantly cuts down on injuries to both the passengers and whatever is hit; if your car won’t crumple all that force transfers in to flinging you straight through the windshield.

[bamboozled]

Do you think the designers might have considered this prior to releasing the car?

I get it, people might make mistakes in the design etc, but it’s not as if this is the first time Tesla has produced and released a vehicle into production, do you think they’ve considered how this car will cope with an accident ? Maybe you feel they think stainless is “cool” so went for it?

I’m totally aware you might be right, but I doubt they haven’t thought of this.

[_wzsf]

Many analysts (and Elon himself) put Tesla at between 10-20 months from bankruptcy at any given moment. [0]

In all likelihood it didn't matter what the truck looked like at the reveal. All that mattered was that it justified another capital raise.

[0] https://bgr.com/2019/05/20/elon-musk-tesla-cut-costs-running...

[Itaxpica]

Considering Tesla’s history, and the fact that this is pretty clearly a concept car, I genuinely don’t think that the designers have considered stuff as pedestrian as “crash safety”, no

[chaostheory]

I think the issue behind this design decision and the look is that this is meant to be SpaceX’s future Mars Rover as Musk revealed in a tweet. I’m thinking that Musk just wants to mass produce it to work out some of the “bugs” before they create the pressurized version for Mars