[ogig]

Good, after seen Marques' review on youtube last thing I would want is to be involved in a crash with a cybertruck. Those angles and steel plates will cause gruesome consequences for everyone involved in such an accident. Happy to see our regulation working.

[renegade-otter]

This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOh12Uhg08

"I just can't see the front of the car".

Oh yeah, this will work out great.

Elon designed it himself, didn't he?

[theturtletalks]

The whole video is a gold mine for "asshole design."

- No door handles, press a button and pull the metal railing to open the door

- No rear-view mirror, use the console to see what's behind you

- Your driving speed is no longer in front of the steering wheel, it's in the console

- Your glove box doesn't have a manual latch, dig into settings to open the glove box

- The gear shifter is in the console or above you

Seems like Elon went full contrarian when designing the car.

[rsynnott]

> No door handles, press a button and pull the metal railing to open the door

Certain Fiats in the 1980s had an arrangement where, rather than a door handle, you'd push a button and the door would pop open. It is... not a car feature I would necessarily have expected to reappear in 2023.

[dzhiurgis]

“$500 phone with no appeal to business users, pffft”

[dgrin91]

Half this stuff has been standard tesla design for a while and are typically liked by Tesla drivers -

- no door handles

- driving speed on center console

- glove box controlled by console

- gear shift not in-between driver/passenger

Contrarian I guess.... but not bad

Also "no rear view mirror" - it was clearly stated in the video that is only for the production test model and real production models will have rear and side view mirrors.

[falcolas]

The rear view mirror was there, but the view was blocked by the tonneau cover.

Which does seem unfortunate to me.

[geekifier]

> "I just can't see the front of the car".

> Oh yeah, this will work out great.

It seems to me that the Cybertruck has less of a blind spot in front of the hood than F-150. The "not seeing the front" is actually hinting at this, it's below the field of vision. The hood angles down agressively vs. huge

Large trucks/SUVs are infamous for poor pedestrian visibility right in front.

Edit: this graphic (https://cdn.carbuzz.com/gallery-images/1600/1140000/800/1140...) comes to mind.

[SirFredman]

He also designed the windshield wiper of doom. Which is ridiculous as well.

[falcolas]

I'm picturing that trying to move with a few inches of wet snow. It's a great visual.

Also, can you imagine the cost of that as a consumable that should usually be replaced every month or three?

[moogly]

1. No one uses their windshield wipers to remove a few inches of wet snow; you yourself do that beforehand

2. Wiper blades normally last longer than that

3. I still hate everything about that car