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

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,

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,