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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by NickNameNick on Friday November 22, 2019 @02:02AM (#21603457)
It seems to me that most of the engineering is in the 'skateboard', There's no reason they can't sell the same chassis with two different bodies. - The cybertruck for people who want that. - A more conventional body for anyone else.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck by wnkrshm on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:56AM (#21604265)
I think there is some cost issue in making the car armored. With a sandwich material it would be way more feasible to put together planar cuts than to cold form them. Armor usually is pretty stiff.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck by ianai on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:01AM (#21604518)
maybe once the reality of the armor sinks in people will re-evaluate the esthetics of it.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck by wnkrshm on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:36AM (#21604683)
I think it's sad though that people want to have an armored car that looks like a stealth fighter.

It's also strange that you can sell it in a context of 'being prepared', with the offroad capability and everything - I don't know a better example for a vehicle being dependent on an always-on infrasructure than an armored electric truck.

Re:Tesla Cybertruck by SuoDuanDao on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:57AM (#21605109)
> I don't know a better example for a vehicle being dependent on an always-on infrasructure than an armored electric truck.

Why? It is so, so much easier to produce your own electricity than your own gasoline. A truck running on slightly impure ethanol or gasified wood would still be more independent, but there are performance issues to consider there.

Re:Tesla Cybertruck by wnkrshm on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:05AM (#21605618)
After reading up a bit more I think I was too hasty with that statement. Getting a practical solar capacity is quite a lot cheaper than I imagined for many latitudes.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck by sneak on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:12AM (#21604852)
> I think it's sad though that people want to have an armored car that looks like a stealth fighter.

Why?

Re:Tesla Cybertruck by wnkrshm on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:41AM (#21605434)
Because it's not a car that is not armored and just looks like a stealth fighter. And because it's not a car that is armored and looks like a regular car.

It seems to me people like the martial aesthetic and function(!) as a status symbol, maybe without reflecting why the martial aesthetic is what it is. To keep people in a metal shell with guns on it from being shredded.

A civil society should find these things ugly but respect their necessity, not celebrate them. And if civil society has a real need for these things, it's in a sad state.

Re:Tesla Cybertruck by sneak on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:47AM (#21605471)
What if it just looks cool because angular things made out of metal look cool, not because we are death fetishists or living in a dangerous society?

Also, weapons and weaponry can be aesthetically pleasing without accepting the inevitability of violence.

Re:Tesla Cybertruck by rpmisms on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:51AM (#21606017)
A civil society can also find martial design cool as hell.