Tesla Cybertruck reservations hit 146,000

Re:Tesla Cybertruck reservations hit 146,000 by bamboozled on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:36AM (#21618608)

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.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck reservations hit 146,000 by _wzsf on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:51AM (#21618663)

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...

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck reservations hit 146,000 by Itaxpica on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:24PM (#21621831)

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

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