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Re:Tesla (VP Vehicle Engineering) says Cybertruck likely to ... by theturtletalks on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @09:03AM (#38544007)
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.

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Re:Tesla (VP Vehicle Engineering) says Cybertruck likely to ... by dgrin91 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @09:29AM (#38544309)
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.

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Re:Tesla (VP Vehicle Engineering) says Cybertruck likely to ... by falcolas on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:16PM (#38548913)
The rear view mirror was there, but the view was blocked by the tonneau cover.

Which does seem unfortunate to me.

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Re:Tesla (VP Vehicle Engineering) says Cybertruck likely to ... by dzhiurgis on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:43AM (#38553894)
“$500 phone with no appeal to business users, pffft”
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Re:Tesla (VP Vehicle Engineering) says Cybertruck likely to ... by rsynnott on Thursday December 07, 2023 @07:09AM (#38555494)
> 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.

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