A Cybertruck owner shares his frustration following multiple failed attempts to sell his truck. After losing more than $20,000 in 2,800 miles, the owner says, “I want to cut my losses and move on, but I can't give this thing away.”
They are similar as far as I understand because they all want the same outcomes of the design : better aerodynamics and effective crumple zones to faculiate higher survival of the occupants in a crash (some vehicles additionally try to limit injuries with pedestrians too but less so in US vehicles).
I do agree that we have lost some of the majesty of older variations of designs but largely I think it’d convergent evolution. To leave that behind you’d want to have a really good reason which I don’t think the cyber truck really has. Different for the sake of being different rather than innovative.
The Aptera has better aerodynamics. Mainstream car design is hampered by common assembly line production and focus group designing. There’s also a desire for car manufacturers to keep customers within a certain brand, even if an large conglomerate owns many brands, they don’t want to risk a customer switching to a different brand(and possibly different conglomerate) as their needs change. This leads to what’s called “Badge Engineering”. The old Chevy Tahoe and H2 Hummer are basic the same car. All those “Jeeps” that don’t really look like Jeeps past the grill and could have just been a Dodge SUV.
Yes fair points. I assumed it was a balance between aerodynamics and crumple zones/legal requirements which is why they don’t all look like the aptera (or Schlörwagens).
I’m quite sure the system isn’t optimising for what we want/need out of vehicles though and we could almost certainly do better.
I really liked the Cyber Truck design.
Modern cars are so similar now they’re all massive and bubbly, even the Porsche SUVs looks like something from KIA.
It may be ugly but I’m happy to see something different on the road.
They are similar as far as I understand because they all want the same outcomes of the design : better aerodynamics and effective crumple zones to faculiate higher survival of the occupants in a crash (some vehicles additionally try to limit injuries with pedestrians too but less so in US vehicles).
I do agree that we have lost some of the majesty of older variations of designs but largely I think it’d convergent evolution. To leave that behind you’d want to have a really good reason which I don’t think the cyber truck really has. Different for the sake of being different rather than innovative.
The Aptera has better aerodynamics. Mainstream car design is hampered by common assembly line production and focus group designing. There’s also a desire for car manufacturers to keep customers within a certain brand, even if an large conglomerate owns many brands, they don’t want to risk a customer switching to a different brand(and possibly different conglomerate) as their needs change. This leads to what’s called “Badge Engineering”. The old Chevy Tahoe and H2 Hummer are basic the same car. All those “Jeeps” that don’t really look like Jeeps past the grill and could have just been a Dodge SUV.
Yes fair points. I assumed it was a balance between aerodynamics and crumple zones/legal requirements which is why they don’t all look like the aptera (or Schlörwagens).
I’m quite sure the system isn’t optimising for what we want/need out of vehicles though and we could almost certainly do better.