Tesla truck!
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GruntPuppy
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They do have a bunch of standards re vehicles. The yanks are the reason the Fiat X1/9 ended up so ridiculously heavy, and the MGB ended up so ridiculously ugly with rubber bumpers. They're also responsible for the uglification of the early 911's with slabs of rubber instead of neat chrome bumpers.
I dunno. A Landie Defender is flat panels and AFAIK single dash, have you seen what they cost?
sean99
pfm Member
True but I don’t believe there are any standards related to pedestrian safety.
GruntPuppy
pfm Member
Good lord, you're right! The fugliness foisted onto European designs was all at the behest of passenger safety. Pedestrians are there to be death-raced, apparently.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/12...designs-for-pedestrians-america-does-nothing/
sean99
pfm Member
It's actually worse than that. The ugliness was at the behest of the insurance companies who stipulated that new cars must be able to survive a 5mph collision without incurring damage that would necessitate an insurance claim. These days the insurance companies (IIHS) do drive occupant protection (aka crash testing), but they are still not sufficiently enlightened to extend that to pedestrians or occupants of other vehicles.
claire.foxx
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Reading between the lines this guy is making a prototype ruggedised truck for dealing with large crowds of people that want to attack you... easy to ride over and through crowds with a cleave action — ppl will just roll off that stealth/triangle form, very few latch points, few breakpoints, flame munitions have limited pooling and seepage opportunity, high travel, needs work on the armoured windows (uh, prototype) a vehicle for the hyper-wealthy wanting security if they encounter an uprising. wheels are a weak point, a chain wrap and a drag bar will stop it so expect some sort of mount point for optional ablative wheel covers later on. The Tyres probably also need addressing in the face of a riot, but they tend to be application specific.
Robocop-inspired adolescent techno futurist shtick.
Robocop-inspired adolescent techno futurist shtick.
tones
Tones deaf
Ours has an interesting pedestrian safety device - his head might be OK, not so sure about his legs!
claire.foxx
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**** the poor. They don’t need legs anyway.
GruntPuppy
pfm Member
you'd deny them the chance of a decent sunday dinner?
glancaster
In the silicon vale
As far as the public are concerned, he is Tesla.
He’s an interesting guy. Like a modern day Howard Hughes. How long until the biopic?
The truck is kind of crazy. Maybe he did it for a bet with his girlfriend, just like when he set the Tesla IPO price?
Apparently, advance orders have gone through the roof.
Kind regards
- Garry
claire.foxx
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The Musk product I want is the totally not-a-flamethrower, the fun I could have with that...
I’d looked into the Tesla powerwall home battery unit to sequester our excess wind and solar but at the time it, like all the others, didn’t supply electricity during a power cut so not useful to me.
I’d looked into the Tesla powerwall home battery unit to sequester our excess wind and solar but at the time it, like all the others, didn’t supply electricity during a power cut so not useful to me.
chartz
If it’s broke fix it!
This truck would look out of place in the first Blade Runner.
Surprising when you behold the rather conservative design of their sedans, largely copied on recent European cars like Jaguars and Peugeots to name but two.
Worst design ever IMO. And what for? Such vehicles don't make sense nowadays.
Surprising when you behold the rather conservative design of their sedans, largely copied on recent European cars like Jaguars and Peugeots to name but two.
Worst design ever IMO. And what for? Such vehicles don't make sense nowadays.
glancaster
In the silicon vale
In the US, an awful lot of 'cars' sold are actually pick-up trucks. It's a very different market from Europe.
A battery-powered pick-up is certainly a novel combination. Must be going for the eco-friendly redneck market: the kind of guy who will chop down half a forest in the morning, but then needs to carbon offset.
Kind regards
- Garry
claire.foxx
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It’s aimed at Silicon Valley frat boys with money to burn. It’ll be the new obviously-loaded sign as you drive down to Monterey on Highway 1/101
