• Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    I think they look neat and I don’t do any drugs. Not even the cool ones! Is it so hard for people to believe that different people have different tastes? Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a Hawaiian pizza to demolish.

    P.S. I only think they look cool. Their build quality seems pretty bad, and the company CEO is a stain upon the earth.

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      3 days ago

      Vehicles are functional designs. Anytime the function follows the form I’m out, and in vehicle design the function needs to include safety like a working windshield wiper or doors that open in an emergency, or smooth corners that won’t kill or make pedestrians, or crumple zones that won’t flatten other motorists.

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        3 days ago

        I’m with you on the functional bit, but the form/function order doesn’t bother me as much. So long as there are functions like safety and stuff.

        I doubt the corners are sharp enough to cause any extra damage over the standard “pedestrian struck by vehicle” fare. Smooth vehicles kill just as well based purely on the virtues of being very heavy and strong compared to our fleshy bodies.

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          2 days ago

          At least one owner needed stitches after running their hands down the edge near the tailgate in their first 20 minutes of ownership.

          Just bumping into it in a parking could be more dangerous.

          Also any US cars available for sale in Europe have to meet pedestrian crash standards and have softer metal in the hood, no Harding that protrude under said hood, and plastic front fascia that deform more easily. The deplorean has neither of these things. Though most large trucks in the US don’t either, since we don’t have those rules here.

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            2 days ago

            Ah, that sounds like a jagged edge of a panel and not a corner of the vehicle. Standard poor build quality stuff. That wouldn’t make a difference at all in a crash scenario, but definitely do not pet the cyber truck.

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              2 days ago

              The jagged edges are the corners of the vehicle as designed.

              It’s designed with thick sheet metal instead rolled panel edges like all other vehicles. Because of this, the leading edges of the panels are going to do more damage no matter how well they’re built and finished.

              The creases and stiffness of the panels are very much worse on the ct too, don’t get me wrong. It was designed to look imposing and the side effect is dangerous to everyone else near them.

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      8 days ago

      I absolutely agree with this. Disregarding the many genuine issues there are, from a purely aesthetic standpoint, I don’t hate it at all. Then again, I do not follow car trends and fashion and whatnot, so I may just not have the right frame of reference required to hate the design.