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Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it (www.autoblog.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it::"They were like, 'You can't be serious.' They didn't want to have anything to do with it," Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.

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[โ€“] Thorndike 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How unsafe is it? I've not seen any crash test results.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Afaik they haven't done any crash testing yet, or haven't released the results. The EU tends not to allow cars with sharp, angular front ends. Iirc that's why the latest Camaro can't be sold in swathes of Europe.