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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How is this thing still real?

[–] realitista 5 points 11 months ago

They set out to make the truck version of the Delorean and succeeded.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do we know it is? I suspect all photos of the thing are AI-generated deepfakes. 😜

[–] pory 3 points 11 months ago

I've seen them in the wild, I live in the bay area. They look worse than in the pictures. The brushed steel catches every speck of dirt and oil. It's like they're driving a damn crock-pot.

[–] Fades 3 points 11 months ago

The engineers unironically ask themselves the same question. None of them wanted to do the project

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-engineers-cybertruck-secret-design

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't know, it don't even support to wash it.