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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@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] TheDramaLlama@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

musk is not an engineer

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was supposed to be sarcasm but I guess it didn’t translate well via text. I’ll add the /s, sorry :)

(I am an engineer, so this lie by him has always irked me)

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Engineer =/= designer

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He's not the designer, either, that's the sad part... He just chose between designs others created.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

He's a designer the way Nigel Tuffnel designed the Stonehenge set piece on a napkin.

[–] TheDramaLlama@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

are you disabled