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Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it (www.autoblog.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He didn't have a personal hand in designing anything, because he doesn't have an engineering degree. And that's why everything he does is stupid.

"Musk doesn’t have an engineering degree - and kind of has a science degree. He began the first in physics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, after he moved to Canada from his native South Africa. He completed it at the University of Pennsylvania, where he transferred after two years to earn his second bachelor’s degree, in economics, at the Wharton School. He completed it the following year. Musk then headed for Stanford to start a Ph.D. in applied physics, which he dropped out of."

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/elon-musk-has-a-problem-with-rocket-scientists-thinks-engineers-deserve-all-the-credit-3136538.html

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

Oh, I know that. Neither did Homer.

He likely doodled it (or got some lackey to be his remote controlled pencil), and then it was some other poor fucker's job to turn that sketch and a handful of vague notes into an actual car.