Strange that we all thought it was Samsonite. American Tourister it is.
Samsonite is even better for Musk, though They even had it redy to go t the Moon. That might even be a SpaceX ship in the background:
Have you been simping for Elmo so hard that you’ve taken to following his Special K habit? Or do you dissociate and hallucinate naturally?
IIRC Samsonite used an elephant.
ISTM that this post and several of the responses to it are classic illustrations of what I observed in this recent IMHO thread post on SDMB evolution:
Here’s the part of Sam’s remarks that was most notable for its stupid-shit qualities:
And here are a bunch of reasonable responses by posters not “mercilessly attacking” Sam, but rationally pointing out the problems with what he said:
And here are some actual “attacks” and flames from other posters about some stupid shit that Sam didn’t actually say, some of which were pushed back on in subsequent posts by others:
All of which is perfectly legit for the Pit, of course, but it bears out my points in the other thread that
- it’s not mere “deviating from the crowd” that gets posters piled on for saying stupid shit, and
- it is true that sometimes anti-stupid-shit pile-ons can broaden to include complaints about stuff that wasn’t actually said.
Well, apparently it’s already proven effective against the Rohirrim…
Should come in handy if the car ever goes back in time to 1885. Of course, that would require it to be able to get up to 88mph.
Also: WINDOWS.
Advertisers use silly things like gorillas as puffery, claims that the audience knows not to take seriously.
That’s not what Elmo’s demonstrations are. A consumer injured by a stray bullet could point at these ads and say, “a reasonable person and also Sam Stone would believe, based on these ads, that the cybertruck is immune to small arms fire.”
Two problems with the idea that this is a useful demonstration, from my perspective:
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I’m no physicist, but I think that a bullet carries a lot less–what do physicists call that breaky-dingy-bumpy-force? inertia?–than things that typically come into play in a collision, e.g., another car, or a tree.
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In a collision, the primary goal should be to protect the vehicle’s occupants from injury. I thought modern vehicles accomplished this with crumple zones–parts of the vehicle designed to be destroyed in the process of absorbing the energy of the collision. This demonstration doesn’t show that the vehicle lacks crumple zones, but to the extent that it implies anything, it implies that the vehicle responds stiffly to energy, and that the energy from an impact would be transferred to the entire vehicle (including occupants) rather than being transferred to crumple zones.
How about going forward in time to meet that character ‘Bladerunner’, who was a bad ass weapons guy?
Also ignoring that “Blade Runner” was set in a dystopian future, i.e. one we wouldn’t really want to live in nor one we should strive to create at all
But I suppose cyberpunk dystopian hellhole is all well and good for the ultra-wealthy who won’t have to deal with the negatives like the rest of us plebs
Eh. Even the ultra-wealthy eventually get their eyes gouged out by somebody’s thumbs.
Elmo: It’s an armored personnel carrier from the future – what Bladerunner would have driven
Let’s all try to guess what demographic Elmo is trying to appeal to with the Cybertruck. Hint: love for quasi-military paraphernalia, body armor, and semi-automatic assault rifles.
I can’t think of a vehicle less like “one Bladerunner [sic] would’ve driven”…
The film with Mr. Runner was full of small, rounded, brightly colored vehicles:
Technically, it was a dystopian past to us, 2019. Elmo’s truck would still look out of place.
Seat-of-the-pants guess: Samsonite is the iconic brand for that midcentury-styled luggage, the way Jello is for gelatin and Kleenex is for facial tissue.
I’d suggest that you are being so blinded by your determination to find what you are looking for that you are misreading. At no point have I mocked Sammy for things he didn’t say, nor was any of it “pushed back”.
To be blunt, I find your stringing together of two sentences from two different replies to two different posts with nothing but a […] to be misleading at the very best and bordering on deliberate misquoting of what I’ve actually written.
Videos of track tests show cybertruck is not very good at doing trucky things like “driving on dirt roads with slight inclines”
Oh, that’s just painful. Not sure but I think my Camry sedan would do better.
My Kia Soul would do better and look waaay cuter.
I suppose that video would appeal to people who think that Donald Trump put on an impressive athletic performance walking down that ramp.