Shutting that account down was probably his entire purpose for buying Twitter.
Just when you thought the Homer couldn’t get any more ridiculous;
This vehicle has been designed, manufactured, and sold for a market of one, and I’d honestly be surprised if a 10 mph crash in one of these things doesn’t kill everyone onboard.
The Trevor Project - a suicide prevention org for LGBTQ youths - is quitting Twitter.
Everybody’s talking about the goofy ass fake marble dashboard, but also:
- Non-adjustable headrests in a god knows how expensive car
- A steering wheel that is in no way street legal
- No passenger side airbag to be found
The faux marble dashboard looks like it was taken out of a remodeled 70’s bathroom.
And who needs a passenger airbag? Did they pay $$ for this POS? No? then fuck em.
Well, if the dashboard were real marble, just imagine the fun of having that land in your lap in a head-on crash.
Well that’s just silly. It would not land in your lap. It would shatter into hundreds of shards that would penetrate every inch of your body.
I wonder how radio-opaque rock is? Yes, rock is dense. But it’s also electromagnetically pretty inert.
Might be hard for the medics to read the x-rays and locate all your newly implanted shrapnel. That’d suck.
I think marble is very convenient for a car dashboard. In addition to being non-magnetic, perhaps it also cleans easily if you spill your gin and tonic?
Well, the flint arrowhead that killed Ötzi did show in the x-ray images.
Somebody please tell me those screenshots are fake.
Honestly I think they are.
I’ve found a couple videos showing the interior of a Cybertruck and neither look anything like those screenshots.
Pretty clear that was a hoax. The images aren’t even photorealistic, they look like CGI to me.
Fake marble is just so tacky. Fake pictures of fake marble are even tackier.
Everything looks like CGI to me these day. I’d swear I saw Hickory’s dapples change overnight.
They’re not fake, they’re just really old. Like 4 years old at this point. So old that I had to check the date on those tweets to see if Smapti pulled some really old tweets up for some reason.
So yes, that screenshot is CGI, but CGI released by Tesla as a teaser. On top of that, every complaint in those tweets is silly.
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Lots of expensive cars (mostly sports cars) have non-adjustable headrests, but it’s not clear from these images that they’re not adjustable, as all Tesla seats have fixed-backs that the headrests can slide up and down in.
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The yolk is indeed street legal and is an option in the Plaid (it was standard but it’s so dumb that Tesla had to offer a normal wheel as well)
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Passenger airbags are required by law so you’d either have to assume that it’s hidden somewhere or they just didn’t include it in this obvious concept image.
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Almost all full-size pickup trucks have 3 seats in the front, at least as an option. Nash076 clearly is not a truck guy, and probably didn’t grow up in an era where 3 in the front was bog standard for American cars.
I think Musk is a screeching asshole and the Cybertruck is a stinking boondoggle waiting to blow up in his face, but I also totally agree that those complaints are nonsense.
“Yoke”, unless you want to drive the Cybertruck with an egg. Because this is the Dope, it had to be said. 
Well that’s egg on my face
For the record, and in defense of both Nash and @Smapti, the images linked are directly from Tesla:
https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck
IE that’s what their CURRENT product website still shows. Along with that, there’s language which echoes much of our WTF thinking from upthread:
Cybertruck is built with an exterior shell made for ultimate durability and passenger protection. Starting with a nearly impenetrable exoskeleton, every component is designed for superior strength and endurance, from Ultra-Hard 30X Cold-Rolled stainless-steel structural skin to Tesla armor glass.
I’d love (well, ironically, not literally) to see an incident where a lawyer cites “Nearly Impenetrable” after someone inside gets killed due to a tree branch penetration, deer hit, or some idiot with a gun shooting their “friend” through said impenetrable door. So, yeah, no matter how silly we think people are, Elon is sillier still.
Elon probably fired all the people responsible for updating that website at some point.