Personally, I'd like a variety of cars on the road. Right now, the industry has converged on about a half-dozen types of cars: SUV, sedan, pickup truck with an oversized cab, sub-compact, (rapidly disappearing) van, ... and that's all. There's also the pricey sports car, which varies a bit more.
I can buy a subcompact from any company, and it will be almost identical except for the brand logo (and to some extent, reliability).
I'd like to see much more variety, including bringing back classics like the classic pickup truck (designed to be maintainable, modifiable, and good at hauling stuff), the classic station wagon (designed to fit a family at the cost of a sedan and better fuel efficiency than a SUV or van), as well as a variety of new cars which look different. We used to have things like the VW Bug.
Yes, I think the Cybertruck is a horrible, horrible car which I'd never buy and which I'd never recommend to anyone, but personally, I'm glad for some innovation, for someone trying something new, and for someone as Apple put it, Thinking Different.
I agree itβs like housing everything is just cookie cutter and just gets boring to look at. The constant exposure to unchanging uninteresting uniformity I think subconsciously cumulatively adds to dread. Only diff is bad car design can kill bystanders more than bad house design or bland fashion choices.
* Cookie-cutter designs mean better safety and reliability in the short-term. We learn a lot about those designs, have volume to optimize them, etc. However, innovation stagnates.
* Diverse design means we try new things. 95% will be bad ideas, but 5% will be good ideas which can then disseminate. We make much more rapid progress, and learn more.
As much as I'm convinced the Cybertruck (and cars like it) will result in more deaths in the short term than if we all drove sedans, I'm not sure that it won't result in fewer deaths in the timespan of a few decades, simply by virtue of seeing what works and what doesn't. I'm not sure it's a fundamentally worse design, so much as one which hasn't had 50 years of safety (and other) optimizations like the current cookie cutter ones.
Personally, I'd like a variety of cars on the road. Right now, the industry has converged on about a half-dozen types of cars: SUV, sedan, pickup truck with an oversized cab, sub-compact, (rapidly disappearing) van, ... and that's all. There's also the pricey sports car, which varies a bit more.
I can buy a subcompact from any company, and it will be almost identical except for the brand logo (and to some extent, reliability).
I'd like to see much more variety, including bringing back classics like the classic pickup truck (designed to be maintainable, modifiable, and good at hauling stuff), the classic station wagon (designed to fit a family at the cost of a sedan and better fuel efficiency than a SUV or van), as well as a variety of new cars which look different. We used to have things like the VW Bug.
Yes, I think the Cybertruck is a horrible, horrible car which I'd never buy and which I'd never recommend to anyone, but personally, I'm glad for some innovation, for someone trying something new, and for someone as Apple put it, Thinking Different.