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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musk is not an engineer

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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)

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Engineer =/= designer

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

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

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are you disabled

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