• Shinji_Ikari [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I bet all the flat surfaces make up the time required for the square footage and all the edge cuts they need to make.

      If you ever watch a video on wrapping a car, its a really laborious process that requires a lot of experience to make it look half decent, even more to make it look good.

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    when you are in traffic and want your vehicle to be easily identifiable as such for safety reasons, why not try camouflage patterns to break up your silhouette? this is especially good when other Teslas only have cameras and not LIDAR

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      Still wild to me that there isn’t an auxiliary LIDAR system connected directly to the brakes like every other decent car from 2015 onward. In any tesla, not just the cyberfuck

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        I love that automatic breaking so much. I have ADHD real bad and all the little lidar and radar and whatever doohickeys on my car that give me extra situational awareness are an enormous help. I scoffed at it all until I got to use it and now I feel so much safer driving than I ever did before.

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    Honestly this makes the piece of shit look 100x better. Wrapping this things actually makes them look almost nice to me.

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    “I always did think that the 7,000 lb. refrigerator, with no crumple zones; that can accelerate to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds; and that already has a history of non-responsive brakes was too safe for pedestrians. Good to see there are ways to deal with that.”

    “Yeah, the element of surprise is worth every penny”

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      It really is just Freudian death drive as a vehicle. They’ve found every possible way to make this the most inwardly and outwardly destructive vehicle imaginable. They’re going to sleep at the wheel of their camouflaged truck without crumple zones while it drives itself using faulty beta software, reclining in a chair directly mounted on the battery and its faulty high voltage electrical system. That’s their commute to their high-paying tech or finance job.

      This person exists to hurt. They don’t care who as long as someone or something suffers, even if it’s them.

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      Some for sure but Eleon is really shaving down the venn diagram between “people who think the most divorced man on earth is cool” and “people who want to spend 6 figures on an electric vehicle, but not one of the good ones”

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    That’s simple, people who buy a Cybertruck are the type to drop loads of money on garbage because they think it makes them look cool. Shops therefore would charge a lot of money to wrap a Cybertruck.

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      Might as well walk in with a Supreme shirt on and a hat that says “I love overpaying for status symbols”. Wrap person probablly didn’t even feel bad tacking on 80% to the cost, it’s clearly what the person is passionate about.

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      edit:

      Oops no I was totally wrong, I was thinking of Dazzle camo the whole time. Whoops

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

      Funny thing is, as far as I understand, splinter camo doesn’t really work. Apparently the idea is that splinter on WWI ships made it hard for early sub-marines to determine their range and heading. That made it harder to aim a torpedo. In practice it was apparently a mixed bag and no one is sure if it worked, but apparently ships crews got really in to painting wild splinter patterns and it became a real morale booster during the war.