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Normally I'd agree with you on this point, but it seems that Musk is the one displaying hubris here. The gullwing doors were a blatant disregard for the 100+ ye
by aphextron 10y ago
Normally I'd agree with you on this point, but it seems that Musk is the one displaying hubris here. The gullwing doors were a blatant disregard for the 100+ years of engineering expertise that has converged on the current design of a car door, and throwing that out the window for something flashy and attention grabbing. The criticism is well deserved.
- hueving 10y ago100+ years of expertise also converged on the ICE
- aphextron 10y agoSure, but that's a straw man arguement. Cost effective LiPo batteries didn't exist until a few years ago, making ICE's the only viable means of powering a vehicle for long distance travel. As far as I know, the laws of physics governing car doors hasn't changed in the last decade.
- pbhjpbhj 10y ago>he gullwing doors were a blatant disregard for the 100+ years of engineering expertise that has converged on the current design of a car door, and throwing that out the window for something flashy and attention grabbing. // Gull-wing doors surely are designed to do one thing, sell the car on look alone. Surely people know they're impractical; but they have the essence of supercar in that impracticality. I had a Lambo' Countache poster as a kid, the flip up doors were probably terrible in practice but they had an evocative unusualness that showed this was no ordinary car. I imagine it gives the vehicle a lot of free marketing and a strong differentiator.
- chc 10y agoThe falcon wing doors were only a small part of the post the parent was commenting on. IIRC even Musk has conceded that their reach exceeded their grasp a bit when it came to those doors, but does that one point validate the entire comment?