Sounds like their plan for this is just that the panels are super thick and therefore really hard to dent, though I don't know what that means for crumple zones

Sounds like their plan for this is just that the panels are super thick and therefore really hard to dent, though I don't know what that means for crumple zones and safety. Perhaps there's an argument here that the bare metal will acquire a kind of patina, that the accumulation of small blemishes will over time contribute to an attractive worn look? That's certainly not how cars conventionally age, but it will be interesting to see what a Cybertruck looks like once it's got 200k miles on it.