There's also a question of timescales. * Cookie-cutter designs mean better safety and reliability in the short-term. We learn a lot about those designs, have v

There's also a question of timescales. * 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.