IIRC(very fuzzily), cybertruck origin was new larger presses (for stamping larger body parts, costing less assembly), creating an opportunity to bend thicker sh

IIRC(very fuzzily), cybertruck origin was new larger presses (for stamping larger body parts, costing less assembly), creating an opportunity to bend thicker sheet, prompting an exploration of "Hmm, so how about a folded-sheet exoskeleton? Looks weird, but has intriguing manufacturing and structural properties." Which would be "optimistic" and "new way" in a deep engineering sense, rather than merely a marketing sense. Like an earlier era's attempt to use the new aluminum aircraft manufacturing tech to make light-weight trains. Didn't work out IIRC, but had a similar "certain positive energy of just having some fun with progress and boldly making cool new things happen". Noticing interesting points in design space, and doing a startup-like attempt at market fit, seems a recurring theme with Musk. The Boring Company (mass production of tunnels), HyperLoop (IIRC, originally low-density high-Mach(?) air ram stuff?), and perhaps SpaceX (reuse economics, and hardware-rich development?). Also recurring, is societal discussions around them being badly confused. Perhaps things could be explained better. But the recurring "Rocket blew up! SpaceX failed!" news stories around hardware-rich prototyping's "next rev built -> optional explosion -> junkyard or ocean", doesn't create optimism for the future. Are there any inspiring examples of society discussing some issue in a more engineering-like style, using awareness of deep issue structure and numbers, rather than by emoting and deceit and "that makes me think of" crude association?