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(90,174 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 08:31 AM Oct 12

Elon: "Here's a minivan that looks like your great grandmother's toaster."




Dorsey Shaw @dorseyshaw Oct 11
Elon: “We’ll be on Mars in 10 years.”

10 years later…

Elon: “Here’s a minivan that looks like your great grandmother’s toaster.”







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Elon: "Here's a minivan that looks like your great grandmother's toaster." (Original Post) bigtree Oct 12 OP
Looks like RoboCop. I'm guessing they engineered for speed bumps underpants Oct 12 #1
I wouldn't be so sure. Wiz Imp Oct 12 #8
Elon's going change the roads. 🙄 the caption here couldn't be better 😆 underpants Oct 12 #9
Is this real infullview Oct 12 #2
It's real a van that can't make it over a pebble in the road. duncang Oct 12 #6
Bwahahahaha. sheshe2 Oct 12 #7
That was my observation as well underpants Oct 12 #11
Supposedly- the suspension rises & lowers womanofthehills Oct 12 #17
Low rider BoRaGard Oct 12 #3
My GG Mother's Toaster Caused Fires delisen Oct 12 #4
How does my toaster knows it's not plugged in? underpants Oct 12 #10
There better not be duncang Oct 12 #5
Looks like a vehicle design ripped off a 1938 Popular Mechanics rendering of the future. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 12 #12
Holy Battlestar Galactica! k55f5r Oct 12 #13
Ah yes it's so great that we are going to rebuild our cities around it. Shermann Oct 12 #14
Robovan ... may as well spell it Ribeauvin ... sounds like a bad name for cheap wine bucolic_frolic Oct 12 #15
I'm thinking street cleaner. Intractable Oct 12 #16
Look how low to the ground it is. LudwigPastorius Oct 12 #18

Wiz Imp

(1,860 posts)
8. I wouldn't be so sure.
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 09:24 AM
Oct 12
https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-invented-a-worse-city-bus-1851670591

Thankfully there are no potholes or road imperfections in American city streets, because this thing has zero practical ride height. It’s difficult to tell exactly where Robovan’s wheels are, but depending on the size of the overhangs, this could have a real problem getting up steep hills, speed bumps or into parking lots. Surely certified brain genius Elon Musk has a solution for this self-inflicted problem, however. Just wait, he’ll tell you.

There are a few things about this bus layout that make absolutely zero sense.

First, the Robovan has its 20 seats laid out in a ten-facing-ten orientation. The seats are tightly packed in to a relatively small footprint. The center seats look like they’d put you knee-to-knee with a bunch of strangers, without leaving a good way for passengers to disembark.

Second, there’s no room for your personal items inside the cab of the Robovan, so they designed a place at the nose of the vehicle to store luggage and carry-ons. That doesn’t seem like a reasonable way to get your groceries home or whatever. Does the hatch open up at every stop? Is there anything stopping someone getting off a stop before you from just taking your shit? Is there anything stopping a random opportunist passerby from just taking your shit? Seems half-baked to me.


underpants

(186,704 posts)
11. That was my observation as well
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 09:37 AM
Oct 12

I am weary of some speed bumps in my hybrid let alone this thing. Unless it has a centipede like amount of wheels, I see it getting hung up.

Posts above. They don’t appear to have designed on that.

womanofthehills

(9,275 posts)
17. Supposedly- the suspension rises & lowers
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 06:57 PM
Oct 12

“The unusually low ground clearance is achieved by having an automatic load-leveling suspension that raises or lowers, based on smooth or bumpy road conditions,” Musk wrote on X. “

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-explains-tesla-robovan-suspension-system/

duncang

(3,609 posts)
5. There better not be
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 08:53 AM
Oct 12

Any bumps or dips in the road. How much road clearance do you think it has? 5-6 inches?

OAITW r.2.0

(28,392 posts)
12. Looks like a vehicle design ripped off a 1938 Popular Mechanics rendering of the future.
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 09:52 AM
Oct 12

It looks better than Elon's cyber truck design that I assume he drew up when he was 7, though.

Shermann

(8,654 posts)
14. Ah yes it's so great that we are going to rebuild our cities around it.
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 10:47 AM
Oct 12

Where have we heard that before?

I will say it is better than the Cybertruck.

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