"Elon Musk says production will wind down around the middle of next year to make way for the future Cybercab, a putatively autonomous vehicle of much more conventional shape. Announced with a prototype in 2019, the truck became available for the 2023 model year, a timeframe that approximately parallels Musk’s public-image collapse, as he went from 'huckster with genuinely big ideas who is nonetheless annoying' to 'danger to the republic.' Everything about the Cybertruck was designed to provoke.... Like much in the Trumpist world, its styling was a smirking asshole’s answer to an actual, reasonable point of debate...."
From "So Long, Cybertruck" (New York Magazine).

3 comments:
"Smirking asshôle" pretty much describes "New York" writers.
They are all in the "lowbrow contemptible" quadrant.
As a long-term Tesla investor (since just after its initial IPO), this makes sense to me.
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