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

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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.”

Link to tweet

[underpants]

1. Looks like RoboCop. I'm guessing they engineered for speed bumps

but it doesn’t look like it.

[Wiz Imp]

8. I wouldn't be so sure.

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]

9. Elon's going change the roads. 🙄 the caption here couldn't be better 😆

[infullview]

2. Is this real

Or a joke? Clip from a movie?

[duncang]

6. It's real a van that can't make it over a pebble in the road.

[sheshe2]

7. Bwahahahaha.

Good one….aaaand so true. 🤣

[underpants]

11. That was my observation as well

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]

17. Supposedly- the suspension rises & lowers

“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/

[BoRaGard]

3. Low rider

[delisen]

4. My GG Mother's Toaster Caused Fires

Maybe Tesla should re-think this slogan.

[underpants]

10. How does my toaster knows it's not plugged in?

This is one of the mysteries in my life 🤔

[duncang]

5. There better not be

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

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Looks like a vehicle design ripped off a 1938 Popular Mechanics rendering of the future.

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

[k55f5r]

13. Holy Battlestar Galactica!

The Cylons are invading!!

[Shermann]

14. Ah yes it's so great that we are going to rebuild our cities around it.

Where have we heard that before?

I will say it is better than the Cybertruck.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Robovan ... may as well spell it Ribeauvin ... sounds like a bad name for cheap wine

[Intractable]

16. I'm thinking street cleaner.

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Look how low to the ground it is.

One good sized pothole and that thing is...err...toast.