It’s impossible to consume this and other Cybertruck content launched over the weekend without being impressed by the engineering behind this stainless steel wedge. You don’t have to like the Cybertruck or Tesla, but as a lover of cars and technological development, you have to admire the engineering behind it all, the chutzpah to say, “What if we threw out the rulebook and started from scratch?”
But after watching it all, I feel like Elon Musk is doing his engineers a disservice. We know Musk is a loose cannon who fires from the hip and loves to dominate headlines with wild claims and bold proclamations. And to a degree, maybe that drives innovation.
When Elon Musk sets an impossible goal, Tesla engineers find a way to make it happen. If he didn’t demand the impossible and make public declarations thereof, would these insane things actually become a reality? Perhaps not. Because once a claim is out there, you’d look like a greater fool to stop and say, “We can’t do it,” than to deliver something that’s only 90% of what it was originally claimed to be.
