EP13 - CyberWTF?! - What the new Tesla says about the state of design, and humanity.

12/13/23 • 43 min

Back in 2019, Drew and Joe disagreed on what the Tesla Cybertruck represented. Has anything changed in the past four years?
In this episode, Drew and Joe take a look at what the most polarising car in living memory means as a piece of technology, as a piece of design, and as a cultural artefact.

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Looking Out - The Podcast - EP13 - CyberWTF?! - What the new Tesla says about the state of design, and humanity.

Transcript

Drew Smith00:00:01.310

Have a feeling that, okay, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that that crisis of masculinity issue is going to be affecting a lot of car designers as well, because they're looking, they're looking the thing that they came into the industry to do being attacked by woke forces. You know, the transition to EVs, there's all sorts of stuff in there that I think they're probably thinking, Well, I came here to design, like, fucking cool shit.