The Laughable & Ugly Wiper

[Mr. Keys]

Why didn't you include the option:

Keep that beautiful and massively masculine giant wiper?

At least you admit your poll is biased.

Hard for me to imagine writing those questions in any more biased of a way lol - you really prefer the wiper visible?

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[Mr. Keys]

^This^

The windshield wiper gap creates much more drag than a vertical wiper would. This might seem inconsequential, but it would make the truck more expensive to purchase and operate because the added drag would require a slightly larger battery to compensate. Then the truck weighs more and has that much less cargo capacity. These issues compound with one another. So, it's better to just eliminate the drag in the first place because it offers more value to the consumer than meets the eye.

Sleek is good. Aero drag is the major consumer of battery energy, optimizing for lowest aero drag pays big dividends. Lucid understands this (they are run by an engineer) but legacy auto dismisses additions to aero drag as minor and unimportant.

Agreed I would definitely not recommend leaving a gap anywhere. Should retract from the hood since they need to figure that approach out for the roadster anyway.

 

[crimsonaudio]

It's horrible - it looks like a generic add-on someone bought at Walmart and stuck on the truck.

 

[Ogre]

It's horrible - it looks like a generic add-on someone bought at Walmart and stuck on the truck.

I’m pretty sure there will be a whole wiper wrap industry so you can make it totally custom.

I’m thinking a sweet samaraI sword skin would be rad. Every time it rains it would be like Whoosh, Braveheart ****** FFRRRREEEEDOMMMM *****

What were we talking about again?

 

[jerhenderson]

Ice is a lot easier to break than people on this site seem to think.

come to my place when the ice is harder than concrete and the frostbite warning is less than 1 minute of exposure.

 

[flowerlandfilms]

Everyone here will still buy if the truck if it had eight wiper arms.

Plus, the BAW can over-clock to the left, via setting, to clothesline overzealous people asking about your truck. (I am one of them)

At the tip, switch blade wiper to extend the rest of the windshield. With authentic switchblade noise.

if the wiper remains in this iteration, hope the wiper‘s view is hidden by the pillar.

I am hoping to see the interior soon. Lots of teasing hints with the “leaked” photos and video.

 

[Ogre]

It’s TeslaBot V75 with TeslaWiper V89…

 

[Bill906]

come to my place when the ice is harder than concrete and the frostbite warning is less than 1 minute of exposure.

I wasn't aware Canada had super fragile concrete.

 

[Albern]

As I've said elsewhere, I don't hate the current wiper but there is still some room for improvement. It seems to grow on me a bit more seeing it rendered and in motion with the CT:

 

[Hawkskier]

The glass is going to be super hard and smooth. Like applying rain-X weekly. So the wiper is only needed to remove snow or mud. Make it removable like the mirrors.

 

[Crissa]

I wasn't aware Canada had super fragile concrete.

Ice can be stronger than concrete. It's amazing stuff, really. So many different ways for it to combine, compact, crystalize.

My favorite is when you get a slow, even freezing and the ice on the ponds are crystal clear. An inch can be far stronger than a foot of ice mixed with snow or air. And get more than a couple inches of it and it might as well be cement. The right temperature, and it'll remain plastic, too.

-Crissa

 

[Mr. Keys]

Ice can be stronger than concrete. It's amazing stuff, really. So many different ways for it to combine, compact, crystalize.

My favorite is when you get a slow, even freezing and the ice on the ponds are crystal clear. An inch can be far stronger than a foot of ice mixed with snow or air. And get more than a couple inches of it and it might as well be cement. The right temperature, and it'll remain plastic, too.

-Crissa

Wow, I had no idea. Funnily though, if dealing with ice like that, you're not even going to be able to get the door open, nor would you be able to use a wiper on the windshield lol. If anything, the wiper would have been better off being hidden. ;P

 

[FutureBoy]

Ice can be stronger than concrete. It's amazing stuff, really. So many different ways for it to combine, compact, crystalize.

My favorite is when you get a slow, even freezing and the ice on the ponds are crystal clear. An inch can be far stronger than a foot of ice mixed with snow or air. And get more than a couple inches of it and it might as well be cement. The right temperature, and it'll remain plastic, too.

-Crissa

Ice is amazing. So amazing in fact that during WWII there was even a proposal to build giant aircraft carriers out of ice. So large that bombers could be landed on them. The plan was called Project Habakkuk.

 

[Crissa]

Wow, I had no idea. Funnily though, if dealing with ice like that, you're not even going to be able to get the door open, nor would you be able to use a wiper on the windshield lol. If anything, the wiper would have been better off being hidden. ;P

Yeah, if the frunk is sealed shut, there's a good chance so is the door.

-Crissa

 

[Ogre]

Yeah, if the frunk is sealed shut, there's a good chance so is the door.

-Crissa

Yeah, if you ever get pissed off at your neighbor, turning on a sprinkler at 2am on a night with a deep freeze will fix them.

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