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0 pointsflexie9y ago0 comments

Are the cars going to look like Google's and Uber's self driving cars, then?

I never cared that much about self driving capabilities - I like to drive myself - and I certainly don't want to shell out $35,000 for a car with what looks like a food processor or a police emergency light mounted on the rooftop.

IMHO, one of the best features of Tesla has been that they actually made EVs look like traditional cars. It might seem trivial, but many of the budding competitors still fail to do just that:

http://www.autoblog.com/2016/08/17/vw-300-mile-ev-paris-auto...

https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/design/commer...

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JauntyHatAngle9y ago· 1 in thread

Those are concept cars, concept cars always look like that before the final designs come about.

Fashion does the same thing.

aianus9y ago

The 'final designs' of other companies' EVs still look ridiculous.

Volt, Leaf, i8, none of them look like regular cars like Teslas do.

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imtringued9y ago

Have you seen the e-Golf? I'm pretty sure they stole that design from somewhere. Hard to believe but it happens to look like a regular... golf. I'm sure they will get in trouble with VW. /s

http://i.auto-bild.de/ir_img/1/1/6/2/7/2/7/VW-E-Golf-1200x80...

There is also the Kia Soul EV and Skoda Octavia Green E Line which basically are just their regular line up with the major difference being that they are EVs.

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