<story><title>The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks</title><url>https://twitter.com/torynski/status/1600968583055826944</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnthuss</author><text>&amp;quot;Drivers sits in the middle. This makes overtaking or looking ahead more difficult. But also makes it impossible to reach out of the window to pass the paperwork or to talk with the guy in the gatehouse when you enter a port or a factory or, say, a tollbooth.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This one seems like the worst one of all these criticisms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>function_seven</author><text>My guess is that they needed to get the drag coefficient down, and did so by first raking the windshield back, then pinching the cab horizontally to get some more gains. That narrowing of the cab then led to the center-seat arrangement?&lt;p&gt;Bonus being that you don&amp;#x27;t need to configure a LHD and RHD version of this truck for different markets.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks</title><url>https://twitter.com/torynski/status/1600968583055826944</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnthuss</author><text>&amp;quot;Drivers sits in the middle. This makes overtaking or looking ahead more difficult. But also makes it impossible to reach out of the window to pass the paperwork or to talk with the guy in the gatehouse when you enter a port or a factory or, say, a tollbooth.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This one seems like the worst one of all these criticisms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belval</author><text>Indeed, I wonder if they will be able to address this fast enough because it does seem serious. Same goes for the mirrors that are out of reach of the driver for easy cleaning. It could be a pain point.&lt;p&gt;I guess the author wanted the pile-on a bit, but the rest feels a bit more like &amp;quot;this isn&amp;#x27;t how we are currently doing it so it&amp;#x27;s just wrong&amp;quot;, especially when it comes to the shape of the truck. Being aerodynamic seems like a good way to increase the range.</text></comment>