Stainless steel can't really be bent in the same way as mild steel, which is why every single body panel on a Cybertruck is a flat, straight piece of metal.
Except the front fender. The front fender is not actually bent, but is held in shape by two spot welds on either side; it's just in tension. If those welds or the underlying structure were to fail, it would suddenly go "bwoinggg" and spring back into being a flat sheet of metal.
I think of this as every Cybertruck, constantly, from the moment it rolls off the line to its final shutdown before becoming ewaste, being in horrendous pain.
Oh, great. Considering my experience with spot-welded stainless steel, that's yet another reason to find those horrible things terrifying. Because it's for damned sure Elon cheaped out on the equipment to make those spot welds.
