• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
    ·
    14 days ago

    It's hilarious that the Cybertruck's heavy sigh Gigawiper is a single point of failure, but what's less funny is that Tesla is once again fixing safety equipment without a recall, which is very much a violation of the federal Motor Vehicle Safety Act

    https://subium.com/profile/niedermeyer.io/post/3kv5esbyst32i

    • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
      ·
      14 days ago

      gigawiper

      I knew it looked ridiculous, but I only I found out it was called that from this post, and I kind of wish I hadn't.

      Using an 800W motor in prototype, 120W in production

      Cost savings wins again

      I sometimes worry that future alien archaeologists are not going to be able to really understand exactly how painfully cringe he is, but things like this give me hope.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
        hexagon
        ·
        14 days ago

        painfully cringe

        His cultists dream of implanting his clip into his skull and they are certain he's gonna get people to Mars in gigantic numbers sometime real soon. Meanwhile the motherfucker cut corners on his marquee truck so that the accelerator pedal fell apart, the single enormous under-powered wiper unsurprisingly fails, etc. How does he still have a cult of personality and a reality distortion field? I just don't get it.