“My cybertruck wouldn’t stop as I mowed through pedestrians until I wrapped around a telephone pole. The doctors say I may never walk again. Still love the truck, though.”
: and the next time you talk smack, it'll be a gas station not a telephone poll
Holy shit, the problem occurred because of
“An unapproved change introduced lubricant (soap) to aid in the component assembly of the pad onto the accelerator pedal. Residual lubricant reduced the retention of the pad to the pedal,” the NHTSA wrote in the recall document.
They got Dawn all over the pad. Extremely unserious car company.
literally exactly what boeing was doing too lol (though not the worst of it)
Someone though it was very big brained to save a couple bucks on cheaper lubricant?
afaict there wasn't supposed to be any lubricant but sliding on the pedals during assembly was probably difficult and they "innovated"
We accidentally replaced all the pedals with banana peels
We always used hairspray or gel for sliding bike grips on. Figured a bit of sticky wouldn't hurt.
That said, for something like a fucking car pedal I'd expect loctited bolts, or an interference fit, or at least a fucking pin.
I have to assume this was not the original design. It reeks of beancounter bullshit. You can't be an automotive engineer without learning about the Ford Pinto. Did they fucking hire the Challenger program managers to oversee this?
Then again, given that this was
's design, maybe "no screws or bolts" was a dumbass requirement. But, interference fits.
Was listening to some YT clips from The Majority Report talking about how shitty these are.
I was completely unaware that washing the vehicle with water could 1) void the warranty and 2) brick the vehicle.
I was completely unaware and in awe of the silliness of also learning that tinting the glass can also void warranties for certain parts of the cybertruck.
I was completely unaware that washing the vehicle with water could 1) void the warranty and 2) brick the vehicle.
problem is that this was a known issue with the dolorean, how do they make this mistake again?
At least the Delorean was cool. Might be worth pulling that out once or twice a year if you're a car person.
The DeLorean was a total failure that nobody wanted with panel gaps out the ass and quality assurance issues, until the CEO got arrested. So...you know, here's hoping the cybertruck becomes cool.
The Cybertruck is ugly though. Im nit saying the Delorean is a good car made by good people. Just that it looks neat. If you're the type of person to keep an extra car just for show and baby it, there's a point to the Delorean. The Tesla truck is only good as a museum of curiosity discussion piece that will be k iwn only for how rare it is to find a well kept one
Im betting the only thing musk knows about the delorean is what he learned watching Back to the Future
Edit: i got interested in the delorean after commenting and saw it was also stainless steel, and also had a recall involving sticking accelerators. Heh.
The issue with the Delorean was a bit more complex than the accelerator pedal slipping off, sliding forward and locking at full throttle:
It was discovered that rain water would run into the cable sheath due to the openings in the engine cover, and collect at the lowest point of the jacket and freeze there when the temperature dropped.
If you happen to have this happen, you'll note that you can't press the throttle pedal without a lot of effort. If you insist and press harder, you will either bend the throttle linkage or pull the cable through the ice and then it will lock at something more than the normal idle speed, often full throttle! In this event you will need to thaw out the frozen cable. This can be done by either parking the car in a warm garage, waiting for spring, or (assuming you have not jammed the throttle open) allowing the engine to idle with the heat on full and the doors closed, for as much as an hour. The frozen part of the cable is actually inside the console area of the car and will thaw out if the car interior is warm.
You notice how the truck is silver? that's because it's made of stainless steel and it doesn't have a protective coat or paint on it, something that is expected to be on a car
Perhaps we could paint the car with silver metallic paint, and make the body from standard automotive materials?
No way, it's gotta be stainless steel for reasons. Now pass me my ketamine, it's therapeutic I swear!
Not cold water specifically--just water. The waterproofing on the electronics is uneven (especially on earlier models). It has a "car wash mode" (lol) that is supposed to lock all that down, but some Teslas have been bricked by just driving in the rain. Also, the water seems to rust the stainless steel body. As I've said before, it seems like it was engineered for California weather and they never considered that people might drive it in other climates.
especially on earlier models
They've only shipped 3800! They're all "earlier models"!
It's not water proof, so rain has a chance of frying some of the electronics.
let's be fair with Tesla, being impossible to drive in the rain has always been a problem for cars in general, as we all know
i expected this be an enormous shitshow ever since it was announced but I have to admit elon really exceeded my expectations
I expected like, early model 3 bad, not "make the 737Max look like a Toyota Hilux" bad.
A pedal that falls apart really, just.. feels like failing at production step 1 of making a car.
They also failed at production step 0: make the car not look like a five-year-old's drawing
not just falls apart, wedges and sticks the throttle all the way open
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But how will me and my family die in a firey and preventable crash without my expensive suicide cart?
Take it out of the bonus he wants to give himself, maybe?
God I hope this tanks his stock and puts his dumb ass out of business
He's already announced that Tesla will fire 10% of its workers and will chop down a forest to needlessly expand the factory near Berlin that keeps polluting the local water supply, so the stonks should be fine.
If there's one thing that says "Our company is entering a growth phase" it's when you are laying off a large proportion of your staff.
Btw Tesla's statement about it being 10% is debated because reports on the ground are that the actual numbers are somewhere between ~10-20% and Tesla is "accidentally" screwing people over on their severance packages - this could be greed, this could be incompetence (it's Elon Musk after all), but it could also be a cynical manoeuvre to try and recoup costs by any means necessary.
I don't think this is moment that the everything collapses with the whole operation but it definitely feels like it's a sign of terminal decline - I'm skeptical about Elon Musk having any other aces up his sleeve and I don't see things improving on any front:
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The Boring Company is dead, his shitty Vegas tunnel is a disaster that they don't have enough money to throw at it in order to rehabilitate its image.
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Solar City is irredeemable garbage and people hate it, idk if anyone even takes it seriously these days but any mention of it is probably going to raise attention about the glaring lack of solar roof tiles.
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Tesla is hot garbage and they aren't going to get FSD or robotaxis any time soon, plus all the usual complaints (safety, quality, cost etc.) along with the empty promises about the low-cost options and new models that are vaporware
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Starlink is unfeasible on a technical and economic level. It cannot afford to expand its operations and Elon Musk is in hot water with the liberals over using Starlink as a geopolitical tool.
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Neuralink is the typical Elon playbook - massive amounts of (attempted) hype, very little to back it up with, and there's a whole lot of competitors elsewhere that are quietly doing similar things that don't make grandiose claims and that are making strides in this area. I don't see it going very far.
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Idk that much about SpaceX - there have been rumblings about it not being viable but I'm not sure as to the truth of such claims. I do know that they are relying on government money to be viable. SpaceX seems to be the most secure and sustainable part of Elon Musk's empire and that could change abruptly with one lost government contract or one disastrous launch.
Wasn't Musk using the Star Link launch schedule to prop up SpaceX?
You missed Twitter in the graveyard of companies list
Wasn't Musk using the Star Link launch schedule to prop up SpaceX?
I think it's safe to assume that it was a cash transfer and/or a marketing opportunity. I'd just assume that there's a whole pile of creative accounting that is built into that operation too.
You missed Twitter in the graveyard of companies list
Lol where to start with that one?
Here's hoping it's the millstone around Elon's neck that drags his whole empire down because it's certainly done that for his public image already.
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I can't believe they sold that many honestly. I figured there were only a few hundred of these death traps on the road.
https://proxitok.lunar.icu/@el.chepito1985/video/7357758176504089898 video of the issue
