Is it sad that I can’t tell if this is a real mode and warning? So what happens if it rains hard, someone sprays your car with a hose, or you drive through a big puddle and you’re not in “Car Wash Mode”?
All of these modes are also deeply nested within the touchscreen menu you have to use for everything while driving, because that’s totally safe. At least there’s a highly reliable self-driving mode that totally doesn’t suffer from the fact that Tesla removed radar for cost reasons (they even disabled it on cars that already had it).
Mazda once measured that every single touchscreen input while driving caused a steering impulse and that drivers looked away from the road for a significant amount of time to navigate through menus. That’s why their infotainment systems relied on a dial and buttons instead - until 2023, when they gave up and conveniently forgot about this study, because lots of idiots people were complaining about not having a tablet computer to play around with while driving.
That seems like a real mode but mostly around convenience? Rolling up windows, turning off wipers, neutral/free roll are all things you’d naturally do manually before entering a wash… I can even understand charging capabilities damage from not locking the port and having water forced into it, but none of this explains why a wash would completely kill the truck.
The huge panel gaps and central wiring harness would explain a car wash being lethal to the cyber truck.
You’ve got panel gaps as big as your thumb on some of those $100k “trucks” and from what I understand, every wiring harness in the car feeds back to one central harness. Get water anywhere on a live contact and it’s going to short something.
“Thermonuclear explosion proof glass” but it can’t handle a standard gas station car wash. Put away your guns and hydrogen bombs, guys. All you need to bring down the Pedestrian Crusher 9000 is a super soaker with some salt water.
Shit my 1999 Ford truck knows it is car wash mode without any of this fussing around. Just roll the windows up (or you know don’t if you are feeling frisky) and the truck is in car wash mode.
Indeed. Maybe I needed to highlight this little tidbit better.
Still seems like it breaks anyway.
Is it sad that I can’t tell if this is a real mode and warning? So what happens if it rains hard, someone sprays your car with a hose, or you drive through a big puddle and you’re not in “Car Wash Mode”?
Depends. Is the car in direct sunlight at the time?
Why does this make a difference?
Cuz they rust faster when wet in the sunlight. Known fact about the Cybertruck.
That is not ideal.
I think I like paint more than worrying about preventing rust on a new vehicle in the summer.
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All of these modes are also deeply nested within the touchscreen menu you have to use for everything while driving, because that’s totally safe. At least there’s a highly reliable self-driving mode that totally doesn’t suffer from the fact that Tesla removed radar for cost reasons (they even disabled it on cars that already had it).
Mazda once measured that every single touchscreen input while driving caused a steering impulse and that drivers looked away from the road for a significant amount of time to navigate through menus. That’s why their infotainment systems relied on a dial and buttons instead - until 2023, when they gave up and conveniently forgot about this study, because lots of
idiotspeople were complaining about not having a tablet computer to play around with while driving.No no, you’re supposed to pause the vehicle first before operating the touchscreen, but that’s a monthly subscription…
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I like that dial
And if you drive through a big puddle in small puddle mode, your cybertruck will automatically report to tesla and void your warranty before breaking.
That seems like a real mode but mostly around convenience? Rolling up windows, turning off wipers, neutral/free roll are all things you’d naturally do manually before entering a wash… I can even understand charging capabilities damage from not locking the port and having water forced into it, but none of this explains why a wash would completely kill the truck.
The huge panel gaps and central wiring harness would explain a car wash being lethal to the cyber truck.
You’ve got panel gaps as big as your thumb on some of those $100k “trucks” and from what I understand, every wiring harness in the car feeds back to one central harness. Get water anywhere on a live contact and it’s going to short something.
“Thermonuclear explosion proof glass” but it can’t handle a standard gas station car wash. Put away your guns and hydrogen bombs, guys. All you need to bring down the Pedestrian Crusher 9000 is a super soaker with some salt water.
Shit my 1999 Ford truck knows it is car wash mode without any of this fussing around. Just roll the windows up (or you know don’t if you are feeling frisky) and the truck is in car wash mode.