• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    17010 months ago

    Wait. After all this hype Tesla has only managed to move 3878 units of the Cybertruck? That’s hilarious.

    • @Zehzin
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      4110 months ago

      You gotta understand that metal this shitty is hard to find.

      • @ours
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        1510 months ago

        They should have tried discarded Boeing composite materials. Good enough to explore the Titanic a couple-ish of times.

    • @CaptainSpaceman
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      3410 months ago

      Who the fuck can afford them?

      Lemme guess, there around 4000 billionaires right now

      • @eltrain123
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        -310 months ago

        I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. They have a large waitlist and are early in iteration on this product.

        I’d bet they have hardware recalls for the next 18 months that taper off as they ramp up. The amount of new engineering that went in the cybertruck is insane compared to any other vehicle in their lineup.

        This is why you see all of the legacy automakers having problems making EVs, having tons of recalls, and pulling back. New technology is hard to mass produce until you work out all the kinks in the design and workflow.

        I wouldn’t by a CT because I don’t like the aesthetics; but, if I did, I wouldn’t buy one for at least 3 years from now. Same reason I won’t buy a Rivian R1S. They aren’t at the point the recalls are down to manageable. Rivian may be good in another year or 2. The ford EV line… seems like them pulling back means they won’t have a decent EV track record for at least a decade, if they’re still around then.

    • @Ginger666
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      -2910 months ago

      85% of america has 100k burning a hole in their pocket

      • @Addv4
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        10 months ago

        No, but we have a surprising amount of people who don’t see too much of an issue with taking out a 72-84 month loan on an 80k truck. (that probably is over 100k with interest and fees)

        • @Ginger666
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          -910 months ago

          Those people are brilliant

          • @Addv4
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            710 months ago

            Poor financial literacy, not really planning for the future, or thinking the reliability will make up for the extra cost. Either way, I suspect there’s plenty of people like that around the world, just that we have less public transport so most people actually need a car to get around (although most people would be better with beaters or just a couple years old sedan).

              • @Addv4
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                Yep. I recently got a newer car (a first for me, grew up on beaters and was fine until I drove a newish miata), and I remember when talking with credit union’s officers that the new avg price for a lot of the loans they were seeing was around 50k, which just blew my cheapskate mind.

  • Aatube
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    2610 months ago

    From the comments:

    When I worked at Boeing, we used dawn dish soap to seat door gaskets. Tesla is just adopting aerospace technologies for its fancy cars, what’s the problem?

  • @hperrin
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    1110 months ago

    Womp womp.

  • @thorbot
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    810 months ago

    This is fucking hilarious

  • @Sam_Bass
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    510 months ago

    While theyre redesigning the “gas” pedal, just redesign the whole thing

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    410 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    On Monday, we learned that Tesla had suspended customer deliveries of its stainless steel-clad electric pickup truck.

    Now, the automaker has issued a recall for all the Cybertrucks in customer hands—nearly 4,000 of them—in order to fix a problem with the accelerator pedal.

    It has come at an inconvenient time for Tesla, which is laying off more than 10 percent of its workforce due to shrinking sales even as CEO Elon Musk asks for an extra $55.8 billion in compensation.

    Fortunately, applying the brake overrides the accelerator and cuts torque immediately, but that still didn’t prevent one owner from allegedly crashing into a light pole before he was able to bring his Cybertruck to a stop.

    Tesla is no stranger to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s official recall process, but this time there is no software fix or over-the-air patch.

    The company says that it will notify its stores and service centers about the recall “on or around” today, and that owners will be contacted in due course.


    The original article contains 317 words, the summary contains 169 words. Saved 47%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        Maybe these summarizations have always been bad, but every time I read one (which has only been in the past couple of months…maybe I’m just getting lazy) they’re terrible. Borderline nonsensical.

  • @[email protected]
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    -310 months ago

    Hmm. It’s not totally clear to me from the description what’s breaking, but based on what’s there, I feel like this maybe isn’t the best fix. Like, okay, fine, maybe the lube problem is the proximate cause.

    But bigger question: should automobile pedals mechanically be able to be wedged down by the pedal in the first place? Like, can I shove the pedal down with one foot and then pull this pedal cover up with another in such a way that it gets held in the down position?

      • Avanera
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        710 months ago

        Put a fastener through the thing, preventing it from moving?

          • Avanera
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            910 months ago

            To stop the part from sliding off, not the whole pedal.

            • @mojofrododojo
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              210 months ago

              their solution is rivets. I suspect this is going to repeat itself when the plastic around those rivet holes cracks and degrades, but the cybertwat might be off the road by then for any number of other idiotic design ‘choices’

      • @mojofrododojo
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        110 months ago

        a single pedal part instead of a pedal with a fancy design fascia on top.

        • Aatube
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          The problematic part is a rug, not the pedal

          Edit: Nevermind, misread at 2 am

          • @mojofrododojo
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            110 months ago

            so the pedal fascia can slide up and get caught under the dash (there’s a gap in the dash covers that it slides right into!?!?, no shit) or down and under the rug.

            Either are very bad ideas for a pedal connected to that much power.

            And why does the pedal need the plastic bit? because otherwise it would be unadorned, plain black.

            I’m of the mind that I’d prefer my pedals simple, so they’re less likely to kill someone lol.

  • @ABCDE
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    -1110 months ago

    Repost.

  • @Ginger666
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    -4310 months ago

    Anti muskers are jizzing their pants uncontrollably rn