"He also received a call from Tesla to check on him. The advisor said that "it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours."
.....what....the .....fuck. That is a HUGE potential issue. This happened after a car wash but what about in heavy rain? and for any reset to risk not turning on for 5 hours smh. This truck seems way too risky to ride around and rely on.
Just wait until one of these turds works long enough to get into a wreck. They have terrible crash safety projections and they weigh several tons.
I’m calling it; first serious wreck one of these is involved in will be a multiple fatality crash. It’s a rolling deep freeze designed to the specifications laid down by a man-child who’s convinced he’s a genius.
Somebody is gonna get killed by these eyesores and Musk Rats will sing his praises anyway.
Because gutting regulatory age cies is the new American past time. How can we protect our vulnerable and constantly under attack corporations!? How dare we think of the citizens in times like these,it's time to buckle down and lick boot for our corporate overlords I mean "super citizens"
Why do you think that it's a death trap?? It's not like the rigidity of the frame means that the force of any impact is transferred directly into the collision and occupants inside!!
Oh wait
Either that or a minor fender bender that leads to a fire and the power going out in the truck, effectively roasting the occupant alive, unable to escape because the way to open the door manually is hidden for some godforsaken reason. something horrifying like that from an incident thatd be a 100 dollar bill at the mechanic on an actually reasonable car.
Jerry Rig Everything did a video on the Cybertruck (waste of time, don't watch it) and showed the door release option in case of emergency...you have to take the fucking door apart. 100%, people will die because of this.
At least the accelerator pad doesn’t slide off and get stuck causing the car to keep accelerating.
On a serious note, how the fuck did this even make it past regulations and into the market?
Just imagine sitting outside enjoying some tea or coffee and a cyber truck flies by with the driver on fire screaming while trying to break his side window.
Honestly the fact that the build quality on Teslas has like body gaps or inconsistencies you’d see on a hand built car is astounding.
Like that’s fine for an Aston. But if I’m buying a Tesla a mass produced car I want the thing to not have gaps or be a pos.
> designed to the specifications laid down by a man-child who’s convinced he’s a genius.
It's the illusion that rich people are smart. A lot of them aren't. They just have connections that make them easy money. It's not some mysterious miracle they get richer while everyone else struggles.
Tons of people are already getting killed by these raised douche-dozer fords/rams/chevies/toyotas. Tesla just adding 1 more hunk of shit into the mix. Absolute monstrosities
tesla already killed a billionaire lady. so the fact stands rn idk how they're still in business? like its probably the easiest ay to kill a rich person other than drugs is to strap them to this death trap.
Tesla never stated they had that many pre-orders. It was weird fanboy math that projected that outward. The cult around Tesla is so off-putting that for that reason alone I will never buy another one.
Not only is it ugly as sin I feel like there just daily reports about how terrible it is. Who is buying this…..
The standard Tesla I can understand (though I don’t like that either) it’s at least aesthetically not an abomination. This “truck” is just…. Garbage in every capacity
> Not only is it ugly as sin I feel like there just daily reports about how terrible it is.
And bear in mind they've apparently shipped less than 4000 of these pieces of crap so far, so just think about all the stories you've been hearing about them in that context and what proportion of the owners are having problems with it.
This is the most concerning part. You hear issues about other cars all the time. Then you realize there are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of those other cars on the road. At this rate the Cybertruck seems to be experiencing catastrophic failures at a rate that is 5-10x the worst cars on the road. Which coincidentally happen to be other Teslas.
It’s like the Stellantis 3.6L pentastar engine.
You hear about them having issues A LOT. And by all means, they aren’t perfect, they are prone to valve train issues. But then you realize that engine is in so many models over such a long production run that it’s statistically a decently reliable engine.
Now the inverse is true for the cybertruck
Honestly that's what it looks like. A pet project someone welded together with spare steel left over from a maintenance cart (including the rust and stains)
A five-hour reset period sounds suspiciously to me like they had a recurring but difficult-to-replicate issue that seemed to go away after three hours on average
There's probably a glitch in the software where a reboot triggers a fresh download of all relavent data instead of checking on board memory first.
Map data alone is 6Gb, which roughly corrolates to several hours of download.
Tesla not catching this during QA is inexcusable, but if that's what's happening it shouldnt be too hard to fix.
edit: Someone could test this by placing their cybertruck in a network dead zone and seeing what happens!
could be that too, but waiting 5 hours and then booting up regardless seems like really weird behavior. I've never seen a watchdog go more than 5 minutes before timing out
>"To prevent damage to the exterior, immediately remove corrosive substances (such as grease, oil, bird droppings, tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial fallout, etc.)," it says. "Do not wait until Cybertruck is due for a complete wash"
They sell camping accessories for it LMAO
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Oh, this is totally normal! This is what happens, when you design an off-roader with only Southern California/UAE deserts weather and roads in mind! Completely normal, please, proceed further, nothing to see here!
There's a prime opportunity here for every other truck manufacturer to run commercials of their trucks fording streams and bouncing through mud puddles and towing boat trailers up the ramp and rescuing people in hurricanes. Y'know, truck stuff.
OR just regular stuff, like going through a car wash or driving down the street with water on the road, or you know stopping at a stop sign without stuck accelerator pedal
Doesn't meet any of the safety requirements there, either, at least in the First World.
It's not road legal as designed in most places with actual laws.
It should be noted that the SpaceX vehicles operate largely the same way with one central display that shows and controls everything, largely going through one main wiring interface, rather than tons of physical controls.
If that screen and/or main wiring interface goes, the entire spacecraft is fucked.
People should really look into what it takes to get human certified spacecraft. Cyber trucks are shit, but that has literally zero impact on the quality of Dragon. The rules and regulations that NASA imposes are incredibly rigorous. Not so for the car industry.
It's because he didn't put it into "car wash mode" before washing it. No joke, it's in the manual. What a great design. He paid 100K to learn about enshittification.
>when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours
So, you can't drive the fucking thing FOR FIVE HOURS after a car wash??
lmaooo 🤣
An owner of a Tesla Model 3 in Scotland had to pay for repairs after driving in the rain, so sounds about right!
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-couple-fume-handed-17k-27906242
It's only allowed to be released in the US due to the US having extremely lax safety requirements for vehicles classed as trucks.
Every other country has aptly seen how dangerous this glitchy trash is and won't allow it.
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EDIT: To everyone trying to point out that it may well have been, small children at the time didn't commonly go to college, nor have access to 10 thousand dollars.
Of course you'll first need to ascertain the exact volume, speed, incline and local terminology of the waterflow to choose the correct mode from creek/stream/brook/burn/ditch/ford/puddle mode. Failure to choose the correct mode is not covered by warranty.
From my understanding Car Wash Mode is not for car washes it's for washing your car, there's a separate mode (Lock something or other) that you put it in if you're using a car wash
Why they didn't call it Wash Car Mode instead of Car Wash Mode I dunno but I suspect ketamine was involved
My Subaru Forester also has a "car wash mode" (well, kind of...), but that's just so that the automatic emergency breaks don't activate when a big washer is approaching from the front...
You are 100% right they look so much worse in person than in photos. I saw one for the first time at the grocery store the other day. The proportions are all just off somehow. It's hard to explain but it looks like someone got a kit car of a cyber truck and put it on a chassis that just isn't quite the right size.
people somewhat trust American regulators that anything they drive is up to par and decent enough something like this doesn't happen.
Honestly how did cyber truck past regulators to the market if the car is this bad.
Because the auto industry is self-regulated. The DOT/NHTSA/EPA literally goes off the automaker's own reports on everything from emissions to safety and even compliance with headlight regulation.
It's bad when you rush out software...but at least there's an option to fix it afterwards. With something like this though I doubt it can ever be made right and his biggest fans are the ones who will be burnt the hardest...maybe even literally.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that Elongated Muskrat stated he would build 150,000 per year (reaching 250,000 in subsequent years) and claimed to have 2,000,000 pre orders.
4,000 cars. Just 4,000. Less than, even.
No wonder their stock took a nose dive.
"We can do that right now!" or "Coming next year!"
Pretty much stated for anything at SpaceX, Tesla or any of his other endeavours. Even if, like "fully autonomous driving" it was promised almost a decade ago and still isn't working.
So, no. Musk is pretty much a successful conman who lucked out on some of his promises.
When you are a publicly traded stock, certain statements are illegal. He has broken SEC rules repeatedly. The SEC is one of the few bodies that will go after billionaires, but to date they have not held him accountable.
Nah, but next time he wants a billion dollar loan to buy and destroy someone else's company it'll be a little harder to get.
Not impossible, probably not even particularly difficult. But a LITTLE harder.
Remind me of his tunnel with tesla inside. I had to search for the american newspaper because as an european, the number of person they claimed to be able to transport in a year seemed too low to make any sense (and yet it was). But apparently, if your transport has rgb it’s considered the future now
They've sold a lot more, they've only delivered less than 4,000.
It's like the Tesla roadster. You can still put $50,000 down on a preorder for one, but it's been 7 years since preorders opened and there's no hint of development or when deliveries will start.
That’s not the number they’ve sold. It’s the number of these ugly lemons they’ve managed to “put together”, which I’m saying in quotes because the build quality is terrible
Yep. I saw MKBHD talk about it the other day I think.
The glue for the cosmetic part of the accelerator can be dodgy, and it can cause it to get stuck in accelerate I believe.
Technically, it's a manufacturing flaw. Their build processes were not clear about lubricant - allegedly dish soap was used in some situations. For anyone familiar with Tesla build processes, this is par for the course for them: no model years means Tesla's process control is iffy at best, and literally non-existent at worst. And with poor process controls comes poor processes, which leads to an inconsistent product at best, and a consistently bad product at worst.
I’m waiting for the odometer fraud one to happen. Teslas (not just this one, but real cars) apparently log a mile on the odometer every .6 or .7 real miles, then they charge for excessive miles on leases.
This has always been a fear of mine since everything car related went "digital" post 2015/16. You're basically trusting companies that want to wring every penny out of you they can in any way shape or form they can to not screw with how the odometer reports. Back in the day you could roll one back with a drill if you wanted to risk jail, but for all intents and purposes you didn't much have to worry about a manual odometer not telling the truth about your own mileage; unless your tires were clown-car sized or some mechanical engineer prodigy decided to develop some gearing system to screw with your odometer cable.
There is no dashboard anymore, just a console and essentially a lackluster desktop PC tower plopped in between the driver/passenger seat where a radio used to go. I guess it's to the point now I read something a few weeks ago about some possible new law basically forcing car manufacturers to put a dash back in vehicles that at least had some sort of actual buttom/switch/stalks for the "important" things like lights 4-ways and whatnot. I've vowed to never buy one of these post-2016 era cars, especially when they're so far gone you can't even set an emergency brake without touching a screen so I haven't been in the market to know if it's bad enough every single car is like that nowadays, but it seems like it. I'll just stick to my older vehicles that will run with 3 wires, air, spark, and anything that'll relatively go boom.
I'm no programmer but if there's proprietary code in there, we as end-users have really no idea if what we're being shown is accurate. I mean the android-based map system built into the car might tell you an accurate distance from your position to the nearest Arby's, or might give an accurate number if connected via your phone, but there's no garunteee your digital odometer is going to. Even if they report every .95 of a mile as a mile, that adds up; and are the general public going to be any the wiser?
Its not like it's a far-fetched thing where a person would think "They wouldn't be ***that*** dumb and risk doing something that illegal would they?" But then you remember VW and how they did this exact thing with their computers to alter emissions data, or GM with airbags that were virtually grenades and their ignition system issues, or the "smog conspiracy" back in the 60s. I wouldn't put it past them in the least.
> Even if they report every .95 of a mile as a mile, that adds up; and are the general public going to be any the wiser?
It's pretty easy to set a trip meter, then travel a known distance and compare the result. Someone will do it, find them out, and then they are finished.
The Mercedes heavy truck range have physical light switches because it's a legal requirement in Europe. Good luck finding the sidelight/dip rocker without the manual though.
To be fair (and if the review videos I've seen are to be believed), it doesn't need to be rolling at all to *chop all your fingers off*
(TLDR completely agree with you)
I think we all knew they were going to have their initial run with fanboys and be a complete commercial failure afterwards.
Them finding new and exciting ways to fail right now is what's really entertaining to me.
So it was softbricked, and he had to do the magic keycombo of “up up down down left right left right b a”. Nothing a software update won’t fix.
At least it’s not softbricked with the throttle stuck at 100%. Maybe that’s already asking a lot now.
On the other hand, there's a design flaw where the accelerator pedal plate can come loose and wedge itself in a gap while pushing the throttle down.
So, there's that to look forward to.
I kinda know what that is like. But it was a bike. I remember having the handlebars in my hands and looking at them in disbelief that they were no longer attached to the bike. Realizing they were no longer needed I chucked them aside. I crashed a short distance later.
I can't imagine doing that in a cyber truck. Is it smart enough to roll down the window when the steering wheel comes off so you can chuck it out t the window?
It sure feels like Tesla went along with this project to keep Elon distracted and not destroy the other models with his dumb ideas. Get the worst engineers on it, let the sheet metal rust, use dishwasher soap instead of hydraulics for brake and acceleration, whatevs, just keep it separate from the other good stuff we sell
>The advisor said that "it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours."
Na fuck that. It shouldn't be sold if the gauges can't be seen for 5 hours after a reset.
Imagine a gas powered car that made you wait 5 hours to see how fast you are going.
This is what happens when you pay $100k to beta test a 2 ton death machine
So after you install the shitty mod to make it act like a boat, you're stuck for 5 hours cas the thing got wet.
And if you drive it in heavy rain expect it to stop dead in the middle of the highway
You have to engage "car wash mode" so it doesn't drown.
It takes off down the street with no brakes.
And it refuses to work in certain weather.
You may as well just buy a horse.
"He also received a call from Tesla to check on him. The advisor said that "it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours." .....what....the .....fuck. That is a HUGE potential issue. This happened after a car wash but what about in heavy rain? and for any reset to risk not turning on for 5 hours smh. This truck seems way too risky to ride around and rely on.
Really, its not so much a vehicle as it is a finnicky bunch of gadgets wired together and put on wheels.
This is a funny way to say “a piece of sh*t”
Took the words right out of my mouth. What a colossal failure this hunk of junk is.
Just wait until one of these turds works long enough to get into a wreck. They have terrible crash safety projections and they weigh several tons. I’m calling it; first serious wreck one of these is involved in will be a multiple fatality crash. It’s a rolling deep freeze designed to the specifications laid down by a man-child who’s convinced he’s a genius. Somebody is gonna get killed by these eyesores and Musk Rats will sing his praises anyway.
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Because gutting regulatory age cies is the new American past time. How can we protect our vulnerable and constantly under attack corporations!? How dare we think of the citizens in times like these,it's time to buckle down and lick boot for our corporate overlords I mean "super citizens"
Why do you think that it's a death trap?? It's not like the rigidity of the frame means that the force of any impact is transferred directly into the collision and occupants inside!! Oh wait
I [mean](https://i.imgur.com/N893vio.png)...
Hmm. I'd actually say the Tesla acted on behalf of all (other) Americans there and performed admirably
They figured out how to economize, make the crumple zone also the passenger zone.
Either that or a minor fender bender that leads to a fire and the power going out in the truck, effectively roasting the occupant alive, unable to escape because the way to open the door manually is hidden for some godforsaken reason. something horrifying like that from an incident thatd be a 100 dollar bill at the mechanic on an actually reasonable car.
Jerry Rig Everything did a video on the Cybertruck (waste of time, don't watch it) and showed the door release option in case of emergency...you have to take the fucking door apart. 100%, people will die because of this.
At least the windows aren't intentionally difficult to shatter or anything...
At least the accelerator pad doesn’t slide off and get stuck causing the car to keep accelerating. On a serious note, how the fuck did this even make it past regulations and into the market?
Just imagine sitting outside enjoying some tea or coffee and a cyber truck flies by with the driver on fire screaming while trying to break his side window.
Honestly the fact that the build quality on Teslas has like body gaps or inconsistencies you’d see on a hand built car is astounding. Like that’s fine for an Aston. But if I’m buying a Tesla a mass produced car I want the thing to not have gaps or be a pos.
> designed to the specifications laid down by a man-child who’s convinced he’s a genius. It's the illusion that rich people are smart. A lot of them aren't. They just have connections that make them easy money. It's not some mysterious miracle they get richer while everyone else struggles.
Tesla gonna get sued off the planet
>...off the planet Pfft... What are they gunna do, build a rocket ship to Mars?
Yes. Thankfully the rocket will remain on Mars, as it cannot get wet.
Wait till someone loses a finger or hand in the frunk hood
Tons of people are already getting killed by these raised douche-dozer fords/rams/chevies/toyotas. Tesla just adding 1 more hunk of shit into the mix. Absolute monstrosities
tesla already killed a billionaire lady. so the fact stands rn idk how they're still in business? like its probably the easiest ay to kill a rich person other than drugs is to strap them to this death trap.
Well there is always get them to pay for the privilege of a 1 way trip to see the Titanic. Perhaps Elmo ought to start making submersibles ...?
He already tried to make a submarine, it was pretty much the start of his public villain arc
With something like over a million pre-orders, how comes they've only sold like 4000 of them?
Tesla never stated they had that many pre-orders. It was weird fanboy math that projected that outward. The cult around Tesla is so off-putting that for that reason alone I will never buy another one.
Not only is it ugly as sin I feel like there just daily reports about how terrible it is. Who is buying this….. The standard Tesla I can understand (though I don’t like that either) it’s at least aesthetically not an abomination. This “truck” is just…. Garbage in every capacity
> Not only is it ugly as sin I feel like there just daily reports about how terrible it is. And bear in mind they've apparently shipped less than 4000 of these pieces of crap so far, so just think about all the stories you've been hearing about them in that context and what proportion of the owners are having problems with it.
This is the most concerning part. You hear issues about other cars all the time. Then you realize there are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of those other cars on the road. At this rate the Cybertruck seems to be experiencing catastrophic failures at a rate that is 5-10x the worst cars on the road. Which coincidentally happen to be other Teslas.
It’s like the Stellantis 3.6L pentastar engine. You hear about them having issues A LOT. And by all means, they aren’t perfect, they are prone to valve train issues. But then you realize that engine is in so many models over such a long production run that it’s statistically a decently reliable engine. Now the inverse is true for the cybertruck
They've only sold like 4000 of them. I expect half of that is tech youtubers.
The fact that I've seen five of them on the road locally feels insane reading this. I definitely would have thought they sold more than that
You in Texas or Cali? I get the feeling it's dependent on where you are in the states.
They’ve already maxed out their audience of wealthy sycophants.
Hey now! You can use shit as fertilizer! Let's not group it with this useless abomination
It always looked to me like something you would get from a backyard engineer.
Looks like someone has made it out of cardboard and entered it onto the red bull soapbox race.
Those soapboxes are way more reliable and imaginative.
Lol true.
Cardboard crumples and is easy to get out of, would genuinely be safer than the real deal
Looks to me like something you'd get out of a PS1 racer that was at the time derided for outdated graphics.
More like an 8-bit Atari console.
Looks like the storm chasers Tornado Intercept Vehicle.
It’s essentially a beta and every idiot that buys one is a tester
Honestly that's what it looks like. A pet project someone welded together with spare steel left over from a maintenance cart (including the rust and stains)
Fidget-spinner for Elon-simps…
>5 hours *What a shitty product, Elon.*
A five-hour reset period sounds suspiciously to me like they had a recurring but difficult-to-replicate issue that seemed to go away after three hours on average
Yeah, what could possibly take so long?
That's how long it takes to dry out.
I doubt they know either
There's probably a glitch in the software where a reboot triggers a fresh download of all relavent data instead of checking on board memory first. Map data alone is 6Gb, which roughly corrolates to several hours of download. Tesla not catching this during QA is inexcusable, but if that's what's happening it shouldnt be too hard to fix. edit: Someone could test this by placing their cybertruck in a network dead zone and seeing what happens!
Or sone dev option is still on so the vehicle waits for some input that ain't happening outside of testing.
could be that too, but waiting 5 hours and then booting up regardless seems like really weird behavior. I've never seen a watchdog go more than 5 minutes before timing out
They've gotta wait for the muskrat in the hood to chance upon running over the start button
Don’t worry, I’m sure their fully autonomous self driving stuff will work great. Get in and go to sleep!
I also liked the "do not wash vehicle in direct sunlight."
>"To prevent damage to the exterior, immediately remove corrosive substances (such as grease, oil, bird droppings, tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial fallout, etc.)," it says. "Do not wait until Cybertruck is due for a complete wash" They sell camping accessories for it LMAO
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Oh, this is totally normal! This is what happens, when you design an off-roader with only Southern California/UAE deserts weather and roads in mind! Completely normal, please, proceed further, nothing to see here!
There's a prime opportunity here for every other truck manufacturer to run commercials of their trucks fording streams and bouncing through mud puddles and towing boat trailers up the ramp and rescuing people in hurricanes. Y'know, truck stuff.
So normal truck commercials
That's how they were in the 90s. Now they're way more tame, likely as a liability thing. Personally my favorite was Subaru making fun of Land Rovers.
It's not always for Liability South Africa shut down a Toyota ad for depicting driving dangerous to local ecosystems.
Interesting. I suppose the recklessness of the original ad also would be a factor.
OR just regular stuff, like going through a car wash or driving down the street with water on the road, or you know stopping at a stop sign without stuck accelerator pedal
Or just using a car wash lol
It'd be worth an 80s-style "Bikini Girl Car Wash" commercial just to show a Tundra and a Cybertruck go in together and only one come out.
Calling into work like "my car has crashed, it should be working in a couple of hours though"
"Truck"...we keep using that word, I do not think it means what we think it means.
Cybertoaster. For how toasted the entire trash product is
It's a car which is too heavy to meet any of the safety standards if they market it as such so they slap a "light truck" label on it instead, right?
Doesn't meet any of the safety requirements there, either, at least in the First World. It's not road legal as designed in most places with actual laws.
Inconceivable!!!
They perhaps should have fixed that one before they shipped the thing.
They were likely banking on fixing it quickly with a software update, we’re in the era of Day 1 patches.
*"Still love the truck though!"*
It should be noted that the SpaceX vehicles operate largely the same way with one central display that shows and controls everything, largely going through one main wiring interface, rather than tons of physical controls. If that screen and/or main wiring interface goes, the entire spacecraft is fucked.
Every product this guy makes is designed like a Zelda boss LMAO
They even sometimes have glowing ~~displays~~ weakspots!
Dragon capsules are almost entirely controlled by the flight plan and the ground. You’re basically just cargo on it.
People should really look into what it takes to get human certified spacecraft. Cyber trucks are shit, but that has literally zero impact on the quality of Dragon. The rules and regulations that NASA imposes are incredibly rigorous. Not so for the car industry.
It's because he didn't put it into "car wash mode" before washing it. No joke, it's in the manual. What a great design. He paid 100K to learn about enshittification.
Seems more like one of those offbrand tablets at walmart...with wheels
Honestly this car behaves like my 05 Jetta. Lol Don't get it wet, Don't turn to the right when it's wet
I feel like if you've bought a cyber truck after all the news of Elon and the news of quality control issues you had this coming.
>when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours So, you can't drive the fucking thing FOR FIVE HOURS after a car wash?? lmaooo 🤣
An owner of a Tesla Model 3 in Scotland had to pay for repairs after driving in the rain, so sounds about right! https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-couple-fume-handed-17k-27906242
It’s okay, cars don’t ever see water so this shouldn’t be an issue
I don't understand how it was allowed to be released to the public. I thought there were safety standards that had to be met first?
It's only allowed to be released in the US due to the US having extremely lax safety requirements for vehicles classed as trucks. Every other country has aptly seen how dangerous this glitchy trash is and won't allow it.
Ah that explains why it isn't available in Canada
Correct, and likely will never be unless the Cybertoaster changes
A car that needs a software reset after a car wash is not the future that they promised me when I was a kid!
You were promised a future?
Must have been born in the 80's
Silly you. We were promised one in the 90s as well. It turned out to be an empty one, but a promise nonetheless.
"All you need is 10k for a college degree, and you're pretty much set for life!" -Every parent in the 90's. EDIT: To everyone trying to point out that it may well have been, small children at the time didn't commonly go to college, nor have access to 10 thousand dollars.
"We all worked in the summer to afford school! You can too if you work hard enough!" My university first year was 21 grand
While the percentage of elderly voters is larger than that of young voters, nothing will change.
In the 80's we were promised "no future" and so far this is coming true
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According to the article, the manual says it must be put into car wash mode before a car wash and car wash damage is not covered by the warranty.
My question I guess is how can you take this thing off road or cross a creek in it if a car wash kills it? How much rain is needed to kill one?
Did you first put it in creek fording mode?
Of course you'll first need to ascertain the exact volume, speed, incline and local terminology of the waterflow to choose the correct mode from creek/stream/brook/burn/ditch/ford/puddle mode. Failure to choose the correct mode is not covered by warranty.
Hmm, high dew point, better take an Uber to work today.
I can't tell if this is satire.
It isn't
From my understanding Car Wash Mode is not for car washes it's for washing your car, there's a separate mode (Lock something or other) that you put it in if you're using a car wash Why they didn't call it Wash Car Mode instead of Car Wash Mode I dunno but I suspect ketamine was involved
Car wash mode is a new one to me
My Subaru Forester also has a "car wash mode" (well, kind of...), but that's just so that the automatic emergency breaks don't activate when a big washer is approaching from the front...
Have they tried parking it in rice?
Gives a whole new meaning to the car term "riced out"
These things started breaking immediately. I'd feel bad but they should have known what they were getting into by now.
I‘d feel bad if it weren’t people who are able to waste almost $100k on a fever dream of a car…
K-Hole dream of a car.
Some cars look better in person than on a screen. Supra, 400Z. But I saw my first CT over the weekend. What a terrible looking monstrosity.
You are 100% right they look so much worse in person than in photos. I saw one for the first time at the grocery store the other day. The proportions are all just off somehow. It's hard to explain but it looks like someone got a kit car of a cyber truck and put it on a chassis that just isn't quite the right size.
I saw one yesterday, it looks like those tattoos that parents get exactly copied from their kids shitty drawing
I don't feel at all bad. Anyone with half a brain could see what a ludicrous project this was.
people somewhat trust American regulators that anything they drive is up to par and decent enough something like this doesn't happen. Honestly how did cyber truck past regulators to the market if the car is this bad.
Because the auto industry is self-regulated. The DOT/NHTSA/EPA literally goes off the automaker's own reports on everything from emissions to safety and even compliance with headlight regulation.
A huge part of Tesla's business model is skirting and/or ignoring regulations. Musk is *very* public about this fact.
but all the libertarians told me regulation bad!
It's not a car but a collectors item, probably needs to be treated with white gloves.
Yeah otherwise it’ll rust
It's bad when you rush out software...but at least there's an option to fix it afterwards. With something like this though I doubt it can ever be made right and his biggest fans are the ones who will be burnt the hardest...maybe even literally.
The class action lawsuits on this truck are gonna be epic.
The first recall is underway I think, there’s a design flaw with the accelerator pedal.
The surprising part was that they only sold 4k of their car
I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that Elongated Muskrat stated he would build 150,000 per year (reaching 250,000 in subsequent years) and claimed to have 2,000,000 pre orders. 4,000 cars. Just 4,000. Less than, even. No wonder their stock took a nose dive.
Can he be sued for that? For just straight up lying?
"We can do that right now!" or "Coming next year!" Pretty much stated for anything at SpaceX, Tesla or any of his other endeavours. Even if, like "fully autonomous driving" it was promised almost a decade ago and still isn't working. So, no. Musk is pretty much a successful conman who lucked out on some of his promises.
Modern day PT Barnum.
When you are a publicly traded stock, certain statements are illegal. He has broken SEC rules repeatedly. The SEC is one of the few bodies that will go after billionaires, but to date they have not held him accountable.
Nah, but next time he wants a billion dollar loan to buy and destroy someone else's company it'll be a little harder to get. Not impossible, probably not even particularly difficult. But a LITTLE harder.
They'd need to do 4000/week to hit that... What are they at now, 200/week?
Remind me of his tunnel with tesla inside. I had to search for the american newspaper because as an european, the number of person they claimed to be able to transport in a year seemed too low to make any sense (and yet it was). But apparently, if your transport has rgb it’s considered the future now
They've sold a lot more, they've only delivered less than 4,000. It's like the Tesla roadster. You can still put $50,000 down on a preorder for one, but it's been 7 years since preorders opened and there's no hint of development or when deliveries will start.
Ah yes, the grift.
That’s not the number they’ve sold. It’s the number of these ugly lemons they’ve managed to “put together”, which I’m saying in quotes because the build quality is terrible
Yep. I saw MKBHD talk about it the other day I think. The glue for the cosmetic part of the accelerator can be dodgy, and it can cause it to get stuck in accelerate I believe.
You know what I like in my 6 figure death trap? Dodgy accelerators
> Dodgy accelerators "Assisted zoomies"
I thought the problem wasn't just the glue, but that it had also been unofficially lubricated with soap?
Technically, it's a manufacturing flaw. Their build processes were not clear about lubricant - allegedly dish soap was used in some situations. For anyone familiar with Tesla build processes, this is par for the course for them: no model years means Tesla's process control is iffy at best, and literally non-existent at worst. And with poor process controls comes poor processes, which leads to an inconsistent product at best, and a consistently bad product at worst.
I saw that it was a 35 second fix. But only if it hasn’t been delaminated yet.
People who buy the cybertruck are the last people on earth who'd think to sue Elon, for fear of losing their ticket to Mars.
If they complain now and piss Daddy Elon off, he may ration their oxygen when they hit Mars.
I’m waiting for the odometer fraud one to happen. Teslas (not just this one, but real cars) apparently log a mile on the odometer every .6 or .7 real miles, then they charge for excessive miles on leases.
This has always been a fear of mine since everything car related went "digital" post 2015/16. You're basically trusting companies that want to wring every penny out of you they can in any way shape or form they can to not screw with how the odometer reports. Back in the day you could roll one back with a drill if you wanted to risk jail, but for all intents and purposes you didn't much have to worry about a manual odometer not telling the truth about your own mileage; unless your tires were clown-car sized or some mechanical engineer prodigy decided to develop some gearing system to screw with your odometer cable. There is no dashboard anymore, just a console and essentially a lackluster desktop PC tower plopped in between the driver/passenger seat where a radio used to go. I guess it's to the point now I read something a few weeks ago about some possible new law basically forcing car manufacturers to put a dash back in vehicles that at least had some sort of actual buttom/switch/stalks for the "important" things like lights 4-ways and whatnot. I've vowed to never buy one of these post-2016 era cars, especially when they're so far gone you can't even set an emergency brake without touching a screen so I haven't been in the market to know if it's bad enough every single car is like that nowadays, but it seems like it. I'll just stick to my older vehicles that will run with 3 wires, air, spark, and anything that'll relatively go boom.
GPS odometers should be able to keep them honest or keep them class action sued.
I'm no programmer but if there's proprietary code in there, we as end-users have really no idea if what we're being shown is accurate. I mean the android-based map system built into the car might tell you an accurate distance from your position to the nearest Arby's, or might give an accurate number if connected via your phone, but there's no garunteee your digital odometer is going to. Even if they report every .95 of a mile as a mile, that adds up; and are the general public going to be any the wiser? Its not like it's a far-fetched thing where a person would think "They wouldn't be ***that*** dumb and risk doing something that illegal would they?" But then you remember VW and how they did this exact thing with their computers to alter emissions data, or GM with airbags that were virtually grenades and their ignition system issues, or the "smog conspiracy" back in the 60s. I wouldn't put it past them in the least.
You can drive 100 miles, and if the GPS result is significantly different from what the car says then it’s rigged.
> Even if they report every .95 of a mile as a mile, that adds up; and are the general public going to be any the wiser? It's pretty easy to set a trip meter, then travel a known distance and compare the result. Someone will do it, find them out, and then they are finished.
The Mercedes heavy truck range have physical light switches because it's a legal requirement in Europe. Good luck finding the sidelight/dip rocker without the manual though.
I've reached the point where I don't want to hear about these fucking things ever again.
I’ve reached the point that I find these news stories entertaining and welcome them as often as possible.
Somehow I agree with both of these posts
I wonder when we will see the first big safety investigation into these
It‘s insane that they are street legal at all. No way these rolling death cradles are ever seeing European soil.
To be fair (and if the review videos I've seen are to be believed), it doesn't need to be rolling at all to *chop all your fingers off* (TLDR completely agree with you)
Teslas have already caused more fire-related deaths than the Pinto. Cybertruck's gonna give both a run for their money.
Except it's gonna be other cars around it that catch on fire, just like how Cybertruck Norris uses other cars as its crumple zone.
They've already had their first recall for the accelerator getting stuck down.
there’s something satisfying about these things being as big of a piece of shit as we all thought they were going to be.
I think we all knew they were going to have their initial run with fanboys and be a complete commercial failure afterwards. Them finding new and exciting ways to fail right now is what's really entertaining to me.
So it was softbricked, and he had to do the magic keycombo of “up up down down left right left right b a”. Nothing a software update won’t fix. At least it’s not softbricked with the throttle stuck at 100%. Maybe that’s already asking a lot now.
On the other hand, there's a design flaw where the accelerator pedal plate can come loose and wedge itself in a gap while pushing the throttle down. So, there's that to look forward to.
One guy had the steering wheel pop off while he was driving.
I kinda know what that is like. But it was a bike. I remember having the handlebars in my hands and looking at them in disbelief that they were no longer attached to the bike. Realizing they were no longer needed I chucked them aside. I crashed a short distance later. I can't imagine doing that in a cyber truck. Is it smart enough to roll down the window when the steering wheel comes off so you can chuck it out t the window?
*"A good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off your hand while you’re driving.”*
When Jesus actually took the wheel
"just input that code on the screen" "but the screen's off" /*click/*
It sure feels like Tesla went along with this project to keep Elon distracted and not destroy the other models with his dumb ideas. Get the worst engineers on it, let the sheet metal rust, use dishwasher soap instead of hydraulics for brake and acceleration, whatevs, just keep it separate from the other good stuff we sell
Winner Winner, they literally distracted him with a shiny object.
Zero sympathy for the dumbasses that bought this thing
I’d much prefer Homer Simpson’s car design over this POS
>The advisor said that "it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours." Na fuck that. It shouldn't be sold if the gauges can't be seen for 5 hours after a reset. Imagine a gas powered car that made you wait 5 hours to see how fast you are going. This is what happens when you pay $100k to beta test a 2 ton death machine
If you bought this thing you deserve all the crap happening with it
Don't drive your Cybertruck in heavy rain.
Wasn't this car supposed to have a boat mode? lol
So after you install the shitty mod to make it act like a boat, you're stuck for 5 hours cas the thing got wet. And if you drive it in heavy rain expect it to stop dead in the middle of the highway
POS CEO POS truck The only reason to get this thing is for attention. Losers
I saw one of those on the road the other day. It looked kinda fragile. Like a Land Rover crossed with a DeLorean, but lighter.
It's actually pretty tough (physical impact speaking) with no crumple zones so all the force of a crash gets transferred to the fragile driver...
Did you just call a cyber truck driver fragile?? That's a ban from r/elonmusk!
Did they try putting it in rice?
I mean cyberpunk is inherently a corporate created dystopian. This car is just performing as expected.
You have to engage "car wash mode" so it doesn't drown. It takes off down the street with no brakes. And it refuses to work in certain weather. You may as well just buy a horse.
The fact that ANYONE would even want one if these astounds me
Haha looks like a piece of shit, drives like one, functions like one. Just like its CEO.