Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’
Telsa’s designers have weird history with water. I get the sense that they just don’t do a lot of proper testing in wet environments.
For example, it’s not uncommon for a lot of Teslas to actually grow mold in their air filtration system because they don’t properly drain water.
For example: https://youtu.be/vQxP6PaSmLc
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“There’s no water on Mars so we don’t have to worry about it” - Elon, probably
Maybe that happens if you design a car like an iPod with a bunch of engineers living in California and Texas.
TX and CA do get plenty of rain. In fact, TX gets hit with hurricanes all the time.
It’s worse: they are not doing sufficient testing. This is why the larger manufacturers are passing Tesla by - they already have the standards and procedures in place.
Not to mention the other companies don’t have a volatile man child solely responsible for decision making.
This is nothing new from Tesla. My parents have a Model 3 and they can’t use a car wash at all with it. Hand wash only.
Appropriate, since I always reflexively start doing the Hand Wash gesture every time I see one.
And 9 cameras you have to consent to using. Total and utter crap.
This is definitely not true. Teslas can absolutely go through a car wash. They do recommend touchless ones, but pretty much every manufacturer does.
There’s gotta be some misinformation going around.
I rented a Mach-E recently and drove it a ton around Texas. I was warned at the desk not to take it in a car wash, but I also drove it through the craziest rainstorm my Yankee eyes have ever seen.
I think dragging them is the issue. They can get wet.
Gold bricks are worth like $750k so its definitely not the most expensive brick.
Yeah, but someone is gonna buy that gold off you as it holds value , not sure who they’ll be able to trick into taking it off their hands as it’ll be worth a sack of potatoes.
You’re telling me gold doesn’t immediately diminish in value after you move it a few feet from where you purchased it?
I’m going to blow your mind: it’s also capable of being run through a car wash.
Woah. Move over, Mercedes, Audi…other luxury car companies…FERRARI! That’s one.
From now on, I only drive Gold.
People pay money for actual bricks, I say we stop this brick-shaming.
Just to play devil’s advocate: throughout the history of capitalism someone surely must have made a more expensive brick (adjusted for inflation).
That’s the best defense I can give.
Honestly? Even the supreme brick was less expensive.
Standard “Good Delivery” 400-oz gold bricks are worth about $930k today.
The Vasa comes to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
USSRs space shuttle, although technically that didnt fail on its own.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)The failed Chinese attempts to use stolen SpaceX plans that resulted in at least one town that we know of being destroyed with toxic smoke and fire.
Virgin’s space program.
Boeing’s space program. Increasingly, the 737-MAX too.
Amazon’s space program.
Musk and the stupid decisions made around Starship, that resulted in over a year of setbacks since the launchpad had a woefully inadequate flame trench that everyone called out long before the first two failed launches.
The Titanic.
Related to the last one: OceanGate and the Titan.
When the Athenians starts the Peloponnesian War by invading a different city state than Sparta(to ostensibly use that city’s military against Sparta), but screwed it up, creating the conditions for them to lose said war.
I think the Vasa is still my favorite. All the others at least were able to leave the docks right side up.
Casa definitely was worth it, just in a different way the king envisioned at the time
The Buran was actually quite technologically advanced. It was able to fly to orbit and land itself completely autonomously.
And looked pretty cool
And they were smart enough to recognize it as a huge boondoggle and cancel it, before killing a bunch of astronauts.
It was canceled because of budget issues and also the fall of the USSR itself. USSR wasn’t really doing too hot at the time, economically. Not because it was dangerous. It was obviously proven space-worthy.
The only boondoggle was not iterating on the design, especially when they couldn’t launch intelligence payloads to polar orbits. They should have kept the original fleet and been given funding to develop another one - a “space car” for the Shuttle’s “space truck” - that could ferry lighter payloads and a smaller crew to more varied orbits.
I used to think like you but I’ve grown to like the Shuttle. Without it things like the final Hubble repair and building the ISS would have been a lot more complicated. Yes, it was a very ambitious design with more fatal flaws than we’ll ever really know about - what if it had had a major issue in orbit - it kept the dream of manned spaceflight alive, and built a ton of experience at NASA for managing manned spaceflight.
The biggest downside I see to the shuttle is how it blocked anything better. Spaceflight got stuck in a local maximum for 30 years, possibly solely to enrich certain congressional districts and well connected contractors. True reuse is needed to make manned space travel possible to more than a few elite astronauts, and the shuttle never had that.
I think we’re seeing two sides of the same coin: The fact that we didn’t keep designing new spacecraft is the problem. And I wouldn’t blame the shuttle for that, just the American people for losing their zeal.
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Honestly id trust a Pinto more than a Tesla, atleast if the Pinto catches fire or explodes the doors will still work.
Wait, so Car Wash mode has to be on while driving in the rain also?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The screen in the central console, which is absolutely essential to operating the Cybertruck because it hosts critical information like speed and rear view, went black as pitch and wouldn’t respond.
Meanwhile, the story was also picked up on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s other business empire, where an X user plumbed the depths of the Cybertruck owner’s manual, which routinely turns up comedy gold.
In this instance, attention was drawn to a line saying: "CAUTION Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage (for example, to the charge port or windshield wipers).
Despite the commonly held belief that the stainless steel body would be immune to corrosion, Tesla’s documentation once again served only to highlight the Cybertruck’s weaknesses, such as the lack of a clear coat.
"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.
Yesterday the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recalled all Cybertrucks due to faulty accelerator pedals, a problem that first emerged earlier in the week.
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How hard does it have to be raining to require car wash mode?
Car washing mode prevents the automatic wipers from triggering and the charging port from opening, so neither get damaged from the spinning brushes of an automatic car wash. It has nothing to do with whatever caused this issue.
So Tesla says they will have the Full Self Driving very soon now for real, but the car can’t figure out by itself it’s in a car wash.
This is literally an article about nothing happening at all.
Yeah but you’d actually have to read the article to discover that. For most people a headline about something bad related to Elon is all they need.
I would call a car that can be knocked out of commission for half a day because you washed it worth a story.
Read the article though. All that really happened was a delay in reboot. The headline is nothing like what actually happened, which was consumer mishap, essentially.
It needed to be rebooted because he washed it ‘wrong’. and its a known issue that after the car gets too wet reboots can take hours upon hours like this.
How are there so many things wrong with this vehicle? Like a total recall for the accelerator pedal sounds like the least of their concerns when the car can be bricked by a reboot and the exterior isn’t allowed to have bird shit on it unless it’s removed immediately.
I mean, I know why. But how? Aren’t vehicles massively regulated? How did any of these make it off the production line?
Depends on the local laws. It’s not road legal in the EU, for example
Thank god. At least I won’t die of cringe after seeing this on the streets.
Even if it were, it weighs 3,4 tons empty. Most EU Citizens have drivers licenses that allow cars up to 3,5 tons max. weight, including driver, passengers and cargo.
It’s impossible to use in the EU without an actual truck driving license.
“Truck driving licence” is rather simplifying it.
There are carious degrees of licences between B (up to 3500kg) and a “proper” truck driving licence, CE, which allows you to operate actual full combination trucks.
C1, one above B is basically a van licence, and that’s up to 7500 kg and up to eight people. This is a fairly common licence.
I myself have a C licence, which was also very common to drive when I went through driving school, and it has no weight limit. I can drive a truck of any size, but I don’t have an “actual truck licence” in the sense that I don’t have the CE licence nor do I have the professional licence for a C sized truck. (And I can’t drive buses, those call for a D licence instead)
So basically something that exceeds 3500kg but isn’t a professional vehicle is the only thing my C would be useful for. B class licence is certainly more common, but C and especially C1 are still plenty common.
That’ll change when EVs begin to dominate the market, they all weigh considerably more than their ICE counterparts.
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To all the chuds that bought this…
Insert Nelson HAAAA HAAAA
I really wonder if this is just an average shitty car and dumb people buying it ir something historically stupid. Like in 10 years. Youtubers make top ten videos about the dumbest car ever and on number one they are all like: well, we all know what that is, so we might as well skip it.
The 21st century DeLorean, only no one bothered making a time machine out of it.
Historical stupid.
My 2 unprofessional cents, I think the way this vehicle was executed wrong. Everybody understands metal rust even if it’s stainless steel, if you don’t take care of it correctly it will rust. Second, sharp angles on vehicles that will be used by family’s is by far reckless, videos show how sharp they are and how the front trunk can do some real damage to body parts. Lastly, we moved away from strong body structure to prevent deaths when accidents happen. Why are we going back to the 60’s car body structure? Yes we might have better safety equipment in vehicles now, but we still have vehicles that just have 1 airbag, seatbelts, and bad body structure safety.
“world’s most expensive brick”
Even this insult gives the Cybertruck too much credit. That piece of shit isn’t worth anywhere near as much as the actual world’s most expensive brick: a standard 400-troy-ounce gold brick, for instance, is worth about $930K today.
Those are called “bars” and not bricks, it even says so in your link. So technically it cannot qualify as the world’s most expensive brick since it isn’t a brick at all.
The largest one is 15 million dollars O_o
So Cybertruck goes 100% Elon now? … turns into world’s most expensive brick …
*prick
Imagine paying for this crap.
I have zero sympathy for any of the 3878 chumps who wasted their money on this vehicle. They knew exactly what they were getting
Quite a few really didn’t.
It’s incredible how delusional some of these people are, like Twitch Moderator being 100% convinced Amouranth is going to bang them if they spend enough in her Onlyfans tier delusional.
They are entirely convinced he shits gold and everything he touches is Star Trek tier tech.
He chased away the brilliant people to bounce ideas of and that made that stuff work. Now he’s left with a lot of sycophants who just run with every whim. It’s the common story for any authoritarian leader.
This is unrelated, but for the longest time i thought thatwhen people talked about amouranth, i thought they talked about that mmo streamer with the filthy room and similar name. I was very confused why everyone wanted to bang him and drink his bathwater.
That’s Asmongold. And the bathwater afaik was Belle Delphine. But maybe I missed some stuff, I’m not into that whole Twitch shit.
That’s a whole other can of worms, that isn’t even worth discussing. People like that need urgent psychiatric evaluations
You never know. Someone could make a time travel movie with it one day and then collectors will pay an arm and a leg for the left door.
“Tell me Future Boy, who’s President of the United States in 2017?”
“Donald Trump.”
“Donald Trump? The fraudster? Ha!”
Oh shit, the sun came out and I forgot to put my Cybertruck into “Sunlight Mode”.
It’s bricked now, but it’s really my fault.
“…a pigeon could shit on it, who knows!”
