Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame
Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame
Owners will have to wait until April 20 for deliveries to resume.
Owners will have to wait until April 20 for deliveries to resume.
I read that Tesla being Tesla reinvented a ton of very standard components that other car manufacturers have been using for decades. So there are a lot of weird issues with Teslas that you wouldn't see in a car from an established car maker. It's Tesla ego which makes them think that they can design component better than a whole industry over decades and decades could.
When the Model S came out, I thought it was the height of cool, but I wouldn't consider buying one of their vehicles now. I think the only reason they even kinda did well was that the rest of the car makers were slow to start making EVs that looked decent and were priced reasonably. Now that the big boys are in the game, Tesla has been dropping the price of some of their models to try and stay competitive. But their cars have always had quality assurance issues, and their support isn't decent at all, since they try to blame customers for things outside of their control.
I read that Tesla being Tesla reinvented a ton of very standard components that other car manufacturers have been using for decades
If there's one constant in "libertarian" philosophy, it's that they always inevitably end up reinventing the policies/laws/processes/regulations they tried to ignore in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_fence
Libertarians think they're smarter than everyone else and never wonder why the fence is there in the first place.
The story of that random city/town is pretty great. Free State Project, I think it was.
It's not that Musk ever thought Tesla could design "better" components, it's that Musk knew Tesla could design proprietary components, and in there lies the grift.
Mostly i agree.
However:
Drive by wire is something that they should have implemented decades ago. It is a ridiculously proven and safe technology. Edit: just not in the Cybertruck. Or GM.The argument for drive-by-wire in personal automobiles is basically that it's safe enough for airplanes, so it should be safe enough for cars.
I mostly buy that. But there's a glaring omission in the reasoning.
In airplanes, there's a full incident investigation for EVERYTHING that goes wrong. Even near misses. It's an industry that (mostly lol boeing) has a history of prioritizing safety. Even at its worst, the safety standards the airline industry and air transportation engineering are orders magnitude more strict than those of the automotive industry and road engineering.
In real terms, automobile incidents should be taken just as seriously. Even near misses should have reporting and analysis. Crashes should absolutely have full investigations. Nearly all automobile deaths are completely avoidable through better engineering of the road systems and cars, but there is mostly no serious culture of safety among automobiles. We chose carnage and have been so immured by it that we don't even think it's weird. We don't think it's weird that essentially everyone, at least in the US, knows someone who died or was seriously injured in a car accident.
So yeah, we should have drive-by-wire. But it should also include other aspects of that safety culture as part of the deal. "Black box" equivalents, for example, and the accompanying post-accident review process that comes with it. A process that focuses not on establishing liability, but preventing future incidents, because establishing liability is mostly a thought-killer when it comes to safety.
...of course, if we actually took road safety that seriously it'd be devastation to the entire car industrial complex. Because much of that industry is focused on design patterns that, in fact, cannot be done safely or sustainably.
It is a ridiculously proven and safe technology.
In Planes, where there are 3 or more levels of redundant power and hydraulic systems with an ability to fail down to a limited mechanical operation mode if all the other backup systems fail. It's proven because they designed it with a stupid level of failsafes.
There's no redundant power in the Tesla Drive By Wire system, if the power is cut, you lose the ability to steer. You've got brakes, but you're without any of the assistance that the car normally provides. It's so fucking stupid I can't believe it's allowed on the road. If anything goes wrong that cuts power while you're in motion, you're suddenly captive in 3.3 tons of stainless steel without crumple zones, without the ability to steer, with naught but your unaided foot on the brake peddle to determine your outcome. It's nothing like the multiple layers of failures you'd have to endure to find yourself in trouble in a plane both for the power and the hydraulics.
The OG teslas had FOMOCO e-throttle pedal assemblies from Ford.
The problem is that Tesla is constantly changing parts during a model run, sometimes for the better (reliability, simplicity) other times for cost cutting and that is why I’d never own one. Because there are a million iterations finding parts to repair them, and I only buy 10+ year old cars (possibly nothing after 2010 at this rate).
Teslas are built like one time use smartphones. Only good for parts recycling after they fail.
Finally saw one of these in person as it drove past me in the oncoming lane.
Was being driven by the most Karen looking Karen youve ever seen, and she did NOT look happy driving it.
I literally burst out laughing from how fucking stupid it looks
Laying off 10%+ of the workforce is a bold move when they're already delaying deliveries.
How about blaming whoever came up with that dumb idea? Did they watch the "Homer designs a car" episode of Simpons and thought it was a good idea?
April 20. 4/20. Rriight. I wonder whose idea that was.
They built The Homer and advertised it as a Canyonero.
That's the best description of the cybertruck I've ever read. Well done.
Well it is Hitler's birthday, so to "funny number man and antismeite" Musk its a win win.
So...potentially unreliable, potentially unsafe, inefficient, expensive, bad quality control, bad customer support, and buying one supports a complete baby man to try to continue to mess with our country's politics. What are the benefits of buying one of these again?
The 4/20 restart date makes sense for a start-up company that needs to grab headlines, but that isn't Tesla any more. They are an established company in the industry now - it's time for the company to act professional.
Right, from the same CEO who sends the poop emoji.
There's something so incredibly Tesla about something meant to add a thin veneer of fake quality being executed poorly and causing serious safety issues
"owners will have to wait for April 20th" is nothing serious with this manchild ffs 😭
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Over the weekend, dozens of waiting customers reported that their impending deliveries had been canceled due to "an unexpected delay regarding the preparation of your vehicle."
But in 2023, a safety researcher in Minnesota published a white paper with a potential mechanism, showing how a voltage spike in Tesla's inverter could cause a car to experience an acceleration event.
That same year, a leaked trove of Tesla documents to the German publication Handelsblatt included more than 2,400 customer complaints alleging sudden unintended brake problems.
This time, the potential culprit might be a lot easier to identify than a defective inverter experiencing a random voltage spike.
Yesterday, a Cybertruck owner on TikTok posted a video showing how the metal cover of his accelerator pedal allegedly worked itself partially loose and became jammed underneath part of the dash.
Lending this theory credence, Whole Mars Blog, a social media account with close links to the automaker, stated on Saturday that "Tesla has stopped all Cybertruck deliveries for 7 days due to an issue with the accelerator pedal."
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Couldnt just be because they are an ugly embarassment to drive