The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem.
In the other recall, a trim piece along the truck bed can come loose and fly off, creating a hazard for other motorists.
Tesla says in documents that the trim piece is installed with adhesive, and that may not have been done properly at the factory.
Never buy the first model year of any vehicle. And that includes new generations with the same model name. They always have the most problems the first year, so you’re just paying to be a beta tester.
You would assume we have wipers down after decades without failure.
Wipers often are the only moving part still working after a car totalled.
No other wipers are this long and stupid though…
I mean, this amount of problems is still surprising for a first model year.
No problems yet in 5 years with my posh Toyota.
Same, but with 10 ish. I even had a Saturn with fewer problems, and those were notorious for issues.
Not only are you likely to get the most problems, you’re usually paying more for them as well.
Never buy the brand new model of anything. Computer, car, dishwasher, blender; they all have teething problems that are solved in later versions. Hell, in enterprise IT it’s common to be several major versions back and to pay for security patches rather than keep up with the latest and greatest.
Low VIN cars come with low VIN problems.
front windshield wipers that can fail
Seems irrelevant if the truck can’t even get wet
The perfect car for Ben Shapiro.
I’m shocked they sold that many
Over 2 million on backorder. They say avg 5 year wait, but if they’ve only made 11,000 (it was 4,000 for the first recall iirc) its gonna be waaaaay more than 5 years wait for those idiots
“Backorder” meant “Idiots with a couple hundred dollars”. “Orders” were a whole $100 fully refundable deposit. It was a complete non-commitment, and I know a ton of people who literally bought them solely to resell their “spot in line”.
I knew a dude who put in an order for 5, just to ensure he could sell his “spots on the list”. Dude was a service tech that couldn’t afford even the fake $40k price, let alone the current $100k price. I’ve seen tons of stories like his as well, so there’s a 0% chance even 20% of those are actually converting to sales.
Ahh didn’t realize, thanks for the info!
Right, I considered it …. I’m not interested in a truck but a fully refundable $100 to hold my place in line, for what was at the time the first EV pickup?
Rivian had shown off their EV truck a year and a half before Tesla announced the Cyber Truck. And it’s a much more useful vehicle.
I believe the Ford Lightning EV might have been in the works already too, but not sure if it was announced yet.
Rivian also started delivering its truck in 2021 after showing the concept in may 2018.
The truck was first shown in 2016, nearly 8 years ago, and only came out last year so there was about half a decade of hype building around this thing that was busy sucking in all the gullible rich people.
Honest question, what’s there to be hyped about? I haven’t ever looked into its feature set because it looks like ass. Do people just like the Tesla name or what?
I mean… It’s unique in it’s looks. I don’t know if that’s positive
It’s unique in it’s looks.
That’s what they said about me.
For many of those years it was the only electric pickup truck being advertised. And also, yes people do like the Tesla name. Musk and growing competition has done a ton to tank the reputation lately, but until just a couple years ago Tesla was far and away the best and most advanced electric car, and depending on your criteria the most advanced/best car period. Perception shifts slowly outside of well-informed groups, and the Musk hate is really only affecting well-informed left wing groups right now, so a lot of libertarian Musk fanboys are still fully on the Tesla train
Rivian and Ford are killing it in the EV truck space, which doesn’t help Tesla.
Rivian was also first to market and showed their concept a year and a half before the cyber truck reveal (where the first showed it and smashed its windows).
It was the first EV pickup, at the time of announcement, and the battery tech sounded excellent, as did the list of features. Most importantly the announced price would have made it one of the lowest priced EVs. How could you not get hyped?
But when it dragged out so long and they were going to deliver on features offer price, maybe they should have cut their losses.
At the time, I was saying Cybertruck was a huge success because it pushed Ford to build the F150 Lightning.
Now that it’s available for sale, and ignoring the looks/stainless steel aspects, I think the biggest thing to be excited about is the steer by wire.
Reviews seem to be saying it drives exceptionally well because of it, and that’d really differentiate it from the other options.
Edit: the steer by wire with the 4 wheel steering.
Let me get this straight: you not only actually want a vehicle that decides where to go based on software instead of with a mechanical linkage you can reliably control, but you also want Tesla, of all companies, to provide it?!
There’s a lot of Tesla hate on build quaility on Lemmy/Reddit, but they actually have some of the most reliable power trains and exceptional software. There was some problems back in the very early days of the Model S with the 85kw/h packs, but they’ve moved beyond that now.
Given this is part of the power train, and software, it’s right in line with their expertise.
I wouldn’t trust any software from any manufacturer to steer for me, at least not in such a way that I can’t easily disable and use a mechanical manual backup.
Also, steering isn’t “power train.” If you’re gonna lump it in with something, it fits closer to the [alleged] self-driving system.
So I looked it up, and you’re right, steering isn’t part of the power train. Looks like its it’s own thing.
I don’t think it’s right to lump it in with the L2 system though as it’s taking your input and translating it into the appropriate movement. The L2 driving system decides to go left or right and will send the same signal you would by steering left or right. I guess it’s just it’s own thing just like power steering is it’s own thing.
Obviously this is first gen tech in cars, but it’s been around for quite awhile in aviation with no backup mechanical link, we haven’t all died yet.
Tesla’s system is triple redundant, but that doesn’t guarantee something won’t go wrong, only time will tell on that one. Maybe we learn triple isn’t enough and the NHSTA mandates quad?
I do have a feeling though, that within 20 years or so, it’s almost all going to be steer by wire. It’s safer in the event of a crash as you don’t have the steering shaft in front of you. It also saves space from not needing all the mechanical linkage. I imagine insurance would have higher rates on cars that don’t have steer by wire as well due to increased risk in accidents.
Edit: I would add though that motors are part of their specialty, and the steer by wire system is using 2 of them, so they do get some of their existing expertise on that.
Edit: I guess the triple redundancy is on the steering input. Obviously with only the 2 motors, thats only double redundant.
Reviews seem to be saying it drives exceptionally well
I’m guessing here, but did 100% of these reviews come from a country with some of the worst fucking drivers on the entire planet?
What does that have to do with how a vehicle feels when driving it?
It was teased and unnamed in 2016c but we didn’t see the concept truck until November 2019.
The steering system and power delivery is interesting but not not enough to overcome the dangerously sharp, blind spot riddled, and impractical body design.
The couldn’t even be bothered to put a digital rear view mirror in the place other companies and third parties have been doing it for a decade.
Who said they sold them? There was a recent story where there was a parking lot full of them that was spray painted “fuck Elon” so we can assume there are other lots of them rusting away.
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The real story is they have 11k of this piece of crap on the roads
Actually half of them are sitting unsold in lots. They’ve sold like 5k
Hmm, at least they are not prone to rusting.
Aka all trucks sold, lol.
They have lots full of these oversized ugly behemoths.
Aren’t you supposed to test that shit before going live?
I mean most of the issues have been from the assembly process and not the fundamental design. However I would argue designing something you can’t reliably assemble is just as bad. Adhesive needs to be done right on every unit and it’s impossible to visually inspect it in this application. Clips are a pain in the ass but I’ll take them over glued on trim any day of the week.
Coming from the man who knows more about manufacturing than anyone on the planet
Now it looks like cars have early access periods
fail fast
When people pay over 100k to be crash test dummies
It’s all part of the “move fast and break things” development process.
What, take ideas from decades of vehicle manufacturing like a filthy pleb? Listening to lower IQ car engineers with decades of experience is just going to slow a genius like Elon down.
I’m sure an OTA will fix it. /S
Day one patches effect physical games too I guess
11.000 people bought one?! I figured just a few museums would’ve picked one, to display in their abstract art sections, or the “even when we knew how not to we still built shit” section.
No, 11,000 were effected by the recall. There’s way more morons with money in this country. I’m in CA and I saw 3 of them on my 10 minute drive to my favorite pizza joint.
I’m in Utah with <1/10 the population and see them fairly frequently.
Most expensive early access beta with pre-order ever. Tesla is the EA of cars.
EA is a more reputable company.
Oh no, anyway…
Either they hired from Boeing or Boeing hired from them
I bet Simone Giertz’s Truckla had working windshield wipers…
Are these things literally Little Tykes Cozy Coupes like wtf
Hey now those sons of bitches could be durable. I saw one get hit by a f150 once and the f150 had more damage. Dont fuck with the cozy coupes.
Yeah because Elon doesn’t understand the concept of a crumple zone. God forbid a cybertruck hits anything solid faster than 35mph, the people inside would get splattered.
A 35 mph crash would make the inside of that cyber truck do https://youtu.be/waG8YYTwpAQ?si=ncyl2l4IiP7GDLuk
Even a simple 10 mph “crash” without crumple zone would be painful to say the least
Great, now I have to worry about the morons buying this garbage flinging it at me.
Lol
