A Tesla Cybertruck just stopped working after a carwash
A Tesla Cybertruck just stopped working after a carwash
The truck needed a complete reboot to become fully functional again
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“the truck has to be switched into ‘Car Wash Mode’ before washing”
Indeed. Maybe I needed to highlight this little tidbit better.
Still seems like it breaks anyway.
Is it sad that I can’t tell if this is a real mode and warning? So what happens if it rains hard, someone sprays your car with a hose, or you drive through a big puddle and you’re not in “Car Wash Mode”?
So what happens if it rains hard, someone sprays your car with a hose, or you drive through a big puddle and you’re not in “Car Wash Mode”?
Depends. Is the car in direct sunlight at the time?
Why does this make a difference?
Cuz they rust faster when wet in the sunlight. Known fact about the Cybertruck.
That is not ideal.
I think I like paint more than worrying about preventing rust on a new vehicle in the summer.
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All of these modes are also deeply nested within the touchscreen menu you have to use for everything while driving, because that's totally safe. At least there's a highly reliable self-driving mode that totally doesn't suffer from the fact that Tesla removed radar for cost reasons (they even disabled it on cars that already had it).
Mazda once measured that every single touchscreen input while driving caused a steering impulse and that drivers looked away from the road for a significant amount of time to navigate through menus. That's why their infotainment systems relied on a dial and buttons instead - until 2023, when they gave up and conveniently forgot about this study, because lots of
idiotspeople were complaining about not having a tablet computer to play around with while driving.No no, you're supposed to pause the vehicle first before operating the touchscreen, but that's a monthly subscription..
/s
I like that dial
And if you drive through a big puddle in small puddle mode, your cybertruck will automatically report to tesla and void your warranty before breaking.
That seems like a real mode but mostly around convenience? Rolling up windows, turning off wipers, neutral/free roll are all things you'd naturally do manually before entering a wash... I can even understand charging capabilities damage from not locking the port and having water forced into it, but none of this explains why a wash would completely kill the truck.
The huge panel gaps and central wiring harness would explain a car wash being lethal to the cyber truck.
You’ve got panel gaps as big as your thumb on some of those $100k “trucks” and from what I understand, every wiring harness in the car feeds back to one central harness. Get water anywhere on a live contact and it’s going to short something.
“Thermonuclear explosion proof glass” but it can’t handle a standard gas station car wash. Put away your guns and hydrogen bombs, guys. All you need to bring down the Pedestrian Crusher 9000 is a super soaker with some salt water.
Shit my 1999 Ford truck knows it is car wash mode without any of this fussing around. Just roll the windows up (or you know don't if you are feeling frisky) and the truck is in car wash mode.
You'd almost like to think a 'smart' vehicle would be smart enough to know when it's getting a bath...
😂🤣
So far, everything humans have created is only as smart as their creators and, well, we all know who is running Tesla.
I'm not sure who you're referring to. Do you mean that SpaceSex dude?
What's with that short link?
Fine, downvote me all day long for using tinyurl. If you prefer the original link which I archived, with advertising and all, here ya go...
I didn't downvote you, I just have a healthy distrust of link shorteners. There is absolutely zero reason for using them around here.
It's called a meme. Permanently archived, and makes for a nice small tidy QR code if one so chooses to present it that way.
Guess what my opinion on QR codes is.
Don't care. QR codes in it of themselves are a meme. Might as well do something ridiculous with them.
Also, not sure why you used some alternate service to reveal the full link, you can do that right from tinyurl...
You can edit comments you know.
See? More comment. Same place.
Cuz that's like what I do. Open it, it's harmless and rather funny.
Well to be entirely fair, if going through an automatic car wash, you have to put any car into Neutral so it's kinda like putting them into "carwash mode" lmao
I have never in my life encountered a car wash that required neutral for any reason.
You drive in, park, and wait, then when it’s done it tells you to drive forward through the blow dryer.
Are you like...16 and just got your license or something lmfao or maybe are you in the EU?
That style of carwash isn't widely adopted in the US due to the cost of complexity. The standard automatic car wash here is the conveyor belt type system that drags your car along and absolutely needs your car to be in neutral
TBF at least on the east coast the conveyor belt types have been being replaced over the last 20 years...
I don't even know where one still exists in the mid Atlantic.
Still makes them young though :p
They just opened a new one near my house, in Philly suburbs. https://www.jrscarwash.com/
I've definitely seen plenty of carwashes that have you park and drive forward. It's really a mixed bag, possibly regional as well.
Mid 30s in the US. Have lived in 4 states since getting my license. Never seen a conveyor-driven. Maybe as a kid and I don’t remember it at all, but certainly not that I’ve ever knowingly encountered as a driver.
You're used to in-bay automatic washes, but there are also tunnel washes that use a conveyor to pull your car through it. You need to be in neutral for the conveyor to work. Tunnel washes aren't as common in North America compared to Europe.
To be honest so does my watch…
So do you have to do this when driving in a storm?
no, no – for a storm, you clearly have to go into “Water” menu, then select “Natural” menu, then select “from the Sky” menu, then select “Storm Mode”
Good thing it has full self driving otherwise I'd end up in a pond!
And if you wind up in a pond you'll drown.
