Only 3,800 cybertrucks sold after 6 months, all recalled

“My cybertruck wouldn’t stop as I mowed through pedestrians until I wrapped around a telephone pole. The doctors say I may never walk again. Still love the truck, though.”

: and the next time you talk smack, it'll be a gas station not a telephone poll

Holy shit, the problem occurred because of

“An unapproved change introduced lubricant (soap) to aid in the component assembly of the pad onto the accelerator pedal. Residual lubricant reduced the retention of the pad to the pedal,” the NHTSA wrote in the recall document.

They got Dawn all over the pad. Extremely unserious car company.

literally exactly what boeing was doing too lol (though not the worst of it)
Boeing type manufacturing process.
Someone though it was very big brained to save a couple bucks on cheaper lubricant?
- afaict there wasn't supposed to be any lubricant but sliding on the pedals during assembly was probably difficult and they "innovated"
They lubricated the pedals? Did they oil the brakes too?

Was listening to some YT clips from The Majority Report talking about how shitty these are.

I was completely unaware that washing the vehicle with water could 1) void the warranty and 2) brick the vehicle.

I was completely unaware and in awe of the silliness of also learning that tinting the glass can also void warranties for certain parts of the cybertruck.

I was completely unaware that washing the vehicle with water could 1) void the warranty and 2) brick the vehicle.

problem is that this was a known issue with the dolorean, how do they make this mistake again?
- At least the Delorean was cool. Might be worth pulling that out once or twice a year if you're a car person.
- Im betting the only thing musk knows about the delorean is what he learned watching Back to the Future
  
  Edit: i got interested in the delorean after commenting and saw it was also stainless steel, and also had a recall involving sticking accelerators. Heh.
- Why would cold water brick the truck?

i expected this be an enormous shitshow ever since it was announced but I have to admit elon really exceeded my expectations

I expected like, early model 3 bad, not "make the 737Max look like a Toyota Hilux" bad.

A pedal that falls apart really, just.. feels like failing at production step 1 of making a car.

They also failed at production step 0: make the car not look like a five-year-old's drawing
not just falls apart, wedges and sticks the throttle all the way open
It's worse than just falling apart too. The face of the pedal slides off the plastic base (because it's just press fitted, not attached with any fasteners) in a way that perfectly jams into a gap in the floor so it gets stuck at full throttle.

Don’t worry everyone, I’ve seen Tesla’s next innovative and revolutionary car model and I can safely say that the company will be back on its feet very soon

But how will me and my family die in a firey and preventable crash without my expensive suicide cart?

Lock yourself in the car and drown?
- Yes but the Tesla automates that process

Gonna be an uphill battle to fix, uh, everything else

Take it out of the bonus he wants to give himself, maybe?

God I hope this tanks his stock and puts his dumb ass out of business

He's already announced that Tesla will fire 10% of its workers and will chop down a forest to needlessly expand the factory near Berlin that keeps polluting the local water supply, so the stonks should be fine.
- If there's one thing that says "Our company is entering a growth phase" it's when you are laying off a large proportion of your staff.
  
  Btw Tesla's statement about it being 10% is debated because reports on the ground are that the actual numbers are somewhere between ~10-20% and Tesla is "accidentally" screwing people over on their severance packages - this could be greed, this could be incompetence (it's Elon Musk after all), but it could also be a cynical manoeuvre to try and recoup costs by any means necessary.
  
  I don't think this is moment that the everything collapses with the whole operation but it definitely feels like it's a sign of terminal decline - I'm skeptical about Elon Musk having any other aces up his sleeve and I don't see things improving on any front:
  
  The Boring Company is dead, his shitty Vegas tunnel is a disaster that they don't have enough money to throw at it in order to rehabilitate its image.
  
  Solar City is irredeemable garbage and people hate it, idk if anyone even takes it seriously these days but any mention of it is probably going to raise attention about the glaring lack of solar roof tiles.
  
  Tesla is hot garbage and they aren't going to get FSD or robotaxis any time soon, plus all the usual complaints (safety, quality, cost etc.) along with the empty promises about the low-cost options and new models that are vaporware
  
  Starlink is unfeasible on a technical and economic level. It cannot afford to expand its operations and Elon Musk is in hot water with the liberals over using Starlink as a geopolitical tool.
  
  Neuralink is the typical Elon playbook - massive amounts of (attempted) hype, very little to back it up with, and there's a whole lot of competitors elsewhere that are quietly doing similar things that don't make grandiose claims and that are making strides in this area. I don't see it going very far.
  
  Idk that much about SpaceX - there have been rumblings about it not being viable but I'm not sure as to the truth of such claims. I do know that they are relying on government money to be viable. SpaceX seems to be the most secure and sustainable part of Elon Musk's empire and that could change abruptly with one lost government contract or one disastrous launch.