Tesla, the electric car company owned by Elon Musk, has recalled thousands of its new Cybertrucks over safety concerns.
It is because their accelerator pedals currently risk getting trapped by the interior trim, increasing the possibility of crashes.
The BBC recently spoke to a whistleblower at the company who had raised concerns over the safety of pedals of previous Tesla models.
Tesla has been contacted for comment.
The recall affects 3,878 Cybertrucks, which cost roughly $61,000 (£48,320), made between November 2023 and April 2024.
“A trapped accelerator pedal can cause the vehicle to accelerate unintentionally, increasing the risk of a crash,” the US Department of Transportation wrote in a notification of the recall.
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3,878 fuglytruks is the apparently the entire fleet. That is the really big story here. The fuglytruk is a flop. Nobody wants an 80k rust bucket.
Tesla: Recalls are easier and cheaper if you keep sales low
Taps forehead meme
That’s more than Ford F150 lighting sold in the same starting period back in 2022,and its more than GM sold of the Silverado EV that started months earlier.
Ramps aren’t linear and start slow.
The F150 EV is not exactly a success.
I mean in the grand scheme of things you’re right, but clearly the CyberTruck is doing better than the non fugly trucks in the same time frame.
It’ll be awhile longer though before we actually know how it’s going to do.
It’s ok they will send out a firmware update to make the brake the accelerator and the accelerator the brake.
I question whether or not Tesla will be around in 3 years. The Cybertruck has been one giant cash sink that has delivered a giant rusty lemon. They cancelled their latest consumer grade car. Their next product is robo-taxis and that’s with a history of driver death from their self-driving tech. And the major car brands have caught up or are at Tesla’s heels.
Tesla still has advantages like an extensive charger network and the appearance of FSD on the horizon to general consumers. People that follow EV closely know there are better options, but they’re a minority.
Not to mention the fact that places like Lemmy give the company and its CEO never-ending free press and coverage.
appearance of FSD on the horizon
It’s been on the horizon for the last 7 years or so.
Thus why I specifically said appearance and also mentioned it was for the uninformed.
I don’t believe FSD is anywhere close to commercially viable for Tesla.
Reality doesn’t matter when you’re selling an idea or image. Its really easy to get lost in our nerd bubble and think everyone else reads about this stuff every day.
Yeah, I think fully self-driving cars are pretty much impossible unless all vehicles on the road are fsd, and reporting information to a single central network.
There’s just too many interconnected variables that can cause cascading newton like chains of cause and effect. For example something as simple as a little bit of rain vs a moderate amount of rain has drastically different effects on the coefficient of friction of the tires and road.
Yeah, I think fully self-driving cars are pretty much impossible unless all vehicles on the road are fsd, and reporting information to a single central network.
In other words, impossible forever because there are plenty of legitimate road users that will never be self-driving, such as bicycles.
“legitimate road users” “such as bicycles”
Not recognized in America.
like an extensive charger network
To be fair, that “advantage” shouldn’t even exist.
We shouldn’t have different chargers for cars just like we don’t have different gas stations.
Sure?
That doesn’t affect reality though.
I’d argue the lease business carries them big time. But 2nd hand leases don’t generate money for them … they might get some spare change from subscriptions but their support has to carry over to older vehicles no longer providing profit.
I have two comments which I shall illustrate with the following images:
Thanks to the innovative dome design The Homer has better visibility than most cars on the market
Yeah but it’s murder in the sun. Half your gas is gonna go to trying to keep the temperature in that thing under “sweltering.”
I’m a Canyonero man myself.
The Canyonero at least looked like a plausible vehicle.
That episode was from 1998. If you showed someone a picture of a Cybertruck in 1998 and said that was an actual truck in 2024, they’d ask you when the nuclear war happened.
The cybertruck legit looks like a video game from '98 that couldn’t render enough polygons
Ya the Cybertruck does looks straight out of a dystopian future. Maybe it’ll be popular when it’s safe to come out of the vaults in 200 years.
The people of the Fallout universe scoff at our feeble electric trucks as they cruise around in their nuclear powered mini-cars.
The greatest trick Tesla ever pulled was convincing the world it was a car company and not a meme stock.
This headline is definitely a perfect encapsulation of the current state of all things Musk-related.
Other articles are reporting that they used soap as a “lubricant”.
Like they’re Beoing.
Aren’t those things almost double the weight of a typical truck? That and 100% torque from a dead stop (because electric) is horrifying if it accelerates unintentionally. I always see this one guy cruising around every weekend in a dense shopping mall near me just to show it off. I can’t imagine if that thing plows into a busy shopping area.
Let us once again remember how Musk boldly state that he knows more than anyone alive about manufacturing.
Thr most innovative car manufacturer in the world. They are just pioneering new accelerator behavior. Musk truly is the visionary of the generation.
I fell asleep behind the wheel for maybe four seconds one time (the dreaded double clopen) and have had infrequent nightmares of being trapped in a vehicle that is uncontrollably accelerating ever since
The great thing about living in the future is that your dreams are daily becoming a reality
