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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 99 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love the "peasant trying to give criticism to the king without getting beheaded" vibe

[–] JayTwo@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's hard to know how many truly kiss his ass vs how many are afraid that if they say anything bad online he'll make some calls and their car will stop working or their repair office will tell them it's not fixable nor under warranty leaving them with an expensive pile of inoperable junk.

Being that he's cancelled preorders of vocal critics and has been caught purposely breaking things for critical accounts before at xitter, it's not actually that far-fetched a fear.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I didn't mean to imply it's irrational, it's just very very funny

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

There is also a sort of rule with Tesla that if you make negative posts about their cars you get knocked down on the service list. Posts like this are basically service requests because of they get enough traction Musk will see and be might pay them to take it down.

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[–] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That fucking thing dead ass LOOKS like original fucking PlayStation graphics in real life. Like dead ass.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've never seen a video of it and I'm laughing imagining that it has vertex jitter irl

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[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

The car literally tried to kill him and his family, yet he still grovels like a dog to worship Elon.

What level of delusion is this?

[–] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that these things cost near 100 thousand dollars and anybody who bought one is the enemy of your class.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

i see them around my neighborhood.. they're the ugly as hell but there is always an uglier mfer driving it

[–] JayTwo@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

One of Tesla's "innovations" on the cybertruck is doing away with all the "messy" individual wiring harnesses and running a single one throughout the car which daisy chains into the individual components.

Which is why we're gonna start seeing a lot more of these catastrophic failures soon.

https://twitter.com/cybrtrkguy/status/1731658374775771297

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So if something happens to this wire is everything fucked?

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Yep. This is similar to the way ring circuits work, and those were done for the exact same reason: saving on copper. I lived in a building where all the light switches and outlets were inexplicably wired in series, and it was super fun how any time anything went wrong there would just be no power til maintenance came and fixed it.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Or any component along the daisy chain.

Had a similar issue with an old Passat where the head unit was wired inline with the dome lights and when the bulb burnt out the radio stopped.

Was probably a homegamer job though

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

capitalism is when no redundancy

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[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why are people still giving Tesla money?

What a godamn cult.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Because the US banned Chinese EV imports

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[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have an acquaintance who bought a Tesla (not the truck) and has done nothing but complain about how shitty the build quality is and how cheap the interior feels. Instead of realizing that he got scammed, he's just decided that he must not have gotten an expensive enough model, and is looking to drop $75,000 or so on the next model up. It's nuts.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It really is wild how the design philosophy of American production is "build cheap bullshit and then charge more money so people assume it's higher quality than it is"

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[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I absolutely love your car Mr. Musk apart from the fact that everything about it sucks big time.

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would have to happen for him to dislike..?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago

If a Tesla commercial featured a PoC or a trans person.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

I have to investigate further but I might follow this guy. It's possible that he's a bit made real.

Buying prototypes for 100k might be a bit risky.

Production car.

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

All of the reviews for this POS mentioned how the steering wheel wasn't actually connected to the steering, it all runs through the buggy ass computer instead, and literally all of them tried to spin it as a positive by saying "it's just like how modern airplanes work!"

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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another big Tesla stan and YouTuber took his on a roughly 1200mile road trip.

The range in the real world was so bad it barely got over 100miles before needed to recharge, Tesla also hasn't realised/dealt with the fact that the charging cables on a lot of the Tesla supercharger network aren't long enough to really reach the CyberTruck charging port because of its shit location, and the infotainment screen (which does basically everything) broke twice for hours at a time going black and unresponsive.

Despite that he still loves it.

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[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A catastrophic failure so soon after release? These fucking things are gonna be on the road 2 years max and then it's time to retire it.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

hopefully diy people get some cheap batteries out of it

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alpha male with an alpha car lol

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2 minutes in the sheets, 2 Years on the streets

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[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 year ago

buy overpriced junk win overpriced headaches

[–] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

But other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's scared that if he says it isn't good he'll have another "catastrophe failure" while driving

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I'm sorry, Dave... What was that?"

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[–] Juice@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't even talk about how shitty it is without talking about how great it is. "This curse is so good you guys"

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All the serfs are just jealous of us villeins who are important enough to be cursed by witches.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Saw a bizarre interaction between two Tesla drivers.

I was a passenger in a Tesla, and we were waiting at a red light. Another Tesla pulled up on my side. The driver of the Tesla I was in rolled down the window on my side and leaned over, and the other Tesla driver rolled down his window and they both started talking about each other’s Teslas. Asking shit like “Is that the Model X?” “Oh no it’s the Model Shit v5”

Afterwards they drove off their own way.

These were complete strangers.

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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why can't these freaks just buy a normal car like everyone else?

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

protectionism prevents reasonable chinese EVs from entering the american market

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not why. It's because they're Elon simps. They wouldn't be caught dead in a Chinese car.

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[–] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How does the steering and brakes of a brand new car simultaneously catastrophically fail? I know that Tesla is run by imbeciles but I still don't understand how that could happen

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[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Based Elon, bourgie deathtrap salesman

[–] davel@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blue Check bootlickers.

Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.
Yeah, I know; and such small portions!

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[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Gta III maibatsu monstrosity ad but electric

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