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Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage'

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[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 258 points 3 months ago

"To prevent damage to the exterior, immediately remove corrosive substances (such as grease, oil, bird droppings, tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial fallout, etc.),"

Not washing it could fuck it up. Got it.

"CAUTION Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage (for example, to the charge port or windshield wipers). Damage caused by car washes is not covered by the warranty."

Also washing it could fuck it up.

[-] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

What does car wash mode do?

[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 61 points 3 months ago

I don't know about the Cybertruck or its charging port, but cars do have rain sensors to activate the wipers automatically when it rains. Car wash mode likely turns those sensors off to prevent damage to the wipers.

[-] heatofignition@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It must be something more substantial in this case, tearing the windshield wiper off wouldn't brick the truck

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 52 points 3 months ago

Or maybe it does, who knows. It's the Cybertruck afterall

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 53 points 3 months ago

CRITICAL FAILURE. WINDSHIELD WIPER DETACHMENT DETECTED. PLEASE CONTACT ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE IMMEDIATELY. DRIVING HAS BEEN DISABLED FOR SAFETY REASONS.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

FOR ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

It folds the mirrors in and puts the car in neutral. Stuff like that.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

So things normal people do to normal cars but with extra steps and Elon.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

Have you seen other people in a car wash? Park, reverse, drive but they start holding the brakes when the track pulls them along, leaving antennas up, not closing windows, opening fucking doors... A vast majority of the human population is some level of braindead.

Fuck me, I've seen someone pull up into a manual car wash bay, open all their doors, and wash the INSIDE of their car. This was not a washable interior like a Jeep Wrangler or something, it was a typical sedan with carpeted floors and cloth seats.

And these people (theoretically) are licensed to drive, right next to you.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 62 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but the car still ran afterwards.

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[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 103 points 3 months ago

Oh shit, the sun came out and I forgot to put my Cybertruck into "Sunlight Mode".
It's bricked now, but it's really my fault.

[-] Jordan117@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
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[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 94 points 3 months ago

Telsa’s designers have weird history with water. I get the sense that they just don’t do a lot of proper testing in wet environments.

For example, it’s not uncommon for a lot of Teslas to actually grow mold in their air filtration system because they don’t properly drain water.

For example: https://youtu.be/vQxP6PaSmLc

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 47 points 3 months ago

Maybe that happens if you design a car like an iPod with a bunch of engineers living in California and Texas.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

TX and CA do get plenty of rain. In fact, TX gets hit with hurricanes all the time.

It's worse: they are not doing sufficient testing. This is why the larger manufacturers are passing Tesla by - they already have the standards and procedures in place.

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[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Texas has plenty of rain and car washes. This is just bad overall design.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

"There's no water on Mars so we don't have to worry about it" - Elon, probably

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[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 90 points 3 months ago

"You wouldn't wash a car!"

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 85 points 3 months ago

Carwash mode? U wot M8?

🤣😂.... God bless these clowns for making me laugh.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago

"world's most expensive brick"

Even this insult gives the Cybertruck too much credit. That piece of shit isn't worth anywhere near as much as the actual world's most expensive brick: a standard 400-troy-ounce gold brick, for instance, is worth about $930K today.

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 70 points 3 months ago

Not even a water issue.

The advisor said that "it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours."

This is crappy and lax software testing and verification testing.

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 months ago

What even is a screen reset supposed to be here and why would you have to do it? Asking as a pleb conventional car driver whose screen just turns on and off with the car automatically.

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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

That'll be ~~80k~~, 100k.

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[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago

Can we just say that Cybertruck is basically a sum of everything wrong with right wing wackos?

"Look at me, I'm a badass, driving around in a badass vehicle, unlike you filthy libruls. ... Aww shucks! There's road salt! And my accelerator pedal just fell off wtf. ...OH NO! A LITTLE WATER TOO! Anything but that!"

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago

Oh no, WATER, how did they know it was one of my many, many weaknesses!

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[-] UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 51 points 3 months ago

How are there so many things wrong with this vehicle? Like a total recall for the accelerator pedal sounds like the least of their concerns when the car can be bricked by a reboot and the exterior isn’t allowed to have bird shit on it unless it’s removed immediately.

I mean, I know why. But how? Aren’t vehicles massively regulated? How did any of these make it off the production line?

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 months ago

Depends on the local laws. It's not road legal in the EU, for example

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 3 months ago

Just to play devil's advocate: throughout the history of capitalism someone surely must have made a more expensive brick (adjusted for inflation).

That's the best defense I can give.

[-] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 21 points 3 months ago

The Vasa comes to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)

USSRs space shuttle, although technically that didnt fail on its own.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

The failed Chinese attempts to use stolen SpaceX plans that resulted in at least one town that we know of being destroyed with toxic smoke and fire.

Virgin's space program.

Boeing's space program. Increasingly, the 737-MAX too.

Amazon's space program.

Musk and the stupid decisions made around Starship, that resulted in over a year of setbacks since the launchpad had a woefully inadequate flame trench that everyone called out long before the first two failed launches.

The Titanic.

Related to the last one: OceanGate and the Titan.

When the Athenians starts the Peloponnesian War by invading a different city state than Sparta(to ostensibly use that city's military against Sparta), but screwed it up, creating the conditions for them to lose said war.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 15 points 3 months ago

The Buran was actually quite technologically advanced. It was able to fly to orbit and land itself completely autonomously.

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[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

To all the chuds that bought this...

Insert Nelson HAAAA HAAAA

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[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

I have zero sympathy for any of the 3878 chumps who wasted their money on this vehicle. They knew exactly what they were getting

[-] Endorkend@kbin.social 19 points 3 months ago

Quite a few really didn't.

It's incredible how delusional some of these people are, like Twitch Moderator being 100% convinced Amouranth is going to bang them if they spend enough in her Onlyfans tier delusional.

They are entirely convinced he shits gold and everything he touches is Star Trek tier tech.

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[-] Addition1291@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

This is nothing new from Tesla. My parents have a Model 3 and they can't use a car wash at all with it. Hand wash only.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

And 9 cameras you have to consent to using. Total and utter crap.

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

I make sure to spread my butthole to each and every one of them while it starts up. It’s my morning ritual

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Gold bricks are worth like $750k so its definitely not the most expensive brick.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but someone is gonna buy that gold off you as it holds value , not sure who they'll be able to trick into taking it off their hands as it'll be worth a sack of potatoes.

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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

It was an expensive brick before the car wash, too.

[-] 0Xero0@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Wait, so Car Wash mode has to be on while driving in the rain also?

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Did they hire former boeing engineers?

[-] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

So Cybertruck goes 100% Elon now? ... turns into world's most expensive brick ...

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago

How hard does it have to be raining to require car wash mode?

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