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

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    “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.

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        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.

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

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            Water gets into the body, which lacks fluid drains and accumulates water, which can potentially reach wiring.

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              I seriously don’t understand how this could be possible. How does the car manage rain water?

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                  I don’t think it’s meant to be driven.

                  I mean… It’s not even meant to be a vehicle, tbh. It’s an ego trip, status symbol, or virtue signal (pick up to 3) in the form of a vehicle.

                  The part where it can propel itself and it’s occupants from place to place is, in fact, a bonus feature.

        • db2@lemmy.world
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          So things normal people do to normal cars but with extra steps and Elon.

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            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.

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                  Doesn’t it say that the vehicle was bricked, meaning it wouldn’t run after going through the car wash? Isn’t that what happened?

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        Also locks the charging port, turns off the AC, locks the doors and windows. Still nothing that should prevent the car from breaking in a car wash…

        Also, upon reading the article, seems like the car was fine after a reset, it just took 5 hours. Didn’t have anything to do with the car wash it seems.

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      It’s worse than that, washing the car even in wash mode will damage the car because the fucking thing is made out aluminum stainless steel, you know, a mineral that corrodes if exposed to water long enough. It’s mind boggling how badly designed this car is.

      Edit: sorry, confused my minerals there.

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            Breaking Bad. Macho man starts collecting minerals. His wife (Marie) refers to them as rocks. He ends up shouting something similar.

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        There’s a few things wrong here. First, it’s made of steel, which is iron and not aluminum. Second, neither of those is as mineral. Third, aluminum has pretty good corrosion resistance in terms of metals.

        None of that is to say that Tesla had any idea what they were doing when designing this monstrosity.

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      They could have solved this with a layer of clear coat.

      Without that, every single one will eventually patina.

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        To be fair patina looks cool on certain things, I just wouldn’t feel comfortable with it on any loving object, who knows what it could damage.

        Edit: err um I meant moving not loving. Unless?

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      FYI you’re supposed to remove all that from normal cars too, it’s not good for the clear coat/ paint

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    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.

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    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

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

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        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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          Not to mention the other companies don’t have a volatile man child solely responsible for decision making.

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          True, and GM makes plenty of cars that rust at the drop of a hat. My old truck had its brake lines sandwiched between the bed and the frame, and they weren’t non-corrosive, so these things regularly fail if you don’t keep them dry.

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    “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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      Those are called “bars” and not bricks, it even says so in your link. So technically it cannot qualify as the world’s most expensive brick since it isn’t a brick at all.

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    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.

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      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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        It’s just like in my model 3 or my wife’s Teluride, the info screen/software can lock up or get stuck in a weird state and both have a way to reset it.

        Normally neither would be a big deal, I push a button(s) and the screen goes black, it comes back up, again no big deal but at least with the Teluride, there’s a the instrument cluster and heads up display to show your speed. I’m assuming the cyber truck is like my model 3 where the speed is only shown on the center screen. If it take’s five hours over the minute of downtime, well that’s going to be a problem. That said, in my model 3, I’ve only had to do this a handful of times on my model 3, mostly because the radio isn’t working and only once on the newer Teluride because the map was stupid.

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          Jesus I thought the software on my ford was bad. And it is bad but it doesn’t randomly stop working for no reason and have a reset button to fix it. It just doesn’t break.

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          Oh, so an actual reset button like on a PC! Its existence alone is admitting that the firmware is shit. An embedded system should never freeze.

          But admittedly, most car infotainment systems freeze/crash occasionally nowadays. Mine as well but it went with the Microsoft BSOD “solution” and restarts automatically.

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            Yeah, most infotainment systems hide their memory leaks behind the fact that when you turn the car off, you reset the computer. Not so in an always on EV.

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            So I’ll push back and state that infotainment systems aren’t embedded systems, more akin to a phone OS with the wide array of UX applications.

            But yeah these infotainment systems are often left running on newer cars for connectivity and other features and just like any other OS, leaving it up and running is going to slow and get unstable over time for to memory usage.

            Like I said, mostly not a big deal unless you’re a Tesla and critical information is there and you didn’t regression test properly.

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    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!”

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    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?

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        Even if it were, it weighs 3,4 tons empty. Most EU Citizens have drivers licenses that allow cars up to 3,5 tons max. weight, including driver, passengers and cargo.

        It’s impossible to use in the EU without an actual truck driving license.

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          “Truck driving licence” is rather simplifying it.

          There are carious degrees of licences between B (up to 3500kg) and a “proper” truck driving licence, CE, which allows you to operate actual full combination trucks.

          C1, one above B is basically a van licence, and that’s up to 7500 kg and up to eight people. This is a fairly common licence.

          I myself have a C licence, which was also very common to drive when I went through driving school, and it has no weight limit. I can drive a truck of any size, but I don’t have an “actual truck licence” in the sense that I don’t have the CE licence nor do I have the professional licence for a C sized truck. (And I can’t drive buses, those call for a D licence instead)

          So basically something that exceeds 3500kg but isn’t a professional vehicle is the only thing my C would be useful for. B class licence is certainly more common, but C and especially C1 are still plenty common.

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            You don’t? Honestly, I never thought about it. I use them interchangeably. Most programs I use, accept both signs. But comma is the standard.

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          That’ll change when EVs begin to dominate the market, they all weigh considerably more than their ICE counterparts.

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        Thank god. At least I won’t die of cringe after seeing this on the streets.

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      Vehicle regulations are typically only for emission standards or exhaust loudness. For the most part as long as the vehicle can do the speed limit there’s very little regulation on the matter.

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        You’re forgetting the annual safety inspection required in most US states. That’ll catch stuff like brakes wearing out, taillights and headlights that need to be replaced, and other stuff.