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.
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.