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

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    2 years 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!”

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      I’m amused that liberals bash Tesla for being a conservative virtue signaler by extension of Elon, while conservatives bash Tesla for being an EV virtue signal for liberal tree huggers.

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          The craziest thing is it was already overvalued, Elon got “forced” into selling at peak, and then tanked the company he bought with it too. Just unreal clown behavior.

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

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    So, it would block the exit of that car wash because it’s playing dead and sulking?

    Then you need to ask some random people to help you push it away to the side, and everyone gets a good laugh …😅

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      Would you even be able to move it? You’d have to put it in neutral first so you can attempt to push it but good luck with that if it’s bricked. I know electric cars generally shouldn’t really be towed either (a few meters might be okay but I’m not sure).

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

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      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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        People pay money for actual bricks, I say we stop this brick-shaming.

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        You’re telling me gold doesn’t immediately diminish in value after you move it a few feet from where you purchased it?

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            Woah. Move over, Mercedes, Audi…other luxury car companies…FERRARI! That’s one.

            From now on, I only drive Gold.

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

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

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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.

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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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.

        • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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          That’s never happened to me in my life. The only time the state ever “inspects” my vehicle is if I’ve already been pulled over for something like my exhaust

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            I did say “most” states. I used to work at a car dealer’s service department, and I’ve seen some cars come in where they don’t have a state inspection sticker because the owner just moved from a state that doesn’t do state inspections.

            Because of that job, I’ve also seen stickers from other states that do do state inspections. Most of them will be on the windshield either in the bottom corner on the driver’s side or in the bottom center. They’ll list a month and year as numbers (ex. 8 and 24 for August 2024) for when the inspection sticker expires.

            So, at least in my state, someone with 8/24 on their sticker would at least need to drop their vehicle off at a mechanic (not necessarily the car dealer, just a mechanic authorized to do state inspections) by the last day of the month. If the mechanic doesn’t do the inspection until the the beginning of the next month, that’s fine. You’d just get a sticker that says 9/25 on it when they’re done.

            • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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              I mean conceptually that sounds fine like our vehicles should be inspected to ensure proper maintenance. The only problem I can see with that is poor people like myself.

              I’ve gotten ticketed for having a loud exhaust because I was a pizza delivery driver and our cities roads are so bad doing the speed limit will total your car. I didn’t hand the money to fix my exhaust which is what I told the officer who basically said “Now you’ll have even less money” before handing me the $150 ticket.

              I need a car for work (I don’t work pizza anymore but still have a 30 minute drive) just because one aspect of my car isn’t up to code doesn’t mean I don’t still need my car to get to work.

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      You never know. Someone could make a time travel movie with it one day and then collectors will pay an arm and a leg for the left door.

      • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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        “Tell me Future Boy, who’s President of the United States in 2017?”

        “Donald Trump.”

        “Donald Trump? The fraudster? Ha!”

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      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.

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        He chased away the brilliant people to bounce ideas of and that made that stuff work. Now he’s left with a lot of sycophants who just run with every whim. It’s the common story for any authoritarian leader.

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        convinced Amouranth is going to bang them if they spend enough in her Onlyfans tier

        Escort services were invented for people like this

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            That’s Amaranthe you’re thinking of. If you’re a fan of the Swedish metal ‘soprano and gravel’ sound they’re well worth a listen.

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        This is unrelated, but for the longest time i thought thatwhen people talked about amouranth, i thought they talked about that mmo streamer with the filthy room and similar name. I was very confused why everyone wanted to bang him and drink his bathwater.

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          That’s Asmongold. And the bathwater afaik was Belle Delphine. But maybe I missed some stuff, I’m not into that whole Twitch shit.

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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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        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.