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[–] [email protected] 100 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Shit the Cybertruck cannot handle:

  • Being washed in the sun
  • Car washes while not in car wash mode
  • Bird poop
  • Tree sap
  • Oil
  • Grease
  • Insects
  • Road salt
  • Towing something over 100 miles
  • Pressing the accelerator or brake pedals too hard
  • Closing the “frunk” without chopping injuring people’s fingers/hands
  • Self-driving
  • Bullets
  • Fast-charging
  • Puddles
  • Fingerprints
  • Hail
  • Metal ball
  • More to be discovered….
[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Thank you. Added.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How is this thing supposed to be used as a boat?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Elon never promised it would have a boat mode. I mean he did but it was totally a joke or something. Like when he said the cyber truck would start at 30k. Really funny joke.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Well in all fairness has it been shown that it won't float yet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You press 'upside down' mode on the screen, duh.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Ball bearings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Wasn't rain one of them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait, is the fingers though true?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've seen at least two videos on Youtube where the hosts were telling other people in the video to watch their hands/fingers when it was closing. I'm guessing no one wants to try it. Oh, and there was that video where someone chopped a bunch of carrots with a Cybertruck, so there is something to this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair my little Civic could snap carrots if I close the trunk on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did your Civic cost ~$80k and was designed by some of the world's top engineers?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No to the first question and yes to the second. Got it specifically cause of its low price.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honda does make some excellent motors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They also look approachable from a home repair aspect. I drive a PT Cruiser Chrysler before and Jesus christ the motor was made for ants, I couldn't fit my hands anywhere and any repair needed other things removed that were in the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Don't forget dogs pissing on the tire.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (5 children)

“the truck has to be switched into ‘Car Wash Mode’ before washing”

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Indeed. Maybe I needed to highlight this little tidbit better.

Still seems like it breaks anyway.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is it sad that I can’t tell if this is a real mode and warning? So what happens if it rains hard, someone sprays your car with a hose, or you drive through a big puddle and you’re not in “Car Wash Mode”?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So what happens if it rains hard, someone sprays your car with a hose, or you drive through a big puddle and you’re not in “Car Wash Mode”?

Depends. Is the car in direct sunlight at the time?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why does this make a difference?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cuz they rust faster when wet in the sunlight. Known fact about the Cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That is not ideal.

I think I like paint more than worrying about preventing rust on a new vehicle in the summer.

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[–] CaptDust 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That seems like a real mode but mostly around convenience? Rolling up windows, turning off wipers, neutral/free roll are all things you'd naturally do manually before entering a wash... I can even understand charging capabilities damage from not locking the port and having water forced into it, but none of this explains why a wash would completely kill the truck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

The huge panel gaps and central wiring harness would explain a car wash being lethal to the cyber truck.

You’ve got panel gaps as big as your thumb on some of those $100k “trucks” and from what I understand, every wiring harness in the car feeds back to one central harness. Get water anywhere on a live contact and it’s going to short something.

“Thermonuclear explosion proof glass” but it can’t handle a standard gas station car wash. Put away your guns and hydrogen bombs, guys. All you need to bring down the Pedestrian Crusher 9000 is a super soaker with some salt water.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Shit my 1999 Ford truck knows it is car wash mode without any of this fussing around. Just roll the windows up (or you know don't if you are feeling frisky) and the truck is in car wash mode.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You'd almost like to think a 'smart' vehicle would be smart enough to know when it's getting a bath...

😂🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (14 children)

So far, everything humans have created is only as smart as their creators and, well, we all know who is running Tesla.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Well to be entirely fair, if going through an automatic car wash, you have to put any car into Neutral so it's kinda like putting them into "carwash mode" lmao

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

To be honest so does my watch…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So do you have to do this when driving in a storm?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

no, no – for a storm, you clearly have to go into “Water” menu, then select “Natural” menu, then select “from the Sky” menu, then select “Storm Mode”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good thing it has full self driving otherwise I'd end up in a pond!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

Saw earlier today and still laughing, needs to catch on - the Incel Camino

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

"Have none of you idiots ever heard of rain?????", the PM exasperated to the Engineers after being told the drone went rogue as it was washed before its presentation to the board.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You also can’t drive any Tesla vehicles in the rain. Source

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