• happybadger [he/him]
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    There is a video of a cybertruck driving through around 1m of water in wade mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKAEHMvvxg

    Cheap plastic panels fall off in two places seemingly without any impact, exposing the whole underbelly and electrical system in the rear to water. The body retains water hours later and the buttons to open the trunk no longer work with them progressively failing in the hours since.

    “Overall guys, things do seem to be… fairly normal. I do hear some water sloshing around in there. I’m guessing it will, kind of, you know, get out of where it’s at. Overall the front was pretty dry. The trunk was pretty dry.”

    -you-are-a-serf

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      How the fuck did this completely unimpressive, incredibly stupid dipshit get such a cult following they’ll make a positive review video of their 80k vehicle having multiple failing systems after driving through a large puddle?

    • booty [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      lol he drove through 2 puddles and it literally broke the car in at least 2 different immediately apparent places (edit: and broke the electronics)

      that’s kwality right there

    • bleepbloopbop [they/them]
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      the sad part is it might have survived relatively unscathed if he’d just gone slow (also if it wasn’t fucking shaped like a brick), but that wouldn’t match the fake image of an ubercar that can just power through anything without breaking a sweat. Fascist ass vehicle for a fascist-ass man.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    853 months ago

    I love my Tesla so much even though I drove it through the car wash in car wash mode and it broke it. It’s so hard to design a vehicle that can resist water, and honestly why would anyone get their precious car wet in the first place? I can’t think of a real world use case for getting your car wet so honestly you really can’t blame the genius Tesla engineers for this.

    • wopazoo [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      If your car wasn’t meant to get wet, why does it have a roof? Checkmate.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    663 months ago

    When he opened the door my eyes went right to the dash and that there’s no speedometer no tachometer, no gauges whatsoever and it’s so jarring. This car is a living nightmare.

    • penitentkulak [none/use name]
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      403 months ago

      It’s even your shifter, unless you get the optional add-on button shifter (that’s located above your rearview mirror and has been falling off in the sun even with the two-sided tape Tesla service centers have provided as a “fix”)

    • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Electric cars don’t have tachometers, but having the speed over on a middle-dash screen is super dumb.

    • Cloudx189 [comrade/them]
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      83 months ago

      Speed is measured in increments of .5, the only reason for that has to be high latency or poor refresh rate of the ipad instrument panel. The feedback would be jarring accelerating.

  • KittyBobo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    663 months ago

    🤓 @MuskFanNTR

    Stop spreading fud. This is standard legal wording. It’s completely normal for a car to not be able to survive a car wash. This didn’t happen. Heh, source: trust me bro. #laterhaters #tesla @elonmusk #pleasefuckmywife

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    653 months ago

    lmfao wasn’t musk claiming to be working on “boat mode” or something equally stupid? And this fucking joke can’t even go through a car wash without shorting like an iphone dropped in a pool?

    You know what, actually I support this, every cybertruck owner should try to ford the nearest body of water immediately

    • LanyrdSkynrd [he/him]
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      33 months ago

      I saw a Tesla stan say it turns off all of the driver assist sensors/cameras/automatic headlamps because the water spraying around makes it go haywire, but I’m not sure if that’s true. They also said other manufacturers have a similar setting, but I doubt that. My car Honda has ADAS similar to what a Cybertruck has(adaptive cruise/lane keep assist) and it’s fine in a car wash and has no car wash setting.

  • Rom [he/him]
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    553 months ago

    My awesome new meme car is so cool that washing it voids the warranty. I definitely don’t regret this purchase.

    • @NewLeaf@hexbear.net
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      83 months ago

      Elon had to add that feature because of his love for “hiding” sex stuff in his products. Problem is, he doesn’t know about foreplay

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    533 months ago

    Wait you can’t use fucking windshield wiper fluid?

    What the fuck are you supposed to do if you window is dirty, slam on the breaks and hop out with a chamois?

    • AutomatedPossum [she/her]
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      473 months ago

      "Don’t wash in direct sunlight " looks like a gremlin-vampire hybrid to me, you have to meet both vulnerabilities at the same time, but that also means it goes into beast mode and bursts into flames

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    513 months ago

    even if you turned on Car Wash Mode.

    well it actually sounds like not even car wash mode will save you. which is very normal for vehicles, of course.

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      53 months ago

      The fact that you even have different modes like that is ridiculous. Is there a rain mode too?

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    Teslas have garbage build quality, especially for the prices, with tons of panel gaps. I’m not shocked that when E ~ L ~ O ~ N tried hyping up a theoretically off-road capable truck, it’d turn out like this.

    edit: https://www.torquenews.com/13417/some-tesla-motors-reportedly-prone-damage-if-used-rain

    https://www.carscoops.com/2023/10/tesla-model-y-owner-receives-21000-repair-bill-for-battery-damage-caused-by-driving-in-the-rain/

    lmao