net00 ,

Reminds me when foldable smartphones first came out. If you touched them wrong the screen got fucked.

masquenox ,

It was an expensive brick before the car wash, too.

umbraroze ,

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!”

skozzii ,

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

themaninblack ,

This is truly the Signs of automobiles

Texas_Hangover ,

I haven’t seen Maddox in years! That was a memory trip.

MehBlah ,

You couldn’t have predicted that with such a large amount of the planet being covered in it. /s

XeroxCool ,

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.

Voroxpete ,

And this, right here, is why Tesla’s stock price is down 50% from its all time high.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

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.

Voroxpete ,

It's still massively overvalued now. Just compare their market cap to any other major car manufacturer.

gmtom ,
@gmtom@lemmy.world avatar

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

skozzii ,

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.

TheFriar ,

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

frezik ,

I’m going to blow your mind: it’s also capable of being run through a car wash.

TheFriar ,

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

From now on, I only drive Gold.

zaphod ,

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

pwalker ,

Found another article analysing this incident and how unlikey it is that the car wash itself caused the screen brick and that Tesla screens generally can run somtimes into those errors and resetting it ususally worked in other Teslas: cleantechnica.com/…/whats-going-on-with-the-tesla…

uebquauntbez ,

So Cybertruck goes 100% Elon now? … turns into world’s most expensive brick …

thr0w4w4y2 ,

*prick

0Xero0 ,
@0Xero0@lemmy.world avatar

Wait, so Car Wash mode has to be on while driving in the rain also?

inclementimmigrant ,

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.

RecluseRamble ,

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.

inclementimmigrant ,

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.

RecluseRamble ,

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.

nxdefiant ,

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.

inclementimmigrant ,

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.

kerrypacker ,

My $200 Chinese android system doesn't.

echodot ,

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.

foggy ,

That’ll be 80k, 100k.

NikkiDimes ,

Which is incredible considering Tesla’s software is typically considered their strong point. This is just a train wreck.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

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 …😅

brlemworld ,

It’s almost like they make a Fisker Ocean or a Hummer EV

HeavyRaptor ,

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).

NeoNachtwaechter ,

You’d rather reimburse the car wash company for two hours of that unusable place?

UntitledQuitting ,

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?

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Gestrid ,

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.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

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

Gestrid ,

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 , (edited )
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

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 have 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.

Gestrid ,

The only problem I can see with that is poor people like myself.

The state inspection in my state costs a set, predetermined amount. The mechanic legally cannot charge more than that amount. (I think it’s about $10, but I could be misremembering. It’s somewhere around there, though.) If anything doesn’t pass inspection, that’s where the cost can come in. How much it costs depends on where you get the thing fixed.

In my state, if you car doesn’t pass inspection and you choose not to get the thing repaired right away so it does pass (maybe you don’t have the money right away, or maybe you want to bring it someplace cheaper to get it fixed), you’re given 30 days to fix it, regardless of the original expiration date in the sticker. They replace the inspection sticker with a special “state inspection rejection” sticker that says by what date the inspection is due. At my old job, I used to see plenty of people come in on the last day of the month knowing their car would fail inspection. They came in to get that 30 day extension.

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.

Generally, inspections don’t take too long to do, though that can vary depending on where you bring your car. They usually won’t take longer than 24 hours, though. For me, they’re usually done either within a couple hours of bringing the car in (if I bring it in early enough) or by mid-morning the next day (if I bring it in in the later afternoon or evening). So I could bring my car in after work on the day before my day off, and it’s pretty much guaranteed that it’ll be ready by about 10am the next day the next day (or end of day if they find something wrong, depending on what it is).

When I was working at the car dealer, customers waiting in the lobby would typically have their car ready within a couple hours, and customers who had alternative transportation would usually have them done by the end of the day with enough time for us to call the customer and for the customer to come by and pick up their car.

This definitely isn’t the case everywhere, but the dealer I worked at also gave out free loaner cars for customers to use depending on the circumstances (ex. did the customer have an appointment) and availability (ex. do we have any loaner cars available right now). Customers just coming in for a state inspection wouldn’t typically get one, but, if there was something that didn’t pass inspection, then we might set them up with one if we had one available and if the customer wasn’t able to wait any longer.

Tl;dr: In my state, getting a state inspection is usually relatively painless. The inspection itself doesn’t cost much, but the cost of fixing something so it passes inspection depends on where you go. There are also ways to get extensions if you need them, and, if you plan ahead, you can usually get your state inspection done on your day off without any problems. Even if there’s something that’d cause it to fail inspection, it’s usually still done the same day.

JudahBenHur ,

how brave of you! are you a soverign citizen also?

SkaveRat ,

Depends on the local laws. It’s not road legal in the EU, for example

ElmarsonTheThird ,

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.

Dasus ,

“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.

Woht24 ,

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

coarse ,

Do you guys actually use commas instead of periods for decimals?

hOrni ,

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.

hOrni ,

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

Sam_Bass ,

Did they hire former boeing engineers?

mannycalavera ,
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk avatar

Carwash mode? U wot M8?

🤣😂… God bless these clowns for making me laugh.

the_third ,

Probably prevents auto engagement of the parking lock and emergency breaking which would result in damage when the car gets dragged along the chain drive in the car wash. At least that’s what that does in my car.

Passerby6497 ,

…so carwash mode is just fancy neutral?

the_third ,

Dunno, for my car it is a bit more. No automatic wipers, no automatic braking and it prevents the parking lock and the parking brake from engaging.

Schmuppes ,

While that explanation of yours is helpful and comprehensible, the whole thing seems stupid to me. But then again, my 1999 Golf has none of those features and I wouldn’t want them either.

jeena ,
@jeena@jemmy.jeena.net avatar

“You wouldn’t wash a car!”

grue ,

“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.

Wizard_Pope ,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

The largest one is 15 million dollars O⁠_⁠o

Grippler ,

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.

Zess ,

But gold-pressed latinum comes in bricks so I think they would win.

Addition1291 ,

This is nothing new from Tesla. My parents have a Model 3 and they can’t use a car wash at all with it. Hand wash only.

GladiusB ,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

And 9 cameras you have to consent to using. Total and utter crap.

thorbot ,

I make sure to spread my butthole to each and every one of them while it starts up. It’s my morning ritual

thefartographer ,

Thank you for your service

thorbot ,

🫡

Passerby6497 ,

You can be a true fartographer

Reddfugee42 ,

I’ve been doing that for years. Guess I always knew these were coming

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Appropriate, since I always reflexively start doing the Hand Wash gesture every time I see one.

Ikelton ,

This is definitely not true. Teslas can absolutely go through a car wash. They do recommend touchless ones, but pretty much every manufacturer does.

JasonDJ ,

There’s gotta be some misinformation going around.

I rented a Mach-E recently and drove it a ton around Texas. I was warned at the desk not to take it in a car wash, but I also drove it through the craziest rainstorm my Yankee eyes have ever seen.

BlueJayOakerson ,

I think dragging them is the issue. They can get wet.

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