they're not necessary but they help protect the rotor and stuff and make them last a lot longer. these tesla hubcaps look like they were biting into the rubber wheels surrounding the rotor itself which is baaaad
Ty!! Tbh stuff like this makes me confused about how people actually own cars because they seem more high maintenance than my guinea pigs with bumblefoot are.
there’s a crazy kind of race going on where cars have been steadily becoming easier and easier to use and less prone to breakdown but impossible to self maintain
Deliberately introducing failure points is a bizarre addition
I just saw one on the road for the first time and I laughed at how stupid it looked but also got the feeling that the owners will always help the cops.
No. No, at a place like Tesla, you just say "oh no, let me help you fix that". Do not call to yourself the kind of attention that "told you so" brings.
Sometimes you just sit on the data that shows you’re correct until it’s explicitly asked for, or things are about to go super duper wrong. Otherwise people tend not to listen to dissenters.
Even better, after any verbal discussion, send an email reviewing what you think they said and ask a throw away question about it. Or save back a question from that talk and do a Columbo. It’s annoying, but it can help. Unless you’re so fried when you get fired/quit that you’re unable to do anything
Is that genuinely what the steering wheel looks like? Of all the shockingly bad things about this car I think this is genuinely the worst. That steering wheel design is going to be the root cause of so many crashes
I'm glad other manufacturers have, after a few years of copying Tesla because of the power of musk hype, begun to realise how awful touchscreens are for driver controls and started putting physical buttons in again. Gear selector on a touchscreen is beyond parody
I truly am not a tesla simp in any way - I would never buy one of their cars until Musk is removed from the company - but jetliners are fly by wire and it doesn't seem to have resulted in more safety issues. we seem to ASSUME it is bad for land vehicles for some reason.
I'm not worried about fly/steer by wire as a concept, it's the implementation by a company that can't even align body panels correctly that worries me, coupled with a steering wheel that will force the driver into unsafe hand positions during manoeuvres
Almost like techbros trying to reinvent technology developed by thousands of specialists (engineers) over a couple hundred years (rubberized tires, not wheels in general) leads to less than ideal solutions.
See also cryptocurrency, taxis, weirdly selfish philanthropy.
If I’m reading this article correctly the problem is that nobody with final decision-making power* at Tesla has ever noticed that tires bulge at the bottom where they connect with the road
And that that bulge travels around the whole tire as the wheel turns?
Wait, the Cybrrtvrk has bespoke tires to fit the wheel covers? If you don't use the wheel covers can you buy your own tires, or will that void the warranty and make Cyber Karen turn off your car while you're in motion?
According to the article the covers can be removed. I had to open the article again because it’s been a little bit since I posted that reply, but (really) quickly skimming it it seems like Tesla has asked current Cybertruck-owners to remove the covers and send them back while they redesign them.
Yes. The RC cars which people were taking pictures of all around the factories gave the illusion that they had hundreds built. When it was 1-2 dozen in various stages of development
I don’t know what the fine-print says, but I would assume that this would not void the warranty. The covers themselves aren’t necessary – they’re an add-on that’s supposed to help make the truck more aerodynamic or something.
Hey, it's not like wheel covers have existed for years and years and years, in multiple designs, without constantly flying off or damaging tires. How could Tesla be expected to get it right the first time? Or the second?
That's "protection" for the fucking tire so people can shoot at it and he can say "see, bullet proof! As long as you don't try to go up hill, or off road, or have to stop to replace the tire 'cause it's worn down from the condom."
After skimming an article it seems they didn't understand that tires bulge at the contact patch. So I can only imagine the contact gets far worse when not at full air pressure (off road).
The problem is that people like Musk do ask but never look out or listen to the answers. And when they find out they act like they just learned something new and unexpected. Constantly reinventing the wheel (in this case almost literally)
i don't think any serious off-roader would ever get a cybertruck. i feel bad for "matt's off-road recovery" when they'll have to pull out 74 tech yuppies every week who got stuck driving over some small rocks.
like, obviously elon isn't doing any actual work at either of his companies, but it's pretty clear that everyone who works at tesla is kinda stupid in some capacity.
I have no doubt that Elon brain chip will allow him to tweet directly to your brain, and you'll receive at the top of the hour, right wing/white supremacist ad breaks in your dreams.
Asked my mechanic if he works on EVs, and which he recommends.
He said to avoid Teslas because they're poor quality, and it's hard to get parts for them.
The cult of Elon gathering around their shrine to mediocrity, waiting for his daily unskippable notification in their minds that says "420, blaze it lol"
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Pui Pui Molcar needs to do a Cybertruck episode.
Deliberately introducing failure points is a bizarre addition
* He does marketing and ruins otherwise-fine designs based on whim. We wouldn't trust him to engineer a yo-yo.
Must be really fun to parallel park.
Watching a video of someone using that wheel is hilarious.
Tesla: Hold my beer…
Also, the cybertruck DOES feature fully drive by wire steering.
"Hmm, seems to be some unusual wear"
See also cryptocurrency, taxis, weirdly selfish philanthropy.
Isn't it?
And that that bulge travels around the whole tire as the wheel turns?
*musky, I mean specifically musky
That's "protection" for the fucking tire so people can shoot at it and he can say "see, bullet proof! As long as you don't try to go up hill, or off road, or have to stop to replace the tire 'cause it's worn down from the condom."
Just - no.
Saves the others from accidently trying it out.
Likely wouldn't need to go further than about 1/4 mile from paved roads 😂
He said to avoid Teslas because they're poor quality, and it's hard to get parts for them.
Auto people will tell you that Tesla does not make many spare parts. So the wait time and expense will be vast.
And horrifying that anyone let him invent anything medical.