Charles C. Mann: The Cybertruck was released on Nov. 30. Today, Tesla announced it was recalling the vehicle for the fourth time, an impressive rough average of one recall every seven weeks. apnews.com/article/tesl...

The Cybertruck was released on Nov. 30. Today, Tesla announced it was recalling the vehicle for the fourth time, an impressive rough average of one recall every seven weeks. apnews.com/article/tesl...

For Tesla's futuristic new Cybertruck, a fourth recallapnews.com Tesla is recalling its futuristic new Cybertruck pickup for the fourth time in the U.S. to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose, and failing front windshield wipers.

These things are giving lemons a bad name. 🍋

We need change "Lemon" to "Tesla". "oh, your car has had so many issues!" "yeah, it's truly a Tesla"

Get some "Tesla Laws" on the books in states, to prevent dealerships from trying to sell bad cars.

Or, you know, just make actual safety standards to sell cars. Put the onus on the manufacturers, not the resellers.

"Lemon Laws", as I understand it, mostly applies to the used car market (since, presumably, a factory new car would be under warranty). It's generally illegal to knowingly sell a broken car to someone while representing that it's functional to some degree.

And yet Tesla is allowed to continue selling cars

Are the other model Teslas doing this poorly right now, or only the one Elon can't help himself but be involved...?

Consumer Reports recently ranked Tesla 27th out of 28 automakers in terms of reliability.

Don't get me wrong, I've got no particular love for the others--but the others seem on the level of "normal if poorly made car"; the Temu DeLorean seems to be in its own special category

“Temu DeLorean” is perfect.

Poor QC *and* difficult and expensive to repair given there's basically no third-party maintenance infrastructure.

"worse reliability than tesla" is a low bar but someone did it anyway? who on earth lmao

Now I want to know

Scene: Tesla sends out an unneeded update overnight that enables features you don’t want to pay extra for and aren’t going to get. It bricks both of your cars. The Tesla road service Tesla comes out to unbrick them, but can’t. Tesla’s Tesla gets bricked while on site. Three tow trucks called. Fin.

THIS poorly? Maybe not. But they do have a reputation for randomly bricking themselves and/or setting themselves on fire.

I have a buddy who bought a Tesla a few years ago. He would have it for a week before some gremlin required it to be brought to the dealer to fix something for 2 to 3 weeks. This happened on repeat for 3 months before it apparently finally all worked correctly.

Yeah, I know a couple people who have Teslas and they have functional cars...? I haven't really grilled them about their experiences but afaict it's at least not substantially worse than others. I don't know any cybertrukk owners tho, and I can't imagine a recall every less than two months

Good friend has an older Tesla, she loves it and it’s behaved well. (Less Elon involvement, probably)

That would also disparage the scientist. Call them Elons or Muskrats instead.

Good call. Elon it is!

This reminds me of Dan Savage's remarkably successful Spreading Santorum thing.

Yes! I remember that. In the UK an activist comedian named Mark Thomas started saying that "Farage" (as in Nigel Farage) is what the gross juice in the bottom of your garbage bin should be called. youtu.be/fDU_bbtLEIQ?...

JONNY & THE BAPTISTS - FARAGEyoutu.be Created by Jonny & The Baptists as part of Mark Thomas' 100 Acts of Minor Dissent. The public were asked to give their definitions of the word 'Farage' with ...

Not fair to muskrats. Elon it is.

They gotta stop calling it “futuristic”. It’s just dorky and poorly designed both aesthetically and functionally.

It is "futuristic", if you believe that the future is gonna suck.

futuristic in an omen sorta way

Rivian has actual cyber-trucks, aesthetically speaking. You put one of those in the game CyberPunk 2077, and you wouldn't even think twice about it being there.

According to the consumer reports survey someone else linked upthread, Rivian is even less reliable than Tesla. www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-rel...

Who Makes the Most Reliable New Cars? via @ConsumerReportswww.consumerreports.org To determine who makes the most reliable new cars, Consumer Reports' latest car reliability survey ranks the brands and reveals how regions compare.

FWIW, those rankings are from last year and don't include the dumpster on wheels.

I don't know how I feel about that. It sounds like they blended waaaaay too many variables together to try and crap out a single number that ultimately is meaningless without a lot of context. Like "the score is 50". Uh, okay? And they blend self-submitted surveys with hard data.

I do not like when people try way too hard to make some singular arbitrary designation of an incredibly nebulous concept like "reliability". If this was simply measured in terms of "problem requiring dedicated maintenance" rate, or cost of ownership per mile driven, that would make more sense.

Maybe the word they're looking for is "dystopian"?

“Dystopian” is a much better word, yeah. Or “soon to be relegated to the dustbin of history along with countless other ridiculous fads”

It is futuristic, if your idea of futuristic is that of a 10 year old in 1985.

I just feel like, if I had $100k to spend on a uniquevanity car I’d be going for a pre-owned Lotus and giving it a purple and green paint job. Like, if you’re gonna be tacky, BE TACKY

I think I might just go back to the source material. Ah well, I don't have an extra $100k sitting around, and it's not for sale yet, but still. delorean.com

DeLoreandelorean.com DeLorean is a legacy mobility company focused on redefining human connections through creative technologies.

It is hilarious that they list its zero to 88MPH speed as the first performance stat.

They know who they're selling to.

People who merge into the left lane?

Them also.

critical information! :)

I feel like I'm going back in time.

Nice! Personally I’d want one of those rich people cars from the 1930’s. But like, if the goal is standing out, there are better ways than a glorified tuna can!

Sometimes I see cars with those colors and because I had a few Hot Wheels as a kid I think that if I put cold water on them, they’d change color.

OMFG can you get that irl‽

…oh shit I never thought about googling it before, I have to check now

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