McNutcase: Brain genius moment as they said "it's not gonna need an adequate wiper motor because nobody will want to drive it in rain if it rusts when you do that!"

It's hilarious that the Cybertruck's *heavy sigh* Gigawiper is a single point of failure, but what's less funny is that Tesla is once again fixing safety equipment without a recall, which is very much a violation of the federal Motor Vehicle Safety Act driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-p...

Tesla pauses Cybertruck deliveries over wiper motor issuedriveteslacanada.ca Tesla has temporarily paused Cybertruck deliveries over an issue with perhaps one of the most talked about features on the electric truck, the Gigawiper. On Friday Cybertruck reservations holders star...

I read a month or more ago that Tesla had realized they cheaped out on the wiper motor, it was too weak, it would inevitably burn out very quickly. This is NOT, as asserted in the article, a supplier quality issue - Tesla just ordered and installed motors far too wimpy for the oversized wiper.

I had assumed that if I had read a news article about it weeks ago then surely Tesla must have bene forced to reconsider, would at least have switched to installing an appropriate motor in the cars that hadn't left their showrooms yet. But I guess it seems not.

Brain genius moment as they said "it's not gonna need an adequate wiper motor because nobody will want to drive it in rain if it rusts when you do that!"

According to the article I read (linked above) it didn't occur to them that high winds might be an issue. For a car, that moves at high speeds.

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