Tesla said on Tuesday it was recalling most Cybertrucks in the United States over issues with their windshield wipers and exterior trim.
From the article: “Tesla began delivering the Blade Runner-inspired truck in November 2023”
Me: Fuck you. That is an insult to Syd Mead’s legacy.
I mean (assuming thats the author idk) he was imagining a dystopian world, so this is a compliment in my book.
Syd Mead was a concept artist. Blade Runner was based on a short story by Philip K Dick called “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
I guess it vaguely looks like this one in terms of the large flat plane in the front. Though it’s blade runner, so it’s all grungy like pieces are falling off and it’s all rusted and junk. Wait maybe cyber truck was inspired by bladeunner.
Doesn’t look much like a lot of other cars in the movie though.
…you don’t think it looks like a vehicle from Blade Runner?
Have you … ever watched Blade Runner?
I love that movie. The way they run with blades is so good
I finally saw one in real life. On the highway. It’s shocking how aggressively dumb they look in person. Photos don’t do it justice. It seriously looks like a giant unrendered N64… thing.
I was walking to the grocery store when I saw a neighbour polishing his in front of his house. I said “Wow, a Cybertruck,” and he replied, “Cool, isn’t it?”
I said, “No, it’s a $120,000 go-kart made of scrap metal that will rust in a month.”
That neighbor? Albert Einstein.
“The neighbors for miles around stepped out at the sound of his boisterous ejaculation mocking the ugly car, applause was heard throughout the evening.”
gottem
I live in the bay area. I see and laugh at them daily
Non-functioning wipers could increase the risk of a crash in wet weather
I would bet money musk tried to argue wipers were unrelated to safety
So wait, they’ve gone from getting wet and having the bumpers fall off to getting wet and then instantly crashing?
I’m not sure that’s an actual improvement.
Again?
It’s almost like they’re a bad car.
You have been banned from Xitter
Almost like using a single giant wiper is a bad idea
Bbbbbbbut it looks cool!
“Failures of the wiper motor shouldn’t come as a surprise,” said Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst at Guidehouse Insights.
“This is the largest individual wiper ever used on a light duty vehicle with a 4-foot-long (1.22 meter) blade. That exceptional long lever arm puts a lot of stress on the motor and there have been a lot of anecdotal reports popping up since early in production of failures,” he said, adding that the overall build quality of the Cybertruck is “quite poor.”
I seem to recall that Mercedes did it without incident.
They probably spend more money on engineering and use better parts.
It didn’t look like a big long weird floppy noodle though.
Pretty sure Koenigsegg does too.
I don’t think the Mercedes ones are 1.22m long.
the sound of that recall means more carbon and jobs, bobby :)
