• Akuchimoya@startrek.website
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    9 hours ago

    A little over a year ago, a guy tried to ask me out and I’m the process said a few dumb things in an attempt to impress me. The dumbest of them all was that he was planning to buy a Cybertruck as his next vehicle. By the time he’d said this, I’d already long made up my mind about this guy. Mind, this was the period of time when Elon was just an asshole and hadn’t gone full Nazi yet, but even then, this dude’s choice of vehicle told me I’d made the right choice.

    Theseadays I wonder if that guy ever got his idiot truck, and, whether he did or not, if he’s changed his mind about it.

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    15 hours ago

    Between this and the door falling off a Boeing airplane, not so sure we should be all hot to make everything in 'merica 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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      Worth noting that both of these companies have essentially blank checks from the government and use it as a funnel for taxpayers to shareholders who then dont pay taxes. It’s a Ponzi scheme that just happens to make airplanes and shit people actually need.

      But are too scared to nationalize.

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      12 hours ago

      Boeing (and McDonnell Douglas before them) actually made good planes when engineers ran the show. Then, the finance bros took over.

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    19 hours ago

    That’s because Tesla is a data collection company, not a car manufacturer 😂

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    Here is a guy explaining the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WldSl3HGr8

    It appears multiple panels on the truck are just glued on which is crazy. Will Tesla just slather on bunch more glue and call it good? That seems like a bandaid over a pretty major problem. I’ll be sure there is a large distance between my car and one of these shitty trucks on the road in case they decide to shed some large panels.

    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      Glue is commonly used in vehicle manufacturing to bond panels together. It’s typically stronger than welding, and is often used in the vehicle’s structural pieces as well.

      The problem with the Cyberdumpster is that they used shitty glue.

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      Staying away from cybertrucks is just good sense anyway. They’re being driven by morons and are NOT safe to be in a collision with. S’why they’re not road legal in the EU - they’re too dangerous to things they collide with.

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      18 hours ago

      Small text on the bottom of purchase agreement: ~This vehicle is not meant to be used as transportation in an external environment, any use outside of a garage or small enclosed campus is outside of the scope of this vehicle’s design and should be avoided.~

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        23 hours ago

        That is also what this article says.

        Although a single bolt is going to need to be quite strong to hold down a long piece of steel exposed to high speed wind regularly.

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          Let’s hope they won’t cheap out on those bolts. Thankfully cheaping out on everything is not an habit they have, right?

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              The same bolt. Put it in. Run through the QA test (which is just Bobbie trying to rip it off with his bare hands). If Bobbies’ hands bleed before the panel comes off, they mark the test as passed, remove the bolt and move on to the next one.

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            23 hours ago

            They probably had some office assistant order a pallet of bolts from Home Depot.

            This is the company that glued the accelerator pedal on, you think they know what grade of bolt they need?

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          One bolt is probably find if the panel isn’t catching wind. But if that thing gets damaged it’s likely to shear off at speed. Stay away from dented cyber trucks!

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      19 hours ago

      I think the current power dynamic in the whitehouse may make the opposite more likely.

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      Whislindiesel made short work of one of these cars, absolutely glorious

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      19 hours ago

      I mean, how many times have they recalled these same, like, 5,000 trucks? This is at least the third massive recall.

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      James did a test drive and he seemed to kind of like it, it was on drive tribe I think.

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        Yep. He wasn’t really reviewing the nuts and bolts, just the drive experience. I didn’t get the impression he got a ton of time with it and only spent an afternoon puttering around. It felt below his standard honestly for thoroughness.

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        I would probably like it too if i didn’t have to pay for it and keep it and maintain it. These cars aren’t on the streets anymore in 10 years. They will never be street legal in a non shit hole country

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          19 hours ago

          Yes actually, I do recall him making a plug about his gin now that you mention it! Thank you!