Built as strong as elmo
Built as strong as elmo
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What? How?!
Edit: looked it up. Both wheels just kinda.. broke off on their own? https://www.torquenews.com/1084/tesla-cybertruck-owner-says-my-wheel-flew-while-im-driving-highway-its-so-weird-its-concerning/
In Phony Stark language:
Concerning... 🤔
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Oh, there's your problem. It was forged aluminum, not genuine aluminum.
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Forged is the process the Aluminum....ah never mind I get the joke now
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Well in this case the wheel fell off yes, I’d just like to make the point that this is not normal
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If only those idiots wouldn't be on public roads. Cars are already one of the most dangerous thing in the US. No need to add even more deadly metal boxes everywhere.
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Yeah, very happy they aren't street legal in my country
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Yeah, but we don't do shit about it, so as a society, it's okay.
We should be doing things like...
Have adequate public transport so that bad drivers have an alternative means of transportation.
Impose harsher penalties for dangerous behavior on the road.
Require a higher degree of driver training in order to obtain a license.
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Cybertruck warranty does not cover driving on uneven surfaces? What?
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I feel like that should disqualify it from being called a truck. Based on my commuting this week, the only place it might be under warranty would be a well maintained runway.
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A well maintained road will have a slight angle so that water doesn’t pool. This POS loses it’s warranty the moment it’s driven.
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Even runways aren’t perfectly flat
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It's a truck in the same way that Cybersex is sex
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Warranty invalid if truck is moved sure that sounds pretty normal
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There's a lot of stupid shit that voids the warranty.
For example; using the built in power inverter, which is advertised as a power station for camping/work sites, to power anything at all while stationary, voids the batteries warranty.
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It seems like every component on this thing is a sacrificial anode or fusible link at the mercy of its objectively powerful powertrain. Just a matter of time until the raw torque or BHP finds yet another weak link to obliterate.
At least, this was my takeaway from the cybertruck assessment I watched on YT.
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Completely unrelated to your comment, but I love your name. Black Mesa reference?
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Black Mesa lives rent free in my head.
I don't game a whole lot, but that experience was a masterpiece.
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They make everything using cast aluminium at Tesla. One of worst types of alloys where you expect durability as it's terrible with metal fatigue. It tends to snap instead of bend.
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Afaik most aluminum rims are cast (only some of the really nice ones are forged). I'm more inclined to assume that Tesla is just shitty at casting aluminum.
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Did they build it out of the fabled Chinesium?
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more like stocktonium.
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While this is a regular occurrence on higher-end sports cars with high-end forged (not cast/fake) alloy wheels ... it's usually in a high-speed crash where you can't even recognise the car.
What did this dumpster do? Get bumped by a shopping cart?
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musk should clarify these are single use cars, that are only for display purposes.
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You stop slandering my boy Elmo right now!
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The chinesium protected the wheel nuts! Incredible!
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More like strong as elmer's
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