Peter GleickI saw the news about the 100% recall of Tesla cybertrucks because of a faulty sticking accelerator pedal. The surprising thing is that 100% of delivered cybertrucks is only 3,878 vehicles.
Probertd8@petergleick You now have 10 seconds to comply!!!
simron@petergleick Not surprising at all, to be honest
Chan Chan@petergleick Three of them are in Boca Raton, Florida, for sure, because I have seen them many times.
Matv1@petergleick Quite a long time ago we had this TV show here called Scrapheap Challenge. Not sure you know it. I believe there was some show like it in the US called Junkyard Wars. Groups of contestants had to build some kind of machine as close to specs as possible. Usualy there would be lots of frantic, very rough welding involved and old cars.
There was always zero effort towards design.
Anyway, every time I see a picture of a Tesla cybertruck, it makes me think of that show.
Jay@matv1 @petergleick They make me think of someone who forgot to sand down their wooden car into the right shape.
Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻@matv1 @petergleick The whole zero effort towards prettying it up can be cool. It tells the world we spent all out time making this thing work and it's so totally badass it doesn't need to be pretty. The A-10 Warthog for example.
However, for that idea to work, the car has to work, and not just kind of work, it has to be head and shoulders above the competition. The cybertruck fails on all axes.
LionelBThe presenter Robert Llewellyn went on to be a green energy evangelist. A huge success at that.
@lionelb @petergleick Cool, I dint know that. I vaguely remember some other colourful people in it. Like that guy with the huge moustache who was always upbeat.
I am from the netherlands though do not sure what happened to those people but the show was fun.
I am from the netherlands though do not sure what happened to those people but the show was fun.
Dave Robinson@petergleick 3,878 Cybertrucks is approximately 3,878 more than strictly necessary.
Maddler 
@petergleick I'm actually surprised he found 3738 people who believed that was a good truck to buy 🤣
kikebenlloch@petergleick I look at the picture and the word that comes to mind is moronmobile.
Darwin Woodka@kikebenlloch @petergleick Its official nick is now wankpanzer
LRG 
@kikebenlloch @petergleick I saw it called a wankpanzer
Jörg 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺@petergleick That’s exactly 3878 to many.
Eva Mikkonen@petergleick Could've just DM all the owners instead of making a PSA
chriskrchr@petergleick Cybertruck aka WankPanzer
@petergleick it's sad this isn't the first time they've had parts in one of their vehicles be faulty. They have a history of it. It's surprising they didn't blame the owners of the vehicle tho.
Ian Douglas Scott@petergleick I don't really know what number of sales to expect, but looking up Ford's electric truck, apparently the F-150 Lightning has shipped 7,743 units in Q1 2024 (https://fordauthority.com/2024/04/ford-f-150-lightning-sales-numbers-figures-results-first-quarter-2024-q1).
Bruce Mirken@petergleick Not really. Musk said a few months ago that #Cybertruck production would ramp up slowly. The test will come later in the year: When #Tesla is capable of building large numbers of them, will anyone want to buy? My guess is not that many.
draNgNon@petergleick I wonder how stuck the accelerator pedal is on the one bricked by the car wash
Matt Godden@petergleick And the company-supplied fix, credit to The Autopian. An off-centre rivet drilled through the pedal.
Yes, Tesla is a “professional” car company, producing “products” that are “of merchantable quality” and “fit for pupose”.
Led By Gilded Fools@metaning @petergleick
At least Tesla is consistent for its (poor) quality.
2021 article ranked Tesla 27th of 28 in quality
https://insideevs.com/news/549130/consumerreports-tesla-reliability-poor-2021/
A cool crab wearing shades@petergleick I'm surprised it's that many given how stupid the design is and how hard it is to get one assembled to delivery 'quality'.
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴@petergleick 3,878 utterly unmitigated imbeciles
PirateRo@petergleick nothing like releasing a new car only complete dicks want to buy and be forced to recall them all because they were shit.
karamazov1879@petergleick Impress or compensate maybe (poquitos, (малейшие-from Russian))?
hal@petergleick 3,878 too many 🙄
Pamela@petergleick Does that mean there were only 3000+ fools that bought the new Edsel?
John G Fitzgerald
Sohcahtoa82@petergleick "The surprising thing is that 100% of delivered cybertrucks is only 3,878 vehicles."
Tesla has a very well-recorded track record of being extremely slow to ramp up production of any of their vehicles.
Supposedly, there are 400,000 reservations. But seeing as that number comes from Elon's mouth, I'm sure it's much lower than that.
Aral Balkan@petergleick @Npars01 Man, I’ve sold more copies of software that was also freely available and open source (and I run a not-for-profit) :)
Karl Stanley@aral @petergleick @Npars01 the hype machine is astonishing. Those numbers are so weak as to be an embarrassment, yet the media portrays it like all your neighbours are going to get one of these things. Wild.
IanMoore3000@karlstanley @aral @petergleick @Npars01 in fairness to the mainstream media, I wouldn't know the Cybertruck existed if people weren't always going on about it on social media.
Dunc@IanMoore3000 @karlstanley @aral @petergleick @Npars01 it doesn’t exist, it’s a collective fantasy of Musk/Tesla fanboys who’ve OD’d on the testosterone-doped koolaid.
@gonecaving @karlstanley @aral @petergleick @Npars01 it's just about credible. I don't think they were ever approved for sale over here anyway.
@IanMoore3000 @karlstanley @aral @petergleick @Npars01 at least that’s the most plausible excuse to buy what looks like something drawn by a six year old with no appreciation of the real world.
PEH@petergleick naa the surprising thing is that almost 4000 people bought one of those...
phlox81@petergleick Only about 1k per month are produced at the moment it seems...
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-tesla-plans-mass-production-start-cybertruck-end-2023-sources-2022-11-01/
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-tesla-plans-mass-production-start-cybertruck-end-2023-sources-2022-11-01/
Exclusive: Tesla's Cybertruck to start mass production at end of 2023
Tesla <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/TSLA.O" target="_blank">(TSLA.O)</a> aims to start mass production of its Cybertruck at the end of 2023, two years after the initial target for the long-awaited pickup truck Chief Executive Elon Musk unveiled in 2019, two people with knowledge of the plans told Reuters.
Brian DearWhy is that surprising? If anything I expected the number to be more like 2500. Not because of low demand, but because that vehicle is so new and different (stainless steel, steering-by-wire) it made sense to trickle the first VINs out over a few quarters, see what works, what doesn’t, before scaling production. This accelerator pedal? A nothingburger. If I were Tesla I’d be more worried about what happens in a high-speed collision; how does the suspension hold up off-road, etc.
Seth 🎙️
@petergleick How terrifying!
alastair87 (old account)@petergleick I thought the Cybertruck was a prototype, not a shipping product!!
Thomas Schmall@petergleick I have a picture in my head of 3.800 Cybertrucks crashing from all sides into the Tesla factory, when they wanted to come for repairs of the stuck gas pedal.
A land fit for all our futures@petergleick what is the thing with designing vehicles to look like aggressive monsters? Is not threatening the lives of road users with normal looking vehicles not enough?