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You know, in some ways, I appreciate Musk. He has gone out of his way to demonstrate, for all to see, how billionaire parasites get to fail upward no matter how irredeemably incompetent and vile they happen to be.
Scumwads like gates and Bezos hides it all behind walls of pr propaganda, but not Musk.
I wonder what a cyberguillotine would look like.
We gotta stop calling software updates recalls. Yeah I get that it’s fun to bash on the Cybertruck but this isn’t really that interesting.
Now that sticky accelerator pedal… yikes.
Yeah… But these are multi-ton vehicles and when they crash people die. Unlike when your computer crashes.
I don’t think “the backup camera is a little slow to turn on” is the smoking gun you are looking for though.
The Cybertruck has no rear view mirror when the back cover is down.
So any reversing requires the use of the backup camera.
The car also accelerates really fast, and weighs 7,000 pounds.
It’s also an $80,000+ car that was preordered by a lot of people without test driving it. So it’s primary driver is someone who makes risky and impulsive decisions.
So a really fast, heavy car that can’t see behind it without a reverse camera, driven by impulsive people makes me think the reverse camera should definitely come up really fast.
I’ve had software recalls for Toyotas and Hondas, both of which involved physical recall paperwork and required me to visit a dealer to install the new software.
Just because a software recall can be remedied over the air it doesn’t make it any less of a recall. As others have said, there’s a legal definition to a recall. They are issued by the NHTSA and require specific legal responses from the manufacturer.
On the one hand I agree, but also just because it can be fixed over the air doesn’t mean it’s not a major problem.
Plus imagine if a car manufacturer put VERY shitty software into their cars. If a manufacturer has 100 recalls a year, I want to know why. If they have 1, I want to know why.
Just because they are more easily fixed, doesn’t mean the recall isn’t important.
If the vehicle was sold broken and has to be fixed, it’s a recall.
You can tell Elon is a genius because he gets people to pay to do prototype testing for him.
Software that never gets updated isn’t a good thing. Even the Voyager probes still get software updates.
lol. The guy you were responding to thought you were agreeing with home with this meme.
I don’t think y’all understand. Software is never done, it just becomes abandoned. You have been a “tester” for every piece of software you’ve ever used. And that’s a good thing, because the alternative is you get stuck with whatever the first version is. No one wants dead software.
exactly.
I’ve never owned a car that needed regular software updates. Have you?
Are you sure? There’s a ton of them that do. Unless you have an older vehicle.
I have a 2016 Prius. I’ve never needed to download a software update. Somehow Toyota could handle making a hybrid without it being necessary.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that there isn’t an update.
So an optional update rather than one you have to do because of a recall, the thing we’re talking about? Because otherwise this seems like a “technically” sort of gotcha.
Tesla
engineersmanagers treating it like software. “Ship it and we can patch it in production.”Just dropping a link to the relevant, most recent upload from Some More News aka Cody’s Showdy. TL;DW: the cyber truck is an oversized, overpriced, unreliable, terrible design that’s dangerous to everybody in and around it.
Thanks. I’m glad someone did it. I was going to.
Tesla? Making shoddy vehicles?
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Oh yeah, here’s Some More News on that.
I see Cybertrucks all the time. Everything about it is so ridiculous that I am genuinely embarrassed for the driver. I think it is the scale. If it was the size of a Hyundai Santa Cruz, the aesthetic might work…maybe. It just looks silly, gawdy, unfinished, and cheap.
At this rate, they are better off just scraping the Cybertruck and issue refunds to everyone who was stupid enough to buy one.
or build in a return-to-factory-by-yourself feature into them.
Are you suggesting that they get sent on route with no drivers in them and have the risk of running over pedestrians and cyclists on the way back to the factory?
My new Hyundai did this, sorta, and it also had to be recalled. Shifting into reverse would immediately display the rear view camera (good) but then about 25% of the time it would flash a dialogue box on top of the display with instructions on how to operate the display (bad). You could select “Dismiss” or “Don’t Show This Again”. Selecting “Don’t show This Again” did nothing (worse). With the dialog present you could not see the rear view camera display and if you are one of many drivers with muscle memory, the car was already rolling backwards when you realize you cannot see (unacceptable).
Elon sucks and I would never buy a Tesla but just adding this as a reference point that software in cars generally sucks.
design shoulda gone into the circular filing system at the beginning
Okay… so I knew this would be posted here when I saw it, and I knew there’d be a circlejerk of people dumping on Tesla/Elon because oh no a recall! One that can even be fixed with software.
How many of these other recalls did you see in the past few weeks though since Sept 18th? How many of these landed on the technology sub at that? These are all also EVs (with 1 PHEV)
VW (100k) - https://electrek.co/2024/09/18/volkswagen-halt-us-id-4-production-100k-vehicle-recall/
-Door handles leaking causing electrical problem, stop production until 2025
KIA (12.4k)- https://electrek.co/2024/09/24/kia-recall-12400-ev9-suvs-faulty-remote-parking-assist/
-Remote parking systems might not stop the car.
Jeep [PHEV] (194k) - https://apnews.com/article/jeep-recall-park-outdoors-fire-risk-d201d4a90b271da96724f77ec034e459
-Battery Fire Risk - STOP CHARGE AND PARK OUTSIDE.
BYD (96.7k) - https://cnevpost.com/2024/09/29/byd-recalls-evs-fire-risk/
-Fire Risk - Bad capacitor on PCB (not a battery specific issue)
Do you know how many of those that you linked have had multiple recalls on them? Clearly some are more significant than a malfunctioning backup camera, but one of the reasons the cyber truck story has more bagging on it is because the number of recalls. It’s a larger indicator, imo, or a poorly made product where the others may be one missed QA or engineering issue, not systemic issues.
Well, the ID4 has had 18 since 2021.
Tesla started doing Cybertrucks in late 2023 though, so in that same time frame it’s 4 for ID4, and 8 for all of 2023/2024 (Edit: and the initial start of ID4 in 2021 had 4, and then 6 in 2022)
https://www.cars.com/research/volkswagen-id.4/recalls/?page=1
The EV9 has had 4, all in 2024.
https://www.cars.com/research/kia-ev9/recalls/
The site doesn’t have BYD, and while the site has jeep, I can’t seem to find the specific PHEV variant as nothing shows in 2024,but the Cherokee has 4 in 2023
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As a second note to my main post - I was tracking these since the VW recall because I read awhile ago that recalls happen in clusters, and someone did a paper on it once (and i actually found the paper back then to confirm). When a company is working through a recall and knows there might be an issue, they’ll often hold onto it for awhile if they can (there’s probably some statutory limit) and wait for someone else to announce a recall. The person who announces the first recall in a cluster will often get more headlines/news and a greater impact on their stock.
I thought that was interesting when I read it last time and started keeping track on my VW post on the electric vehicles community when I saw the VW one which was the first I’d seen for EVs in awhile and wanted to see how many we’d get clustered together. It’s still going with this new CyberTruck one, but I’m not 100% sure that VW was the first.
Yea those are all shit cars as well. I don’t think many would disagree. It turns out several different cars are shitty.
What’s a good EV?
They all have recalls. Very few vehicles have few recalls. Especially early year models.
I haven’t bought one yet so I’m probably not the right person to ask. Everyone I know with a Hyundai seems happy, though.
People do like Hyundai’s EVs and I would definitely check them out when you’re looking, but don’t kid yourself that Hyundai also doesn’t have it’s own issues.
For example people have been stealing Hyundai/Kia for years now due to faulty security software that makes it trivial. It was even a TikTok challenge.
