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Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
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What does car wash mode do?
I don't know about the Cybertruck or its charging port, but cars do have rain sensors to activate the wipers automatically when it rains. Car wash mode likely turns those sensors off to prevent damage to the wipers.
It must be something more substantial in this case, tearing the windshield wiper off wouldn't brick the truck
Or maybe it does, who knows. It's the Cybertruck afterall
CRITICAL FAILURE. WINDSHIELD WIPER DETACHMENT DETECTED. PLEASE CONTACT ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE IMMEDIATELY. DRIVING HAS BEEN DISABLED FOR SAFETY REASONS.
FOR ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
CYAN LOW, REPLACE CYAN TO TURN OFF EMERGENCY BRAKE.
If I saw that on my car, I'm not sure I could restrain the urge to take a baseball bat to it
Water gets into the body, which lacks fluid drains and accumulates water, which can potentially reach wiring.
I seriously don't understand how this could be possible. How does the car manage rain water?
I don't think it's meant to be driven in the rain
I don't think it's meant to be driven.
I mean... It's not even meant to be a vehicle, tbh. It's an ego trip, status symbol, or virtue signal (pick up to 3) in the form of a vehicle.
The part where it can propel itself and it's occupants from place to place is, in fact, a bonus feature.
It folds the mirrors in and puts the car in neutral. Stuff like that.
So things normal people do to normal cars but with extra steps and Elon.
Have you seen other people in a car wash? Park, reverse, drive but they start holding the brakes when the track pulls them along, leaving antennas up, not closing windows, opening fucking doors... A vast majority of the human population is some level of braindead.
Fuck me, I've seen someone pull up into a manual car wash bay, open all their doors, and wash the INSIDE of their car. This was not a washable interior like a Jeep Wrangler or something, it was a typical sedan with carpeted floors and cloth seats.
And these people (theoretically) are licensed to drive, right next to you.
Yeah, but the car still ran afterwards.
So did this one, but if you include irrelevant details like that, the headline wouldn't get as many clicks.
Doesn't it say that the vehicle was bricked, meaning it wouldn't run after going through the car wash? Isn't that what happened?
Yeah, that's what the headline says. In the article it states that it worked again after a service request and a (redidulously long) reboot.
So then it didn't run after the car wash -- unless we're ignoring the mandatory steps needed to get it working again, the headline is pretty accurate. Or are you considering "bricked" a permanent condition?
That’s what I think of when I say something is bricked- that’s it fubar, irreparable, fukt, yaknow that kind of thing
It always ran. The owner drove it home, and when they parked it in the garage the center screen started acting wonky (they didn't explain what that meant). All the other screens worked, and the car was drivable, but it's a bit dangerous to drive a Tesla without the center screen since that displays everything (no dashboard screen) and is how you control everything (no physical buttons besides a few on the steering wheel). So the owner did a system reset and the screen didn't turn back on after the estimated "two minutes".
The next day they called the service station, but then went back to check on the car, everything was working. Basically instead of taking 2 minutes to do a hard reset, it took over night. The service station said this was a known issue and it would sometimes take upwards of 4 hours.
This headline is massively misleading. Hell, the article itself was massively misleading. The owner said something like "I thought it was bricked" on social media and the author just ran with it apparently.
Ah ok. So it is click bait.
Bricked is a permanent condition. And if they were able to get it working again, I wouldn't say it was bricked. More like broken or crashed in the software sense.
Still, it wouldn't run after the car wash either.
I meant more like, even if you wash a car with the doors open and water goes in everywhere and damages the car, you can still turn the key and it will start.
Other people have already addressed the main issue here, so I think you're sorted there.
But yeah, I consider "bricked" a permanent condition - something broken beyond repair, so it's as useful as a brick. See also "paperweight".
What do you think it means? Temporarily unavailable?
Yeah I got the impression it was a recoverable condition after a search found a bunch of guides for "unbricking" (Android phones). Semantics are the true enemy it seems
Read article
I’m curious how many menus deep the car wash mode is too
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Oh boy. I should proof read before posting lmao.
Fixed
Also locks the charging port, turns off the AC, locks the doors and windows. Still nothing that should prevent the car from breaking in a car wash....
Also, upon reading the article, seems like the car was fine after a reset, it just took 5 hours. Didn't have anything to do with the car wash it seems.
But what if there is heavy rain? Are you supposed to put the car in car wash mode then? Why wouldn't those things be sealed all the time?
Car wash mode always is the solution.
I believe it also closes vents
It does