[Cybertruck safety issue news] There's a safety issue with the Gigawiper. (driveteslacanada.ca)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 33 points 5 months ago

It's hilarious that the Cybertruck's heavy sigh Gigawiper is a single point of failure, but what's less funny is that Tesla is once again fixing safety equipment without a recall, which is very much a violation of the federal Motor Vehicle Safety Act

https://subium.com/profile/niedermeyer.io/post/3kv5esbyst32i

[-] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 33 points 5 months ago

gigawiper

I knew it looked ridiculous, but I only I found out it was called that from this post, and I kind of wish I hadn't.

Using an 800W motor in prototype, 120W in production

Cost savings wins again

I sometimes worry that future alien archaeologists are not going to be able to really understand exactly how painfully cringe he is, but things like this give me hope.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

Something that fucking stupid looking deserves to be called a gigawiper.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

painfully cringe

His cultists dream of implanting his clip into his skull and they are certain he's gonna get people to Mars in gigantic numbers sometime real soon. Meanwhile the motherfucker cut corners on his marquee truck so that the accelerator pedal fell apart, the single enormous under-powered wiper unsurprisingly fails, etc. How does he still have a cult of personality and a reality distortion field? I just don't get it.