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Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com |
This is, obviously, a deservedly nuclear embarrassment for Tesla, but it's also looking increasingly like a regulatory scandal. There is no way this vehicle should've been declared street-legal.
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OleGus
@olegus.bsky.social
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I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I think that truck is ugly as hell.
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Mark Sweeney
@marksweeney.bsky.social
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I've driven cars for 40 years. This is the first I've ever heard of "font issues" being a problem in a vehicle. "Tesla also fixed over 2 million EVs, including the Cybertruck, due to their font issues" (Warning indicators are less than 1/8" high on screen). 🤦🏽♂️
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NutMeg
@casuallychaotic.bsky.social
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This isn't a "good initiative", it's a legal requirement. Bit of a strange spin to take by the article, suggesting that this was an entirely voluntary act by Tesla rather than one imposed on them which they may not have taken if they didn't absolutely had to.
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Ted Knaz
@ted.knaz.me
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(car companies self regulate to government standards and are held responsible financially for failures therein; similar to how Boeing self inspected planes; it's a NOT GREAT setup! OSHA is similar until someone dies, the regulatory system in this country is not designed to deal with bad actors)
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Gaël
@goonergael.bsky.social
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@cara.city well… there you go 😂
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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬
@kategodart.bsky.social
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this is beyond a lemon, it's a whole damn tree
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(Enn) Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
@nafnlaus.bsky.social
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There are over a thousand recalls in the US on average per year (not "cars recalled"... recalls). This isn't even one of them.
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freakanatcha.bsky.social
@freakanatcha.bsky.social
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Appears subcontracting engineering to Boeing and VW wasn't the savvy move Elon anticipated
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art toast
@toasty.cx
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the trick is, how many regulations are even there to follow? that's what folks gotta look at for the Light Truck vehicle demographic, it's a lot more lax than for standard passenger cars to my knowledge
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Kevin Kohler
@kevinkohler.bsky.social
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I am looking forward to the inevitable merger of Tesla and Boeing.
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Bill Jank
@billjank.bsky.social
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Huh. Maybe self-certification doesn’t work and the DoT should play a more active role ensuring cars and planes are built safely?
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Kevin
@lordvercetti.bsky.social
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That one might be akin to the Toyota one, but with the general build quality issues across the board I am shocked regulators aren’t getting more involved
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Martin #509
@martin509.bsky.social
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I mean, the same-ish thing happened with the Prius with its floormats back in the day. Sometimes safety recalls because of quality issues happen!
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@gooneybird.bsky.social
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I still cannot believe astronauts fly into space in his garbage.
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@captainsidecar.bsky.social
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... because we make the reasonable assumption that a volume manufacturer has some idea of what they're doing. Questions will be raised if something looks obviously odd or inadequate, but otherwise, if it's not specifically covered in the regs it doesn't affect the approval process.
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@captainsidecar.bsky.social
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I don't know the details of how vehicles are approved in the US, but here in heavily regulated Oz a vehicle needs to show it complies with stuff like lighting, brake performance, occupant protection etc. However we don't really cover basic matters of engineering or build quality...
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SockyNoob
@sockynoob.bsky.social
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I've been thinking the same. Definitely some lousy regulators.
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Carly A. Kocurek
@sparklebliss.bsky.social
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A friend who used to work in the auto industry told me that like, half of the on-the-job manufacturing injuries in the U.S. auto industry are at Tesla, which was double horrifying since they don't make that big a percent of the cars. So ... danger all the way down.
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John Price
@calmthoughts.bsky.social
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Piece of junk. Wager; I bet no one wants to work for Musk. He rushes everything; & just fucks it up. Fleeing Engineers want to work for anyone but him. Betcha!
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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Nope it should not have bsky.app/profile/ygal...
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲
@josh412.com
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Fun fact I learned recently is in the US car manufacturers self-certify that their cars meet the relevant safety standards. Awful system, American AF 🇺🇲
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@waterloo45.bsky.social
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Musk bribes everyone with our taxpayer money
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Dass Jennir
@dassjennir.bsky.social
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Anything Incelon touches turns to shit. 🤡
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God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO
@tsunami65.bsky.social
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I'm guessing that palms were greased.
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Mighty Apollo
@mightyapollo.bsky.social
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The problem is the system isn’t designed for a bad faith actor like Tesla. OEMs do most vehicle testing, with mandatory reporting. There is mandatory reporting about accidents and warranty failures. We know Tesla hid tons of warranty failures/accidents, but enforcement is a multi-step process.
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Mark
@mutable.bsky.social
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I’m on board with the whole iterative development thing where uncrewed rockets are concerned, but the degree to which this leaked into autonomous driving and even the physical hardware of Teslas is really appalling.
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@ninjamonkky.bsky.social
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There are no streets in the Afterlands, only bullets, and Cyber kryptonite; water.
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Kevin Bunch
@ubersaurus.bsky.social
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If the cybertruck leads to an overhaul of how the US handles auto regulations to match sane countries that will be the one good thing I could ever say about it
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power to the ice pick (Liz)
@pluplubasch.bsky.social
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The other day I was walking and one popped out of a driveway, as happens sometimes. I was so startled because 1) hadn’t seen one before, but mostly 2) the edges were so sharp looking it scared the crap out of me.
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Ripperoni
@ripperoni.com
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The car isn’t street legal in Europe, which is pretty telling
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megablandfox
@megablandfox.bsky.social
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Every time I hear about this car it's about a new and unsettling way it can kill me.
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mini "serving lesbian" d'nar
@drdnar.bsky.social
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Nuclear?! DON'T GIVE HIM IDEAS!
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Richard, composer
@pianokitties.bsky.social
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Corporations own America, just like George Carlin said. Boeing is the FAA is Boeing, Elon gets what he wants. At least, if you flip one of these ugly junkers over, it becomes a playground seesaw.
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Just here to chill
@garbagearsonist.bsky.social
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For most of the federal vehicle requirements, I don't think there is a "declaration" by the agency that any given vehicle passes requirements; as with a lot of things, NHTSA has standards and Tesla self-certifies that their vehicles meet those standards
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Ni en pedo
@300ps.bsky.social
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Was the FAA in charge of inspecting these
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@tarry-not.bsky.social
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Why I’d never buy/rent/trust anything associated with Musk: he doesn’t care a whit about quality. I worked in quality assurance at Apple 30 years ago, and am ad the corp still cares quality & doesn't ship before products are stable.
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Bill Stewart
@billstewart.bsky.social
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This is not the first car to have problems with stuck accelerator pedals or pedals that are halfway into the area that should be the brake pedal. Toyota and a few other major manufacturers have had that happen. Fortunately, there are very few Cybertrucks out there.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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Agreed. Regulatory capture is real. bsky.app/profile/bung...
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Heather, Dice Goblin
@errantdreams.bsky.social
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I love that at the end of the article they try to be all "but this is a good thing because now they're fixing things before the trucks ship!" and it's like... they shouldn't have this much to fix.
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Teton Kali
@tetonkali.bsky.social
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And evidently the aerocovers for the wheels did rub the tire sidewall to put wear makes on them pretty quickly earlier this year as well. Oops.
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Evo Daily
@evodaily.bsky.social
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They should have recalled it after they sold the first one for it's accelerated ugliness then they wouldn't have this issue.
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Joe Uchill
@joeuchill.bsky.social
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Don't automakers self-certify in the US?
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StevenX
@feeblecursedone.bsky.social
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The fact Tesla stock still has any value whatsoever is all the proof I need that the stock market is just magic crystals for old white men.
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Matt E. Reals
@innerpartisan.bsky.social
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Yeah, that thing is definitely never getting sold here in Germany, lmao. As terrible as this country can be about cars: At least we take road safety really fucking seriously, lol.
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VQ
@vq-comics.bsky.social
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I thought there was a story about a collision between a cybertruck and a Nissan, with the cybertruck guy breaking both his legs while the Nissan guy was okay, despite the Nissan being totaled. Only a single tweet mentions that, so idk if it's legitimate. But yeah, I wouldn't trust these.
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Hank Hoffman
@hankhoffmanct.bsky.social
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On top of everything else, it's one of the ugliest vehicles ever made.
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Joanna 🏳️⚧️
@thegadget.bsky.social
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Going 0-60 with 0.3 seconds of accelerator application
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Wendell Albright
@wendella.bsky.social
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I keep thinking of the article about how Tesla built their cars like a software company, NOT like an automobile manufacturer.
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Tagger
@tgscenic.bsky.social
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Concerning
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Girl-Starved Beast
@julesprom.bsky.social
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its cool how if any other car manufacturer released a truck with this many embarrassing (and deadly) issues, it would be a huge controversy that regulators would be compelled to investigate but bc its elon musk, news media is like “cybertruck releases to huge fanfare and with some growing pains”
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Marco Jardim
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As ridiculous as I may find it to be, the Cybertruck story is going to hell in a handbasket. As amusing as it is to make fun of its many, many flaws, there is nothing funny about the danger this car presents to everyone that encounters it. This joke of a car will have a body count, and it is legal.
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Dan Sandler
@danielsand.bsky.social
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The fact that they are even allowed to sell the car to ANY customer without passing and publishing safety scores is a regulatory failure so massive, the head of the NHTSA should be forced to resign and immediate sanctions (and a stop sale/recall) put on Tesla.
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big_throwaway (仮)
@secondthrowaway.bsky.social
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I keep yelling for someone to declare it not street legal and to make it go away, but the powers that be gave up any semblance of a desire for things to get "better"
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O Ironista 🚩
@ironistaoficial.bsky.social
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They can rent a BYD while they are waiting for Tesla.
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Old Charlie
@oldcharlie.bsky.social
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Tesla is using paying customers to trouble the cybertrfuck. Same way of launching SpaceX rockets, fly it until it reaches an URD then fix that. Rinse and repeat.
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Talonts
@talonts.bsky.social
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There's a reason many countries won't allow it. For one, the front end design is a pedestrian death trap.
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GermaricanMix (Pixels)
@germaricanmix.bsky.social
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it really IS the Mako!
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@mozzanddip.bsky.social
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Teslas are dangerous
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Lee Meade
@leemeade.bsky.social
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#MuskRat extends his embarrassment proof aura over all his companies. This shall pass.
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BG Hilton - Author
@bghilton.bsky.social
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Ey! Disruptiano!
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@professorfistomph.bsky.social
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It isn't sexy, but regulatory reform and the end of the Alabama-esque connection between regulators and business needs to happen.
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And George Wendt
@trumancapps.bsky.social
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the drug-addled nazi manchild was on Twitter bragging about insane design features that very clearly made the car unsafe and still nobody stopped him from selling it. very live and let live attitude toward public safety
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Michael
@eridyn.bsky.social
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My coworkers when I was still in auto had a betting pool around whether it would ever be released, and if so, how extensive the regulator-mandated design changes would be. If that hadn't been broken up by COVID, the "naive rookie" who saw nothing wrong with it would have made out extremely well.
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ΛTLΛS
@atlasbun.bsky.social
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I was ever so slightly briefly considering a Tesla as my first electric I'm now firmly in camp Dodge Charger electric.
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🌌Raxi3☄️
@raxi3.bsky.social
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I still love the fact that cyber trucks still need real trucks help when they get mildly stuck
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MisterJayEm
@misterjayem.bsky.social
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They disrupted the roadworthy paradigm!!
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Richard Keppler 🦋
@richardkeppler.bsky.social
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Unfortunately our regulatory regime is toothless. It can only gently suggest to the billionaires. It doesn’t ever act.
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