It is a vanity project helmed by a terminally online manchild who wanted cyberpunk blade runner vibes.

Go look back at the original concept art. The actual delivered vehicle dimensions are totally different, so he didn’t even succeed at that part. They couldn’t build what he wanted. It’s way more boxy and looks like shit on the road.

And lol at 173 total affected vehicles. What a failure.

> Can’t tow. Can’t haul

No one is hauling anything in these anyway. The Cybertruck is a midlife crisis car for white-collar Indian dudes with money. I'm sorry, it's true.

Construction workers are not trading in their F150s and beat-to-death Silverados for this I assure you.

Wow, that would be wild to see. Where can I see a Cybertruck owner "literally ripping the frame out with the hitch?"

Can’t be made out of cardboard either.

The Front Fell Off: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=DprOulmmDK-H76LX

Same standards as e.g.

2026

Audi Q8 e-tron:

"Popular electric car recalled due to brake pedal problem" [1]

A problem with a "screw connection" (unclear whether this is a mounting screw or it serves some other purpose) can cause the brake pedal to malfunction.

or, in 2024

Audi Q4 e-tron, Volkswagen ID.3, ID.4, ID.5 and ID.7:

"Dangerous error in popular electric cars: brakes can cease functioning" [2]

It says that the ABS pump could drop off which would cause brake fluid to leak out which in turn causes the brakes to cease functioning.

[1] https://carup.se/popular-elbil-aterkallas-for-fel-pa-bromspe... (Swedish)

[2] https://nyheter24.se/nyheter/motor/1296418-farliga-felet-i-p... (Swedish)

Well, the wheels may fall off, the body panels may fall off (weak glue), but the rest of it is OK right? Well, apart from the bulletproof glass?

So worst case you're rolling down the road on a chassis with no body panels, except you're not really rolling if the wheels fall off.

Hmm.. good job we're not letting in those cheap Chinese EV's and sticking to this top quality homemade stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064334

The original vibe engineering

> What sort of engineering standards are these Cybertrucks built to?

'Vibe-Engineering'

It looks like they were designed by a disruptive startup unburdened by the history and experience of designing and building cars.

To the ones of people who like to move fast and break things.

And they’ll probably just tow the recalled trucks outside the environment.

The same engineering standards as other Teslas are.

Meanwhile, about 63% of Tesla Model Ys failed their first mandatory inspection in Finland. The Tesla Model 3 did a bit better at 59% of cars failing their first inspection for the same model year. However, they're faring a lot worse than the third worst car, the Dacia Duster, at 23%, or other EVs like the Volkswagen ID.4 at 6%.

https://www.hs.fi/visio/art-2000011988306.html

The RWD model was only for sale briefly after launch. I don't know why you would ever want a pure RWD electric truck

I didn't even realize there was a RWD model. The website shows 3 options for sale and they are all AWD.

Thank you

Your car had a recall because the wheels might fall off? Which one?

I see a lot of them on the road so somebody must be buying them.

I don't know why, I buy trucks to haul stuff. (and I really wish there was an affordable truck to haul stuff with - everything I can find is 12+ years old and showing age)

Teslas or cyber trucks? If you mean teslas in general then you’re being willfully ignorant because model Ys are the best selling car in the US.

From the article

> but it’s “not aware of any collisions, fatalities, or injuries” related to the recall.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064334

I'm actually really confused about the language used in the recall; I looked at the Cybertruck manual and the brakes look like a "conventional" design where the studs are set into the hub and go through the rotor, so this failure seems somewhat unrelated to the brake rotors, and the "brake rotor stud" is also the wheel stud: https://service.tesla.com/docs/Cybertruck/ServiceManual/en-u...

I'm assuming it's a misphrasing or typo and the issue is that the stud holes in the wheel hub rotor can elongate, leading to the studs coming out. This can and likely would absolutely cascade into a wheel falling off; I've seen it many times in cheapo endurance racing series - once one stud is loose, the adjacent studs gradually loosen and eventually the wheel separates. If the issue is longitudinal (slotting) it's even more likely to lead to a rapid separation event.

The masses may be annoying, and even sometimes hyperbolic, but they are nowhere near as bad as the CEO

Yes and yes

Massively underrated post. To the 500ms drive-by voters, look at it closely, it's not just a copy/paste from the Simpsons.

This is amazing. I don't know if you stole it or you're a poetic genius, but rest assured that I'm stealing it.

I have a 2022 Rivian and I don't remember any recalls for brake rotors or wheels falling off. There was one about a year after they made the first R1T where they had forgotten to record the torque of a bolt for the upper control arm during assembly, but the recall just involved having the torque checked, they didn't have to replace anything. Is that the recall you're thinking of?

If you’d like another source, by all means you can type “cybertruck recall” into your search engine of choice.

Stick a political agenda in. Are you a tesla employee?

Rocket man has been bad for a lot longer than that

Those 173 were all that were sold ...

3 verified failures out of 173 total cars is an extremely bad rate for the automotive industry.

Its not about the recall. Every car manufacturer has many per model. Its about the wheels about to fall off

Even people who know about building cars think Tesla sucks at building cars. Which is why in an interview about speeding up the production line, the head of Volkswagen's production lines thought that a duration that was still almost twice as long as a Tesla spent on the line was about their lower floor and that anything less would be problematic.

Maybe that's why their cars ship with their windshields glued on, all the time, or all of their brake pads, all of the time, or secured body panels, all the time.

Or maybe he should have refrained from commenting?

Do you think these cars are well engineered and reliable?!

Yes, absolutely. The Cybertruck was indeed the first of its kind to have 4 wheels attached to its structure. No car company before Tesla had ever done this before and as such, it was impossible to gauge what kind of material was best suited to handle stress over long period of time.

It's just ridiculous.

> those variables were likely not known nor knowable during the design stage.

But they could have included an error factor in the designing process. I thought this was standard for manufacturing. And they could have done more robust testing which, again, I thought was pretty standard for manufacturing.

I would have thought that material and process variability would be one of the primary design constraints in physical engineering?