Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    Just to play devil’s advocate: throughout the history of capitalism someone surely must have made a more expensive brick (adjusted for inflation).

    That’s the best defense I can give.

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      7 months ago

      The Vasa comes to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)

      USSRs space shuttle, although technically that didnt fail on its own.
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

      The failed Chinese attempts to use stolen SpaceX plans that resulted in at least one town that we know of being destroyed with toxic smoke and fire.

      Virgin’s space program.

      Boeing’s space program. Increasingly, the 737-MAX too.

      Amazon’s space program.

      Musk and the stupid decisions made around Starship, that resulted in over a year of setbacks since the launchpad had a woefully inadequate flame trench that everyone called out long before the first two failed launches.

      The Titanic.

      Related to the last one: OceanGate and the Titan.

      When the Athenians starts the Peloponnesian War by invading a different city state than Sparta(to ostensibly use that city’s military against Sparta), but screwed it up, creating the conditions for them to lose said war.

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      7 months ago

      Standard “Good Delivery” 400-oz gold bricks are worth about $930k today.

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      7 months ago

      Tesla made good cars before. It is reasonable to assume that they would continue to do that. The people that have a cyberteuck today are people that paid for it years ago, so they wouldn’t have known how shitty it actually turned out to be.

      I can’t account for Tesla’s continuing and worsenin quality control though as well as their cost saving measures that make the cars less safe. I don’t know how you see those trends and not cancel your pre order.

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        7 months ago

        so they wouldn’t have known how shitty it actually turned out to be.

        Hard disagree here. A) I knew from the first moment they showed a picture of it how bad it would be. You could tell it was a car a 7 year old would design and have all the faults that come with that. B) Those people have had years to cancel those deposits, during which we’ve seen how shitty it was going to be.