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Posted by droidjj 1 day ago

Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off(www.theverge.com)
209 points | 258 commentspage 2
thelastgallon 22 hours ago|
Fully self driving wheels! People have been waiting for this feature.
lelanthran 23 hours ago||
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
DarkNova6 23 hours ago||
Sorry, but every time I read news about the Cybertruck I have to think of the Simpsons Canyonero song:

Can you name the truck that's been recalled twelve times, Costs less each month 'cause nobody's buying mine?

Cybertruck! Cybertruck!

(Whip crack!)

Her trim falls off when you drive through rain, The steering locks up on the highway lane!

Cybertruck! Cybertruck!

Top of the line in utility trucks! Started at a hundred, now they're slashing bucks!

She's got a price that drops faster than her resale value, And a windshield wiper motor that'll surely fail you!

Cybertruck! Cybertruck!

(Whip crack!)

Twelve recalls in a single year! Drive-by-wire that fills your heart with fear!

The accelerator pedal pops right off the floor, But Elon says it's you who doesn't love her more!

Cybertruck!

She rusts if you look at her wrong in the dew, The tonneau cover works... for a week or two!

She's marked down like a Kmart blue-light special now, A stainless steel disaster and a broken vow!

Cybertruck! Cybertruck!

(Whip crack!)

Whoaaa, Cybertruck!

CYBERTRUCK!

baggachipz 23 hours ago||
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.
DarkNova6 21 hours ago|||
I asked Claude Opus 4.6 to take the Canyonero lyrics and mix it with all the controversies and this one in particular.

Spread the love!

ceejayoz 23 hours ago|||
> the Simpsons
baggachipz 22 hours ago||
I know the Canyonero bit, but repurposing it to Cybertruck is high art.
ryandrake 21 hours ago|||
Massively underrated post. To the 500ms drive-by voters, look at it closely, it's not just a copy/paste from the Simpsons.
LightBug1 4 hours ago||
Brilliant! LOL
DarkNova6 1 hour ago||
Thanks! I wish I could claim credit to the lyrics, it was just created by Claude Opus. I think I should refine it some more, I think it can be done way better.
kevin_thibedeau 23 hours ago||
They're replacing both front and rear rotors. Is there a reason the rears are different than the AWD models?
vitaut 22 hours ago||
Interviewer: Mr. Musk, I understand the wheels fell off the Cybertruck.

Musk: Well, that’s not very typical. Most vehicles are designed so the wheels don’t fall off.

Interviewer: But these ones did.

Musk: Well obviously. That’s why we recalled them. But wheel retention remains a very high priority at Tesla.

Interviewer: What caused it?

Musk: A minor component interaction that generated maximum freedom.

Interviewer: Freedom?

Musk: For the wheel.

allears 23 hours ago||
No problem, that'll buff right out
danielodievich 21 hours ago||
When I was around 12 years old in USSR, my family took a vacation to Georgia to ski in a lovely resort of Gudauri. A big group of us skiers were riding a soviet made PAZ (or PAZik as it was often called) bus. It wobbled a bit since the airport, and about 100km into the ride as we were finally entering the mountains, it vibrated very badly. At some point the driver yelled really really loud - "everyone, to the left side of the bus, NOW", and we all moved to the left, and then we saw the rear wheel of the bus separate and roll forward past the bus. The pin holding the wheel in broke. Quality engineering, that pin design! I wonder if Cybertruck inherited some of that stuff.
louiereederson 21 hours ago||
The extension of Full Self Destruct mode
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