Jesus fucking christ. If they wanted to cut costs why didn’t they just use normal fucking wipers? Like anyone would have actually cared if the thing just had normal wipers.
It reminds me of how normal silly sports cars just use parts bin items for stuff like this - the McLaren F1 uses the tail lights from a Bova Futura bus for fuck’s sake:
https://www.retromotor.co.uk/features/cars-share-same-rear-lights/
They work fine and the car is still ridiculous
Thanks for that link. A fun read.
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
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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.
Something that fucking stupid looking deserves to be called a gigawiper.
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.
You can’t drive a Cybertruck in the rain anyway, so you’d think the IncelCamino enthusiasts would see this as a non-issue
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The worst part of being Elon Musk is even if you somehow cure the white supremacy, you’re still a massive fucking dweeb.
An article from last month - Tesla Cybertruck’s Gigawiper Is Again in the Spotlight As Wiper Motors Fail Repeatedly.
A Bluesky post about it.
Here’s the article I read. Exactly a month ago! Tesla bragged they’d be able to power their giant wiper conglomeration with an 800 watt motor. Might have worked, too, except they installed a 120 watt motor - apparently only twice as strong as your normal car’s wiper motor. […] They may have worked okay under test conditions: limited duration, no wind from the environment or from the car’s motion, no vibration or bumps or grit. But its incredible that once they realized their fuckup they didn’t implement a fix and issue a physical recall.
I work on vehicle components and there are standard certification tests that cover that stuff. ISO standard tests for all of that. So I’m wondering what they actually did in development.
https://subium.com/profile/warrenterra.bsky.social/post/3kv5h47pl2k2y
“Supplier quality issue” is such a lame way to pass the buck. Reality is they did no prolonged testing and had no idea this would happen.
Also, don’t they have a purchaser, a team of developers who should know quality parts etc?
Actually, probably not based on how he runs Twitter.
I’m sorry the gigawiper is woke.
I know the feature about the truck I talk most about is the wipers. Definitely not it’s astounding continued ability to be lethal to its drivers and everyone around it.
to be lethal to its drivers and everyone around it.
10/10 link, gotta save that
It’s called the gigawiper because it has enough power to wipe a human corpse off the car after you hit them
tiny detail but it’s very silly to me that all these ‘deliveries’ of cyber trucks are to ‘delivery centers’ a customer has to go pick them up from. that’s not what i would call a delivery
My wild guess is that Elon treats his celeb customers extremely well. He clearly treats the Joe Schmo Cybertruck customers like garbage as though they bought a no-frills $19,999.99 cheapomobile.
deliveries
It gets even better. It’s hilarious.
On Friday Cybertruck reservations holders started reporting on social media that their delivery appointments had been abruptly cancelled, some without notice, only being told of the cancellation once they arrived at the Delivery Center.
“I was just turned away today at 4pm est for my cybertruck delivery. No text or call or any heads up…Wasted trip,” wrote one Cybertruck customer on Facebook.
still love the truck!
On Friday Cybertruck reservations holders started reporting on social media that their delivery appointments had been abruptly cancelled, some without notice, only being told of the cancellation once they arrived at the Delivery Center.
“I was just turned away today at 4pm est for my cybertruck delivery. No text or call or any heads up…Wasted trip,” wrote one Cybertruck customer on Facebook.
Lmao. I want to believe they weren’t even given any concessions like a water bottle or snacks. Guy just taps on the “closed” sign
My wild guess is that celebs get special treatment for their Cyberstuff. It’s clear every other Cybertruck owner else gets treated like total shit. For assholes who own something expensive - part of the joy is annoying people and lecturing them how your brand pampers you. But Cybertruck owners have to go into their bunker of shame protected from the hecklers where they can commiserate with themselves as they hope and pray Big Daddy Elon notices their begging tweets for redress and attention.
If you missed the CyberTent thread - you should check it out. it’s hilarious - https://hexbear.net/comment/5023080
I hate how bazinga tech companies that build useless garbage for rich people have the dumbest names ever. The “ultrafactory”, the “gigawiper”, shit like that. It can’t just be made in a factory, it’s gotta be EXTREME. Not even early 2000’s edgy culture was this pandering.
Giga-wipe my ass
