A brand new Cybertruck showing moisture decay gets put out with the other garbage in the East BayHere is yet more proof that some old white guy high on drugs shooting at his own car in the desert shouldn’t be the one making actual real world product engineering decisions let alone PR claims about “survivability“.
The member wrote: “The advisor specifically mentioned the Cybertrucks develop orange rust marks in the rain and that required the vehicle to be buffed out. … [He] also shared photos of small orange specs of rust on the stainless-steel body, which they claim were taken after a “dish soap wash.”
Can’t get it wet?
Rain degrades the shell?
Have to regularly buff and buff, and buff some more, to prevent rapid deterioration after exposure to moisture?
It’s impossible to put less thought into this vehicle. A baby chimpanzee could probably deliver a more “survivable” design by randomly pushing buttons on a keyboard.
This corrosion problem seems like the very basic kind of stuff the British famously figured out by the 1800s. Somehow Tesla is caught off guard over two centuries later, to the point that owners have to publicly and loudly grouse about rust spots just days after getting delivery of a new car.
Let me put it like this. If Elon Musk had built ships for the British in 1800, they’d all be speaking French today. Tesla peddles fraud, the opposite of survivable.
1) The witness and barely-surviving passenger in a Tesla very clearly stated (based on 911 dispatch recordings and interviews) that the owner had FSD controlling the car when it crashed and killed him.
Rossiter, who survived the crash, told emergency responders that von Ohain was using an “auto-drive feature on the Tesla” that “just ran straight off the road”…
2) The same witness said FSD had been in use on the trip just before the fatal crash, and noted that it had been repeatedly making unsafe movements requiring quick interventions.
3) The dead owner’s widow also stated the victim was convinced as an employee of Elon Musk that FSD should be trusted all the time and every time the car was operated… for safety.
Von Ohain used Full Self-Driving nearly every time he got behind the wheel, Bass said, placing him among legions of Tesla boosters heeding Musk’s call to generate data and build the technology’s mastery. While Bass refused to use the feature herself — she said its unpredictability stressed her out — her husband was so confident in all it promised that he even used it with their baby in the car. […] “Now it feels like we were just guinea pigs.”
[…] “Once Hans passed away and time went by, there wasn’t any more discussion about him,” said the former employee, a member of von Ohain’s team who soon resigned. To von Ohain’s widow, Tesla’s silence seemed almost cruel. Though the company eventually helped cover the cost of her move back home to Ohio, Bass said, Tesla’s first communication with the family after the crash was a termination notice she found in her husband’s email.
These three points come through clearly in a new Washington Post article about the late Hans von Ohain, a former Tesla employee.
Tesla owners have long complained of occasionally erratic behavior by the cars’ software, including sudden braking, missed road markings and crashes with parked emergency vehicles. Since federal regulators began requiring automakers to report crashes involving driver-assistance systems in 2021, they have logged more than 900 in Teslas. A Post analysis found at least 40 crashes that resulted in serious or fatal injuries.
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As Rossiter yelled for help on the deserted mountain road, he remembers, his friend was screaming inside the burning car.
Allegedly the Tesla Model 3 FSD software “veered” off a Colorado road straight into a tree without braking. Although von Ohain survived the crash, emergency responders and his friend watched him trapped and burned alive, typical for Tesla crashes.
Check out Tesladeaths.com if you want to track the rapidly mounting Tesla death toll.
SF crowds celebrating Lunar New Year brought the spirit of “Burning Man” back to its streets (where the event started), by using fireworks to publicly destroy a Waymo.
When I arrived on scene, SFFD was already on scene hosing down the car with water and their chemical extinguishers. The battery appeared to be reigniting multiple times and was smoking like crazy. The live footage…gives a decent idea to how I came on to scene, which was after the attack on the vehicle. The vehicle looked completely “decapitated” and I have never seen a vehicle that damaged up close.
Obviously if more people attended “Burning Man” they would have been suitably prepared and treated this as a more accessible venue, maybe even assumed it was Waymo sponsoring Lunar New Year celebrations.
Publicly donating one of its robots to be destroyed? Can you imagine?
I mean if you’re foreign military intelligence and you want to know more about the safety of road robots, your troops have been on the ground for years in San Francisco. I certainly run into them, and have seen their work, so it’s curious how they don’t get reported more often for dangerous meddling and experimenting with robots and public safety.
To be clear, putting your life in the hands of a road robot is like throwing away your freedom. You think a company like Waymo is ready and able to fight for your safety, disposable customer? Think again. Riders describe being helpless and terrified.
If we were outside walking we could’ve walked away, run away. If we were driving, we could make sure we locked the door. In this instance, we literally had no control.
Waymo. No control.
In related news, three days ago a Waymo drove into a cyclist.
A cyclist was injured in a collision with a Waymo driverless vehicle in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon, police said. …”our vehicle applied heavy braking but was not able to avoid the collision”…
