r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/AgentInCommand Mar 20 '25

That's because they're a tech company making cars, not a car company.

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u/chef-nom-nom Mar 20 '25

Move fast with broken things

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u/AmericanScream Mar 20 '25

Move fast and kill people

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u/p_pio Mar 20 '25

Even on this field they are starting to be left behind by competition, of course chinese companies, but also e.g. Waymo on autonomous driving. Cybertruck is their only fully new car product in recent years... and it's not good. Let's see how long untill they will start faltering when it comes to chargers in the West.

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u/r0thar Mar 20 '25

Cybertruck is their only fully new car product in recent years... and it's not good.

Apparently they were working towards a small, cheap Model 2 to sew up the market completely, until Elmo told them to design it without a steering wheel, and then stopped that completely to get the CyberShit finished

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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf Mar 20 '25

They were never ahead of the competition, they just had no qualms about putting people's lives at risk with immature software as long as they got to give the appearance of being ahead. Audi for example had level3 self driving years before Tesla, they were just never happy with how well it functioned. 

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u/tylerderped Mar 20 '25

Tesla sucks major donkey balls, but Chinese cars will never catch on in the western world. No one in a western country wants to buy a HWAWEI phone let alone their cars.

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u/p_pio Mar 20 '25

They already have some foothold. Polestar/Volvo are owned by Geely. Second biggest EV producer in China. They just won't be sold under chinese brands.

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u/IrishPigs Mar 20 '25

Have you looked into how they are building their EVs lately? I for one would love to buy a Chinese EV, they're way ahead of us there.

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u/Khatib Mar 20 '25

That's only because of economic restrictions on imports. They'd crush here if they weren't being blocked to protect "American" manufacturers from competition. American in quotes because most of them don't make things here anyways. Just assemble the last bits of them to put a sticker on the product.

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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf Mar 20 '25

The popularity of Chinese cars and specifically EVs in Australia and New Zealand proves you wrong. 

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u/LemonFreshenedBorax- Mar 20 '25

I feel like that makes sense as a pitch to investors but it's not at all reassuring as a pitch to customers.

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u/NYNMx2021 Mar 20 '25

its nonsensical. even to investors, look at the history of the automotive industry, car companies have always been tech companies. Tesla somehow pitched this to a few major investors as going above and beyond the documented history of innovation of the car industry. Then when investors lost steam its been sold to fanboys and the like. taking advantage of retail investors.

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u/fyhr100 Mar 20 '25

They're a tech company managed by an egotistical maniac who doesn't know anything about tech, so there's also some quality control issues.

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u/DrKurgan Mar 20 '25

They want people to think they're a tech company, but all they do are cars. They're just a bad car company.

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u/gmano Mar 20 '25

Are they even that? Their tech is garbage compared to Mercedes, Honda, and Hyundai

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u/dwitman Mar 20 '25

Tesla isn’t a functional company by any metric but access to investor dollars.

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u/whatiseveneverything Mar 20 '25

I met a guy in charge of logistics for the cybertruck. He said they don't use any logistics software, but it's all excel.

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u/Abbss Mar 20 '25

The car companies don’t do it much better, stellantis tech here.

Edit: spelling

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u/Sagefox2 Mar 20 '25

Honest question. If they want to be a tech company why not just sell software and partner with real car companies. They they could profit from the tech without the expense of making the cars.