Ernest says the children were initially cheering the Cybertruck, but their enthusiasm turned to skepticism when the truck experienced an issue that rendered it undrivable.
The issue began when Ernest drove his 10-year-old son to a baseball match in his Cybertruck.
Ernest placed his son’s baseball gear in the front trunk (frunk); however, when they arrived at the field, the frunk wouldn’t open.
This is quite frustrating; however, the Cybertruck owner and father stated he was prepared to drive 40 minutes back home to fetch a replacement glove for his son.
Regrettably, despite his willingness to make this sacrifice to support his child, Ernest states that the Cybertruck detected an issue with the frunk and went into “Limp Mode.”
This is where the truck limits the top speed to 15 miles per hour, meaning that, besides repositioning the vehicle to be towed, there is nothing the owner can do.
At this point, Ernest says he was so frustrated that he briefly considered tying a rope around the frunk, connecting it to a tree, and yanking the frunk open.
The kids are alright.
Maybe he shouldn’t have bought a fucking cybertruck 🤷♂️
That’s gotta be a bummer. Children are the main cybertruck advocates.
Loose them and all that’s left is white supremacists who are against climate change.
Wait the truck hobbles itself if a non-critical part isn’t working?
Have you ever seen the hood on a vehicle fly up and off while driving full speed? I’ve seen it happen in person right in front of me from a passing car.
The wind speed and pressure from driving full speed is very extreme (think like driving 70 miles per hour on the highway, that’s literally hurricane force winds).
If the latch fails, the hood will basically instantly fly off and even up into the air around 50 feet or so, which is extremely dangerous to the driver and any random vehicles or pedestrians around.
If the error detected could in any way cause the latch to malfunction, that’s exactly what can and will happen. Now obviously it’s a Cyberdump and the issue is probably just a faulty sensor or something, but it’s still an issue of safety.
I thought it was required for hoods to have a secondary manual latch in case of failure in the first (the main latch that you pop up). For the very reason you state - cars early on didn’t have such a safety backup and were dangerous. Not all codes should result in crippling a car. Unless… there isn’t a backup latch because of some loophole and Elon thought it would be smart to rely on electronics to always work. But these vehicles also have a bad history with trapping people inside in an emergency, so…
Every vehicle I’ve ever worked on had purely mechanical latches both for the primary and the secondary backup latches. But… I admit that I haven’t worked on any vehicles any newer than from around 2010, so yeah there’s probably some vehicles out there that use a partly electronic partly mechanical latch these days.
Still, yeah that secondary latch is pretty darn important. But given Elmo’s infinite wisdom, I’m sure he went with a purely electronic option instead, I mean you don’t want people sticking their fingers under the hood to unlatch the backup latch, only to get their fingers chopped off from the sharp edges…
It truly is amazing just how unsafe the Cyberdump piece of shit really is…
I didn’t think of the finger severer. Yes, it’s probably a safety feature to counter the bad design.
Now imagine you somehow got your fingers stuck in there, but luckily they weren’t chopped off, only injured. But oh shit, now the frunk (can I slap whoever coined that stupid word) is stuck shut and won’t open.
What do? Call 911 and Tesla, or just call 911 and have someone grab a crowbar or two? Would emergency services bust out the jaws of life?..
🤦♂️
Frunk is probably European origin, since it was being used for rear/mid engine vehicles long before EVs.
I’m sure there’s a very good reason for this that Elon will explain if you tweet him.
None of those 28 kids thought it was cool. They were staring at a train wreck and excited when it turned out exactly like they imagined.
All of the children were cheering for me, chanting my name, showering my beloved vehicle with praise! But then, disaster struck and they turned on my like Judas!
