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Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 months ago by EdibleFriend@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage'

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you seen other people in a car wash? Park, reverse, drive but they start holding the brakes when the track pulls them along, leaving antennas up, not closing windows, opening fucking doors... A vast majority of the human population is some level of braindead.

Fuck me, I've seen someone pull up into a manual car wash bay, open all their doors, and wash the INSIDE of their car. This was not a washable interior like a Jeep Wrangler or something, it was a typical sedan with carpeted floors and cloth seats.

And these people (theoretically) are licensed to drive, right next to you.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 61 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the car still ran afterwards.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So did this one, but if you include irrelevant details like that, the headline wouldn't get as many clicks.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't it say that the vehicle was bricked, meaning it wouldn't run after going through the car wash? Isn't that what happened?

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's what the headline says. In the article it states that it worked again after a service request and a (redidulously long) reboot.

[–] techt@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So then it didn't run after the car wash -- unless we're ignoring the mandatory steps needed to get it working again, the headline is pretty accurate. Or are you considering "bricked" a permanent condition?

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

That’s what I think of when I say something is bricked- that’s it fubar, irreparable, fukt, yaknow that kind of thing

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Bricked is a permanent condition. And if they were able to get it working again, I wouldn't say it was bricked. More like broken or crashed in the software sense.

Still, it wouldn't run after the car wash either.

I meant more like, even if you wash a car with the doors open and water goes in everywhere and damages the car, you can still turn the key and it will start.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Other people have already addressed the main issue here, so I think you're sorted there.

But yeah, I consider "bricked" a permanent condition - something broken beyond repair, so it's as useful as a brick. See also "paperweight".

What do you think it means? Temporarily unavailable?

[–] techt@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah I got the impression it was a recoverable condition after a search found a bunch of guides for "unbricking" (Android phones). Semantics are the true enemy it seems

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

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