A Cybertruck owner says that the 10-year-old kids at his son’s baseball practice initially thought the Cybertruck was the coolest vehicle. However, their excitement faded & they started to point & laugh after the Cybertruck had to be towed on a flatbed.

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.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    181·
    4 days ago

    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…

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      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…

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        5·
        4 days ago

        I didn’t think of the finger severer. Yes, it’s probably a safety feature to counter the bad design.