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Re: Tesla Cybertruck Owner Gets 'Coming Soon' Message When Trying to Lock Diff

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Post by josefresco »

geocrasher wrote: post #9

I'd venture to say that this locker function being delayed is a good thing. It'll force people to learn how to drive their truck off-road instead of hitting the Locker button, getting themselves stuck even worse, and then blaming Tesla. [HEAVILY edited for editorial clarity]

Every offroad comparison I've seen of the Cybertruck uses the same driver for all vehicles being tested. If a driver (even an inexperienced one) can make it up a small hill with a Subaru, but not a 4x4, locking diff, tri-motor, Cybertruck what does that say?

You can't bolt on 4x4 engineering skills.

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Post by creaturemachine »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #5

It's telling that the hardware team could create a whole locking diff faster than programmers can type into a computer.

Isn't the cybertruck 3-4 motor? In which case the "locking diff" is really a software feature since there wouldn't be anything between the axles to "lock?"

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Post by JohnFen »

nomel wrote: post #3
ijhuygft776 wrote: post #2

> Connected cars aren't just the future, they're the present. Been the present for 10+ years

Taking on the persona of a boring consumer, who has had to go into the dealer to get several updates with their unconnected car, and sometimes charged for it ($200 to $700), I don't see this as bad, if it's done well.

As far as I can tell, literally nobody is doing it well.

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

ramesh31 wrote: post #16

This truck is going to be a complete disaster in every conceivable way for Tesla. You've got a TAM on that thing of like.... maybe a few million people on earth? And even then, it's just going to be a silly short-lived fad for the ones who do. They more or less did the same idiotic thing as Ford with the Lighting. Tease a "$35k" starting MSRP for all the publicity, convince themselves they had a hit, and overcommit o…

Very bearish take. A complete ROI is like half a million sales, and they still have two million preorders.

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Post by AlexandrB »

ramesh31 wrote: post #16

This truck is going to be a complete disaster in every conceivable way for Tesla. You've got a TAM on that thing of like.... maybe a few million people on earth? And even then, it's just going to be a silly short-lived fad for the ones who do. They more or less did the same idiotic thing as Ford with the Lighting. Tease a "$35k" starting MSRP for all the publicity, convince themselves they had a hit, and overcommit o…

If I worked 3 jobs as a software developer I'd probably be fired for "moonlighting" from all 3 of them. Elon's attention is ridiculously split between Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter/X (oh and maybe X.ai, whatever that is). If I was a Tesla shareholder I'd be pissed.

But then again, this truck seems like it might have been Elon's pet project - so maybe it's better that he's less involved in Tesla? Who the hell knows. A lot of tradeoffs were made in favour of aesthetics and marketing at the cost of functionality with this one[1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybertruck-manual-road...

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

creaturemachine wrote: post #22
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #5

It's telling that the hardware team could create a whole locking diff faster than programmers can type into a computer.

Isn't the cybertruck 3-4 motor? In which case the "locking diff" is really a software feature since there wouldn't be anything between the axles to "lock?"

There is a two and three motor version so one or more diffs are needed.

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Post by edude03 »

worik wrote: post #20

I do not want my car reporting on me I do not need "over the air" updates Sell me the car. I will drive it away and make my own arrangements for maintenance. I want an asset, not a subscription Old man shouting at clouds?

Definitely. I don't think you're wrong to want that but I think people who wants teslas buy them for the tech and cloud features.

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Post by tomcam »

worik wrote: post #20

I do not want my car reporting on me I do not need "over the air" updates Sell me the car. I will drive it away and make my own arrangements for maintenance. I want an asset, not a subscription Old man shouting at clouds?

I think your last question would be answered in the affirmative if you are using a modern phone. They track everything already.
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