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Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Re: Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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Post by wil421 »

Tanoc wrote: post #137
wil421 wrote: post #36

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Autotrader says there are 246,000 used trucks for sale nationwide with AWD/4WD and 38,000 with rear wheel drive. For new it’s 429,000 AWD/4WD vs 51,000 for rear wheel. Volume wise it’s of course Texas with Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota having the largest ownership share.

The majority in that statistic are selectable 4WD, which isn't the same as AWD. Pushing the two groups together skews the numbers a bit. Most trucks since the 1970s have been 4WD, ever since companies like Muncie and Borg-Warner started selling axles to Ford and their cohorts. AWD trucks are a relatively new phenomenon, with the first one I can think of being the limited production GMC Syclone in 1989, and it being a…

Push the goal posts of you want. OP specifically said rear wheel drive.

There’s a whole community that doesn’t consider anything without front and rear lockers, dana 44 axels, frame on body, and 37s with bead lock a real off road rig.

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Post by whatevaa »

Tanoc wrote: post #126
formerly_proven wrote: post #99

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As opposed to thoughts and prayers-based ABS?

Some cars are going with entirely electrically actuated brakes, either inboard on on-hub, compared to the E-Tron which uses traditional hydraulically actuated brakes. One uses an electric motor to wind something to tighten the spring clip by pulling it that then pushes the pads to the rotor and the other uses pressure to overcome the spring by pushing the spring to compress it and push the pads to the rotor. I'm gues…

Are talking about brake-by-wire? Where brakes are controlled by electric only, and if electrics die, no brakes?

These are dangerous. Cars are not maintained to aircraft standards and will never be.

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Post by alooPotato »

selectodude wrote: post #209
alooPotato wrote: post #203

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cant drive it self

Blue Cruise is far more upfront about its abilities than whatever deadly beta garbage Tesla keeps tossing out there.

ok so? my point was no other car can drive itself door to door, blue cruise included.

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Post by alooPotato »

selectodude wrote: post #173
alooPotato wrote: post #153

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Dang you nailed my profile perfect. I bought one and its the best car I've ever had. Event though I was never a "truck" buyer it checked off all my needs: - space for wife, car seats + another adult when needed - haul around my kids, 4 bikes, skis, camping gear, etc. - drives itself - we do a ton of road trips - luxury - electric, tired of going to gas stations Wasn't another car on the market that checked those boxe…

F150 Lightning checked all those boxes and also isn’t a complete piece of shit that sheds parts on the road.

also, the lighting is discontinued

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Post by xerox13ster »

alooPotato wrote: post #153
washingupliquid wrote: post #138

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Dang you nailed my profile perfect. I bought one and its the best car I've ever had. Event though I was never a "truck" buyer it checked off all my needs: - space for wife, car seats + another adult when needed - haul around my kids, 4 bikes, skis, camping gear, etc. - drives itself - we do a ton of road trips - luxury - electric, tired of going to gas stations Wasn't another car on the market that checked those boxe…

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Post by cucumber3732842 »

wat10000 wrote: post #208
cucumber3732842 wrote: post #193

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>Seems like AWD could make it too easy to get in a situation where my AWB isn’t sufficient to stop It's the opposite. You're more likely to carry too much speed into a situation in a FWD/RWD vehicle because doing so improves things a lot of the time. Take for example a highway merge. You can't accelerate well, so you carry more speed through the turn to make the merge more safe. Well that works great and improves saf…

That's never been the case for me. Acceleration may be the issue I'm most likely to encounter, but the worst thing it'll do is inconvenience me. If traction is bad to the point where I won't be able to accelerate properly on a ramp, then either everybody's going slow enough that it doesn't matter, or I'm going to stay off the highway because it's too dangerous. Trouble accelerating in snow is common and a non-issue.…

It's not the highway that gets you (typically). It's all the stupid little roads that are built to substantially lesser standards. Steeper grades, tighter curve, hard 90 junctions, etc, etc.

You carry just a hair too much speed into a curve because you're anticipating not wanting to have to use any gas pedal on the rise just beyond and you wind up in the ditch. Or you go wide into a curb because you took a less optimal gap in traffic at a ~5 roll when taking a left turn because that way makes you less likely to get T-boned than coming to a stop and trying to find an even bigger gap in traffic. Or you slide backwards down some stupid driveway or bump something in a parking lot (ask any delivery, parking lots and driveways are the worst).

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Post by fragmede »

alooPotato wrote: post #203
selectodude wrote: post #173

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F150 Lightning checked all those boxes and also isn’t a complete piece of shit that sheds parts on the road.

cant drive it self

Blue Cruise on the F150-Lightning is pretty capable, and it also supports a comma.ai, which is better in a practical sense than FSD.

I have a friend with a CyberBeast and a friend with an F150-Lightning. The acceleration on the CyberBeast is absolutely magnificent and FSD is very capable. However as a truck, the frunk on the F150 is way more useful. The F150 is a better truck, but I'd say the Cybertruck is really good big weird car.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

10xDev wrote: post #157
alooPotato wrote: post #153

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Dang you nailed my profile perfect. I bought one and its the best car I've ever had. Event though I was never a "truck" buyer it checked off all my needs: - space for wife, car seats + another adult when needed - haul around my kids, 4 bikes, skis, camping gear, etc. - drives itself - we do a ton of road trips - luxury - electric, tired of going to gas stations Wasn't another car on the market that checked those boxe…

>Wasn't another car on the market that checked those boxes. Outside of "drives itself", I fail to see how much of what you described is unique. Seems very ordinary.

I have another box on my checklist:

[x] $94K and $52K deprecation in the first 5 years.

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