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

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        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?

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          6 months ago

          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.

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            6 months ago

            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?

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              6 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

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              6 months ago

              It always ran. The owner drove it home, and when they parked it in the garage the center screen started acting wonky (they didn’t explain what that meant). All the other screens worked, and the car was drivable, but it’s a bit dangerous to drive a Tesla without the center screen since that displays everything (no dashboard screen) and is how you control everything (no physical buttons besides a few on the steering wheel). So the owner did a system reset and the screen didn’t turn back on after the estimated “two minutes”.

              The next day they called the service station, but then went back to check on the car, everything was working. Basically instead of taking 2 minutes to do a hard reset, it took over night. The service station said this was a known issue and it would sometimes take upwards of 4 hours.

              This headline is massively misleading. Hell, the article itself was massively misleading. The owner said something like “I thought it was bricked” on social media and the author just ran with it apparently.

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              6 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.

            • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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              6 months ago

              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
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                6 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