Some people avoid the first model year of any vehicle, to wait until all the bugs are ironed out.
It's not clear whether that makes sense for Tesla which claims to do continuous improvement, and some of their improvements are actually downgrades in disguise.
Also, we're entering month five of the Cybertruck release.
> Some people avoid the first model year of any vehicle, to wait until all the bugs are ironed out.
Probably good advice.
> It's not clear whether that makes sense for Tesla which claims to do continuous improvement, and some of their improvements are actually downgrades in disguise.
Most of Tesla’s “continuous improvement” after the car has been purchased is via the software.
I will just say that I think the software has improved substantially since I got my model y two years ago.
This was/has always been a stupid brainfart of a vehicle. It'll be a race: Will Telsa discontinue the Truck or Musk first?
American pickup trucks are already at a near peak of stupid design: Giant grills, huge wheels, terrible road handling, the literal worst gas mileage, and huge stupid lifts that shouldn't be street legal, so that Chad can have a life size Tonka Truck.
Literally no one else in the world wants these stupid things. Our own military doesn't want them.
Musk took that, and managed to make it way worse.
I want the electric version of the Geo Metro. Cloth seats, no AC, no radio, no power seats/window/tailgate
It took Subaru three years to make the BRZ idle without stalling, and there’s like five hundred TSBs now which is par for the course for a ten year run of a completely-new body and engine bay layout. But only a couple of them were meaningfully critical, and one of those was a manufacturer defect that affected several years of car models across the board. So, maybe not to the degree that Cybertruck “dead after 5 miles” and “tried to dead stop on the highway unexpectedly” stories reported are showing.
This can be explained by the popularity of Tesla, and it's not like Crybertrucks are especially bad. Ford and GM cars also break, but owners are less inclined to post about it online, nor is the media as inclined to pay attention. Any sort of bad news from big tech companies like Uber, Amazon, Meta, or Tesla is swarmed with media attention.
Looks like a tale of people who've eaten up Elon's hype meeting Elon's reality... topped with an Elon apologist in the comments ;-)
I clicked on one of the links in that article, and this article[1] with a rusty Cybertruck shows up. Geez, looks like something out of a dystopian movie, and this model was launched how many weeks ago?
The 3 and Y releases were both train wrecks (esp. the 3), and it looks like Truck may be the same.
Time will tell.
All that said, I think Tesla eventually gets production to where they want it to be.