every non-vandalized cybertruck is an affront to decent society
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Shame on you if you still believe promises made by Tesla 😂 They are kinda like promises made by Trump 😆
This tesla coil is a downward spiral!
Goddamn even full ass vehicles are going the early access lifecycle.
Lmao they put lane-keeping assist behind a marketing-wank paywall for their already expensive EVs - something manufacturers like Subaru and Hyundai has made standard across their entire line for years now
What a sad joke this company has become, another example of failed leadership valuing yes-men and sycophancy
I rode in a 2019 Subaru Ascent (like a big Outback) a few years ago, the lane keep assist was great even back then, not to mention the blind spot monitoring and all that. and it was all included. wtf is Tesla even doing with all that time and money??
It’s going to Elon Musk bank account.
I love mine. Combined with adaptive cruise, it’s amazing for slowly rolling traffic, longer journeys, and stop-and-go traffic. I’m under no impression the car is ‘driving’ but having a machine take over the mental load is great and frees up that capacity for other driving tasks and/or awareness of the road.
Tesla calling that technology “Auto” anything without it being genuinely 100% autonomous should have landed someone a fat fine or jail time
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Hyundai Lanekeep is better than teslas too
It’s absolutely pitiful that they can’t figure out lane-keeping when a cars a fraction of the price have it.
It’s also a huge red flag that they are shipping “self driving” but can’t do lane keep assist.
Oh they know how to do it. They are just desperate to swindle existing owners since their vehicle sales have fallen off a cliff.
I don’t think they can, because they’re suffering so much from the rectal-cranial inversion that Musk started with his FSD.
Muskrat insists on using computer vision entirely, and building it in-house. Tesla (probably EM) as I recall also insulted MobilEye so they refuse to do business with them. Mind you, I think lane keeping is generally a computer vision problem.
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I have this on my Honda Fit for fuck's sake.
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Autostreer to far right might sound good to some (apparently??) but it's an issue in actual traffic.
Tesla is the Fyre Festival of automotive manufacturers, except in this case Billy has managed to keep the kite in the air for an astonishingly long time.
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hey look your shitty truck that isn't the truck is going to be shitty
Snake oil salesman.
VW where rightly punished for Dieselgate yet seems like the Texan is getting away with it (again). I also blame the US media. Remember to this date Tesla has never spent a cent advertising in America, their entire hype machine has been fuelled by sites like The Verge (until they eventually woke up a few years back - by which point Tesla had already sold gazillions of shares and took customers deposits). This is why we need real journalism more than ever, the bodies that regulate these cowboys are no longer fit for purpose.
Class action goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Ass action go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
By no means am I here to kink shame, but that’s super off topic.
Yes, I know & agree :(.
It's just what my brainhole does to micro-entertain itself.
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They do this to juice the gross margin number and make the auto business appear more profitable.
I hope every single person who has, or ever will, buy a cybertruck a lifetime of misery and misfortune
May they stub their toe on every step for the rest of their life
But also may they sue for false advertising and cost Tesla legal fees and result in them being obligated to provide these services for free.
DOGE already defunded that government department.
Nah thats the government's ability to regulate.
He hasn't defunded the courts, so private lawsuits can occur. (At least he hasn't as of today, maybe he will tomorrow)
'bait-and-switch' They'll really call it anything but fraud huh.
Tesla commits ‘oopsie-daisy’. Cybertruck makes a ‘big boo-boo’.
Bait and switch is a specific type type of fraud.
Yes but bait and switch has less negative connotations and implies some cleverness on the part of the fraduster. Nothing even remotely clever was done here, Tesla made a deal and then flat out broke it Trump Style.
Bait and switch is literally promosing something and fhen replacing it with something else, which is what happened here. It doesn't imply any cleverness and has extremely negative connotations.
Cultural difference perhaps? I've always known it to be more specific, still roughly that but usually the replacement item is visually very similar and the victim accepts it after previously being shown a similar but non-shitty version. Like those black friday TVs you get in the US that look just like the brand name ones people expect them to be but are actually shittier electronics shoved into the same casings. The switch is meant to happen before purchase.
Those companies would get in legal trouble in the US if they admitted to doing it intentionally by calling it a bait and switch. They hide behind legal shenanigans like putting 'limited supplies' in fine print.
Everybody hates being on the receiving end of bait and switch. Nobody thinks it is clever except the person committing fraud, and they hate it when someone does it to them.
Aww, poor babies