https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1g5t5gf/cybertruck_getting_the_walnut_st_welcome/
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/GUID-17ABBF87-8EB4-4FFC-8D79-B9FF53F7916D.html
Warning
NEVER TRANSPORT YOUR VEHICLE WITH THE TIRES IN A POSITION WHERE THEY CAN SPIN. DOING SO CAN LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE AND OVERHEATING. IN RARE CASES EXTREME OVERHEATING MAY CAUSE THE SURROUNDING COMPONENTS TO IGNITE.
Do not transport Cybertruck using any method that is not specified by Tesla. Adhere to the instructions provided here and observe all warnings and cautions. Damage caused by improper transporting of your vehicle is not covered by the warranty.
Note: Tesla is not liable or responsible for reimbursing services not dispatched through Tesla Roadside Assistance.
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so you just need a good portable jack and some sort of device to get one of the wheels spinning at high speed to completely ruin a cybertruck?
good info to spread around
A sledgehammer is cheaper
Fun fact, incorrectly towing a pickup truck will cause waymos to crash into the back of tow truck or drift into the opposite lane.
Really wish we could get the bazingas out of our most dangerous activity
Honest question, why not short the motors so that internal resistance is increased massively or set the motors to coast or apply passive power to prevent overcharging or engage the actual brakes fully to avoid this? I get that solution would destroy the tires, but that’s an easier fix than the entire powertrain. How do other EVs avoid the problem?
I’m not sure how other EVs do it, but the Nissan Leaf can be put into neutral, since it uses a single motor under the hood. I’m sure putting motors in the wheels complicates things, but I would think the coast idea would work.
You can put teslas in a Tow mode too but that would mean the owner was aware a tow truck was coming to turn the car on and set it on tow mode. If they didn’t, the car needs to be on skates and needs to be lifted up entirely where no wheels can spin.
I guess the other difference is that the Leaf is front wheel drive only, so as long as the truck lifts the front wheels there’s no risk to anything going wrong.
Personally I like it when EVs aren’t too different from regular cars, the leaf is basically a Nissan Rogue, but instead of a gas engine there’s an electric one, and instead of a gas tank there’s a battery pack.
If so, why not turn on the car alarm and put the vehicle into tow mode on detecting an overcurrent?
In fact, Teslas have very loud external speakers in lieu of horns. They could just say “you are towing the car wrong. Please stop and consult the manual” on repeat at 100 decibels
Not a bad idea. Shouldn’t be too hard to program in.
Shouldn’t be too hard to program in.
No truer words have been spoken by someone who has never worked on the system in question. Knowing Tesla, there is probably some arcane bullshit in the code preventing this from happening.
Just a few if else statements, how hard could it be amirite
I feel like owning a Cybertruck should at least qualify someone as temporarily insane.
The ownthelibsmobile. No one buys it outside of virtue signaling “look at me, I’m a republican! Give me a trophy for sharing political views with most of the country!”
You’d think with money like that they’d just get a Porsche, which has its history in Nazi Germany so they can get their own the libs fix that way.
Cybertrucks are the purple heart given to survivors of family court. The enemy made you pay child support but you’re the cool parent in your big cool truck. Everyone should have to look at your big cool truck and how cool and big you still are while driving it.
They designed a car that can’t be towed? Lmao how is literally everything about this car as dumb as possible.
The issue is that a motor is a generator so spinning the wheels like that is going to overcharge the battery. I’m not sure why they don’t lock up the wheels to make it as annoying as possible to tow incorrectly, though.
many cars have special towing considerations.
In fairness to the Cybertruck (lol), my old Prius used to do something similar where the wheels would lock up if the battery was dead. Most tow trucks these days carry the whole car on the back so it didn’t really matter but if it had ever been moved by one like in the photo it would’ve fucked the car
Yeah, my only thought is that a Cybertrukkk might be too big or heavy to go on a tow bed, which I’m sure nobody at Tesla ever thought of looking into.
I haven’t seen it mentioned in the thread yet, but:
How fucking horrible do ya think Tesla Roadside Assistance is
How fucking horrible do ya think Tesla Roadside Assistance is
It’s so bad there’s a subreddit dedicated to it.
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First off, lol
Second, that seems like a major design flaw given the possibility of something exactly like this happening. Was it that difficult to disengage whatever the mechanism is when it’s not running?
that seems like a major design flaw
That might as well be the guiding philosophy of these junkers.
A billionaire narcissist high on his own PR hype can not be corrected when he gets a really fucking ignorant idea, so whatever he conjures up gets praised by yes-men.
In AWD gas cars it’s a problem because the front and rear wheels are linked together, but this thing has two bazinga drive packs that are independent. It only needs to lock one to have an effective “park” and it doesn’t even needs that because it could use one axle’s brakes as a parking brake. They could have made it easier to tow (you know, for when it inevitably breaks) but they chose to spend more time and effort to make it worse.
The cybertruck is shit but this is a problem for most if not all EVs. The wheels are mounted to the motor which then generates current when the wheels spin. I’m not sure how difficult it is to solve but at least Toyota, Ford, BMW, BYD and Rivian haven’t figured it out either. They all recommend towing on a flatbed or using dollies.
There’s actually loads of vehicles you can’t tow like that without damaging. It’s one of the major reasons most tow trucks are flat beds, now.
However (and likely what is happening here in this picture) a lot of dense cities with parking issues and traffic will have plenty of tow trucks like what is pictured because they’re quicker and don’t need as much room. But after the initial hook up and dragging the towed vehicle away from the curb (as pictured) the tow truck driver will get out and place wheel dollies under the two tires still on the ground so that they also don’t end up rolling.
This is really the only way you can tow a vehicle against an owners wishes if you can’t get the drive wheels picked up off the ground (since the vehicle would be in park) so all tow truck operators who don’t use flat beds will have a set of wheel dollies with them. Drag it away from the curb, then attach the dolly, then drive away.
NEVER TRANSPORT YOUR VEHICLE WITH THE TIRES IN A POSITION WHERE THEY CAN SPIN.
Come on tires! You have exactly ONE job!
Guaranteed highest price paid for junk cars
You don’t need to write that on the side when we can already see that.
No my Zybertruck, you’re supposed to put the wheels in a semi-clockwise position facing 40 degrees to the east with exactly 125 lbs of pressure per square inch!
I’m on the clock pal talk to the hand.
Alright brb, gotta google how to become a tow truck driver
Seems like a pretty sweet job
Tow truck drivers are just cops who failed both the police entrance exams and the prison guard entrance exams
Tow truck drivers are cops and the absolute lowest snake’s belly in a wagon rut scum on earth. Their job is to steal the cars of working people then hold them for ransom demanding payments that are the difference between making rent or not. They’re fucking evil.
What about just some guy with a tow truck who grabs Teslas no matter where they’re parked?
I think that’s community defense in this analogy.
I wouldn’t be able to do the impound jobs. So much of their work seems to be repossessing the cars of people too poor to afford the loan or some other cost.
Yeah, that sucks
Why is every job in this cursed country so fucking evil
Right? There’s nothing outside capitalism and it brands all of us with it’s bullshit.
