The answer turns out to be a rivet, which is probably better than a glue gun or two sided tape. Though rivets can break under pressure, or loosen.
More interesting to me was that the whole accelerator pedal fiasco arose from an “unapproved change”. Hopefully that was the only one, or they are right now doing a thorough review of their approval processes.
There is no way they’ve done enough stress testing to assure that the river is sufficient.
Just one? World’s Richest Man couldn’t spring for two?
You don’t get to be the World’s Richest Man by being spendthrift with rivets.
Two could actually be worse. I haven’t seen the analysis obviously but there are a lot of variables
Maybe, maybe not. But a rivet certainly buys them enough time to do that stress testing. At which point they can say it’s good enough or do another recall.
More interesting to me is that they’ve sold 3,800 Cybertrucks. This is roughly in line with the initial Model 3 ramp, which also sold in the low few thousands in the first 6 months. But less than 6 months after that they were producing >10k a month.
You seem to be under the apprehension that the manual is the ultimate arbiter of whether something is covered by warranty. It’s not. It would be a phone book if they went into explicit detail about whether everything is or is not covered. They may choose to emphasize certain important points, especially if they deem them likely to be encountered by users, but that’s a judgment call and the absence of emphasis means very little.
Note, as a point of comparison, how the different manufacturers printed the point about washing in direct sunlight. Tesla and Kia put in giant CAUTION banners. Ford and Subaru were more muted but made the same point. You can’t infer anything from this difference aside from the thought process of the manual author.
No they don’t. Again, just Google “wiper blade damaged in car wash” for zillions of examples of it happening on every sort of model. I dare you to find any examples that were covered under warranty.
Arguably, a car wash mode works against Tesla’s interests in warranty coverage, because if the wiper is damaged anyway despite the car being in car wash mode, they can argue that the feature itself did not work and is thus defective. As compared to a car without said mode getting damaged and the manufacturer saying too bad, so sad.
IANAL but this blase attitude towards allowing real world users to drive around with an untested fix for a critical safety recall just doesn’t strike me as the way the world works. If that rivet pops out and a family of four dies in a lithium fueled hellscape the lawsuit would be such a slam dunk even Alina Habba couldn’t screw it up.
I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they’ve done sufficient testing but damn if this doesn’t look like amateur hour.
A quick fix that almost certainly works is better than no fix. Compare against the Takata airbag recall, where many people went for months or years with a shrapnel bomb pointed at them, with the advice basically being not to get into an accident. Or the recent Kia/Hyundai recall for a fire hazard (not EVs), with the advice literally being “park outside”. The car still catches on fire. It just doesn’t burn your house down as well.
I don’t know any of the details of Tesla’s fix testing here. They’ve undoubtedly shown that the rivet is strong enough for the job. I’m just going with hajaro’s speculation that they haven’t done enough stress testing. Well, maybe they haven’t put the fix through their robot that does 10 million presses of the pedal. But even if they haven’t, it undoubtedly works well enough that they can complete the testing later.
“incEl Camino”.
See also from 2+ weeks ago. 
They put the gearshift on the windshield?
Holy crap, this really is the Homer.
No, it’s on the screen. There’s a backup on the top-center console thing on the windshield.
And the Twitter user seems very confused. The sun visors don’t clip into that part. Any human who’s operated a vehicle of any kind know that they attach to the outside, not the inside, so that they can hinge outward to the side windows. There’s a magnet that holds the visor in place but there’s no significant strain on it.
Maybe Christina Balan was fired from Tesla because she’s an idiot.
Jalopnik is trash and I don’t know this particular contributor, but they’re reporting news from February, nearest I can tell.
Here’s the thread some of those pictures are from. it doesn’t seem to be the visors that are the problem, but rather low quality plastic clips that are poorly installed. I’m surprised at the number of replies saying they had the same issue.
Every single plastic clip in my BMW eventually broke (as well as almost every other plastic item), so I have some sympathy.
This guy on the cybertruck owners club is warning people to be careful because he clipped himself with the door as he was getting out while the truck was parked on an incline, and it gashed his leg open so much he needed stitches. He then goes on to say he loves the truck and it was 100% his fault.
I was in my Subaru after reading about this and trying to imagine being able to do the same with the door of my Forester, and could not figure out how I would do that.
tl;dr: stainless steel car doors have sharper edges than you might expect.
My car has very long, heavy doors. If parked on a slope so you’re opening them uphill, the hold-open detent can be overcome by gravity.
Once gravity overcomes that detent the door pick up speed and momentum w a vengeance. Woe betide the finger or ankle that gets in the way.
Anything for a few views:
Top Gear did an off-road test vs. the Rivian:
They came away impressed. The Rivian does well also, and won their short “race,” but gave the Cybertruck a “moral” victory due to the better handling. The Rivian gets very bouncy at times.
You can also see some of the downsides of the 4-motors (on the Rivian) vs. 2 motors plus locking differentials. The Rivian is spinning some of its wheels during the climb. That’s not a big problem in and of itself (well, it might fling rocks around, which isn’t great), but it is apparent that those motors aren’t contributing anything. Whereas the Cybertruck gets to put all power to the wheel with traction.
They did manage to pop the tonneau cover off the rails during the jump. That was a pretty rough test, though.
Attention seeking idiot accepts Internet dare to stick finger into closing “frunk”, with consequences that I don’t feel comfortable as describing as either predictable or unpredictable.
But if it’s true that an engineer told him that the trunk will close harder if it senses resistance, well that’s something interesting.