At a past job, I worked on a control system for an airplane seat. When the seat sensed resistance while changing the back incline, it stopped. It did not double down on the movement. It seemed like a sensible algorithm. 
A verified Tesla employee said that on Twitter.
It resets when it successfully closes. But increases the force if you keep trying to close it and it fails. It doesn’t increase the force on the same close cycle.
Seems like the logical choice since the frunk is often used for luggage which might need to be squished or pushed out of the way a bit. It’ll only injure someone going out of their way to be stupid.
Let me summarize the qualities of the Cybertruck from the last few months of posts:
- It’s ugly as sin. I mean just mind-bogglingly ugly, leaving one gasping at the idea that anyone could have designed and then actually manufactured such a thing.
- The supposed bulletproof stainless steel panels have to be babied like the most delicate Waterford crystal, or it will look like shit. In fact more so. Delicate Waterford crystal can withstand both water and sunlight. The Cybertruck apparently cannot.
- Some owners say their new Cybertrucks are already taking on the appearance of rust.
- One of the first Cybertruck owners reports having owned it for 21 days, out of which he’s had it for 7 days and the other 14 days it was in the shop being repaired.
- Can be driven on a beach, but not off, because it gets stuck.
- Has wheel covers that damage the tires.
- Doors don’t fit.
- Frunk and trunk lids have the ability to injure or even chop off fingers or arms.
- Accelerator pedal jams.
- One Cybertruck failed and became inoperable within minutes of driving it off the lot.
- Another one lasted longer; it went for 21 miles before becoming inoperable.
- And it’s only around $100K, but $3K more if you want a silly and fantastically ugly tent to put on the back.
Yes, for only $100K I definitely want a Cybertruck right now! Actually, I guess $103K, because I definitely want the ugly tent add-on! The ability to give Elmo some desperately needed cash is just a bonus.
Or someone who closes it and doesn’t notice their partner grabbing something. Or someone with kids who are running around being kids. Or someone who starts to close it, stumbles, and grabs the edge to steady themselves.
There are a lot of reasons for safety controls like this, and they aren’t all to protect the stupid people.
No, because the first time it closes it does so very gently and won’t even crush a banana. And the second time with only a little extra force. And so on, until the force eventually gets fairly high. Even the stupidest child figures out by the second or third time that maybe they shouldn’t do that. But the person in the video above will apparently do anything for clicks.
This is dumb. If something’s hanging out the trunk, I don’t want the car to compress my belongings. The car doesn’t know what’s fragile. It should give up and let me decide what force is needed.
Honestly I can’t imagine the use case for somebody who tosses a bunch of stuff in the trunk expecting the car to smash it down for them. Is it a time issue or is it an upper-body-strength issue? Looking at Musk fanboys it could go either way.
I didn’t say anything about stuff hanging out. I said squishy luggage.
Again, the car closes gently the first time. It only increases the force if you keep pressing the close button and it continues to fail. If you don’t want to do that, then get out of the car and close it manually.
People like self-closing frunks/trunks because they’re convenient. If I put a duffel bag in the frunk, hit the close button, walk away, and notice that it stopped because the bag was a little bit in the way, it’s nice to give it a second try with a little more force without having to walk all the way back.
Lazy? Sure. But that applies to literally any car with self-closing doors, not just the Cybertruck.
Not gonna read through a 1,000 post thread, but I was stuck behind one today and it just really struck me that goddam that is an ugly vehicle.
You are a master of understatement! It’s breathtakingly ugly in a way that almost defies belief, but to make up for it, it also features a very long list of mechanical and electrical defects! 
Has anyone claimed the term “Muskplaning”?
If not, I do now!
DUI? No way.
The cybertruck head of manufacturing has departed the premises.
Meanwhile, I think I posted from this guy before. It’s not going well, still.
I predict further disappointment in Lamar’s near future.
I finally figured out what other vehicle the CT does remind me of:
the NSU Prinz !!!
(great-grandfather of Audi)
from the profile view, you really need to pay attention which way is front / aft …
I saw my first one in the wild today. Both of those cars are way better looking than that Tesla Cyber thing.
I saw a white one today. Which says a boatload about the desirability of stainless steel.
Ironically, it looked better in white than the ones I have seen in stainless. It still looked stupid, though.
They’re becoming commonplace here. I saw another couple different ones in the last week. Screaming poseur but otherwise not all that unusually extravagant or ugly.
I can’t speak to reliability. I don’t exactly want one but I can understand the motivations of those people who do.
Starting to see a few a week. Could all be the same one, but I know one of the Tesla delivery centers in the area had a lot full of them earlier this month.
I am getting a bit tired of what seems to be almost performative declaration of how ugly the Cybertruck is. I don’t think it is attractive, and particularly the nose has something about it that doesn’t work for me, but I do give it lots of points for being unique. It just seems like every comment I ever hear comes with exaggerated gagging noises.
I find the Ioniq 6 to be uglier. I don’t know why, just something about the headlights and swoopiness really turns me off.
I do like the Panamera, though, so it must be something about how exactly Ioniq 6 swoops.
Agree completely with this. Enough already.
And damn, that Ioniq is fugly. They got the curves just wrong and it makes me think of some failed and non-descript British product of the mid 1950s.