Adventures of the Longest Muskrat

[Thad]

Last month, Elon Musk's insane "aesthetics at all cost" design paradigm killed Angela Chao, a billionaire dry-goods shipping mogul (and Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law)

Her sister was a pro-deregulation Secretary of Transportation.

If someone wrote this as fiction, I'd criticize it for being too contrived.

[Friday]

Truth is being written by a tropey hack who is just cribbing from history

[Büge]

tl;dw, there's a plate on the accelerator pedal that can slide up and become lodged in the floor panel

[Thad]

Real headline: Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Work

[Büge]

All Cybertrucks have been recalled due to faulty accelerator pedals

[Crick]

"The wheels are *meant* to come off, it's an ease-of-access feature."

[Mongrel]

"The wheels are *meant* to come off, it's an ease-of-access feature."

That'd be the only ease-of-access feature on the damn thing.

[Mazian]

By far the most hilarious bit: all 3868 Cybertrucks are being recalled. That's all they've managed to build and sell.

[Grath]

(For reference, that's fewer than the total sales of the DeLorean.)

[Yoji]

As I understand it, Ford sold about 63,000 Edsels in its first year, and those weren't exactly popular. And a game developer I follow on Mastodon claims "lmao Tesla has sold fewer cybertrucks than I've sold copies of MidBoss"