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Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Owners will have to wait until April 20 for deliveries to resume.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Over the weekend, dozens of waiting customers reported that their impending deliveries had been canceled due to "an unexpected delay regarding the preparation of your vehicle."

But in 2023, a safety researcher in Minnesota published a white paper with a potential mechanism, showing how a voltage spike in Tesla's inverter could cause a car to experience an acceleration event.

That same year, a leaked trove of Tesla documents to the German publication Handelsblatt included more than 2,400 customer complaints alleging sudden unintended brake problems.

This time, the potential culprit might be a lot easier to identify than a defective inverter experiencing a random voltage spike.

Yesterday, a Cybertruck owner on TikTok posted a video showing how the metal cover of his accelerator pedal allegedly worked itself partially loose and became jammed underneath part of the dash.

Lending this theory credence, Whole Mars Blog, a social media account with close links to the automaker, stated on Saturday that "Tesla has stopped all Cybertruck deliveries for 7 days due to an issue with the accelerator pedal."

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