Video Exposes A Big Cybertruck Design Flaw

We know a number of people who still believe the Tesla Cybertruck is just one huge troll by Elon Musk. That’s possible, considering its rather odd geometric design, among other things. But as the all-electric pickups are used by people in their everyday lives, some big flaws have emerged.

Somehow a C8 Corvette driver lived to tell the story after this crash.

One of them was recently exposed in a video posted to Facebook by Joseph Fay. The digital creator who lives in Watertown, New York has been quite open about the problems and benefits of his personal Cybertruck through his Facebook page.

In other words, he’s not just some “hater” despite certain Tesla owners smearing anyone who doesn’t shower each product from the automaker with loads of praise. The man seems to have enjoyed his Teslas, so his criticism should carry some weight.

What he noticed with his Cybertruck is what we would call a major problem in winter weather. Since he hasn’t had his pickup long enough to have driven it in snow before, he just recently realized the front bumper acts like a shelf, allowing snow to pile up either while it’s parked or while it’s driving and getting pelted with the white stuff.

Why that matters is the headlights on a Cybertruck sit just above the bumper. A lot of people think that light strip is the headlight, but that’s just a running light, providing little forward illumination.

In other words, as the snow piles up on that shelf of a bumper, the headlights get blotted out. That wouldn’t be a big deal if the Tesla has a headlight washer feature which would knock all that snow out of the way, but we’re not aware of such a thing on the Cybertruck.

The solution is owners have to manually scrape the snow out of the way. That’s a problem if it accumulates while you’re driving, which is why headlight washers are a wonderful feature to have in snow country, especially if they’re heated.

Tesla famously doesn’t test its vehicles in the real world as vigorously as “dinosaur” legacy automakers, and quite frankly it shows. Enough cold weather testing would’ve exposed this flaw in no time and engineers could’ve made the necessary changes to avoid it.

Now Fay and others are arguing that “every car has this issue” but that is in fact not true. We know this from experience. We also know Tesla owners can bristle at any criticism of their ride of choice, even if some features and designs are honestly awful.

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