Result: Every single driver who paid for a Cybertruck, all 3,878 of them, now has to haul their extremely angular EV to their local dealer in Tesla's biggest recall to date. And as with a lot of news these days, how you react to the recall likely depends on whether you're an obsessive fan of Elon Musk.
An "unapproved lubricant" used on the Cybertruck's accelerator pad caused it to slip off and get trapped in a bit of trim above the pedal, according to a recall report [PDF] by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. If you've been on TikTok this week, you might have seen what that can mean, thanks to a viral video of a Cybertruck owner whose accelerator jammed in the "pedal to the metal" position.
Next to Boeing, Tesla looks like a paragon of soapy safety.
You can see this clearly in the most-liked, and highly representative, comment on that viral TikTok. "Every Cybertruck owner is like 'I paid 80k for this and it almost killed my entire family. Small issue. Love the car!'"
Actually, the owner responded, he paid $122,000 with extras.
"Sick flex, brother," replied another TikTok user. "I also paid $122k to be a ludicrously irresponsible threat to any vehicle or pedestrian in my vicinity."
