Damning report reveals dangerous Tesla Cybertruck flaws as test drivers say getting behind wheel was 'most stressful experience ever'

A damning reappraisal of Tesla's Cybertruck has revealed unsafe malfunctions with everything from its automatic braking to its cruise control.

Consumer Reports, a nonprofit enactment that has been investigating a wide gamut of products for implicit 80 years, has yet weighed successful connected Elon Musk's polarizing reinvention of the pickup truck.

The review confirms overmuch of what radical connected societal media person been complaining astir since the Cybertruck was first delivered successful November 2023, including mediocre visibility and however its stainless alloy exterior appeared to rust erstwhile retired successful the elements.

Even if buyers tin place these things, Consumer Reports discovered galore perilous flaws with cardinal information features.

After conscionable 2 weeks of owning the Cybertruck, a trial operator was warned that the vehicle's traction control, physics stableness control, automatic exigency braking, lane departure informing strategy and cruise power were each inoperable.

All of these features (except cruise control, which has been traced to cars manufactured arsenic acold backmost arsenic 1901) person travel modular successful sedans, SUVs, minivans and pickup trucks since 2012. 

The Department of Transportation estimates that electronic stableness power successful cars - systems that automatically observe and close erratic driving - saved much than 7,000 lives from 2011 to 2015.

The latest data suggest lane departure informing systems, besides referred to arsenic lane assist, person reduced crashes involving swerving betwixt lanes by 11 percent.

Concerns astir the Cybertruck's information lapses don't halt here, arsenic the Consumer Reports reappraisal stated that its visibility is 'abysmal.'

'With the objection of the straight-ahead presumption retired the windshield, the Cybertruck's visibility is abysmal,' according to the review. 'Look to the near oregon close and your presumption volition beryllium blocked by heavy pillars surrounding the windshield.'

When the operator looks back, the reappraisal says, the buttresses that framework the furniture make 'large unsighted spots to the sides.'

And erstwhile the automated furniture screen is closed, it covers up the rear window, making it intolerable to spot retired the backmost but done the rear-view camera.

Just past week, Tesla conscionable announced a callback for more than 27,000 Cybertrucks due to the fact that the rear camera representation didn't instantly activate connected surface erstwhile shifted into reverse.  

One trial operator with Consumer Reports said backing up the Cybertruck betwixt 2 different cars was 'the astir stressful acquisition he's had down the instrumentality successful caller memory.'

The wide-ranging reappraisal besides covered what it's really similar to thrust the futuristic truck. 

It is the archetypal conveyance sold successful the US with drive-by-wire steering. Essentially, this means determination are nary mechanical linkages betwixt the steering instrumentality and the tires, arsenic is emblematic successful each cars. Electronic sensors are solely liable for translating idiosyncratic turning the instrumentality into existent question from the tires below.

According to the owner's manual, this makes steering the Cybertruck 'feel more responsive and requires little effort from the driver.'

In practice, it's a spot much complicated, according to the review.

At debased speeds, turning the steering instrumentality 'just a fraction of an inch has the aforesaid effect arsenic a overmuch larger crook of a accepted car's steering wheel,' the reappraisal explains.

Because of the antecedently mentioned visibility issues, the sensitivity of the steering makes it 'very casual to clip a curb oregon extremity up a ft implicit a line,' the reappraisal said.

It added: 'Don't laughter if you spot idiosyncratic successful a Cybertruck struggling to parkland - it's genuinely a nerve-wracking experience.'

Going backmost months, plentifulness of societal media videos amusement drivers either taking a agelong clip to parkland oregon Cybertrucks parked good extracurricular the lines. 

The reappraisal concludes that this is thing a caller operator volition simply person to get utilized to. 

Consumer Reports past trashed the 50-inch-long azygous windshield wiper, which it says is 'more similar the benignant of wiper you'd spot connected a commercialized motortruck oregon metropolis bus.'

'Sometimes it activates unintentionally successful wide weather, an acquisition that is large and somewhat alarming,' the reappraisal says. 'Other times the wiper parks itself astatine the basal of the windshield, which adds a large woody of upwind noise.'

Regenerative braking, modular successful astir each electrical vehicles, besides stopped moving for the tested Cybertruck, according to the review.

This benignant of braking stops the car by utilizing the electrical centrifugal but besides captures kinetic vigor and stores it for aboriginal use, according to J.D. Power.

This tin effect successful important substance savings, thing a Cybertruck proprietor wouldn't beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of if regenerative braking were offline.

The reappraisal added that car aviator and full-self driving, 2 features that are cardinal selling points of the Cybertruck, didn't travel enabled adjacent though the Consumer Reports squad paid for the subscription.

Elsewhere, concerns person been shared astir the Cybertruck's mode of construction.

Road information campaigners successful Europe argued it should beryllium banned passim the continent due to the fact that its 'sharp edges' volition pb to 'increased rates of wounded and death,' according to a study by The Telegraph.

Musk has said the antithetic plan is meant to marque it truthful the Cybertruck is 'apocalypse-proof.'

During a unrecorded lawsuit introducing the Cybertruck successful 2019, helium famously asked a Tesla enforcement to propulsion a metallic shot astatine the vehicle, which promptly cracked the driver's broadside window.

'Oh my f****ing god! Well, possibly that was a small excessively hard,' Musk said aft the impact.

In December 2023, Tesla posted a video where employees changeable a assortment of firearms astatine the Cybertruck, appearing to amusement that its assemblage is bulletproof.

Though it whitethorn support against gunfire, the Cybertruck appears to beryllium susceptible to different types of damage.

YouTuber WhistlinDiesel, known for doing automotive stunts, uploaded a video successful August investigating the Cybertruck's durability.

WhistlinDiesel, existent name Cody Detwiler, archetypal tested its towing capableness by attaching a Ford F-150 to its tow hitch.

When Detwiler was pulling the Ford pickup down a hill, the rear bumper broke disconnected entirely.

The Cybertruck's advertised towing capableness is 11,000 pounds, which means it shouldn't person occupation pulling a 4,000 to 5,600 lb motortruck similar the F-150.

Detwiler past tested the spot of the doors by slamming them arsenic hard arsenic helium could, causing the interior paneling to rip off.

A TikToker going by username @molesrcool has besides made a sanction for himself successful the past twelvemonth oregon truthful pointing retired expected flaws with the Cybertruck.

A taxable helium repeatedly hammers connected is however the Cybertruck changes things astir pickup trucks and cars successful wide that marque sense.

For example, he's ridiculed Tesla for lone allowing Cybertruck owners to store their spare tyre successful the furniture with a divider.

'The spare tyre and the divider happening instrumentality up fractional the furniture leaving you with little abstraction than the trunk of a Honda Civic,' helium said successful an August video with a representation of the spare tyre connected screen.

If a Cybertruck proprietor opts to bargain a scope extender and the spare tire, some items volition instrumentality up the bulk of the bed.

On a Ford F-150, the spare tyre is underneath the truck, thereby compromising nary furniture space. 

The Rivian R1T, different electrical pickup truck, offers a compartment beneath the furniture to store an further tire. 

He's besides criticized Tesla for its determination to enactment astir each its car controls connected its monolithic 18.5 inch interaction screen.

Even Consumer Reports made notation of this plan prime successful its review, saying: 'You'll person to look distant from the roadworthy and usage the surface to set the steering wheel, mirrors, wipers, clime settings, and absorption of the aerial vents. Even the cogwheel selector is connected the screen.'

Consumer Reports, though overmuch wordier successful what it didn't similar astir the Cybertruck, did person immoderate affirmative things to accidental astir it. 

The reappraisal said it felt 'agile' connected precise twisty roads, portion praising however rapidly it tin get up to speed. 

When 'beast mode' is turned on, Tesla claims the Cybertruck tin spell from 0 to 60mph successful 2.6 seconds. 

That rivals oregon adjacent beats immoderate supercars, each of which are a fraction of the value of the astir 7,000-pound Cybertruck.

Consumer Reports besides hyped up the Cybertruck's comfort, penning that the beforehand seats 'have bully enactment and padding,' portion the rear seats are 'some of the astir comfy we've ever experienced successful a pickup.'

The bully and the atrocious comes astatine a terms of course, with the Cybertruck costing anyplace from astir $80,000 to implicit $100,000.