On Monday, we learned that Tesla had suspended customer deliveries of its stainless steel-clad electric pickup truck.
Now, the automaker has issued a recall for all the Cybertrucks in customer hands—nearly 4,000 of them—in order to fix a problem with the accelerator pedal.
It has come at an inconvenient time for Tesla, which is laying off more than 10 percent of its workforce due to shrinking sales even as CEO Elon Musk asks for an extra $55.8 billion in compensation.
Fortunately, applying the brake overrides the accelerator and cuts torque immediately, but that still didn’t prevent one owner from allegedly crashing into a light pole before he was able to bring his Cybertruck to a stop.
Tesla is no stranger to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s official recall process, but this time there is no software fix or over-the-air patch.
The company says that it will notify its stores and service centers about the recall “on or around” today, and that owners will be contacted in due course.
The original article contains 317 words, the summary contains 169 words. Saved 47%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Maybe these summarizations have always been bad, but every time I read one (which has only been in the past couple of months…maybe I’m just getting lazy) they’re terrible. Borderline nonsensical.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Monday, we learned that Tesla had suspended customer deliveries of its stainless steel-clad electric pickup truck.
Now, the automaker has issued a recall for all the Cybertrucks in customer hands—nearly 4,000 of them—in order to fix a problem with the accelerator pedal.
It has come at an inconvenient time for Tesla, which is laying off more than 10 percent of its workforce due to shrinking sales even as CEO Elon Musk asks for an extra $55.8 billion in compensation.
Fortunately, applying the brake overrides the accelerator and cuts torque immediately, but that still didn’t prevent one owner from allegedly crashing into a light pole before he was able to bring his Cybertruck to a stop.
Tesla is no stranger to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s official recall process, but this time there is no software fix or over-the-air patch.
The company says that it will notify its stores and service centers about the recall “on or around” today, and that owners will be contacted in due course.
The original article contains 317 words, the summary contains 169 words. Saved 47%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
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I love the little aside about the rust. Some journalists still have fun.
Maybe these summarizations have always been bad, but every time I read one (which has only been in the past couple of months…maybe I’m just getting lazy) they’re terrible. Borderline nonsensical.
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