Megalomaniac and crashing car mogul Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertruck continues to have safety and engineering problems, this time a brake system that didn't work. Just days ago, we posted about the vehicle's third and fourth recall in just months. Details on the latest incident from Business Insider:
"A Tesla owner said he crashed his new Cybertruck into a neighbor's yard within the first few hours of driving it — and he said it's because the vehicle's brakes didn't work.
The owner, Bruce Freshwater, told BI that the crash happened on April 27 after he picked up the Cybertruck. He said he pumped the accelerator when his daughter asked him to, but that nothing happened when he hit the brakes.
'I held the brakes down, and the vehicle really wasn't slowing down,' Freshwater said.
Freshwater said he went to make a turn and 'the back wheels locked up.' According to a report from the North Fayette Township Police Department in Pennsylvania, Freshwater stated that his vehicle went forward 50 feet and crashed into his neighbor's yard. The Cybetruck then barreled into one of his neighbor's cars. That car then ran into a second vehicle, Freshwater told the police in the report, which BI has viewed." (our emphasis)
According to the article, Freshwater shelled out $109,000 for the faulty truck, and is now looking at repairs of between $16,000 to $30,000. He's also not getting much feedback from Tesla, who hasn't responded to him after they last communicated a week or so after the April 27.
As we suggested in the earlier post, Musk's $56 billion pay package should have incentivized him to do better, but it only seems to have robbed resources from Tesla to do, say, proper brake engineering.
(photo: "Look out behind you Elon!"; via Carscoops.com)
