The fucking site nagged me to turn off my adblocker and it turned out the fucking article is ~167 words.
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Tesla has recalled a total of 173 Cybertruck models from the 2024-2026 model year equipped with 18-inch steel wheels due to a potential wheel-stud failure.
Cracks in the brake rotor stud holes could cause the wheel studs to separate from the hub, making it harder to control the vehicle and potentially causing the wheel to fall off, increasing the likelihood of a crash.
Affected vehicles may exhibit vibration or noise prior to wheel stud separation. Tesla says it will completely replace the affected wheel hubs and rotors. The repairs will be conducted at no cost to owners, as mandated by law.
Automakers recall many cars to fix safety defects, sometimes more than once. While automakers try to reach every owner to ask them to bring the vehicle in for repair, they rarely get them all. Millions of vehicles on American roads need free recall repairs. To find out if your car is one of them, check the easy VIN tool at our recall center.
I feel like if your wheel has fallen off you are in a crash already and we're just determining what severity of crash rather than the "likelihood".
counterpoint but i would argue the least severe consequence (your wheel falls off at no/low speed and your car goes all nuts and you skid to a stop) can't really be called a crash like it's not like you hit anything
i knew this guy who drove this total heap. it was an 80s VW Vanagon that had not been maintained for a decade. nobody ever wanted to ride in it because it had ants.
so here we are, year of our lord 200x, and the guy is coming home. coasting to a stop at a red light where 4 lanes cross 4 lanes (two big highways).
clunk, he slows rapidly from 25 mph to zero as his driver's side front wheel has popped off rolling forward.
he's just sitting there grimacing as this rogue wheel rolls casually through busy traffic--where thank god it doesn't hit anyone or cause an accident--before it hits the curb, pops up several feet in the air, and lands on the windshield of a new Corvette at a car dealership.
It's like pilots joking that any landing you walk away from is a good landing.
I'm sure these things are too damn heavy, but part of me wonders if there's a niche scenario where you could stop it with next to no damage. Like, starting from a low speed, having a back wheel fall off, and you brake and steer to shift the balance to the opposite side of the missing wheel lol.