Tesla’s troubled Cybertruck failed a front trunk safety test and closed, trapping the finger of one of the drivers who was testing the vehicle’s hatch sensors.
A video posted by Jeremy Judkins, a YouTube personality who reviews Tesla products, on his show shows his index finger getting stuck under the stainless steel “frunk” (the front storage area under the hood). As a result, he suffered severe dents on his delicate fingers. The number of channel subscribers is 170,000.
He was spared further serious injury after wriggling his finger and activating the sensor.
Elon Musk’s long-delayed and expensive Cybertruck is under fire after Tesla last month recalled 3,878 vehicles due to a potentially fatal flaw in the gas pedal.
The company needed to solve an issue where a stuck pedal could cause the vehicle to accelerate unintentionally, increasing the risk of a collision.
Tesla also released a safety update for Frank after other drivers posted videos in recent weeks showing the hatch crushing inanimate objects such as vegetables.
Judkins decided to test the software update. He notices that if he places bananas, cucumbers, and carrots at the edges of the compartment, Frank’s sensors can detect them.
I then tried to test the sensor with the tip of a carrot, but it got cut off by the frank door.
Judkins was then asked by a YouTube viewer to have his fingers examined. He first tried to close the lid on his arm and hand, but the sensors detected both limbs and the “Frank” door opened without a problem.
But when he stuck his finger into the space between the “Frank” door and the compartment, the hatch pressed hard, clearly in discomfort.
“My finger was in danger for a second, but I can’t lie,” Judkins told viewers.
He then showed a black mark on his finger indicating where the “Frank” door had rested.
“My fingers are shaking,” Judkins said in the video.
He said the “frank” door was “a little bit surprising because it was like it was locked and I didn’t know how to open it.”
“I was kind of trapped,” Judkins said. “Fortunately, it sensed resistance and opened.”
“The new Cybertruck protects the banana, but the fingers are still at risk,” he said. “They have work to do.”
The Post has reached out to Tesla for comment.
Judkins said Wes Morrill, Cybertruck’s chief engineer, said the reason the “Frank” door tightened so hard on his fingers was because the algorithm was designed so that the door would be pushed harder on the third try. He reportedly said it was for the sake of it.
Judkins said the sensor is programmed to assume it’s a shopping bag that’s preventing the “flank” door from closing, and apply more resistance the third time it detects the object. It is said that
Judkins posted another video, this time using his toes. Frank’s was temporarily closed, but he reopened it and there were no injuries, he said.
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