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Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries — accelerator pedal may be to blame
Owners will have to wait until April 20 for deliveries to resume.
But in 2023, a safety researcher in Minnesota published a white paper with a potential mechanism, showing how a voltage spike in Tesla's inverter could cause a car to experience an acceleration event. Yesterday, a Cybertruck owner on TikTok posted a video showing how the metal cover of his accelerator pedal allegedly worked itself partially loose and became jammed underneath part of the dash. Lending this theory credence, Whole Mars Blog, a social media account with close links to the automaker, stated on Saturday that "Tesla has stopped all Cybertruck deliveries for 7 days due to an issue with the accelerator pedal."
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