Tesla's Cybertruck is being recalled.

Every single vehicle that's been shipped is being brought back for repairs in light of a fault accelerator pedal that puts drivers at risk.

Sean O'Kane has all the details here: tcrn.ch/49OFkSl

NEW: Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks shipped to date because of a faulty accelerator pedal.

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I regret to inform you the pedal is woke

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TIER acquired dott! Oh wait…

SCOOP: The 1,800-mile Tesla Semi charging corridor project that Dana “Legacy Blue Checkmark” Hull 👩🏻‍💻 and I broke the news about last year is still alive, despite *not* winning $100 million in funding from Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law.

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Humanoid robots could be working in factories sooner than you think

Boston Dynamics unveiled their newest Atlas robot in a video that shows how gracefully it moves. In today’s TechCrunch Minute, alex (tired) breaks down what this could mean for putting robots to work.

I try to call restaurants directly for delivery, which works in a big city like NYC. But when I was living in Auckland, New Zealand, there just wasn't a delivery infrastructure and the only option (for the most part) was delivery apps.

We take for granted how un-shittified TechCrunch is. No giant pop-over ads or auto-play videos covering text from every direction. Just a few small banners and promos for their events.

I get it, journalism is hard to monetize, but UX is how you build loyalty. 💚💚💚

You should get tax breaks for not driving, for not owning a car, for commuting by public transit. It's a total policy mindfuck that drivers get subsidies for new electric cars ostensibly for the environment but the minimal impact of non-drivers isn't recognized whatsoever.

Uber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash tcrn.ch/4cZsCDl

The West: We need affordable EVs so we can combat climate change!

Also the West: ...but not from China.

Standing desks are great until your monitor won't stop moving as you type. Anyone have a fix for this? I'm dizzy. 😵‍💫

venture capital

I grew up playing here. Had one set of cousins in one of the buildings there, and another set in the building across the car-free street. We'd just call it the 'play street' and it is the source of many beautiful childhood memories.

Does anyone know the story of how East 91st Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues became permanently car-free? It’s such a simple, quiet oasis. Why can’t we have more blocks like this, NYC DOT? No programming or sponsors seemingly required.

The ever-present journo struggle of I want to hide my phone so it doesn't distract me, but I need it near me in case I get alerts or tips, but all the notifications are distracting me from writing, but what if one of them has legs, but...

This is the pedestrian experience in far too much of America:

This is crazy! $2.4m CEO compensation for $9.8m revenue. 🤯

~25% of the revenue paid back to the CEO when revenue is down 36.5%, Stock down ~99.9% and accumulated deficit of $252m

And the robotaxi plot thickens...

NEW: Tesla has spent $200,000 advertising on X so far.

Also in this year's proxy filing: $2.9 million to a security firm owned by Musk to provide security for him; $17.5 million to Redwood Materials to process Tesla scrap; $1.3 million to The Boring Co.

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