All articles tagged with #design flaws
Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold, a high-priced and experimental foldable phone with design flaws and limited practicality, highlights the ongoing challenges in the foldable smartphone market, which remains a niche with little mainstream success and significant engineering tradeoffs.
The article discusses the potential safety hazards of the Tesla Cybertruck's design, particularly its electronic doors and armor glass, which may trap occupants during crashes and fires, as highlighted by recent fatal incidents and lawsuits.
Design plans for Donald Trump's new White House ballroom reveal inconsistencies and errors, including differences in window counts and seating capacity, with some discrepancies attributed to human error rather than AI, amid public opposition to the project.
Families of victims in a Piedmont Tesla Cybertruck crash are suing Tesla, alleging that the vehicle's design, particularly its electronic doors, was unsafe and contributed to their loved ones' deaths, with claims that Tesla ignored safety concerns despite customer complaints and known issues.
Tesla is exploring the use of "gigapresses," large clamping devices that can die-cast the entire underbody of a car in one piece, in an effort to simplify and cut production costs. While this method has the potential to revolutionize car manufacturing, it also presents challenges such as fixing design flaws and adapting to different vehicle types. Despite Tesla's history of flaws, the company's track record for customer satisfaction and profitability may give it an advantage in implementing this new design process.
The recent Buldhana bus accident, which claimed the lives of 25 people, has reignited the debate over the safety of sleeper buses. Experts and designers have criticized their design flaws, such as difficulties in evacuation and reaching emergency exits. Some have even called for a ban on sleeper buses, describing them as "moving coffins." The high ceilings and limited space for movement make it challenging for passengers to escape in case of an accident, while rescuers also face difficulties in reaching and extracting passengers.
The Google Pixel Fold, Alphabet Inc.'s first foldable smartphone, reportedly died after just four days of use, with the reviewer suspecting design flaws related to the "OLED death zone." The exposed OLED panel on the device attracts dust and lint particles, which, combined with the pressure exerted by the nearly touching display halves, punctures the pixels and kills the display. This raises concerns about the durability of foldable smartphones compared to regular slab-style devices. It remains to be seen if this issue is isolated to a faulty unit or affects other Pixel Fold devices.
Design flaws in the pool deck of the Surfside, Florida, apartment building where a partial collapse killed 98 people put the building at risk of failure before it was even built, federal investigators said. Poor construction of the deck in 1981 further weakened Champlain Towers South, and over the next four decades, corrosion, along with renovations that placed a heavier load than the deck was designed to hold, made the building even more vulnerable. Investigators consider the pool deck’s many defects as a leading hypothesis of what led a large section of the 12-story residential building to suddenly crumple in the middle of the night.
A leaked engineering report suggests that the pre-production "alpha" Tesla Cybertruck had serious suspension, braking, and handling problems due to its unusual design, resulting in noise and leaking issues. The pre-production Cybertruck achieved a braking score of four, making it somewhat dangerous for public roads. However, with release candidates due in late August, it's fair to assume most of the issues have now been addressed, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk seems confident about a Q3 launch for the first Cybertruck release candidates.