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3 Cybertrucks Caught Fire After Underbody Strikes. Tesla Now Sells a $3,500 Battery Shield Upgrade. (fuelarc.com)
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I mean, I'm glad Tesla built a fix, but it's sort of tacky to ship a $75,000+ truck and then sell the fireproofing separately.

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[–] 31 points 2 months ago (26 children)

A third Cybertruck drove over a highway cable barrier, lost a wheel, and burned for hours despite the fire department’s best efforts on-scene.

Wha... what... what in the ever-fucking love do you mean it lost a wheel?!

I... I'm at a loss here, you... cars are not supposed to lose wheels?!

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    His style can be a bit annoying but go watch WhistlingDiesels CyberTruck durability tests.

    Dude had to keep pumping money to the Tesla center for repairs just to get the thing running again for more video content. Tow hitch module fell off after some off roading and the thing couldn't move anymore. Because that's how well it's built.

    He's done this to a bunch of vehicles and nothing is this finicky. The actual king of status symbol trucks, the Mercedes G class, survived everything he threw at it pretty much.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Isn't that guy a con-man?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    His videos are all bullshit.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Depends on your definition of con-man. He has been arrested and charged for tax evasion. As far as I know he isn't "conman" as such as having conned/frauded say viewers or so on out of money.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Youre not supposed to drive over steel poles either. Unintended use cases can result in unexpected behavior

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    My previous EV, an extremely humble (and cheap) Dacia Spring, got hit by a semi on the highway. It was totaled, completely destroyed. It finished upside down and even then, it didn't catch fire and the doors opened. Also didn't lose any of the wheels. I'd say that was the most unintended use case of the car and still, a barely 15k euros car ended in a better shape than a $75k+ monstrosity that is marketed as a truck "for the apocalypse".

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    The fact that "it didn't catch fire and the doors opened" is the measure of success means that the bar is really on the floor for Teslas.

    For real though don't run over the bar with a Tesla, if it goes through the battery, you're toast

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It's an unintended use, but an expected condition. A vehicle should never add to the danger in an expected condition except in ways necessary for an expected function (reaching highway speeds for example is inherently dangerous)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    EM: Well, there are a lot of these cars going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen … I just don’t want people thinking that Cybertrucks aren’t safe.

    R: Was this Cybertruck safe?

    EM: Well I was thinking more about the other ones…

    R: The ones that are safe...

    EM: Yeah... the ones the wheel doesn’t fall off.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I saw a video of a guy how had an accident in his cybertruck. He lost a wheel and filmed the aftermath and talked about it. The wheel at the breaking points looked like it was melted together out of old monster cans. You could see millions of pretty sizable pores. So i'm kinda shocked that it's not happening more frequently to be honest

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