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[–] 199 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Sounds like a great way to fake your death. The only problem is that everyone will think you died driving a Tesla.

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  • [–] 81 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Good point. Back to the drawing board.

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

    No one's going to believe a drawing board disappeared a body.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    It... also costs 100k

    Edit: sorry, sorry, 70k — much better

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

    I mean if you're faking your death I don't think you're planning on paying off the loan

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  • [–] 80 points 7 months ago (14 children)
  • [–] 80 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Cybertrucks are 17 times more likely to kill you in a fiery way than the Ford Pinto, the previous record holder.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto/

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I'm not in any way trying to downplay how bad the cyber-dumpster is, but is that an adequate sample size to extrapolate the fiery-death rate? The article says 17 times the rate of the Pinto, but it was only 5 total fires.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I mean they made millions of Pintos so yeah

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Different person, but the Pinto controversy was overblown. Media hype made it an issue when it had similar incident rates with other vehicles at the time.

    Ford Pinto - Wikipedia https://share.google/A9xMle5N02j1gPmCl

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The biggest issue with the Pinto was not the Pinto itself, it was how Ford discussed the potential issues with it internally. It was their very well documented preference for money over protecting human life that caused the controversy.

    We know this really happens all the time, at all companies and in all industries, but Ford was punished for saying the quiet part out loud (amongst themselves) and getting caught doing it. We are all supposed to at least put on a show of human lives being more important than money, and Ford failed to put on the show, and for that they were punished.

    We still don't care about human life, but at least we all felt better about it afterwards.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    But maybe they have the lowest crash rate?
    So like, crashes cost money right? Someone is responsible. Someone has to pay.
    But if everyone dies in an inferno, then nobody is responsible. Who can pay? They're all dead! What medical bills? What repairs? It's all a write off.
    Sounds like a high mortality rate with low accident rate is an absolute profitable win! Free market baby!

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

    He says the trucks are “apocalypse-proof” and claims they can withstand bullets and have “armor glass” windows.

    They also withstand emergency responders and the occupant's attempts to escape.

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  • [–] 76 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    Chances of you experiencing the apocalypse - Zero

    Chances you will get trapped in an Cybercuck and be unable to get out - Not zero

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Elon is building both the "apocalypse-proof" (they are not) truck and the apocalypse (he really is)

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

    And the apocalypse will have working charging stations.

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    The Ford Pinto wishes it was this deadly...

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    I daily a Fiero and don't think even at its worst point people burned inside trapped without handles.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Oh same, but they are not well built and the iron duke is shit. I have to have 3 of them to keep one on the road working. at least they are good on gas. One day I might do an EV conversion.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    That's what futuristic hidden door handles get you. Nice and crispy.

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

    Not all of them act the same way. We have the hidden handles on our 26 Equinox EV but it still pivots open if you press on the opposite side of pulling to act as a normal handle.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    That's a similar method to the Tesla Model 3 and Y.

    The S and X had motorized handles that retracted.

    The Cybertruck has no physical handles on the outside. It has a button on the B pillar that activates an electric release to pop the door open.

    All of those methods are flush, but only one isn't visible to rescuers and can completely fail with a lack of power or motor failure with no physical external backup option.

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  • [–] 63 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    I can’t fathom having my husband burn to death so badly that he’s just .. evaporated. But then again I can’t imagine my husband ever wanting a cybercuck so there’s also that.

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  • [+] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    My wife and I are in need of a truck since we moved to a rural area and need one for stuff like trash disposal and whatnot. We've decided to get something practical like a hundai santafe or honda ridgeline

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    [–] 26 points 7 months ago

    cybertruck is a built in crematorium and Coffin at the same time,elon makes nazi impressed.

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  • [–] 50 points 7 months ago (15 children)

    Fires that entrap passengers are a well-documented and recurring problem with every model in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles, but Cybertrucks appear to have a disproportionate number of known deaths. Safety experts have told the Guardian that the truck’s unique design amplifies the deadly issue. The vehicles come with high-density laminated windows that are harder to break than regular car windows, making escape and rescue difficult when doors won’t unlock. And the trucks are built with materials not commonly used in the industry, like stainless steel, which can complicate the work of emergency responders. The Cybertruck is also the first Tesla model to entirely eliminate door handles on the outside of the vehicle.

    First, "unique" design? It's an ugly callback to the wedge-shaped cars of the 80s. It looks like a DeLorean model that refused to render properly, and the dev just went with it.

    Second, the decision to exclude door handles is fucking mental. It's a mundane feature that cars have had since the Model T. If they wanted to make a pickup, its handles should resemble those found on a typical pickup. If it's "aesthetics" they're after (which shouldn't matter when it comes to a pickup), some of the best looking cars have had no problem including door handles into its design.

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    The reason to eliminate door handles that Tesla and others typically give is aerodynamic efficiency. Granted there are other bigger aerodynamic problems. gestures at the rest of the fucking truck

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

    aerodynamic efficiency

    For internal door handles?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    That's just nonsense justification they came up with after the fact. Ferraris have door handles, so clearly they're not much of an issue.

    Anyway the car isn't going to exceed 80 miles an hour anyways so aerodynamics barely comes into it.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Fires that entrap passengers are a well-documented and recurring problem with every model in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles

    How is this a perfectly valid statement about the worlds richest man's car company without us beating him to death with hammers/ seeing how many of those baseball sized steel balls he can handle?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    “Unique” here refers to the fact that every other car is built pretty much the same way in as much first responders are concerned, and that makes them predictable and fairly easy to get out of while cybertrucks are strong enough and door-handleless enough to be incredibly dangerous(while also not being strong enough to do most of what they promise).

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Cant wait til they start taking volunteers for the Mars rocket

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Free cremation — it’s a service!

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    At this point if you’re still driving a swasticar, you deserve it.

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  • [+] -11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Hey hey, just few years ago lefties were religiously buying teslas made by their prophet. What changed?

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    In terms of american choice of EVs, nothing, because our government is bought and doesn’t represent the people at all.

    In terms of elongated muskrat lib palatability, he did the thing and took the mask off.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Honestly it was even before the Nazi salute. Dude went down the ketamine and red pill rabbit hole years before that and lost a lot of his left-leaning fanboys. It became super obvious at that point that he was just another sociopathic nepo baby grifter.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Reminder to keep one of those window breaker hammers in your car.

    Also don’t buy cars from megalomaniacal nazis.

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

    Just to be clear so people don't think they are protected when they're not: those window strikers ONLY work if your car windows are TEMPERED glass. They are 100% useless on laminated glass. The Cybertruck's "unbreakable Armor Glass" is laminated.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Cremation is a new feature. It'll be an extra $2500 and comes with a decision engine on whether you should live or die (door unlocking). Tesla knows, trust Elon.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    self-cleaning/pyrolytic oven on wheels

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