According to Fox 4, the driver is being held in Grapevine Jail as of Tuesday afternoon, with violations including:
Having no valid boat registration.
That is both hilarious and stupid. You would have to imagine the definition of a boat would be something that floats, which the Cybertruck clearly isn't in this photo. It's also less water than the truck is rated in the owner's manual to be able to handle.
N = 1 Seems pretty inconclusive to me. Let’s throw in a couple more and see what happens.
If I had a nickel every time a Cybertruck driver re-enacted the end of The Perfect Storm while casting themselves as George Clooney, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Comedy gold.
Look, it didn't work this time, but don't stop encouraging Cybertruck drivers to use their vehicles in water!
They are fully submersible submarines, after all. I hear one guy got all the way to the Titanic in one!
Wade Mode is a feature in the Tesla Cybertruck that allows it to drive through shallow water by raising the suspension and pressurizing the battery to protect it from water and debris. It is designed for use in bodies of water up to approximately 32 inches deep at slow speeds of 1-3 mph.
Should have called it creek mode.
"Hold on. I just put you on speaker. Can you please explain what happened again for my coworkers? Its been a stressful day and I think they could use a laugh." - car insurance lady
I don't understand what "wade mode" does?
If there's an air intake, it's just for cooling, not combustion. So like what is the point of "moving it to a snorkel position" or whatever?
Obviously, wading ain't swimming. The mode is probably useful in some edge cases. Driving straight into a lake just isn't one of them.
Science!
May have gotten better results with a Ford. It's right there in the name.
/obligatory: don't actually try to ford a river with a Ford
I love how the picture of that trashcan in the water has this black and white effect applied like it's 1933 and somebody accidentally dropped a garbage can off the docks into the harbour
I grew up in DFW. I'm absolutely unsurprised that's where this happened.
Thankfully the power windows didn’t lock up, and the people inside got out safely.
That could have been the best Darwin Award of the month, maybe year.
They should all experience this fate, fucking pieces of shit.
I'll say it before, I'll say it again: it's their drivers as much as the trucks themselves.
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