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[–] 119 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Let us not forget that the goddamn thing can brick if you don't put it in "car wash mode" before going through a car wash. 🤦‍♂️

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  • [–] 75 points 5 months ago* (11 children)

    They're also literally death traps.

    If the battery pops, starts burning?

    You now have to scramble to find the extremely awkward hidden emergency manual door release.

    Because the main door handles, both internal and external, are fucking fly by wire, they rely on the electronics, they're not directly mechanical.

    Oh and the 'bullet proof glass' that makes up the windows... well its not very bullet proof, but it is significantly harder for a human to break than normal car glass.

    Like this guy is unironically lucky he did not drown and also burn to death at the same time.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Yeah i don't get it. Like, if you can't even give your car a standard, everyday wash without it either bricking or rusting, and there are stories of people being fucking trapped in them due to electronics failures, why the ever loving fuck would you drive it into a goddamn lake you fucking troglodyte?!

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    I really don't think any car ever has been as rock solid of indicator of 'I am a mentally impaired douchebag with far more money than sense'.

    Like... sure, pick your class of car that's just wildly unnecessary, pick your brand of car that's actually notorious for incredible maintenance costs, pick your model of car that's just plauged by recalls...

    Cybertruck trumps everything as the ultimate poser douchebag vehicle.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Surely this didn't just happen. Surely the article is from checks image... hmm, yesterday you say. Well.... I, uh, yeah.

    Maybe the guy was feeling trapped in his lease and saw an opportunity to break it and sue Tesla for false advertising?

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    You don't actually wash your car every day do you?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The person I responded to, that's why I asked them.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    No, that is not the l correct. An "everyday wash" is a simple/standard wash, not one you literally do every day.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Then they shouldn't call it that

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  • [–] 57 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    A customer also has to activate Free Roll, which leaves the vehicle in Neutral without applying the parking brake.

    Oh good, they came up with a stupid new term for something that people know, understand, has been around for well over 50 years.

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    My favorite part is the driver being jailed and charged with a whole host of boating crimes. No boating license, missing required tools, etc

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago

    My favorite was "not having a valid boat registration". It is such a great addition of insult to injury. "Oh look, this dude thinks his 'truck' is a 'boat'. Guess we have to cite him for not registering his 'boat'. What a shame."

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Everyone is rightfully making fun of ol' Jimmy Jack, but the chain of events here is he bought a product based on claims by the maker and then used the product for those claimed features. Fraud is a crime. Texas needs to make more arrests.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (4 children)
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    To be fair, Elon never specified exactly what he meant by the word "briefly" and the phrase "serve as a boat"

    Oh wait, yes he did

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Well it's an amphibious exploring vehicle, so it should be fine

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Jimmy Jack McDaniel

    Had the whole bottle I presume?

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I disagree, anyone with sense knew everything Elon claimed about this thing was a lie.

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

    How could anyone know Elon was lying? His cyber truck windows were unbreakable!!

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    So....unbreakable windows are actually illegal. They need to be breakable for EMT rescues or emergency escape.

    Apparently no one at Tesla had the balls to tell this to Musk but the engineers went ahead and fit proper windows. It's actually quite surprising to hear how little Musk knows about anything.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    So apparently while not unbreakable, these windows are still a bitch and a half to get through, verging on impossible.

    This does not help when the doors also barely open under high stress conditions (like fire, being submerged etc). So you're just kind of trapped in this death box.

    Tesla got lucky though, this is a feature on all of their vehicles which reduced costs for them dramatically. Hardly any other car manufacturer has this many 'and then they burned or drowned alive because the doors didn't open' stories about it.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Forgetting the death trap electronics and whatnot for a second..

    How are you supposed to propel yourself and steer?

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Well, the guy did say "briefly", so if you drive into the water with speed and the right direction, you might theoretically not need to propel yourself nor steer...

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    By the same logic, it can also briefly act as a plane, you just need to drive at top speed off a cliff. But don't tell that to Cybertruck owners, or do, I am not your mother.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    There are lots of amphibious vehicles that just do that with existing tires.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    My dad once drove/boated/floated an old Volkswagen across a flooded road that a pickup truck couldn't cross. A big part of why it worked is that it wasn't weighed down by two tons of batteries.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Buoyancy is a complex equation of density, weight, etc. Its more than just weight.

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  • [–] 75 points 5 months ago (29 children)

    Right after release, firefighters failed to rescue a woman, Angela Chao, from a cybertruck which rolled into a pond killing her.

    Fun fact, most articles about this appear to have been removed from search indexes, it was difficult to find on both DuckDuckGo and Google, and Google's AI summary will claim there is no record of a cybertruck killing a billionaire.

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    The NYT article used as a citation doesn't appear to say that, but I could be mistaken, if so mb.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (21 children)

    no record of a cybertruck killing a billionaire

    That's because they're not stupid enough to buy a deathtrap like that, and if a billionaire wants a vehicle that can traverse water they'll just use a submarine, preferably one made with a carbon fiber hull

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  • [+] -25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (20 children)

    Angela Chao. Angela Chao was murdered by Elon Musk. The Cybertruck which Angela Chao owned and operated killed her.

    Angela Chao died in her cybertruck. Angela Chao died in her cybertruck. Angela Chao died in her cybertruck.

    Do you need me to say it a few more times for it to pierce your thick skull?

    I am honestly a little upset there is still somebody who thinks being a billionaire implies any minimum level of intelligence. And yes I know about the imploded submarine, but I have to assume you as serious when you don't annotate sarcasm.

    EDIT: Went from 6,0 to 7,25 overnight, we got a bunch of Elon Musk simps with their alts in here or something?

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    but i have to assume you as serious when you don't annotate sarcasm.

    You don't actually have to do that, you don't have to do that, you don't have to do that

    Do you need me to say it a few more times for it to pierce your thick skull?

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    IF YOU DON'T /S THEN ITS YOUR REAL OPINION.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    Went from 6,0 to 7,25 overnight, we got a bunch of Elon Musk simps with their alts in here or something?

    No, you're just like 12 different types of incorrect. She was in a Model X, and she died because she drunk drove her vehicle into a body of water. No one murdered her.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    She died because firefighters were unable to break the windshield of the Tesla, because Teslas use nonstandard glass, among other mechanical failures.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You're making this up. She was already dead when first responders arrived.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Emergency workers arrived on the scene 24 minutes after receiving a 911 call, but “due to the terrain and accessibility,” the crew had to walk to the location of the pond before they could begin attempts to rescue Chao, according to the incident report from a Blanco County first responder.

    “The two deputies who were in the water standing on the submerged vehicle requested tools to break the window of the vehicle to perform a possible rescue. One EMS crew member donned water rescue PPE and entered the water with a Hallagan tool. One Firefighter entered the water wearing proper water PPE relaying tools to attempt rescue, several tools were used to attempt access to the victim,” the report said.

    ~CNN

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    24 minutes after receiving a 911 call

    Can you hold your breath for 24 minutes?

    Nothing here says they couldn't get through the window. They're not special windows in this vehicle.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    We don't know how long it took for the car to fill with water.

    They used multiple tools to attempt access for a rescue. You don't generally attempt to rescue a corpse and you also generally don't need multiple tools if the first one worked.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I can't speak for everyone but my Downvote isn't because I'm defending Musk, it's because it appears you are sympathetic to someone who bought what Musk is selling.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Who the victims are doesn't change how I thing laws should be enforced.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    Agreed, but calling it murder is a bit far. Murder has to have intent.

    I’ll get on board with manslaughter.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yes and causing the death of another human being is murder.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    It must be so tiring existing in the world so stubbornly black and white.

    I am by no means a musk fan, be he didn’t cause the death. At worst, and probably accurate, is his choices led to the inability for her to be rescued. I’d chalk up her drinking and driving as a more likely direct cause of her death.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Turns out, licking boots and driving a CyberTruck won't get you a Get Out of Jail Free card like Trump and Elon.

    At least you can see the product of their last two braincells rubbing together, floating in the lake.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Its the gift that keeps on giving

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    "Jimmy Jack McDaniel" well well well, if it isn't the man with three first names. (I know I'm stretching on McDaniel but c'mon this guy is the posterchild for stupid decisions)

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Should be: Lies / Reality

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    So the guy is called Jack Daniel . It checks out.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    "Jimmy Jack McDaniel"

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Sue for false advertising

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I wonder if Cybertrucks are cheap enough yet to buy one to do crazy shit like this

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I wish more people would figure out that when entrepreneurs say something "will" be, they don't mean "it's been tested and proven and we're waiting to release it" but they actually mean "we think it's would be cool if". Entrepreneurs don't make promises, they dress their dreams and hopes up as promises

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