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.
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?!
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.
It's not necessarily permanent, but imagine not being able to use your car for at least five hours after a standard cleaning because you forgot to switch it into car wash mode.
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.
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
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?
How are you the same person that wrote this sensible comment? It's like there's a calm, rational, and collected person co-habitating the same body as a cocaine-fueled baboon. Chill, dude.
Not liking Musk is all cool and fine, but throwing around wild fucking accusations like this is absolute insanity and you should seriously go outside to touch some grass
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Yep, deep enough tread will work as a shitty propeller and steering will work as a shitty rudder. The idea is that it can do both, not that it's especially good at one or the other.
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.
"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)
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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popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 121 pts · 90d
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. 🤦♂️
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 76 pts · 90d
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.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 90d
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?!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 90d
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.
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 89d
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?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 89d
Take that, libs
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 89d
You don't actually wash your car every day do you?
Eheran@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d
Who suggests that?
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 88d
The person I responded to, that's why I asked them.
Eheran@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 87d
No, that is not the l correct. An "everyday wash" is a simple/standard wash, not one you literally do every day.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 87d
Then they shouldn't call it that
Eheran@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 90d
Is this a joke? FFS....
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 90d
I wish it was.
It's not necessarily permanent, but imagine not being able to use your car for at least five hours after a standard cleaning because you forgot to switch it into car wash mode.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d
That is just… special.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 80 pts · 90d
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.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 48 pts · 90d
Wikipedia says it was a model X ..
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 14 pts · 90d
The NYT article used as a citation doesn't appear to say that, but I could be mistaken, if so mb.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 90d
The NYT article cited in the Wikipedia article only says it was a Tesla. The WSJ article also cited does specify it was a Model X.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 12 pts · 90d
Ty for the correction.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 90d
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
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -27 pts · 90d
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?
Deestan@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 90d
Found many credible sources, all say Model X SUV.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 90d
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?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -2 pts · 89d
IF YOU DON'T /S THEN ITS YOUR REAL OPINION.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d
Good thing your comment contains a slash-s or i would be forced to believe you were serious in saying that
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 85d
How are you the same person that wrote this sensible comment? It's like there's a calm, rational, and collected person co-habitating the same body as a cocaine-fueled baboon. Chill, dude.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 90d
Not liking Musk is all cool and fine, but throwing around wild fucking accusations like this is absolute insanity and you should seriously go outside to touch some grass
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -1 pts · 89d
Elon Musk is criminally negligent resulting in multiple loss of life and should be serving decades in federal prison.
artyom@piefed.social · 4 pts · 89d
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.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -3 pts · 89d
She died because firefighters were unable to break the windshield of the Tesla, because Teslas use nonstandard glass, among other mechanical failures.
artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 89d
You're making this up. She was already dead when first responders arrived.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 0 pts · 89d
~CNN
artyom@piefed.social · 2 pts · 89d
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.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 89d
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.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -1 pts · 89d
Who the victims are doesn't change how I thing laws should be enforced.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 89d
Agreed, but calling it murder is a bit far. Murder has to have intent.
I’ll get on board with manslaughter.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -1 pts · 89d
Semantics.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 89d
Words have meanings.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · -2 pts · 90d
I have no idea who Angela Chao is, but Elon Musks cybertruck killed her
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 90d
It was actually a model x that killed her.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 90d
She was blind drunk
It was a model X.
She backed into the pond and was so wasted she couldn't get out
You can easily see the archived news stories.
Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows https://share.google/H3HEeqbX5FHw9EfUS
Lemmy is as bad as Facebook.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 90d
Was she a billionaire?
I assume they don’t kill billionaires.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 90d
Not that it was a capable boat in the first place, but I don't know many boats that function well upside-down.
Kayaks self correct I suppose
zonklezoop@lemmy.zip · 58 pts · 90d
Oh good, they came up with a stupid new term for something that people know, understand, has been around for well over 50 years.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d
But this one has to be found in a nested touchscreen menu!
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 89d
My favorite part is the driver being jailed and charged with a whole host of boating crimes. No boating license, missing required tools, etc
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip · 37 pts · 89d
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."
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 37 pts · 90d
I disagree, anyone with sense knew everything Elon claimed about this thing was a lie.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 90d
How could anyone know Elon was lying? His cyber truck windows were unbreakable!!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 90d
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.
Flower@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 89d
There are rumours of people at his companies to keep Musk occupied and away from the real work.
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 89d
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.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 89d
He is surrounded by yes men
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d
You have a source for that? I've looked pretty extensively though the Florida statutes and I didn't see anything like that. Also armored cars exist.
despoticruin@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 89d
It isn't a state statute. Vehicles marketed for sale in the US have to comply with NHTSA regulations, windows are a whole section.
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 5 pts · 90d
CHUNKK PLINK plink Oh my fucking god!
Folstar@lemmus.org · 35 pts · 89d
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.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 89d
Yeah, but he forgot to put it into car wash mode.
auzy1@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 89d
Here in Australia that would apply too. Tesla would absolutely be found negligent
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 89d
He's also 70. He's seen water in those seven decades.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 90d
Forgetting the death trap electronics and whatnot for a second..
How are you supposed to propel yourself and steer?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 90d
Elon is a magic wizard he can figure it out.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 90d
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...
Birch@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 89d
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.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 89d
Also by that same logic my Toyota can also serve "briefly" as a boat.
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 89d
If your Toyota is a Hilux it may as well perform way better as a boat than a Cybertruck.
artyom@piefed.social · 14 pts · 90d
There are lots of amphibious vehicles that just do that with existing tires.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 89d
Yep, deep enough tread will work as a shitty propeller and steering will work as a shitty rudder. The idea is that it can do both, not that it's especially good at one or the other.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 89d
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.
artyom@piefed.social · 4 pts · 89d
Buoyancy is a complex equation of density, weight, etc. Its more than just weight.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d
Maybe that's why Elon's torso is shaped like that
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d
We should find out if he weighs as much as a duck
NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org · 34 pts · 89d
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 90d
Yep.
Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 90d
Dude is so close to being named after 3 fast food chains
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 89d
Jack McDaniels serves what I like to call an Unhappy Meal
AstralPath@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 90d
I never thought I'd see three first names like this. Wild.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 90d
Yuuuupp.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 89d
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
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 90d
Had the whole bottle I presume?
huppakee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 89d
Also a burger and some popcorn
Saapas@piefed.zip · 25 pts · 90d
Well it's an amphibious exploring vehicle, so it should be fine
Trex202@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 90d
Think of the implications
stray@pawb.social · 1 pts · 89d
DETROLƼ
halfapage@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 90d
Ravi@feddit.org · 12 pts · 90d
Welcome to the Tesla Cybertruck Deep Dive
Syndication@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 90d
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.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 90d
Get Out of Water Free card.
axx@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 89d
Should be: Lies / Reality
SquareScarletCougar@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 89d
Its the gift that keeps on giving
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 90d
"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)
mecen@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 90d
Sue for false advertising
SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 89d
"Jimmy Jack McDaniel"
claimsou@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d
So the guy is called Jack Daniel . It checks out.
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d
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
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d
I wonder if Cybertrucks are cheap enough yet to buy one to do crazy shit like this