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Driving your truck into a lake (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 months ago by artyom@piefed.social to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 121 points 3 months ago (3 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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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

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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[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 35 points 3 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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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 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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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Take that, libs

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[–] runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 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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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Is this a joke? FFS....

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[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

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.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 80 points 3 months ago* (5 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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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 48 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Wikipedia says it was a model X ..

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 12 points 3 months ago

Ty for the correction.

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[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (23 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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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

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.

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[–] zonklezoop@lemmy.zip 58 points 3 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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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 49 points 3 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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[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 37 points 3 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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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 37 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 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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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

There are rumours of people at his companies to keep Musk occupied and away from the real work.

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[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 5 points 3 months ago

CHUNKK PLINK plink Oh my fucking god!

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[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 35 points 3 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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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but he forgot to put it into car wash mode.

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[–] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org 34 points 3 months ago

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

How are you supposed to propel yourself and steer?

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago

Elon is a magic wizard he can figure it out.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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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[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 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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[–] artyom@piefed.social [S] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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.

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[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 7 points 3 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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[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)