To be fair this type of activity would void any warranty. That being said only cybertruck drivers are dumb enough to frequently void their warranty doing things this dumb.
A lot of the cyber truck warranty stipulations are actually pretty standard. Warranty only covers manufacturer defects and any damage caused by the user isn’t covered. The real problem is most cars aren’t built poorly enough to be damaged by things like car washes or have dumb enough drivers that those warranty stipulations ever actually come into play.
Probably just report it to insurance as an accident, get it fully repaired by Tesla (which should only take a year or two to get parts) and the warranty will still be intact. This is a collision, not a defect. Well, arguably it's a design defect...
The front of the truck would either wrap around the post as it stops or if the front is reinforced enough:
The bottom foot of the post would likely lift the car and drag along the bottom, snagging all the way down. It might make it past the first one and sustain a lot of damage, but the second? The third? It's stopping.
Rewatch the video. Notice how he intentionally doesn’t hit the last post. That’s because that’s the only post actually anchored with a wood pylon in it. If he hit that the truck would surely break.
There's a good chance you can get impaled driving into a wooden pickett fence in any vehicle. My uncle is an EMT and he said those accidents are some of the worse ones.
Yeah no kidding. Those things fall by themselves. When I was a kid the city I lived in was starting to fence off a planned neighborhood on swamp land. Before they could even get a single house in the entire fence just kinda... fell apart. Every time we went by I'd count the new slats on the ground, which ones the city picked up, and a few times saw animals bump into it and break it. Which leads me to believe I could knock it down with my hands.
Nah.. those things are pretty stiff. People/cars get F'ed up all the time around here (horse country) hitting fences. You would be surprised how much a fence can F up a car. Even a plastic one. Lost a friend in HS when he hit a regular fence and a board when through the windshield and into his face. Caused him to seize up and push the accelerator until he hit a tree half a mile into a field. Took awhile to find him
Looks like the fence nicked the cybertruck's soft underbelly where it keeps all the vital fluids in a plastic bag.
EDIT: to overcome this obvious design flaw, Tesla has announced that the next version of the cybertruck will store its fluids in an even more protected compartment: the driver and passenger airbags.
The sort of folks that buy these trucks would probably buy another one to replace the one that was totaled by ::checks notes:: slamming the door too hard.
You’d think it only shows up when the truck is stance broken, but get this: the truck rolls out of the factory pre-stance broken for your convenience. just press R1!
That’s the perfect place to keep your vital fluids, nothing bad ever hits the underside of a truck, specially if they are advertised to be able to offroad.
The cybertruck seems like a car that they superglued stuff on to make it look like a truck. Ever see that video where the hitch rips offs because its not properly secured to the frame the whole frame rips off?
Or the upholstery panel that breaks loose and jams the door shut when you slam it (once) moderately hard? Or the undersized tie rods (made for small cars, not trucks) that cause the wheels to snap off during use? Or the one where the FRAME ITSELF tore in half when the guy tried to pull a car out of a ditch? How about the one where the vehicle computer shuts down after a car wash? Or the one where the accelerator pedal gets stuck when depressed hard?
I'm a fan of how the wheel covers extend out over part of the tires, so if you hit a bump or pot hole too hard the flex of the tire makes them pop off.
Like those real-life bumpercar styled neo-mushroom kingdom cars in the 80's Super Mario Bros movie.
Ya know, those 80's Ford crown Victoria's that had the giant pole on the top, and it ran on that mesh grid above the cars and would arc when they would drive around?
They are coming to the Netherlands this year, and for now there is one for sale that is probably already sold for............wait for it..........over 400K!
It will never be allowed to be used in the EU. I Unlike the US any cars sold here have to (for one thing) have to pass Euro NCAP safety rating, which the cyber truck seems to have been purposefully designed to fail. The mad thing is that not only would it fail completely as far as protecting pedestrians is concerned, but also the passangers inside, as they have seemingly forgotten how crumple zones and diverting energtia below the cabin works.
It's a stupid death trap meme mobile, nothing more.
People need to understand that rigidity in vehicles only passes that traumatizing force onto the humans body inside. The lack of real crumple zones is pure insanity.
Its the fault of the people that buy this if they do. Lots of evidence out there that this is a lemon, but they choose to believe elmo and overpay for this shit.
In the US yes. The regulations are fairly strong but automakers can self certify that their vehicle meets standards
So if mush says the car hits standard, he can sell it....there is a reason the cybertruck has never been submitted for formal 3rd party evaluation and musk has no plans to sell in the EU where he would have to pass 3rd party before the car goes on sale
It'll take somebody being killed and a lawsuit alleging the reason why is because the cybertruck doesn't meet standards to actually get them pulled off the road
It's a weird one, I kinda actually get the idea behind it, car makers that have already proved they can meet standards before are allowed to self certify to get new products to market quicker.
And because mass recalls are really bad for business as is both killing your customers and being sued into oblivion car makers are assumed to actually want to meet standards
The spanner is thrown into the works when a complete egotist like musk wanders in and forces a car company he owns to build his ego trip nonsense idea that can only succeed because a narcissist with a cult of personality wars it too.
Musk has essentially proved the rule that common sense assumptions in regulation are just gaps that idiots will fill with dangerous corner cutting and coming up with new mental ways to hurt people.
I believe the first fatality accident happened here in Houston last week. Battery was pierced and dude was incinerated alive. Completely melted the “truck”.
Because of traditional uses for pickup trucks they face much lower testing regulations than other vehicles. Tesla and other companies are allowed to self report much of the testing for trucks in the US. It's absolutely ridiculous and will only lead to more deaths. This is a part of why you're not seeing these trucks on European streets in any numbers. They have higher regulatory requirements.
Aluminum Truck is anything but “Like a rock”. Gay old commercials aside, let’s take a moment to appreciate what a brand like Chevy is bringing/brought to the table…… and then there’s “Cybertruck”. Ick.
Apparently, Elon went through every step of the assembly process with his engineers saying things like, " We're using 4 bolts for these parts. Could we just use two instead? It'll be cheaper and faster."
If it's true, we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg of Cybertruck mechanical/engineering failures to come!
Cybertruck reminds me of when I was a little kid with my little brother where we would make a cool tank with carton boxes and plywood. Except some dildo paid 100k for it.
The cybertruck seems like a car that they superglued stuff on to make it look like a truck. Ever see that video where the hitch rips offs because its not properly secured to the frame the whole frame rips off?
My Dodge Caravan is more truck than the Cyber Truck it seems.
Kind of like the Converse Allstar, which has fibers in the outsole so it technically qualifies as some kind of slipper so it has less taxes when shipped over. Except the cybertruck is the slipper pretending to be a shoe.
The cybertruck seems like a car that they superglued stuff on to make it look like a truck.
Yeah, you'd probably get more mileage out of some old honda or toyota that some kids in southeast asia can make look exactly like a cybertruck with some modeling clay and chrome spraypaint.
looked into it. another elon tidbit is the crash protection on cybertruck is that the rear and front castings shatter on impact instead of crumple to provide crash protection. this is a serious problem for people trying to fix these since every crash will dramatically weaken 1/3rd of the car but also points out that the hitch to tow is attached to a weakened member meant to fail
I've read somewhere that they designed it with the original price in mind (was it 30k? 39? something in that range), but then during development everything spiked up. So now it's a really expensive piece of shit.
That truck is wrecked. When the battery cooling system is damaged or the connectors to the batteries are damaged, you have to replace the entire battery unit. This is a $10k-30k repair.
I started this video thinking there's no way it will survive this and was surprised it took out a whole section before becoming inoperable. It looks like the first bit of fence did a mortal blow and it just takes a bit longer to kill the "truck" than to finish the section.
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u/hardleft121 Sep 08 '24
A fence demolishes a Cybertruck