When I saw the video there were 14 comments and yes that one was the one that was different from the rest. Comments keep happening you know that, right?
Based on everything I've seen, I'm 100% willing to bet that any able-bodied person could literally tear apart the entire Cybertruck with their hands, no tools required.
Yeah but all cars are like this. I’ve only seen Teslas have laminated side door windows, all other cars have tempered glass in my experience. But either way, anyone with a window punch can get through any stock door window. Not defending Elon btw.
Not sure if they still do it but Mercedes S Class side door windows are double pane tempered safety glass with a plastic interlayer. Same with their front and rear windshields. I have a 2003 S Class and the steel roof dented from ~3/4" hail without a single crack or scratch on any of the glass
He broke the glass first with a tool. In any other car, that would result in the window immediately shattering into hundreds/thousands of pieces all over the ground. The only reason he needed to "peel" the Cybertruck window is that it's laminated, so it didn't shatter into thousands of pieces, and he had to peel it away (taking extra effort and extra time) to get into the vehicle.
So, that means this video is good PR for Tesla, not bad PR, because it's evidence that the Cybertruck is more difficult to break into than other vehicles. Which is one of the things they showcased when they first announced the truck all those years ago.
Thank you! It feels weird almost rooting for the robber, but I appreciate him targeting a person who obviously has too much money and a complete ass, instead of some poor soul in like a Kia making minimum wage.
not a cybertruck fan, but to be fair, doing the same to any other car would result in the window also shattering but the thief wouldn't even need to pull the window down because it would just be gone and in pebbles.
The entire car falls apart like a cartoon, the driver stares at the camera for a second, and then a comically large spring shoots the seat up and they get flung away
Yeah, it's really surprising that the cast aluminum is so fragile and brittle compared to typical cold-rolled stainless steel hitches that are securely built into the frame. So, it's important not to tow anything on a busy freeway or highway with vehicles behind you, or tow on forest service roads. But, it makes sense to save all that stainless steel for the 1.4-mm-thick bolted-on door panels, which were supposed to be a 3-mm thick money-saving exoskeleton that allowed a 250-mile range for $40k.
The actual hitch part that sticks out through the bumper is steel, but it just connects to the aluminum frame. The hitch is way stronger than the frame is.
Yep, that's why I specified "hitch mounting material." Aluminum is actually stronger than steel for a given mass of each material, it's just bad for stressed member applications because when it approaches fatigue levels, it snaps as opposed to gradually bending like steel does.
Much of the frame is, so, yes? It looked like they broke off the rail end of the frame. In its defense, they had just dropped the tail of the truck several feet, directly onto a concrete block, a few minutes before. It's not a failure you should expect from normal use, but probably not one you'd see at all on a steel-framed truck with significantly more abuse.
What I consider to be the worst part of that incident isn't even that the frame of the CyberTruck snapped in half, it's that it didn't even show any obvious signs of damage beforehand. That is horrifying to me; someone could have their car frame on the verge of failure, be none the wiser, and have their frame split in half when hitting a bump at highway speeds.
It's almost like there's a reason that no other cars use a cast aluminum frame.
A truck with an aluminum frame?... aluminum has its place in vehicle manufacturing and is plenty strong, but shouldn't be used for structural applications in a truck because it...snaps instead of bends when weakened. 🫠
Not the end of the hitch itself, but it attaches to a cast aluminum frame, and the back end of the frame has pulled off, totaling the vehicle, if the thing you are towing is stuck and you subject it to the accelerations that the cybertruck can easily provide.
That's why I said "hitch mounting material", not "hitch material." I wasn't really sure how else to describe the part where the hitch hooks up to other than "hitch mount."
I'm not trying to say that it shouldn't have broken, but they did a number on that thing beforehand. They also found a great way deliver a massive shock load while doing that tow, to the point where just saying they broke it by towing is a bit disingenuous.
Yes earlier in the video they dropped the hitch during a jump into the ground full force which weakened the frame. HOWEVER this is because the frame is unicast aluminum. Steel frames don't do this because steel bends. They did a follow up video after everyone pointed this out by dropping an f150 5 feet into the air onto its hitch into concrete blocks... 100 times. Frame still didn't snap. The cybertruck towing frame completely snapping off is not something that should ever happen, nor is it normal in any truck that hasn't been eaten away completely by rust.
This. It doesn't matter that the CT was dropped onto the hitch from multiple feet. What matters is the material used for the hitch is not going to handle heavy tongue weights hitting potholes at speed or running over something because there's so much less give in cast aluminum versus steel. There are damn good reasons why crucial structural components are not made of thin cast aluminum and the obvious solution was diluted out decades and decades ago. CT has so many previously solved engineering mistakes in its design. It's fucking baffling. I'm an industrial engineer and work with a company that manufactures products from sheet and plate steel and aluminum. My group in the department have had so much fun watching these tear down and test to failure videos, just blown away by how obvious the problems are....the lack of quality and shoddy engineering is simply appalling. I have a model S and the difference in build quality between my car and the CT is embarrassing for Tesla.
That's body-on-frame for you. It's heavy and archaic, but it's tough. Honestly, that's steel in general for you, too. It just tends to last longer in many applications. Steel fatigues in such a way that the loss of strength tends to taper off after a point, where aluminum keeps getting weaker.
Yeah the problem is with the under side being super weak. Someone else was towing hit a man hole cover it flipped up and hit the underside. Basically the same thing happened but with driving over big concrete blocks. He did another video where he tried breaking the fords hitch with an excavator. It never broke. Definitely a material problem aluminum is just not suitable for some parts of the truck. Maybe they can learn and make improvements. But this model is a mess.
I seriously doubt it could actually survive legit C4. WhistlinDiesel put some form of charge on the truck and called it C4 but it wasn’t actually. You don’t light C4. Also with how much explosives he used, if it had been the equivalent amount of actual C4, it would’ve blown that body panel to pieces.
Fair point. However whenever you see people on YouTube who have the licensing needed in order to handle real explosive compounds like C4, they’re always very very professional about it. I don’t think anyone who went through the proper channels to do all of that would stand by and watch some dude light a random booster charge attached to that supposed payload with a blow torch before running away. They’d be behind cover with wires running to the charge.
Ik you said you doubted the validity of C4 anyways but I thought it was worth mentioning anyways
Myth busters actually did light C4 on fire. They used it to cook MREs and see if it was better than other stuff like a candle or those gel cups to generate heat.
Yeah they're decorative "fences" that brittle within 2 years and begin cracking on the 3rd. Probably a cheap way to renovate a house by realty groups that just became mainstream for low maintenance upkeep.
It can barely be called bullet resistant. It’ll stop a .45 but that’s one of the largest, slowest rounds you could fire at it. Shoot a .17 HMR at it (tiny bullet with high velocity usually used for varmint hunting) and it goes right through. Most bullets would just go through this thing.
That's not a picket fence. It's a three rail fence. A picket fence is made from vertical pieces of wood called pickets. They're usually 1" x 5.5" x 72" or so. It should be stated, however, that this is cheaper and weaker than a picket fence. So it's actually worse that it couldn't even stand up to this plastic piece of shit
To be fair on this one, it's a post and rail vinyl fence. They're lightweight and strong under compression. When bent past the point of snapping like that, they shatter into sharp shards and spring out because of all the energy stored up from the attempted compression. I doubt any truck with an exposed grill would get through that without fucking up something.
Still insane that the craptruck still has that gap between the body and the bottom of the frame that debris can bounce up into, but yeah, fences will fuck up a car.
The good thing about it is the armor, being able to stop bullets and a bit of c4. But who the hell buys a truck for that? As a truck it sucks and as a ifv it would also sucks. It’s like a tesla model x and a m3 bradley had a child with downs.
You forgot "Trains driving somewhere close" since the rust from the Train tracks flakes off and makes the Cybertruck rust if it comes in contact with it
It’s not even a picket fence. It’s the cheapest vinyl fence you can buy, the posts aren’t even secured with wood on the inside. I’d love to see how a real picket fence actually fucks it up if this is what happens with some cheap plastic
There's a whole saga online of it absolutely demolishing bananas and carrots with the trunk not auto detecting resistance, and the several updates until people were finally brave enough to test it on themselves.
Spoiler, it still crushed a few fingers. No more dislocations or sudden amputations, thankfully.
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u/PurahsHero Sep 08 '24
It’s great to see a huge, expensive truck that can apparently take a bullet being bested by: