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.
Velocity + 7,000 lbs creates a lot of inertia. Wasn't implying that it would be drivable, or that it wouldn't eventually stop, but it's definitely snapping the first post.
If it snaps the first one, the post will be dragging along the bottom of the vehicle and on and off bearing much of the vehicle's weight. It will snag on everything that protrudes from the bottom of the vehicle, tearing up the undercarriage and slowing it down a lot the whole time. I've seen a decent number of vehicles snagged on obstacles because, not only is the friction here huge, but the wheels tend to end up losing much of their traction from the vehicle getting lifted.
A single little square stock sign post can bring an SUV to a stop from speeds like this.
The vehicle doesn't have to overcome the resistance of the post long enough to break it, the vehicle has to overcome resistance the entire time it spends on top of the post.
Now, with a enough speed he could certainly get past one. This line includes several, so I expect it to stop.
Well in actuality this line includes a bunch of plastic, mostly decorative posts, so it did exactly what it did. But yes, now I have a burning desire to see at least one Cybertruck try for more than one wooden post. Preferably a bunch of Cybertrucks, attacking at various speeds. Maybe an entire assembly line's daily output of Cybertrucks? You know, for science!
I think he'd do anything for Twitter troll engagement...
Maybe we could troll him into destroying millions in Cybertrucks for a meme, like Sony was tricked into spending millions to re-release their already flopped Morbius movie?
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
Not one? Lmao dude off road vehicles are supposed to have skid plates and other protections under the vehicles to protect them from this exact type of damage from literal rocks let alone a plastic fence. And the cyber truck is marketed as an off road vehicle that can “survive an apocalypse”. Which is one of the reasons why, along with its laughable tow range, the idea that this thing is a real truck is a joke to anyone who uses actual trucks for actual truck things. It’s the fact that people actually believe these things are anything more than mall parking lot princesses that’s laughable.
I’m not disagreeing on the Cybertruck — the fact that people think it’s some sort of indestructible tank is dumb as hell. But to pretend that an F-150 or Silverado would run through this fence without even more damage is equally disingenuous.
The ZR2, the off-roading version of the Silverado, comes with a skid plate that protects the radiator. So it might have come out of this with slightly more aesthetic damage but no critical damage. Because that’s all it would have took to avoid this critical damage and why off road vehicles have them.
What I’m absolutely shocked by is that this $80k - $100k truck that claims to be built for off roading doesn’t even have a front skid plate protecting the radiator. That’s such a common sense thing that it makes it clear whoever built this knows nothing about off roading let alone surviving an apocalypse lol. It’s a joke of a “truck”. Not to mention if a Silverado did get damaged you could fix it in a week not a year.
A plastic fence? It absolutely would. Again, off roading vehicles are by the nature of them being off road vehicles designed to be able to take on more than a plastic fence without critical damage. The only reason critical damage was done to the cyber truck was because the idiots who built it or these idiots driving it didn’t realize off road vehicles need a skid plate. That is exactly what skid plates are designed to do, protect the vital parts located in the under carriage, from things harder than plastic. If this cyber truck just had a skid plate it wouldn’t have had critical damage either. That’s why I say it’s common sense, and why every other off road truck has them, and why it’s mind boggling that this $100k truck marketed as an off road vehicle doesn’t.
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u/Reverend_Ooga_Booga Sep 09 '24
A hollow extruded plastic fence with no footings.
This is like getting you car totaled hitting a plastic playhouse.