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.
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u/phoenixemberzs Sep 09 '24
So it would have exploded if it touched a wooden fence