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Wha... what... what in the ever-fucking love do you mean it lost a wheel?!
I... I'm at a loss here, you... cars are not supposed to lose wheels?!
His style can be a bit annoying but go watch WhistlingDiesels CyberTruck durability tests.
Dude had to keep pumping money to the Tesla center for repairs just to get the thing running again for more video content. Tow hitch module fell off after some off roading and the thing couldn't move anymore. Because that's how well it's built.
He's done this to a bunch of vehicles and nothing is this finicky. The actual king of status symbol trucks, the Mercedes G class, survived everything he threw at it pretty much.
Isn't that guy a con-man?
His videos are all bullshit.
I don't watch his stuff, I only knew about the name because of coffeezilla. Did some digging, and he has been arrested twice for tax evasion. And got a mail order bride from Russia.
Depends on your definition of con-man. He has been arrested and charged for tax evasion. As far as I know he isn't "conman" as such as having conned/frauded say viewers or so on out of money.
Well, there is this. Also, just found a video of him getting arrested, because of tax fraud.
They said he was arrested for tax evasion.
He was arrested twice for it.
Youre not supposed to drive over steel poles either. Unintended use cases can result in unexpected behavior
My previous EV, an extremely humble (and cheap) Dacia Spring, got hit by a semi on the highway. It was totaled, completely destroyed. It finished upside down and even then, it didn't catch fire and the doors opened. Also didn't lose any of the wheels. I'd say that was the most unintended use case of the car and still, a barely 15k euros car ended in a better shape than a $75k+ monstrosity that is marketed as a truck "for the apocalypse".
The fact that "it didn't catch fire and the doors opened" is the measure of success means that the bar is really on the floor for Teslas.
For real though don't run over the bar with a Tesla, if it goes through the battery, you're toast
Just don’t run over that bar
It's an unintended use, but an expected condition. A vehicle should never add to the danger in an expected condition except in ways necessary for an expected function (reaching highway speeds for example is inherently dangerous)
One of the three hit a fire hydrant and a tree before the battery ignited. The flaming prison cell on three wheels is not the expected behaviour following a minor road traffic accident either: "In this total nightmare scenario, the doors would not open, and the driver couldn’t break the Cybertruck’s “armored” windows from inside"
flaming COFFIN.
EM: Well, there are a lot of these cars going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen … I just don’t want people thinking that Cybertrucks aren’t safe.
R: Was this Cybertruck safe?
EM: Well I was thinking more about the other ones…
R: The ones that are safe...
EM: Yeah... the ones the wheel doesn’t fall off.
I saw a video of a guy how had an accident in his cybertruck. He lost a wheel and filmed the aftermath and talked about it. The wheel at the breaking points looked like it was melted together out of old monster cans. You could see millions of pretty sizable pores. So i'm kinda shocked that it's not happening more frequently to be honest
It's a Cybertruck thing! If you look at photos of wrecks, you'll see an inordinate number that tossed a wheel.
Unscheduled spontaneous de-wheeling.
"The wheel rolled away autonomously, so FSD was achieved" - Elon
So the Batmobile that lost it's wheel, was a Cybertruck!
And the joker got away
the wheel just flew off i guess?
they must use the same glue to hold the wheels on as they do the side panels and bumpers.
If you hit a cable barrier, I hope you will lose all wheels immediately. The barrier is there for a reason. You are not supposed to hit that. Because on the other side of it, there might be
#insert_living_organism_here#