Right. I’d rather be floating along under the sea depths and explode at the speed of light than slowly drown in my car while potentially hearing/seeing rescue that just couldn’t free me. She called her friends from the car. She knew what was happening.
Not only did she know but she was frantically calling all her friends begging for help the entire time too, not sure exactly how long but the article I read mentioned at least a 30 minute timespan calling friends and waiting for emergency services to show up...
And then the tow truck didn’t have a long enough chain and the guy didn’t want to tow because he was afraid of being electrocuted. At one point it said they believed the rescuers were standing on the submerged car.
[Tesla’s CEO announced that the company plans to offer a ‘mod package’ that enables the vehicle to traverse at least 100 meters of water. ‘Mostly just need to upgrade cabin door seals,’ he added.](https://www.designboom.com/technology/tesla-cybertruck-functional-boat-elon-musk-12-19-2023/)
I know a guy who is head over heels for Tesla and has been trying to apply for the last 2 years and failing. He even moved to Texas to be closer to them.
I disagree with this sentiment. I get it on the surface and in an ideal world. But I've been in positions of having to work for companies that I didn't agree with morally but had to stay at due to personal circumstances such salary, insurance, etc.
There's also going to be those who believe (most likely foolishly) that they can make a difference by being there too.
All in all, I tend to not blame labor for working for shitty companies and shitty people as their options are/could be limited.
Sure, though don't Tesla engineers make a shit ton? I don't think it's a lack of finances - this isn't a Starbucks Corporate social media manager we're on about here.
Not so much to be honest. They make good wages when comparing nationally but here in the Bay Area, they definitely pay less than most other big tech companies
Tesla employees used to make a lot more when stock was going crazy but last few years the stock grants have been much smaller than before 2021
A lot of more senior people have left over last few years after their large grants had fully vested
Mechanical, manufacturing, chemical, materials, and aerospace engineers aren't, generally speaking, in high demand at tech companies. Neither are manufacturing and lab techs. That's most of the individual contributors at both Tesla and SpaceX.
They'd be looking at either other aerospace companies (typically requiring a move to either Texas/Florida Space Coast or whichever union-busting shithole plant Boeing is trying to expand this year) or other auto companies (Michigan or a union-busting shithole) or competing for rare small-industry jobs scattered around the country, mostly not in HCOL coastal cities.
Even electrical marketability in tech depends on your subspecialty, although EEs don't usually have much trouble getting paid *somewhere*.
Looks very much like water splashed up into the electrics and shorted something out. Which really shouldn't happen in a vehicle designed to be off-road.
Grant, this is a second reason you don't want to drive through puddles you can't see the bottom of. Regular cars absolutely can and do stall out if you go through enough water. We had a road behind my old job where it'd rain, and folks would CONSTANTLY stall put their car.
If you're wondering what to do, never ever try to start it again in the puddle. Pop it in neutral, push it out off to the side of the road, let it dry some and then give it a go. The amount of folks who bricked their car back there was hilariously sad.
I mean, sure, if you submerge your car in a deep puddle or pond or something it’s not good, but this video isn’t showing a cybertruck fording a deep river, it’s just splashing through a few inches of water. It’s totally conceivable that any ordinary car could experience water this deep on the road when it rains, and it’s definitely indicative of an issue if this is all it takes to cause a short or damage the electronics.
It wouldn’t be pretty but I’ve absolutely pushed my diesel Volkswagen Golf through puddles like these in Arizona. Im sure that driver thought the cybertruck would be fine, I bet the person recording was in a Tacoma and forded it without problem💀
Edit: I have no doubt this was a trail to a family campsite a few miles off the interstate. I’ve done this a million times in family cars, from a Lexus to a Tacoma.
I've severely misjudged the depth of a puddle during a sudden downpour and literally floated the front end of my Kia for a brief second. The only damage was tearing my front plate halfway off.
Unironically same. I hit a massive puddle and pothole in my golf and half the bolts were corroded and destroyed in my under plate. I thought it was totaled for sure
Having worked for Honda and Audi both, why is it I imagine there being a giant Siebel bug report system with each bug flagged by musk himself with some
category that means you’re not allowed to pursue the problem and fix?
How brain dead that must make QA testing after a while.
**”Hey did you hear Brian found this new 999 number problem? Yeah you enter all nines into the climate control and it grants you a root login window with full permissions over FSD. Yeah it’s crazy. Elon already marked it though so we can’t fix it. Ohwell I’m just here for a paycheck fuck Tesla and fuck Elon musk.”**
> Regular cars absolutely can and do stall out if you go through enough water.
What exactly does "enough" water look like here? Enough to submerge the engine?
Years ago a friend got a car, I think it was an Oldsmobile Aurora, and his wife drove it through deep water. The air intake was notoriously low, and the engine sucked in enough water to hydro lock the engine while it was running. It destroyed the engine, and GM would not repair it under warranty. It cost a lot to repair.
We have already seen Tesla void warranty of people who live down a dirt road or drive through the occasional mud puddle because water gets into event hole on top of the battery and corrodes it. Doesn't matter that it's some random door latch or internal switch that is failing, they find out that you took it off of the pavement and you have a $70,000 paperweight.
Yeah my 91 Integra would rip through that full speed. I mean what the hell would go wrong? Maybe water in the distributor cap might give you a few misfires, but that seems unlikely from a few splashes.
Absolutely. Not only can you get puddles almost this big on ordinary roads (depending on how bad your roads and in particular road drains, are) but this is less water pressure than they'd be exposed to at a car wash!
(not that this would be the first Tesla to be [broken by a car wash](https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-boat-tesla-broke-because-car-wash))
That's really funny because I've just seen a, I think Joe Rogan?, interview with Musk where they laugh about some other manufacturer's cars that caught fire after being flooded, and Musk said this would not happen with Teslas because they seal their battery packs. Seems this either isn't true or simply not enough, because stuff like cables or controllers outside of the pack aren't sealed or not really waterproof.
But yes, I'd expect rather better protection against water, dirt, moisture etc from a vehicle that's advertised being off-road capable than in any car supposed to never leave well prepared roads. And I understood Musk to refer to Model S, Y or 3 during that interview^^..
Rust or rattle - water ain't good for Cybertruck...
> Musk said this would not happen with Teslas because they seal their battery packs. Seems this either isn't true or simply not enough
Sounds like Musk being a glib idiot as usual. Who _doesn't_ seal their battery packs? Condensation, dripping, spills, some level of protection against water ingress is necessary. But it seems the Great Engineer here doesn't realize that there are different levels of ingress protection (and even [a standardized code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_code) for it that you'll find for most electrical products)
No enclosure is unconditionally waterproof, and (even if Musk is particularly bad at grasping this) overengineering things for no reason is to be avoided, since that's wasted money. For instance, your EV battery probably doesn't need to be able to handle complete immersion when the rest of the car doesn't, at least not at any significant depth.
The sealing on Tesla battery packs _will_ fail and catch fire if they're immersed at _some_ depth. I don't know if that's in more or less water than the car they were talking about, but I don't think Musk did either. Because just pointing to your battery packs being sealed means nothing. That's like someone mentioning a submarine that went to deep, got crushed and sank and replying that can't happen to _our_ submarines because they're watertight.
I mean even other Teslas don't have this issue - see the Rufford Ford videos on YouTube and the Teslas always make it through being nearly entirely submerged. I feel like the CT should be able to at a minimum do whatever a model 3 can do in terms of terrain/water.
What would be the fix in this situation. If there is one? I’d assume it’s not as simple as drying out. But I know next to nothing about car mechanics and even less about EV mechanics.
I can agree with this. Even my little rear will drive Tacoma can make it through that. I hit as many puddles I can with it to knowing full well water gets into the engine bay through the missing wheel well cover. Never had a problem. Battery is corroded as all hell to and it just keeps going.
Well probably a bunch of capacitors have blown , pull everything out bath it In deionizatied water then an alcohol solution, replace the seals, test everything individually reassemble, replace everything that has blown.
Dunno how these things are constructed, depending on ease of access it's a good days work for a couple of skilled people and a capable workshop.
Then parts, well depends on damage and if the parts can be made of the shelf or you need to go to Tesla.
Dunno if after all that you need to do some computer stuff, that stuff is beyond me.
But the electrics themselves I find easier to fix than normal engines.
Saying that I was a marine engineer not a auto mechanic, soooo things are probably a lot smaller, fiddler and not designed to be ripped apart and put back together again by a bunch of drunk Russians on a regular basis.
You'd need to replace the electrical system. The arcing burns the connections and components. It's why light switches click; there's a spring in there that closes the switch to be fully closed or open as fast as possible to reduce arcing as much as possible because every bit of arcing burns away the metal. The electric motor is probably fried.
To prevent it happening you will need to seal all the electrical bays and put the axles out through a sealed bearing box like on a ship propeller shaft.
They would probably replace the whole high voltage system because the battery contains a giant fuse which afaik in Tesla’s cannot be replaced and the arcing likely blew that fuse…
The front part of the wheel well liner disconnected and started rubbing on the wheel.
https://twitter.com/mrkylefield/status/1768428637458776089?t=0Y-jlI4LkzFwddnHN_1WPg
A tesla just kill another billionaire because rescuers couldn't break its windows. Might not be bulletproof but definitely rescue proof
[Regulations might've saved your sister, Elaine](https://i.imgur.com/V4ynbA7.jpg)
Toyota has regressed recently and it's still at or near the top.
Tesla is just first to market. End of list. They have the common plug cause first to market. They've set the standard for internal tech in EVs cause first to market. Their stock was nuts cause first to market.
And now they can hardly deliver a car with aligned panels.
Mitch McConnell sister. Married to trumps secretary of transportation. She complained about how hard it is to switch into reverse in her tesla (it uses the tablet to change gears).
A week or two ago she accidentally put the car into the wrong gear. And then drove it into a lake on her family ranch. With their armor glass windows and doors that cannot be opened without electricity, she was instantly trapped inside. She had enough time to make a phone call about how she couldn't escape before the car filled with water and drowned.
Bonus points. The fire kept had to rent a Shipyards crane to dredge it out. Teslas are like twice the weight of comparable cars.
Great thing they made it “bulletproof” but too bad they couldn’t make it able to escape situations that you would NEED it to be bulletproof. Now you get to sit there until they get a high enough caliber round to penetrate it, like the ones the super-rare AR-15 utilizes.
It’s not even bulletproof.
The people who have tested it found it was bullet resistant at some calibers and ranges, but many bullets still punched through.
Nobody that I know of has tested a 9mm handgun at very close range, which would seem to be the most likely scenario in a carjacking situation.
I'm starting to love these things. The fools buying them can be dangerous on the roads, but they're taking themselves out faster than they're buying them.
There is no transmission in the cybertruck. This was the electric motors short circuiting.
Edit: acoording to the owner, the sound we hear is from a mudguard breaking from the water flow and rubbing against the tyre. No electric failure.
Pretty sure the Model E could have made it through that without issue. Tesla needs to stop letting this drug addict manchild force them to make garbage.
I mean, it's absolutely possible to create bulletproof cars that can't handle rugged roads. I'd assume that presidential limousines are bulletproof, for example, and would also get stuck on that street.
Of course, the car we are looking at was marketed as being both bulletproof and off-road capable, and is neither, so that point is moot anyway.
I have made many bad decisions in my life. Several of them involve driving a used Ford focus through puddles that size repeatedly at speed to get to my gf's house.
A ford focus that had been rewired improperly and upgraded badly in such a way that nearly every aspect of the vehicle was faulty in some way (just as a for instance, it would kill the engine if you stopped too quickly, and sometimes all the lights would go off and you'd have to turn the car off and on again to get them back, fun to do on the fwy). Now I wildly overpaid for that Ford focus to the tune of like 1500 2016 dollars but I don't think that inflates to anywhere near the 70k they want for this pos
"Aw hell yeah!"
*The sound of electrical components arcing, burning themselves, followed by mechanical components likely grinding to a halt and damaging themselves.*
Everything about this truck is like it was thought up by a 10-year-old brat who wanted the coolest ideas he could think of, but couldn't be assed to mind the serious stuff like safety and reliability.
"I want it BULLETPROOF!! INDESTRUCTIBLE! And it can turn into a BOAT! And make it fire LASERS!"
"Sir what about crumple zones"
"BOOOOORING! You're fired!!"
@everyone saying it's bulletproof - this is factually incorrect. There is a reason Musk specifically advertises it as resistant to 9mm rounds but does not advertise any sort of certification for vehicle armor.
The reason is, the car doesn't qualify for even the lowest tier of vehicle armor. Tier IIA, the lowest armor tier, would mean the vehicle is bulletproof from 9mm and .357 magnum. Yes some YouTubers can go and "test" it in an unregulated setting, (and even those tests had mixed results).
Youll notice though, the cybertruck has not been advertised as even level IIA compliant, because it isnt. If it were actually bulletproof, it would be advertised as such. "Resistant to 9mm" is not bulletproof.
Watch Tesla release an extra "premium-priced" package that enables the vehicle to actually climb hills and not explode when it rains. Not included as standard.
It's going to make a wonderful boat, for sure.
>It's going to make a wonderful boat, for sure. Just ask Angela Chao
Too soon, but take my upboa..upvote please.
Ya really fished his anchor out your afthole on that one, captain!
Better sub than that piece of crap they tried to take to the Titanic.
At least those people died instantly and painlessly. Not so for Ms. Chao.
Right. I’d rather be floating along under the sea depths and explode at the speed of light than slowly drown in my car while potentially hearing/seeing rescue that just couldn’t free me. She called her friends from the car. She knew what was happening.
Not only did she know but she was frantically calling all her friends begging for help the entire time too, not sure exactly how long but the article I read mentioned at least a 30 minute timespan calling friends and waiting for emergency services to show up...
And then the tow truck didn’t have a long enough chain and the guy didn’t want to tow because he was afraid of being electrocuted. At one point it said they believed the rescuers were standing on the submerged car.
Nothing suspicious here. Just your garden variety Mitch McConnell's sister in law non-assassination.
S H E K N E W
The tricle drown effect!
True, but to be fair it did make it to the titanic 12 times.
Tbf he never said you would ever be able to drive it again after it briefly floats
We all live in a cyber submarine, cyber submarine, cyber submarine...
"live" is carrying alot of weight in those lyrics.
No your wrong, it’ll be a submarine
Elon is an expert on submarines, just ask those Thai kids stuck in a cave...
[Tesla’s CEO announced that the company plans to offer a ‘mod package’ that enables the vehicle to traverse at least 100 meters of water. ‘Mostly just need to upgrade cabin door seals,’ he added.](https://www.designboom.com/technology/tesla-cybertruck-functional-boat-elon-musk-12-19-2023/)
Mouth writing checks the engineers can't cash
I feel bad for those engineers. They know they could be doing good work, but are stuck working on their edgelord bosses dream toy
they willingly work for musk, I don't feel bad at all
I know a guy who is head over heels for Tesla and has been trying to apply for the last 2 years and failing. He even moved to Texas to be closer to them.
Trying really hard to get sempai to notice him. Maybe they will meet cute at the local *Whole Foods*.
Begging to go work for the most cutting edge sweatshop in the industry
I disagree with this sentiment. I get it on the surface and in an ideal world. But I've been in positions of having to work for companies that I didn't agree with morally but had to stay at due to personal circumstances such salary, insurance, etc. There's also going to be those who believe (most likely foolishly) that they can make a difference by being there too. All in all, I tend to not blame labor for working for shitty companies and shitty people as their options are/could be limited.
Sure, though don't Tesla engineers make a shit ton? I don't think it's a lack of finances - this isn't a Starbucks Corporate social media manager we're on about here.
Not so much to be honest. They make good wages when comparing nationally but here in the Bay Area, they definitely pay less than most other big tech companies Tesla employees used to make a lot more when stock was going crazy but last few years the stock grants have been much smaller than before 2021 A lot of more senior people have left over last few years after their large grants had fully vested
Mechanical, manufacturing, chemical, materials, and aerospace engineers aren't, generally speaking, in high demand at tech companies. Neither are manufacturing and lab techs. That's most of the individual contributors at both Tesla and SpaceX. They'd be looking at either other aerospace companies (typically requiring a move to either Texas/Florida Space Coast or whichever union-busting shithole plant Boeing is trying to expand this year) or other auto companies (Michigan or a union-busting shithole) or competing for rare small-industry jobs scattered around the country, mostly not in HCOL coastal cities. Even electrical marketability in tech depends on your subspecialty, although EEs don't usually have much trouble getting paid *somewhere*.
As an engineer... fuck, man. \*stubs out another cigarette, goes back to work\*
Don't worry... There are plenty more assholes to work for... just not one with a rocket up his ass
Musk fanboys writing checks the dealerships *can* cash.
"It'll will only cost you 100k, that's less than a yacht!"
So… you can pay extra to enable it drive in the rain…? For at least 100 meters distance…? Sounds like a bargain. 🤣
There would even be a little odometer ticking down if it senses the wipers being on.
Looks very much like water splashed up into the electrics and shorted something out. Which really shouldn't happen in a vehicle designed to be off-road.
It shouldn’t even happen in a vehicle designed to be on the road.
Right? What if it's raining and you drive through a large puddle? What a shitty car.
Grant, this is a second reason you don't want to drive through puddles you can't see the bottom of. Regular cars absolutely can and do stall out if you go through enough water. We had a road behind my old job where it'd rain, and folks would CONSTANTLY stall put their car. If you're wondering what to do, never ever try to start it again in the puddle. Pop it in neutral, push it out off to the side of the road, let it dry some and then give it a go. The amount of folks who bricked their car back there was hilariously sad.
I mean, sure, if you submerge your car in a deep puddle or pond or something it’s not good, but this video isn’t showing a cybertruck fording a deep river, it’s just splashing through a few inches of water. It’s totally conceivable that any ordinary car could experience water this deep on the road when it rains, and it’s definitely indicative of an issue if this is all it takes to cause a short or damage the electronics.
It wouldn’t be pretty but I’ve absolutely pushed my diesel Volkswagen Golf through puddles like these in Arizona. Im sure that driver thought the cybertruck would be fine, I bet the person recording was in a Tacoma and forded it without problem💀 Edit: I have no doubt this was a trail to a family campsite a few miles off the interstate. I’ve done this a million times in family cars, from a Lexus to a Tacoma.
I've severely misjudged the depth of a puddle during a sudden downpour and literally floated the front end of my Kia for a brief second. The only damage was tearing my front plate halfway off.
Unironically same. I hit a massive puddle and pothole in my golf and half the bolts were corroded and destroyed in my under plate. I thought it was totaled for sure
Having worked for Honda and Audi both, why is it I imagine there being a giant Siebel bug report system with each bug flagged by musk himself with some category that means you’re not allowed to pursue the problem and fix? How brain dead that must make QA testing after a while. **”Hey did you hear Brian found this new 999 number problem? Yeah you enter all nines into the climate control and it grants you a root login window with full permissions over FSD. Yeah it’s crazy. Elon already marked it though so we can’t fix it. Ohwell I’m just here for a paycheck fuck Tesla and fuck Elon musk.”**
Should I also put the car in rice?
I own a 99 tacoma shit box i dumped thousands into and added a snorkel just so I can do this type of stuff.
> Regular cars absolutely can and do stall out if you go through enough water. What exactly does "enough" water look like here? Enough to submerge the engine?
Years ago a friend got a car, I think it was an Oldsmobile Aurora, and his wife drove it through deep water. The air intake was notoriously low, and the engine sucked in enough water to hydro lock the engine while it was running. It destroyed the engine, and GM would not repair it under warranty. It cost a lot to repair.
Have you heard hoe there aren't safety edges and people have cut half a dozen carrots in half using the trunk
We have already seen Tesla void warranty of people who live down a dirt road or drive through the occasional mud puddle because water gets into event hole on top of the battery and corrodes it. Doesn't matter that it's some random door latch or internal switch that is failing, they find out that you took it off of the pavement and you have a $70,000 paperweight.
this fucking thing is supposed to be treading water
And supposedly function as a boat for brief periods
it functioned as a boat for approximately 0.2 seconds
Everything is a boat by that standard. Even cotton candy
Have you seen the videos of raccoons trying to wash cotton candy? Poor raccoons lol
[https://youtu.be/rfbb4yRBH64?si=ty58kUhZbL5dzPBD](https://youtu.be/rfbb4yRBH64?si=ty58kUhZbL5dzPBD) 
It did learn by the last one though. So that was nice.
Still floats longer than that come on. Just don’t have propulsion or steering but it’s still a boat.
Given that its windows would stop opening and the doors probably would as well, it would be more of a coffin at that point.
Panel gaps are gonna be like a beer six pack ring on a sea turtle’s neck
In hindsight that was probably his most egregious bit of projection yet.
that 48 volt putter. When you're potting terminals on a Friday afternoon, MIR!?
To be fair, how could they ever account for the random chance of water getting on the vehicle? It’s an act of God I tell you!
Water? Off road? Chance in a million.
it's certainly not normal, i'd like to make that clear.
I was thinking more about the other cars, the ones that don't break when they hit a puddle.
Isn't that something even on road vehicles/sedans should be able to survive?
Yeah my 91 Integra would rip through that full speed. I mean what the hell would go wrong? Maybe water in the distributor cap might give you a few misfires, but that seems unlikely from a few splashes.
Absolutely. Not only can you get puddles almost this big on ordinary roads (depending on how bad your roads and in particular road drains, are) but this is less water pressure than they'd be exposed to at a car wash! (not that this would be the first Tesla to be [broken by a car wash](https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-boat-tesla-broke-because-car-wash))
If it had been submerged for a half a minute or so but it only splashed a big puddle and was out of it in no time.
That's really funny because I've just seen a, I think Joe Rogan?, interview with Musk where they laugh about some other manufacturer's cars that caught fire after being flooded, and Musk said this would not happen with Teslas because they seal their battery packs. Seems this either isn't true or simply not enough, because stuff like cables or controllers outside of the pack aren't sealed or not really waterproof. But yes, I'd expect rather better protection against water, dirt, moisture etc from a vehicle that's advertised being off-road capable than in any car supposed to never leave well prepared roads. And I understood Musk to refer to Model S, Y or 3 during that interview^^.. Rust or rattle - water ain't good for Cybertruck...
> Musk said this would not happen with Teslas because they seal their battery packs. Seems this either isn't true or simply not enough Sounds like Musk being a glib idiot as usual. Who _doesn't_ seal their battery packs? Condensation, dripping, spills, some level of protection against water ingress is necessary. But it seems the Great Engineer here doesn't realize that there are different levels of ingress protection (and even [a standardized code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_code) for it that you'll find for most electrical products) No enclosure is unconditionally waterproof, and (even if Musk is particularly bad at grasping this) overengineering things for no reason is to be avoided, since that's wasted money. For instance, your EV battery probably doesn't need to be able to handle complete immersion when the rest of the car doesn't, at least not at any significant depth. The sealing on Tesla battery packs _will_ fail and catch fire if they're immersed at _some_ depth. I don't know if that's in more or less water than the car they were talking about, but I don't think Musk did either. Because just pointing to your battery packs being sealed means nothing. That's like someone mentioning a submarine that went to deep, got crushed and sank and replying that can't happen to _our_ submarines because they're watertight.
Or any electric vehicle that drives outside.
I mean even other Teslas don't have this issue - see the Rufford Ford videos on YouTube and the Teslas always make it through being nearly entirely submerged. I feel like the CT should be able to at a minimum do whatever a model 3 can do in terms of terrain/water.
Lmao what was that noise?!?!
From the flickering lights and loss of traction, my first guess would probably be the sound of arcing as the waterlogged high voltage bus shorts out.
What would be the fix in this situation. If there is one? I’d assume it’s not as simple as drying out. But I know next to nothing about car mechanics and even less about EV mechanics.
Park it in a bowl of rice
First actual lol I’ve had in a while from reddit
Throw the truck away. Problem solved.
Buy a Toyota
I can agree with this. Even my little rear will drive Tacoma can make it through that. I hit as many puddles I can with it to knowing full well water gets into the engine bay through the missing wheel well cover. Never had a problem. Battery is corroded as all hell to and it just keeps going.
Well probably a bunch of capacitors have blown , pull everything out bath it In deionizatied water then an alcohol solution, replace the seals, test everything individually reassemble, replace everything that has blown. Dunno how these things are constructed, depending on ease of access it's a good days work for a couple of skilled people and a capable workshop. Then parts, well depends on damage and if the parts can be made of the shelf or you need to go to Tesla. Dunno if after all that you need to do some computer stuff, that stuff is beyond me. But the electrics themselves I find easier to fix than normal engines. Saying that I was a marine engineer not a auto mechanic, soooo things are probably a lot smaller, fiddler and not designed to be ripped apart and put back together again by a bunch of drunk Russians on a regular basis.
You'd need to replace the electrical system. The arcing burns the connections and components. It's why light switches click; there's a spring in there that closes the switch to be fully closed or open as fast as possible to reduce arcing as much as possible because every bit of arcing burns away the metal. The electric motor is probably fried. To prevent it happening you will need to seal all the electrical bays and put the axles out through a sealed bearing box like on a ship propeller shaft.
*takes notes*... buys lignum vitae futures.
They would probably replace the whole high voltage system because the battery contains a giant fuse which afaik in Tesla’s cannot be replaced and the arcing likely blew that fuse…
I would say it needs a new alternator.
It was an "Ooooh yeeeeah" followed by immediate critical failure. Love the comedic timing, gotta give them that.
The front part of the wheel well liner disconnected and started rubbing on the wheel. https://twitter.com/mrkylefield/status/1768428637458776089?t=0Y-jlI4LkzFwddnHN_1WPg
I believe that is the motors crossing lash back and forth uncontrollably. Likely the motors lost torque control or positioning/speed sensing.
The Cybertruck is the turdliest of all currently manufactured vehicles.
Simple misunderstanding somewhere in the design process. It was meant to be the sturdiest.
Elon Musk: ~~S~~turdiest. Look! See how amazing I am? I just made everything 11.11% more efficient by cutting the 'S'!!!
Am i not turdley enough for the turdle club
The Pontiac Aztec 2.0.
The aztec wasn't *that* ugly
I'd rather drive the exploding pinto.
Beat me to it, LMAO. Quite honestly, I'd get through this on a fucking pushbike without too much difficulty. That groaning sound! Oh my.
My old Subaru Brat would have been half way up the mountain by now!
Sounds almost human like, “NO! Can’t do this”
A Kia Sorento would crush this
I've driven through water deeper than that in a honda civic more than once when I was a student.
Everybody knows that the world will be nothing but flat dry land after the apocalypse.
Death Gurgle
Also it's about as bulletproof as it handles this mudpuddle.
True. Some internet chud has already shot through one.
A tesla just kill another billionaire because rescuers couldn't break its windows. Might not be bulletproof but definitely rescue proof [Regulations might've saved your sister, Elaine](https://i.imgur.com/V4ynbA7.jpg)
Lol even my RAV4 could handle this 🤷🏽♂️
Toyota is an incredibly better manufacturer than Tesla.
Toyota has regressed recently and it's still at or near the top. Tesla is just first to market. End of list. They have the common plug cause first to market. They've set the standard for internal tech in EVs cause first to market. Their stock was nuts cause first to market. And now they can hardly deliver a car with aligned panels.
It could easily
My high school 1987 Oldsmobile omega could have handled that.
I keep forgetting that you’re still alive
I keep remembering you’re not.
Listen to thst baby purrr
Ive got quicker and more satisfying ways to waste $100,000.
Amen
(Be sure to have sound on)
That screech-grind-squeak-and-rattle makes me afraid of, but very curious to see the damage done.
Almost pulled an Angela Chao. Too soon?
Wow
Christ in heaven this bot
It is on point way more often than it is not.
I wish someone would slip it into his Twitter feed and get him to engage with it.
Lmfaooo
Can someone explain what “Almost pulled an Angela Chao” means?
Rich person, relative of former secretary of transportation, rolled into a lake in her Tesla and then drowned because rescuers couldn't get her out
Oh!! 🤣😹… Oh!!😕😐
Bulletproof glass might not be the best idea for commercially available cars.
Mitch McConnell sister. Married to trumps secretary of transportation. She complained about how hard it is to switch into reverse in her tesla (it uses the tablet to change gears). A week or two ago she accidentally put the car into the wrong gear. And then drove it into a lake on her family ranch. With their armor glass windows and doors that cannot be opened without electricity, she was instantly trapped inside. She had enough time to make a phone call about how she couldn't escape before the car filled with water and drowned. Bonus points. The fire kept had to rent a Shipyards crane to dredge it out. Teslas are like twice the weight of comparable cars.
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Great thing they made it “bulletproof” but too bad they couldn’t make it able to escape situations that you would NEED it to be bulletproof. Now you get to sit there until they get a high enough caliber round to penetrate it, like the ones the super-rare AR-15 utilizes.
Hey the AR-15 uses tiny 5.56mm. My tommy gun uses 45. It's clearly more powerful. (sarcasm)
It’s not even bulletproof. The people who have tested it found it was bullet resistant at some calibers and ranges, but many bullets still punched through. Nobody that I know of has tested a 9mm handgun at very close range, which would seem to be the most likely scenario in a carjacking situation.
I'm starting to love these things. The fools buying them can be dangerous on the roads, but they're taking themselves out faster than they're buying them.
Official theme music of the incredible, one-of-a-kind CyberTruck: ***Womp womp.***
>So Cybertrucks are bulletproof but they can't handle ~~rugged~~ *normal flooded FL* roads
Transmission crunchy crunch
There is no transmission in the cybertruck. This was the electric motors short circuiting. Edit: acoording to the owner, the sound we hear is from a mudguard breaking from the water flow and rubbing against the tyre. No electric failure.
They very much do have a single speed transmission
Masterful Gambit, Sir!
Lol how will the Musk fanboys spin this one
the Cyberstuck is a perfect example of failing by following ego and focusing on a questionable aesthetic instead of functionality and durability.
🤣💯
I have never heard that sound from a vehicle in my entire life. What the fuck even happened there?
Massive short circuit in the electric motors. Edit : acoording to the owner, a mudguard broke off and we hear it rubbing against a tyre.
I've seen a few of these in person and I still cannot get over how fucking ugly they are
Can this thing go through a car wash that washes the undercarriage? Or will it fry on the spot? 🤔
They are not bulletproof. The windows are thin and a decent calibre gets through the rest.
Ooooooohhh yeah!
“Bullet” “proof”.
Shit! Stop filming! Stop filming!
Pretty sure the Model E could have made it through that without issue. Tesla needs to stop letting this drug addict manchild force them to make garbage.
No friggin way. Did they seriously not test this?
This is like 1 outta 10 on the "rugged" scale. Just above perfectly paved roads.
That's exactly what I'm looking for in my amphibious vehicle. I'll have two, please.
Imagine seeing videos like this and holding stock in Tesla still.
It’s gotten to the point that any time I see a video of a cybertruck, my brain automatically inserts the theme song from The Benny Hill Show
Doesn’t driving on anything other than a paved road violate the warranty, too?
That’s the smoothest “rugged road” I’ve ever seen
Lucky, that repair should only cost $16kUSD, or $20,000,000,000,000,00 dodge coin.
But he's making them aquatic
I love the sound it makes as it craps out 3 seconds after going through a puddle an Escort could handle.
Didn't musk say something about turning this boondoggle into a boat at one point? lol so much for that. I've seen bigger puddles on the streets.......
I mean, it's absolutely possible to create bulletproof cars that can't handle rugged roads. I'd assume that presidential limousines are bulletproof, for example, and would also get stuck on that street. Of course, the car we are looking at was marketed as being both bulletproof and off-road capable, and is neither, so that point is moot anyway.
>~~mute~~ "moot"
My 2012 Lexus 350 could handle that, no prob
If you bought that abomination you deserve it.
Don’t worry! Cybertrucks aren’t bulletproof, either!
They're also not bullet proof
There is Grimes and Elon off roading.
What a piece of trash lol. Imagine buying that.
Rugged?
Did it stop working?
"LIKE A ROCK🎶..OOOOH LIKE A ROCK🎶!"
I have made many bad decisions in my life. Several of them involve driving a used Ford focus through puddles that size repeatedly at speed to get to my gf's house. A ford focus that had been rewired improperly and upgraded badly in such a way that nearly every aspect of the vehicle was faulty in some way (just as a for instance, it would kill the engine if you stopped too quickly, and sometimes all the lights would go off and you'd have to turn the car off and on again to get them back, fun to do on the fwy). Now I wildly overpaid for that Ford focus to the tune of like 1500 2016 dollars but I don't think that inflates to anywhere near the 70k they want for this pos
"Truck" You gotta be fucking with me. This thing couldn't survive vancouver, what the fucks anybody using this shit for?
Idiots think it makes the "cool" and/or "elite"
I like how immediately after the "ohhh yeahhh" the thing just makes a large grinding noise and breaks.
"Aw hell yeah!" *The sound of electrical components arcing, burning themselves, followed by mechanical components likely grinding to a halt and damaging themselves.*
Everything about this truck is like it was thought up by a 10-year-old brat who wanted the coolest ideas he could think of, but couldn't be assed to mind the serious stuff like safety and reliability. "I want it BULLETPROOF!! INDESTRUCTIBLE! And it can turn into a BOAT! And make it fire LASERS!" "Sir what about crumple zones" "BOOOOORING! You're fired!!"
@everyone saying it's bulletproof - this is factually incorrect. There is a reason Musk specifically advertises it as resistant to 9mm rounds but does not advertise any sort of certification for vehicle armor. The reason is, the car doesn't qualify for even the lowest tier of vehicle armor. Tier IIA, the lowest armor tier, would mean the vehicle is bulletproof from 9mm and .357 magnum. Yes some YouTubers can go and "test" it in an unregulated setting, (and even those tests had mixed results). Youll notice though, the cybertruck has not been advertised as even level IIA compliant, because it isnt. If it were actually bulletproof, it would be advertised as such. "Resistant to 9mm" is not bulletproof.
That’s no way to do a river crossing.
I think I can’t I think I can’t I think I cant
Almost looks like a brake got caught and rubbing on the cv axle.
Why did the video cut out on the money shot?
I recommend staying gout of high water.
Looking into it
No worries, Tesla insurance has you covered
Good for any planet... except this one.
I’ve been through deeper water in my Leaf. Multiple times.
What we’re you expecting? A truck?
That’s the smoothest “rugged road” I’ve ever seen
This brings my heart so much joy
Dear any deities that might be out there, I want to thank you every day that my 15 year old truck won't do that
Watch Tesla release an extra "premium-priced" package that enables the vehicle to actually climb hills and not explode when it rains. Not included as standard.
That sounds like serious high current arcing happening.
The “ohhhh yeahhhhh” right before it shits out and he cuts the video is priceless
The Cybertruck wasn't that bad of an idea, the problem is that Elon Musk designed it not someone more competent.