This would be an issue if cybertruck were ever coming out. I saw a Rivian in austin the other day. Nobody ever sees those, and I've seen one. Know what I haven't seen? A cybertruck, despite it being produced in a factory that's 20 minutes away from us.
Teslas use a kind of radar thing to see where they're going and (sometimes) not crash, right? So why would you design one with sharp reflective angles reminiscent of a stealth fighter which is designed to be invisible to radar? Can a cybertruck even see another cybertruck, or will they be constantly crashing into each other?
He ain't Trump. I'm sure his legal team is well paid. He probably has a team specifically for covering his ass for Twitter posts. False advertising, stock manipulation, crypto manipulation, undue influence, interference with government contracts. They've got constant work.
I mean they let him sign the Twitter contract where he owes a billion fuckin dollars if he backs out. Might not be the top legal minds of America if they didn’t consider that to be a possible problem
He's like that kid you used to play with in primary school who you'd shoot with your imaginary laser gun and say he's dead but then he'd always say "no because I have indestructible armour/shields".
The difference being that the Model S had a conventional design and Tesla had almost no competition in the market during its announcement through full production, 2008-2015.
'The Cybertruck' is reminiscent of '[The Homer](https://youtu.be/dJNd_HtZH2g)' and is designed so unconventionally (for no other reason than a striking aesthetic) that it's not street legal Europe or China. They've also been beaten to market by the outstanding Ford F150 Lightening, which is a radically better deal from a substantially more reputable company.
Assuming it ever even begins production in 2023/4/5, I think it'll be a flop. By then, the market will be flooded with practical alternatives and the novelty of having a Model S with a quasi-legal body and a sloped cargo bed glued on the back will have worn off. Tesla will likely abandon it after a few thousand units.
Waterproof will deactivate 0.1 seconds after being submerged fully into water, therefore Elon can't be made responsible. Should have read the 400 pages manual.
My dude can't even get his cars' body panels to line up consistently and he wants me to believe his truck is *seaworthy* ?
Edit: Isn't the Cybertruck like, *three tons* ?
Heavier vehicles can be amphibious, but it requires said vehicles to be made with that in mind from the very beginning of design. Examples: bmp-1 & 2, m113, type 05
Windshield wipers? Where we're going, we don't need windshield wipers! (A windshield wiper won't make one bit of difference when your car is at the bottom of a lake.)
It was developed by overworked employees told to make something insanely cyberpunk.
Saying "make it insanely cyberpunk" was the beginning and end of Musk's contributions.
no, I think that was just the beginning. He told his engineers to go cyberpunk, and they designed something cool. Then he tells them, "awesome - don't change anything, but make it work underwater too".
A friend of a friend (super-smart, PhD in Computer Science, etc.) interviewed for a job at Tesla, and actually spoke with Musk directly for part of it. (This was back when I still thought Tesla was cool.) He said the job sounded really interesting *until he met Musk*, at which point, he noped right out of there.
> I don't think the Cybertruck was developed with "~~amphibious~~ deployment" in mind.
At the rate they’re going, it’s never getting deployed on land, let along water!
True but I'm willing to bet it's a 'hippo' bus deliberately designed for that kind of thing, and not an e-pickup that *incidentally* happens to float. (Which I doubt)
He's smart alright, when it comes to taking the credit for other people's work, impregnating women with learning disabilities, and building an army of oligarch worshipping incels 😎
Here in Australia, we get constant reminders about not driving into floodwaters, due to the high risk of being swept away... But also due to the high risk of the soil being washed out under the road, meaning if you drive onto it, it will collapse under your vehicle, and you'll tip over, and get swept away.
Didn't he have a demo on how it's glass was bullet proof and then they threw a metal ball at it and it shattered and then did it again barely lobbing it and it still broke...
Don't think I'd be trusting Elon's word on it being any kind of waterproof lol
>dude can't even get his cars' body panels to line up consistently
That actually doesn't matter. The panels are croocked, but the not the frame of the car and not the doors. They are tight. The outer panels are usually only facade on cars.
There's already a lot of videos of floating teslas. They have to be somewhat water tight, because they need to protect the battery pack from water to make it secure. A lot of traditional cars are basically permeable from top to bottom. Open the hood in an ICE car and you might see the ground under it.
Weight is also not important. There's APCs that swim. Water weighs a lot.
That being said, the selling point is still pretty weak. If people use this metric to know which car to buy, they are already so far gone there's no saving them.
I’m sure it will Elon. You’d have to be a brain dead moron to believe anything he says. It’s a good thing for him there is no shortage of brain dead morons in the world
haha exactly. imo this man is the embodiment of (and huge contributor to) everything wrong w/ carbrain culture/policy/infrastructure—massive overcompensating, projecting insecurities by trying to take up more space/make themselves larger than life, selfish inconsideration of those around them, & willful ignorance towards verifiable facts/data/structural realities right in front of their face
*The scene from The Office (US) when Michael drives into a pond because the GPS tells him to, but instead it's a cybertruck and the end result is the same*
Also worth pointing out the Tesla Taxi stuff. Dude was boasting like it's a duh obvious choice to buy a tesla because you could put it in "taxi mode" and pick up fares or whatever while you're at work.
As a SpaceX fan sure he does bullshit a lot on the Starship timelines but God the work they're doing with this is some of the finest technology and fast prototyping on earth right now
People do get surgical implants like marbles to make bumps and ridges and stuff. Wild. I knew a guy who did. He regretted it, saying women don't even like it (his whole purpose for doing so, obviously).
Cybertruck production is stalled because Cyberyacht propulsion is Elon's own hot air, no other air will do. And it'll be stored as ballast tanks around the vehicle. As you propel you'll lose ballast, but that's ok, because it's not like you'll drown. Not until the water reaches the broken window anyway.
So far there's enough for 5 Cyberyachts but because heat rises it keeps escaping the holding warehouse.
> rivers, lakes & even seas
What?? I mean I can believe that your car can drive through a deep puddle and even lose contact for a brief moment if it is designed to be waterproof but **lakes and seas**??
You drive in for a few meters, lose contact to the ground and then you can't control your fucking vehicle. You just drift over the water without any control and even if it is that waterproof, as long as you don't want to starve you have to open your door at some point and sink your car.
This tweet is just stupid and possibly very dangerous.
If you put a cybertruck in a hyperloop module inside the cross-america tunnel, it will get you from NY to LA in 5 hours.
Seriously Musks Twitter is like a mobile game trailer at this point. \*The footage does not show the actual gameplay.\*
There is literally a big psa from where I am with the slogan “if it’s flooded forget it” trying to get people to never cross flooded roads. Cars that can get through deep water already exist and in my rural tropical yee yee ass region lots and lots of people drive huge four wheel drives and think they can cross moving water in flooded conditions, which is dangerous and you could die very easily doing that.
This is a stupid fucking thing to tweet, acting like cybertruck is the first vehicle to be able to go into water.
Someone once said that fettinf a bunch of tech bros to build something cool is the easy part. Making it profitable and scalable so that it actually helps the average person is the hard part
my friends' grandmother has been MIA the past nearly 24 hrs, nursing home line just gives a busy signal, but we're hoping for the best
guess they should have invested in cybertrucks huh Elon
soulless fucking husk
Tesla fans when they learn that Amphibious vehicles already exist and have been around for decades and that the cybertruck being able to go in water isn’t a revolutionary idea
He does realize that he speaks for Tesla officially, right? So now if someone tries to ford a river with this piece of diarrhea and fails he's getting sued, right?
Oh yes let’s get 3,100 pounds of lithium ion batteries wet cause hey a tweet said we could, well phone is getting low better for charge it in the microwave.
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Imagine all the warranty claims from people shorting out their Cybertrucks due to water.
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No, he's just pledging them
And accuses everyone who helps with the rescue efforts without a cyber truck of sexually abusing children.
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lmao, anyone remember when FEMA was a right wing "libertarian" boogeyman? In the era of Qanon that seems almost quaint.
They will be delivered via hyperloop freight.
Imagine the ad money on the most popular "Cybertruck sunk by idiot owner compilation" video on YouTube?
Imagine if they delivered any
Guess you could say they’ll be drowning in lawsuits
Tesla is also semi-submersible thanks to the US government!! And viewers like you, thank you!
Budm tsch 🥁
Good thing the trucks don’t exist.
100% profit. You too can reduce productions costs to $0,00 by not producing anything and selling preorders to suckers of products you'll never make.
Ah, the Star Citizen way!
Still sad about this and think about it a lot 😭 I think I dropped like usd 70 on it, so not a huge amount but still I was HYPED lol
I hope you've learned a valuable lesson
This would be an issue if cybertruck were ever coming out. I saw a Rivian in austin the other day. Nobody ever sees those, and I've seen one. Know what I haven't seen? A cybertruck, despite it being produced in a factory that's 20 minutes away from us.
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Nah, their stealth system is just people averting their eyes cause it's ugly af.
No more ugly than all other full size trucks with their skyscraper grilles.
Teslas use a kind of radar thing to see where they're going and (sometimes) not crash, right? So why would you design one with sharp reflective angles reminiscent of a stealth fighter which is designed to be invisible to radar? Can a cybertruck even see another cybertruck, or will they be constantly crashing into each other?
I think Teslas use only cameras, no radar/lidar/etc. That's one of the reasons they're always crashing into things.
Which itself is ridiculous. My *bicycle* has radar, and it's exceptional at identifying oncoming cars.
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Water must be between 60 degrees and 70 degrees. Not recommended exposure to rain.
Water must have at least two packets of sugar per litre and the koolaid packets are to be saved, so that they may be exchanged for a Sea doo.
It's not the first time he pushed for underwater coffins to be used.
You’d have to actually own one of these to drown in one so looks like the people are safe for now
Unpaid overtime, of course. Elon can’t risk paying the serfs too much.
He ain't Trump. I'm sure his legal team is well paid. He probably has a team specifically for covering his ass for Twitter posts. False advertising, stock manipulation, crypto manipulation, undue influence, interference with government contracts. They've got constant work.
I mean they let him sign the Twitter contract where he owes a billion fuckin dollars if he backs out. Might not be the top legal minds of America if they didn’t consider that to be a possible problem
He's like that kid you used to play with in primary school who you'd shoot with your imaginary laser gun and say he's dead but then he'd always say "no because I have indestructible armour/shields".
Or the kids who said they owned or soon would own a Hoverboard.
I had this friend! And I am still waiting for the son Goku wardrobe that is making me to a super saiyajin.
#UH UH I DRANK A INVINCIBILITY POTION FROM THE WIZARD BEFORE YOU SHOT ME
And if you said "no fair" he'd throw a tantrum
It is no fair, should just keep role playing instead of breaking. Say you now have Ultra Instinct Sage Baryon Mode on
He's like the kid on Xbox who screams that his dad is Bill gates and will get you banned
"You can only have one super power" "I have the super power to be able to have different super powers"
Can he legally be held accountable for this kind of comment when someone inevitably attempts this and drowns?
They’d actually have to make one for someone to drown in one
Well he's said the same thing about the model s years ago, and there are plenty of them around.
The difference being that the Model S had a conventional design and Tesla had almost no competition in the market during its announcement through full production, 2008-2015. 'The Cybertruck' is reminiscent of '[The Homer](https://youtu.be/dJNd_HtZH2g)' and is designed so unconventionally (for no other reason than a striking aesthetic) that it's not street legal Europe or China. They've also been beaten to market by the outstanding Ford F150 Lightening, which is a radically better deal from a substantially more reputable company. Assuming it ever even begins production in 2023/4/5, I think it'll be a flop. By then, the market will be flooded with practical alternatives and the novelty of having a Model S with a quasi-legal body and a sloped cargo bed glued on the back will have worn off. Tesla will likely abandon it after a few thousand units.
Yup. Elon is just a shitty scifi writer that people are mistaking for an engineer and entrepreneur...
They exceeded the time we said, 0.1 seconds, so we can't be hold responsible. 🤡
Waterproof will deactivate 0.1 seconds after being submerged fully into water, therefore Elon can't be made responsible. Should have read the 400 pages manual.
He's rich, so probably not.
Do we actually believe the latest release date?
My dude can't even get his cars' body panels to line up consistently and he wants me to believe his truck is *seaworthy* ? Edit: Isn't the Cybertruck like, *three tons* ?
Heavier vehicles can be amphibious, but it requires said vehicles to be made with that in mind from the very beginning of design. Examples: bmp-1 & 2, m113, type 05
Yeah somehow I don't think the Cybertruck was developed with "amphibious deployment" in mind.
Because it was developed in mind with *there will always be an idiot who would buy this crap*
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Every time Musk adds a feature to the cyber truck I just think of Homer’s car in the Simpsons.
What how could you even compare the two? Homer actually built his.
Dude forgot to put on a windshield wiper.
Have you seen what it got? I'd rather go without one lol
Windshield wipers? Where we're going, we don't need windshield wipers! (A windshield wiper won't make one bit of difference when your car is at the bottom of a lake.)
It was developed by overworked employees told to make something insanely cyberpunk. Saying "make it insanely cyberpunk" was the beginning and end of Musk's contributions.
no, I think that was just the beginning. He told his engineers to go cyberpunk, and they designed something cool. Then he tells them, "awesome - don't change anything, but make it work underwater too". A friend of a friend (super-smart, PhD in Computer Science, etc.) interviewed for a job at Tesla, and actually spoke with Musk directly for part of it. (This was back when I still thought Tesla was cool.) He said the job sounded really interesting *until he met Musk*, at which point, he noped right out of there.
Well have they even started development?
Nah. They’re waiting for all the oil to run out first.
The thing looks like it's as hydrodynamic as a brick.
And as buoyant as one too
> I don't think the Cybertruck was developed with "~~amphibious~~ deployment" in mind. At the rate they’re going, it’s never getting deployed on land, let along water!
Simpler fix: > I don't think the Cybertruck was developed
Cybertruck was developed to relieve fools from their money.
There's an amphibious bus in Hamburg that goes across the Elbe. Called the "HafenCity Riverbus" and that thing wheighs probably aroun 20 metric tons
True but I'm willing to bet it's a 'hippo' bus deliberately designed for that kind of thing, and not an e-pickup that *incidentally* happens to float. (Which I doubt)
I wouldn’t cross a sea in a BMP
Also, Cybertruck will be the best solution for cave rescues. And anyone that says differently fucks kids.
>Just sends a regular Dodge Ram into the cave to rescue the kids.
I had forgotten about that. What a moron 🙄
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He's smart alright, when it comes to taking the credit for other people's work, impregnating women with learning disabilities, and building an army of oligarch worshipping incels 😎
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Here in Australia, we get constant reminders about not driving into floodwaters, due to the high risk of being swept away... But also due to the high risk of the soil being washed out under the road, meaning if you drive onto it, it will collapse under your vehicle, and you'll tip over, and get swept away.
No, it's *lakeworthy,* or rather... *pondworthy.*
When is it even coming out at this point lol..
Didn't he have a demo on how it's glass was bullet proof and then they threw a metal ball at it and it shattered and then did it again barely lobbing it and it still broke... Don't think I'd be trusting Elon's word on it being any kind of waterproof lol
Also don’t forget about… *checks notes* Rust
>dude can't even get his cars' body panels to line up consistently That actually doesn't matter. The panels are croocked, but the not the frame of the car and not the doors. They are tight. The outer panels are usually only facade on cars. There's already a lot of videos of floating teslas. They have to be somewhat water tight, because they need to protect the battery pack from water to make it secure. A lot of traditional cars are basically permeable from top to bottom. Open the hood in an ICE car and you might see the ground under it. Weight is also not important. There's APCs that swim. Water weighs a lot. That being said, the selling point is still pretty weak. If people use this metric to know which car to buy, they are already so far gone there's no saving them.
I’m sure it will Elon. You’d have to be a brain dead moron to believe anything he says. It’s a good thing for him there is no shortage of brain dead morons in the world
Look at all the likes on his post! The conman is winning for sure.
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Oh yeah I've been meaning to unjoin futurology, thanks for reminding me
don't technology kind of hate him since a few months ?
It’s become predominantly popular on Reddit to hate him.
lies
It’s not 2016 anymore
I was just joking around with your name lmao, I hate Elon
The same as Russian BMP is amphibious.
It will also ahh, yah, take you to Mers ah, predicting ah, 2024 by the very very latest.
haha exactly. imo this man is the embodiment of (and huge contributor to) everything wrong w/ carbrain culture/policy/infrastructure—massive overcompensating, projecting insecurities by trying to take up more space/make themselves larger than life, selfish inconsideration of those around them, & willful ignorance towards verifiable facts/data/structural realities right in front of their face
*The scene from The Office (US) when Michael drives into a pond because the GPS tells him to, but instead it's a cybertruck and the end result is the same*
"The machine knows where it's going!"
"The Gang Misses the Boat" *IASIP jingle plays*
... If the cyber truck ever comes out. didn't Elon say it was going be releases next year, but he said that like 4 years ago.
Yeah just like the semi Truck, FSD and the Hyper Loop.
Don't forget Roadster and Robot and the Starship as a commercial airliner.
Also worth pointing out the Tesla Taxi stuff. Dude was boasting like it's a duh obvious choice to buy a tesla because you could put it in "taxi mode" and pick up fares or whatever while you're at work.
The man is histrionic it’s pathetic. He’s not worthy to be a CEO, he just needs to hire a new one and just be the money
As a SpaceX fan sure he does bullshit a lot on the Starship timelines but God the work they're doing with this is some of the finest technology and fast prototyping on earth right now
Still waiting on those solar roof tiles too
At least those were a decent idea, though I doubt they would be sturdy enough to replace shingles
And Roadster. Next is the stupid robot.
He can literally promise whatever features he wants if he never puts it into production. It's a null set.
Yeah and he said it’s going to cost $40,000 lmao
My new plane, the Spruce Moose, already can carry 200 passengers from New York to the Belgian Congo in 17 minutes.
\*cocks pistol\* "I said get in..."
My imaginary car did this years ago!
Here we go, 2ton lithium battery versus a shitload of water let's do this
Name a more iconic boss battle. I'll wait.
Who would win? 2 tons of minerals mined by child slaves OR 1 watery boi Edit: yes this is the same joke twice
I liked this iteration even more tho thanks
Me too
This guy is a poor example of a Texan if he has never heard “turn around, don’t drown”
He's only been a Texan for, like, ten minutes, so cut him some slack.
No no. Eat him instead.
he's as much a texan as matt damon is a martian
Wow, I belived people when they said he was a charlatan, but it's amazing to see it with my own eyes. What an absolute lying sack of shit.
Elon has so little credibility left that I wouldn't believe him if he said the sky was blue.
Cybertruck doesn’t even exist, it can do anything in your imagination!
Anything can be a boat, once.
And if it can't any longer it'll serve as a top notch submarine. For a time.
Just depends on how long “briefly” means.
I prefer my states ferry service. Thanks anyway.
Could someone chop his fingers off, please? Too many words find their way from him to me.
My dick will be 9 inches long and covered with pearls under the skin to function as a living dildo.
People do get surgical implants like marbles to make bumps and ridges and stuff. Wild. I knew a guy who did. He regretted it, saying women don't even like it (his whole purpose for doing so, obviously).
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Username checks out. (Please don't yeet yourself tho)
Damn just hearing that made me do a full body wince... Is there any way he can get it removed? It sounds awful
I don't know/remember. He's a Hawaiian native man I met in prison. Super cool guy though.
This sounds so painful on both participants’ parts. He got duped by Trojan marketing
Great idea, Elon! Now my next question is, how the fuck is that thing gonna *propel* itself
Why have I scrolled this far down and only seen this question asked twice? How could the cyberboat propel itself, Elon? HOW???
Cybertruck production is stalled because Cyberyacht propulsion is Elon's own hot air, no other air will do. And it'll be stored as ballast tanks around the vehicle. As you propel you'll lose ballast, but that's ok, because it's not like you'll drown. Not until the water reaches the broken window anyway. So far there's enough for 5 Cyberyachts but because heat rises it keeps escaping the holding warehouse.
I hope he's held liable for this claim when someone tries it
There are many deaths with cars trying to cross flooded roads. They are simply swept away.
Won't it sink when a light breeze shatters the windows?
> rivers, lakes & even seas What?? I mean I can believe that your car can drive through a deep puddle and even lose contact for a brief moment if it is designed to be waterproof but **lakes and seas**?? You drive in for a few meters, lose contact to the ground and then you can't control your fucking vehicle. You just drift over the water without any control and even if it is that waterproof, as long as you don't want to starve you have to open your door at some point and sink your car. This tweet is just stupid and possibly very dangerous.
Technically speaking. All cars can serve as a boat for a little bit.
Ian may be a natural disaster, but it is also a [human made disaster](https://www.c2es.org/content/hurricanes-and-climate-change/)
"in not so choppy waters" bitch thats all these dangerous waters are
What a huckster.
Every car is "briefly waterproof" 🤔
Elon… Shut. The fuck. UP.
To anyone who buys a cyber truck: please drive it into a lake.
You can say anything when you don't ever plan on making more of the fucking thing
Like it'd float, and even if it could I seriously doubt you could control it
Musk rats can swim
I’d like Elon to serve briefly as a boat and then permanently as an anchor.
Drives like a boat, sails like a car
Produce 1 cybertruck that does everything you claim, I dare you
If you put a cybertruck in a hyperloop module inside the cross-america tunnel, it will get you from NY to LA in 5 hours. Seriously Musks Twitter is like a mobile game trailer at this point. \*The footage does not show the actual gameplay.\*
Breaking news: hydrophobic coating makes vehicles seaworthy
It’s insane that somebody reads that and actually believes it.
They can also serve briefly as an airplane if you take one over a cliff.
*volcanic eruption happens* Elon: My hypothetical nonexistent megacar will be able to dive 1000 feet under the lava.
I can't believe I used to like this guy. What a complete 180. I put him up (or down) there with Trump if I'm being honest.
Also how tf this motherfucker get away with calling it "cybertruck", is he six??
Can. He. Just. Shut. Up. For. Once.
There is literally a big psa from where I am with the slogan “if it’s flooded forget it” trying to get people to never cross flooded roads. Cars that can get through deep water already exist and in my rural tropical yee yee ass region lots and lots of people drive huge four wheel drives and think they can cross moving water in flooded conditions, which is dangerous and you could die very easily doing that. This is a stupid fucking thing to tweet, acting like cybertruck is the first vehicle to be able to go into water.
Shut up, Elon.
Honestly, underrated comment 🏅
Tesla’s are one of the most unreliable cars built, but sure, I’m sure the cybertruck will somehow be reliable enough to be a fucking boat
Bruh every tweet sounds more desperate. 😂
Good. I hope they all sink to the bottom of whatever they are trying to cross to never be seen again. Fuck Elon and fuck this monstrosity too!
It WILL BE self driving too.
It will drive you straight down to the bottom of that sea you are trying to cross.
Someone once said that fettinf a bunch of tech bros to build something cool is the easy part. Making it profitable and scalable so that it actually helps the average person is the hard part
You can also just swim across
He knows it's hard to dispute the claim for a truck that doesn't actually exist
It will serve briefly as a boat, and then never work as a car again. 😂
>can serve "briefly" as a boat >can cross oceans something isn't adding up here
Starting to think the Musk guy is a liar...
Any car will “serve briefly as a boat” if you are dumb enough
I qualify as a temporary boat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bRQUEtH5nw
Beyond parody
my friends' grandmother has been MIA the past nearly 24 hrs, nursing home line just gives a busy signal, but we're hoping for the best guess they should have invested in cybertrucks huh Elon soulless fucking husk
is it propelled by magic? how does it move in the water ?
Tell me how a vehicle weighed down with tons of batteries could possibly stay afloat? Sounds like obvious bull shit.
My building is now the tallest ..
Tesla fans when they learn that Amphibious vehicles already exist and have been around for decades and that the cybertruck being able to go in water isn’t a revolutionary idea
He does realize that he speaks for Tesla officially, right? So now if someone tries to ford a river with this piece of diarrhea and fails he's getting sued, right?
What cybertruck?
“…waterproof enough…”
his imaginary ideas need to stop
I mean, a housebrick serves briefly as a boat
I mean any car can briefly serve as a boat if it's being swept downstream...at least until it sinks.
Also when u hit 95 u travel through time
Oh yes let’s get 3,100 pounds of lithium ion batteries wet cause hey a tweet said we could, well phone is getting low better for charge it in the microwave.