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smokebuddy ,

there is a hotwheels r/c version of the cybertruck I wanted to buy for memes, but so many reviews said it would burn out the first day you play with it… I should have bought one for the content (the price got jacked up)

www.amazon.ca/…/ref=acr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterB…

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

So it’s authentic you’re saying?

flerp ,

My nephew has one, it actually works pretty well and we’ve played with it a ton.

SouthFresh ,
@SouthFresh@lemmy.ml avatar

From the damage present in the picture, it almost looks like they tried to drive it.

Hubi ,
@Hubi@feddit.org avatar

Can’t be, driving it voids the warranty

Thebeardedsinglemalt ,

Buying probably voids the warranty

some_designer_dude ,

It proves they’re mentally unfit to operate a vehicle.

abracaDavid ,

I’ve finally started seeing some in my city over the last week or so. They are just so goddamn big and awkward looking. They really look like someone put dumpster on wheels. I honestly find them pretty jarring to see out on the road.

peopleproblems ,

My son LOVES Cybertrucks.

He’s 7 though, so I imagine not the market Musk was targeting

DBT ,

Musk drew up the original sketch for the cyber truck on his notebook in class when he was 7.

circuitfarmer ,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

In its natural environment.

Snowpix ,
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

Should be towed outside the environment where nobody can see it.

taiyang ,

Reminds me, it’s my first day back teaching classes and the usual cyber truck I see on the commute is gone. Students and I used to make fun of it before class, I wonder what happened to it…

TheLowestStone ,
@TheLowestStone@lemmy.world avatar

It probably got wet.

UnbalancedFox ,

😂😂😂

carl_dungeon ,

That’s about what they look like from the factory!

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N ,
@CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works avatar

I like to say they look like if a regular vehicle had a full diaper.

Rentlar ,

Yikes. Appears that this one might have caught fire?

partial_accumen ,

I looks like there was fire, but it doesn’t look like it came from where the battery is. The battery runs from front to back on the bottom of the vehicle. This looks like the fire was only at the front. So perhaps whatever was impacted caught on fire but the battery never ignited perhaps?

expatriado ,

the battery can provide the energy to start a fire somewhere else in the vehicle via short circuit connection

nomous ,

Reaching a bit there, what’s located at the right/passenger side that would burn?

Noodle07 ,

A Samsung tablet

partial_accumen ,

Tesla’s have a pyrofuse that blows on impact detection which disconnects the battery:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a40448a5-4ac4-46dd-8d45-bf5c98c26084.png

Trilobite ,

It works so well youtu.be/Dfx4JZiSeHI?si=AEEnZZWMChtV6vWo

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

The High Voltage battery has a pyrofuse that blows to isolate the battery in case of a crash.

Theoretically I guess the 12V system could short circuit, just like any other vehicle. Except there can’t be any gasoline spilled for a short to ignite.

partial_accumen ,

Theoretically I guess the 12V system could short circuit, just like any other vehicle. Except there can’t be any gasoline spilled for a short to ignite.

And modern Tesla vehicles, like the Cybertruck don’t use a standard car lead acid car battery (which would have 48Ah or so). Instead they use a 16v small lithium battery (which has only 6.9Ah). Further, this battery system has short protection built into it with an auto resetting breaker.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c3eb3a3d-1fee-43bd-b81c-b4d62d2104fc.png

So this battery, with its significantly less energy stored, has less chance of fire from a short than a standard car battery.

EldritchFeminity ,

It’s impossible to tell from a single photo, but it looks like the fire was possibly localized to the wheel-well. I can’t think of anything that might ignite in there, though.

aniki ,

Brakes yo. They get HOT

PraiseTheSoup ,

Just saw one of these for the first time this past weekend on a road trip to Chicago. It was so much bigger and somehow even more shitty-looking than I expected.

CaptPretentious ,

I’ve seen two in person (possible, same one just twice). It was bigger and dumber looking than I thought it would be. The style contrasts with literally everything around it. In every possible way, it looks unfinished in a way no video or photo ever conveyed.

Zahille7 ,

I kinda like the look of the headlight strip or whatever. That’s about it though.

some_guy ,

What a pile of garbage.

ohellidk ,

It was once a flaming pile of garbage!

expatriado ,

a dumpster fire

someguy3 ,

Before that a rolling pile of garbage.

MeekerThanBeaker ,

And unlike the Millennium Falcon, the garbage will not do.

shutz ,

She’s worth .5 of the original price. At most.

Brunbrun6766 ,
@Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

I hate this truck as much as the next guy but, isn’t this what any and every car looks like after a fire?

Empricorn ,

It’s… 1 year old. You don’t often find so many reports, news stories, and images of a brand-new $80,000+ vehicle deteriorated or self-immolated a single year later.

ch00f ,

EVs tend to look like https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e672558e-6f1e-45cd-9330-d07f81d03cd3.jpeg this after a battery fire, and the Cybertruck is easily the most hated vehicle ever made. I wouldn’t assume that this one caught itself on fire.

Empricorn ,

I’m sorry, are you suggesting that people are spending 6 figures purchasing, then destroying these vehicles… as a meme??

hemko ,

No but could be a fire unrelated to the trucks electronics, or one that was well contained either by design or more likely a lucky accident

But yes I’ve also seen videos of people shooting at cybertrucks so who tf knows maybe???

ch00f ,

In case you’re not being sarcastic, Whistlindiesel…

But they’ve also been the target of some vandalism.

ech ,

Continue to stay away from youtube. It’s a dark place.

Empricorn ,

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

ech ,

I figure if you’re not aware of the stupid “pranks” influencers are pulling on youtube, you just don’t visit, and that’s probably in your best interest.

SLVRDRGN ,

Is there a reason the car looks like it’s giving up its physical body and becoming a spectral?

ch00f ,

Water. Best way to put out an EV fire is to keep dousing it with water until it cools down enough to not be on fire.

deranger ,

I try not to go to Reddit so much, but the CyberStuck sub is pretty good and not replicated elsewhere. There are so many problems with these vehicles it’s astonishing. They aren’t nearly as capable as they were touted to be, either.

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

You also don’t have a ton of idiots doing stupid things to make their vehicle have issues intentionally usually either.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of YouTube videos of people purposely putting the vehicle in extreme situations and situations it wasn’t intended for. Not to mention the ones just doing it because “Fuck Elon”, after paying $100k for the vehicle, because they’ll get the money back from YouTube ads on videos milking it as much as possible.

I’m not saying all the videos are that, many are legitimate reviews and tests. But a lot are also purposely trying to damage it.

elgordino ,

Was it left outside in the rain?

Zier ,
@Zier@fedia.io avatar

I think they tried to drive it through a car wash and it started on fire.

BruceTwarzen ,

There is the problem, you’re not supposed to drive them

Thebeardedsinglemalt ,

Nah, it was just a late summer day with middling humidity

CeruleanRuin ,

And that one just rolled off the production line a month ago.

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