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Mike Masnick@mmasnick.bsky.social |
Lol. The "Cybertruck will act as a boat" but, if you drive your brand new Cybertruck with 26 miles on it in a tiny bit of water, not even reaching the cabin, your insurance company may total the car as not worth the cost of repairing your $100k dumpster on wheels.
electrek.co/2024/06/24/t...
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StevenMatheson.bsky.social
@stevenmatheson.bsky.social
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Can't just about everything technically serve as a boat for a very short period of time?
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MattWillGolf
@mattwillgo.bsky.social
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If by BOAT you mean Break Out Another Thousand then it applies to the Cybertruck indeed.
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@onealmp.bsky.social
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To be fair to the insurance company, that level of immersion covered a majority of the battery pack. And the cost of replacing a Cybertruck battery pack is almost certainly more than the cost of a new “truck”. The only truly dumb thing about this was the “waterproof enough to act as a boat.”
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Patrick
@pmspeir.bsky.social
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#©️ryBucketsAlert
#Teslar©️ryBucket
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Jim Teeth
@drjamesjteeth.bsky.social
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I’m very surprised that insurance companies will insure one of these for damage.
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Ray
@rwl.bsky.social
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Now you've got me trying to imagine what an angular snorkel would look like on one and it's making me mad.
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Jymbob
@jymbob.bsky.social
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Compare and contrast with OG Nissan Leaf 13 years ago
youtu.be/Y9plRzRZ_PY?...
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mjfgates
@mjfgates.bsky.social
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There's a whole pile of "Cybertruck will act as YOUR MOM" jokes here, probably only half of them unprintable.
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Thomas Fuchs 🔭🕹️
@thomasfuchs.at
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Joe Hurdle
@joecodemonkey.bsky.social
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In the 90s, a buddy had a 85 4wd Honda Civic. We were off road and came to a river. Water over the hood, hitting the windshield, floating and bouncing off rocks as we went. I thought I was going to die, but we made it. Twice. TIL I'd rather have an 85 Civic than a Cybertruck...
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Andrew S.
@shoutingboy.bsky.social
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At the time I wrote this, which was, in retrospect, far too generous. Pretty clearly Elon said “it will serve as a boat” based on nothing more than “that would be cool and my truck will be super cool”.
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Josh Dobbin
@joshdobbin.bsky.social
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"acts as a boat" means "no longer acts like a car, ever again."
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TitaniumMan
@titaniumman.bsky.social
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I'm guessing that flood line is above the battery position.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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briefly as a boat and thereafter as scrap metal
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Concoloris
@concoloris.bsky.social
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quite the offroading machine, to be able to ford what appears to be nearly six inches of water
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Confirmed Professional Agitator
@mumbly-joe.bsky.social
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I recognize that America has some very permissive laws re: deceptive marketing, but I'm kind of surprised that "you void your warranty on this six-figure purchase it you use it in the exact way the CEO of the company said that it could be used" isn't prompting litigation
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Excalibur Discount Legal Services
@kevychristian.bsky.social
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Truly a visionary product created by a self-proclaimed visionary.
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Justin Carinci
@justincarinci.bsky.social
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But how close was the shark? That had to be a tough call.
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Sue
@taxon-rascal.bsky.social
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It acts as a boat, but the boat is the Cabo Santa Maria
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Gwen McNamara
@timeandagwen.bsky.social
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Acts as a boat (and a truck) about as well as OceanGate’s Titan acts as a submarine.
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Jared Gonia
@jaredgonia.bsky.social
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Aren't the batteries down there in most electrics? Plus their management systems and such. If it isn't sealed I could see that being a problem!
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chadzia dax 🖖🏻 😷 🔞
@m00psy.bsky.social
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…dipshits. 🤦🏼
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🇵🇸Dr. Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə)
@timhenke.bsky.social
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I don't suppose this could translate into a false advertising suit, right?
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Sean Eric Fagan
@kithrup.bsky.social
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Given the other guy who was told it'd take a year to repair his, I'm not surprised.
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Privacy Goblin
@privacygoblin.bsky.social
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Registered as a car? Not worth making it into a functional car as it never was one to begin with. Registered as a boat? Not worth making it into a functional boat for the same reason. But did no one think about selling them to OceanGate as one-way submersibles for the rich?
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Amy Hoy
@amyhoy.bsky.social
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26 miles in a leaky old boat any old thing that’ll stay afloat when we arrive, we’ll all promote romance, romance, romance
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Bill Stewart
@billstewart.bsky.social
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In coastal areas of the East Coast, which occasionally get salt water flooding, gasoline cars routinely get totalled for that. (And at least in NJ, sometimes end up on used car lots anyway.) Friend got back from a trip just in time to get one car out of the driveway before the house/car got flooded.
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Rye! 💚🏳️🌈
@ryedog.bsky.social
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Sir, A second cybertruck has been totalled
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@johhn.bsky.social
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Anything can briefly serve as a boat, depending on how 'briefly' is defined.
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Bennett Gilbert
@bennettgilbert.bsky.social
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How can it act as a boat when there is literally no housing around electrical components?
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Ted
@tedinpa.bsky.social
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One of the wettest cybertrucks we've seen, from a standpoint of water
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Steve Middlebrook
@stmdc.bsky.social
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With a special upgrade package (which Tesla will never sell), your Cybertruck can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never let you forget you’re a man. And also never pay child support.
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TaoOfTweet (and I'm sticking to it)
@starfisher.bsky.social
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Superior tech
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Denys Beecher
@dbeecher.bsky.social
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I'm pretty sure the claims about acting as a boat were supposed to be only for a specific upgrade package. A package they have not yet actually offered (and presumably never will).
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Common people
@uncommonpeople.bsky.social
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Tbf, this sounds like a perfect solution to the "parking space too small" problem.
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Willow By The River
@geometer.bsky.social
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If I had to drive that for 26 miles, I might want to total it, too 🤣
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She blinded me with science!
@capaltunnel.bsky.social
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To be fair, he never said it would act like a well engineered or buoyant boat.
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Puck 🧚✨
@ahjeez.bsky.social
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I crossed fords in my shitty 87 Mazda 323 and she didn’t even sneeze. I would expect my house costing car to be more rugged than an 87 Mazda with 200k km on the clock but idk.
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@mjk4mj.bsky.social
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Plus it's deadly to pedestrians. Insurers don't want to have to pay for the damage it will do when it strikes humans.
"Tesla’s Cybertruck Could Be a Serious Danger to Pedestrians and Cyclists, Experts Say" sg.news.yahoo.com/style/tesla-...
No stalks to signal a turn/lane change.
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@mjk4mj.bsky.social
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More like a submerged coffin.
March 2024: "Angela Chao trapped in Tesla for an hour", www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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BlueShiftNZ
@blueshiftnz.bsky.social
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It will act as a boat, in the same way a sheet of newspaper will act as an umbrella. Briefly, and unable to perform its original purpose afterwards.
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Not A TikTok
@notatiktok.bsky.social
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Live footage of the cybertruck acting as a boat in action.
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Myles to Go Before I Sleep Lobdell
@myleslobdell.bsky.social
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I mean, I'd total that car while it was still on the lot. So, in a way, those insurance companies are being extremely lenient.
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Only Human
@scarlettohara.bsky.social
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You cannot even take this piece of trash to the car wash. What a joke.
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@pershing48.bsky.social
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Warranty writing people like "Do we have to include this? It feels obvious. Do we have to include that driving into a volcano voids the warranty?"
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Dan Saltzstein
@dansaltzstein.bsky.social
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“Flood line” is the <chef’s kiss>
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Not Yet Post Democracy Joshua Vaughan
@outerleftfield.bsky.social
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Getcha 12 of these beauties instead.
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Beth
@bethcodes.bsky.social
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Meanwhile Rivian…
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@weedramatic.bsky.social
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I have questions for any insurance company providing comprehensive coverage
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DTL
@dtl.bsky.social
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Also an ugly boat
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