Imagine being such a wimpy snowflake that kids laughing at your car had you run to tell the internet about how your feelings are hurt.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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Nazis' were never cool, they were allowed to continue because not enough stood their ground against those cowards.
Who tells a story like this to the press? Sounds made up.
Outrage and narcissism sells.
It's absolutely believable.
He bought it because he thought it was badass.
It's not.
"Hello? Media? I just committed the evidently heinous act of eating baked beans in the movie theater and you'll never guess what happened next!"
Wait the truck hobbles itself if a non-critical part isn't working?
Have you ever seen the hood on a vehicle fly up and off while driving full speed? I've seen it happen in person right in front of me from a passing car.
The wind speed and pressure from driving full speed is very extreme (think like driving 70 miles per hour on the highway, that's literally hurricane force winds).
If the latch fails, the hood will basically instantly fly off and even up into the air around 50 feet or so, which is extremely dangerous to the driver and any random vehicles or pedestrians around.
If the error detected could in any way cause the latch to malfunction, that's exactly what can and will happen. Now obviously it's a Cyberdump and the issue is probably just a faulty sensor or something, but it's still an issue of safety.
I thought it was required for hoods to have a secondary manual latch in case of failure in the first (the main latch that you pop up). For the very reason you state - cars early on didn't have such a safety backup and were dangerous. Not all codes should result in crippling a car. Unless... there isn't a backup latch because of some loophole and Elon thought it would be smart to rely on electronics to always work. But these vehicles also have a bad history with trapping people inside in an emergency, so...
Every vehicle I've ever worked on had purely mechanical latches both for the primary and the secondary backup latches. But.. I admit that I haven't worked on any vehicles any newer than from around 2010, so yeah there's probably some vehicles out there that use a partly electronic partly mechanical latch these days.
Still, yeah that secondary latch is pretty darn important. But given Elmo's infinite wisdom, I'm sure he went with a purely electronic option instead, I mean you don't want people sticking their fingers under the hood to unlatch the backup latch, only to get their fingers chopped off from the sharp edges..
It truly is amazing just how unsafe the Cyberdump piece of shit really is...
I didn't think of the finger severer. Yes, it's probably a safety feature to counter the bad design.
Now imagine you somehow got your fingers stuck in there, but luckily they weren't chopped off, only injured. But oh shit, now the frunk (can I slap whoever coined that stupid word) is stuck shut and won't open.
What do? Call 911 and Tesla, or just call 911 and have someone grab a crowbar or two? Would emergency services bust out the jaws of life?...
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Or a child, whose finger it would probably sever.
if the truck can sever a deer in half, it would have no problem doing it to something less robust.
Ok, granted, it's a badass deer huntin' truck.
🤘
Frunk is probably European origin, since it was being used for rear/mid engine vehicles long before EVs.
That shouldn't happen on the pet project of the Smartest Man Who Ever Lived.
He designed, and engineered it from the ground up, remember? The only vehicle Tesla every produced that was all his.
Obviously, it was the peasants who assembled it who are at fault.
I'm sure there's a very good reason for this that Elon will explain if you tweet him.
I like the situation, but the text reads as AI garbage.
Right who says baseball match, no one from the US. So either AI, foreign writer, or maybe an AI writer. In the 2 minutes I spent looking the author is from Ethiopia and “writes” one or more articles a day about Tesla. Not suspicious in any way.
Maybe he shouldn’t have bought a fucking cybertruck 🤷♂️
From a Cybercunt.
If you dont fuck with the frunk then the frunk cant fuck with you
That's basically how all trends work.
All of the children were cheering for me, chanting my name, showering my beloved vehicle with praise! But then, disaster struck and they turned on me like Judas!
Maybe the fact that the Cybertruck looks like a preadolescence's (or Musk's) idea and like something they would draw explains their initial admiration. When 10-year-old boys start buying vehicles Tesla won't be able to build them fast enough.
musk probably imagined the cybertruck in 2017, in a drug induced hallucination or daydream.
The kids are alright.
Who?
None of those 28 kids thought it was cool. They were staring at a train wreck and excited when it turned out exactly like they imagined.
Look, I think the Cybertruck is ugly, but being totally honest the kids are laughing most probably because it is getting towed, not because it was a Cybertruck getting towed. It could have been any car and they would have laughed at their teammates dad's car getting towed.
Also, this looks like it is AI generated. But I don't see any definitive proof yet. Their only link to a source is to a privated Facebook group that only Cybertruck owners who have joined the group can view. Obviously I will never have access to this, I just have to trust that the source even exists.