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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 193 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Sounds like a great way to fake your death. The only problem is that everyone will think you died driving a Tesla.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good point. Back to the drawing board.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No one's going to believe a drawing board disappeared a body.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ehhh, you'd be surprised what the modern drawing board can do.

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It... also costs ~~100k~~

Edit: sorry, sorry, 70k — much better

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean if you're faking your death I don't think you're planning on paying off the loan

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He says the trucks are “apocalypse-proof” and claims they can withstand bullets and have “armor glass” windows.

They also withstand emergency responders and the occupant's attempts to escape.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Chances of you experiencing the apocalypse - Zero

Chances you will get trapped in an Cybercuck and be unable to get out - Not zero

[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Elon is building both the "apocalypse-proof" (they are not) truck and the apocalypse (he really is)

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And the apocalypse will have working charging stations.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] rimu@piefed.social 77 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Cybertrucks are 17 times more likely to kill you in a fiery way than the Ford Pinto, the previous record holder.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto/

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[–] sploder@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I can’t fathom having my husband burn to death so badly that he’s just .. evaporated. But then again I can’t imagine my husband ever wanting a cybercuck so there’s also that.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I can't imagine my husband.

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[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Fires that entrap passengers are a well-documented and recurring problem with every model in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles, but Cybertrucks appear to have a disproportionate number of known deaths. Safety experts have told the Guardian that the truck’s unique design amplifies the deadly issue. The vehicles come with high-density laminated windows that are harder to break than regular car windows, making escape and rescue difficult when doors won’t unlock. And the trucks are built with materials not commonly used in the industry, like stainless steel, which can complicate the work of emergency responders. The Cybertruck is also the first Tesla model to entirely eliminate door handles on the outside of the vehicle.

First, "unique" design? It's an ugly callback to the wedge-shaped cars of the 80s. It looks like a DeLorean model that refused to render properly, and the dev just went with it.

Second, the decision to exclude door handles is fucking mental. It's a mundane feature that cars have had since the Model T. If they wanted to make a pickup, its handles should resemble those found on a typical pickup. If it's "aesthetics" they're after (which shouldn't matter when it comes to a pickup), some of the best looking cars have had no problem including door handles into its design.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The reason to eliminate door handles that Tesla and others typically give is aerodynamic efficiency. Granted there are other bigger aerodynamic problems. gestures at the rest of the fucking truck

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

aerodynamic efficiency

For internal door handles?

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[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

It looks like a DeLorean model that refused to render properly

Lmao

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[–] breezeblock@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Free cremation — it’s a service!

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

You have 30 seconds to escape your car
You have 10 seconds
Your car has been incinerated
Your car has burned your bones to ash
You have 30 minutes to collect your ash

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The Ford Pinto wishes it was this deadly...

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[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's what futuristic hidden door handles get you. Nice and crispy.

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cremation is a new feature. It'll be an extra $2500 and comes with a decision engine on whether you should live or die (door unlocking). Tesla knows, trust Elon.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 25 points 1 week ago

cybertruck is a built in crematorium and Coffin at the same time,elon makes nazi impressed.

[–] lmmarsano@group.lt 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

self-cleaning/pyrolytic oven on wheels

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[–] thlibos@thelemmy.club 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When we finally start eating the rich, we will have readily available fires to cook them over.

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasnt there a maga dude that blew up his cybertruck in front of a hotel?

So much has happened last few years.....

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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cant wait til they start taking volunteers for the Mars rocket

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[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The cybertruck actually burns so hot it destroys your soul. No afterlife for you!

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FFS, design standards exist for a reason. Quit trying to reinvent the wheel, or car doors as it is here.

[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How in the fuck did a truck without a manual override for exiting the vehicle ever make it to market? Everything is broken.

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Well, see, that's what you get for being a poor.

Solution is simple, you must buy the optional $700 Cyberhammer to bash out the glass (not a joke, there really is a cyber hammer for $700).

Elon's got it all figured out, 8D chess losers

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[–] pau_hana@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago (7 children)

These horrific deaths and injuries are tragic. I see too many schadenfreude comments here approving of people dying just because they chose to drive a vehicle most people don't like. If there is blame, it is not on the victims, but on Tesla and the regulators we trust to ensure minimum and obvious safety features.

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Perhaps if we were just talking Teslas in general, but the cybertruck? I can't imagine any non-assholes buying and driving those. That thing is a statement, a fascist "own-the-libs" statement in particular.

[–] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Anybody that bought a cyber truck did so knowing full well Elon is a Nazi. They made their bed and now they can lie in it. No compassion at all for these selfish fucks.

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[–] org@lemmy.org 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] ChadGPT2@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Reminder to keep one of those window breaker hammers in your car.

Also don’t buy cars from megalomaniacal nazis.

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[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ve taken a couple uber rides in a Tesla and I wish they’d give you the option to select NOT THAT. I just stared at the stupid door button the whole time

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[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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