• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

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

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Chances of you experiencing the apocalypse - Zero

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

        • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          When they say “apocalypse-proof”, what they actually mean is that the pedestrians outside are protected from the localised internal apocalypse occurring within the vehicle.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        2 months

        Let’s face face it. The most likely apocalypse is an economic crash brought on by the kind of crop of idiots. Not sure how a car is going to help with that.

    • arcine@jlai.luEnglish
      2 months

      He meant apocalypse proof from the INSIDE, duh ! If all hell breaks loose inside, it won’t get out, and neither will you !

      • darkdemize@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 months

        I’m not in any way trying to downplay how bad the cyber-dumpster is, but is that an adequate sample size to extrapolate the fiery-death rate? The article says 17 times the rate of the Pinto, but it was only 5 total fires.

            • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
              2 months

              The biggest issue with the Pinto was not the Pinto itself, it was how Ford discussed the potential issues with it internally. It was their very well documented preference for money over protecting human life that caused the controversy.

              We know this really happens all the time, at all companies and in all industries, but Ford was punished for saying the quiet part out loud (amongst themselves) and getting caught doing it. We are all supposed to at least put on a show of human lives being more important than money, and Ford failed to put on the show, and for that they were punished.

              We still don’t care about human life, but at least we all felt better about it afterwards.

              • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                2 months

                There’s an episode of Swindled all about how Ford knew this was a flaw and allowed it to happen so that they could compete in the lower end market.

            • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
              2 months

              huh, TIL. Thanks!

              So it’s just 17 times more likely to burn you to death than average cars.

                • 9bananas@feddit.orgEnglish
                  2 months

                  that implies the rate at which CTs kill occupants is even higher than that when compared to modern cars, right?

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
      2 months

      But maybe they have the lowest crash rate?
      So like, crashes cost money right? Someone is responsible. Someone has to pay.
      But if everyone dies in an inferno, then nobody is responsible. Who can pay? They’re all dead! What medical bills? What repairs? It’s all a write off.
      Sounds like a high mortality rate with low accident rate is an absolute profitable win! Free market baby!

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        According to the article they have higher crash rates and fatalities because the drivers are worse. The cars themselves actually rate fairly high in safety standards.

        That being said, I think the safety evaluations are flawed and don’t consider things like electronic locks.

  • sploder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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.

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 months

    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.worksEnglish
      2 months

      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

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          2 months

          I thought they did have internal door handles but they’re hidden away. The problem is often they’re difficult to get to even when the car is completely intact.

          • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 months

            When it comes to driving a self-propelled crematorium, I’d primarily be concerned about the internal door handles.

          • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
            2 months

            That was always Musk bullshit. Flush mechanical handles were a thing in the 70s.

        • BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.caEnglish
          2 months

          Everything about a Tesla interior is cost-savings masquerading as innovation. Actually most of these touch screen focused modern cars. It’s cheaper to produce than tactile buttons.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        2 months

        That’s just nonsense justification they came up with after the fact. Ferraris have door handles, so clearly they’re not much of an issue.

        Anyway the car isn’t going to exceed 80 miles an hour anyways so aerodynamics barely comes into it.

      • datendefekt@feddit.orgEnglish
        2 months

        The improvement removing the handles is there, but negligible. Especially considering the safety implications. Didn’t China ban flush door handles for safety reasons?

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
          2 months

          Didn’t China ban flush door handles for safety reasons?

          Yeah, but that literally just happened last month and doesn’t take effect until January 2027. It’s not like they did that years ago because they saw it coming.

      • nickiwest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        Aerodynamics was obviously not a concern in the process of designing a vehicle that has (checks notes) literal corners.

    • Seefra 1@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      It looks like a DeLorean model that refused to render properly

      Lmao

    • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2 months

      Fires that entrap passengers are a well-documented and recurring problem with every model in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles

      How is this a perfectly valid statement about the worlds richest man’s car company without us beating him to death with hammers/ seeing how many of those baseball sized steel balls he can handle?

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      “Unique” here refers to the fact that every other car is built pretty much the same way in as much first responders are concerned, and that makes them predictable and fairly easy to get out of while cybertrucks are strong enough and door-handleless enough to be incredibly dangerous(while also not being strong enough to do most of what they promise).

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      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

  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

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

    • Meeech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Not all of them act the same way. We have the hidden handles on our 26 Equinox EV but it still pivots open if you press on the opposite side of pulling to act as a normal handle.

      • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        “Burned into a charcoal because noone around knew how to sodomize door handle into cooperation.” Would fit well on the tombstone

      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
        2 months

        That’s a similar method to the Tesla Model 3 and Y.

        The S and X had motorized handles that retracted.

        The Cybertruck has no physical handles on the outside. It has a button on the B pillar that activates an electric release to pop the door open.

        All of those methods are flush, but only one isn’t visible to rescuers and can completely fail with a lack of power or motor failure with no physical external backup option.

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
      2 months

      I daily a Fiero and don’t think even at its worst point people burned inside trapped without handles.

        • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
          2 months

          Oh same, but they are not well built and the iron duke is shit. I have to have 3 of them to keep one on the road working. at least they are good on gas. One day I might do an EV conversion.

            • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
              2 months

              Likely but depends on the era. I wanted to do a TDI swap but it’s like building a fiero onto a jetta more then an engine swap.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2 months

      its also a 100k coffin with a built in charcuterie machine, that can slice VENISON in half.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2 months

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

  • thlibos@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    2 months

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

  • GuyIncognito@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 months

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