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YouTubers took Tesla’s Cybertruck to the Moab desert in Utah to push it to its limits.
One specific stunt has caught the eye of the web. A video exhibiting the graffitied pickup wading via a puddle, solely to grind to a halt whereas emitting a horrible gurgling sound and blinking its lights unusually, went viral on social media.
Netizens had been fast to leap to conclusions, suggesting the automobile’s electronics weren’t sealed and submitting it as only the latest instance of the rugged automobile, designed to survive the apocalypse, succumbing to the mildest of hazards.
What really occurred, nonetheless, suggests one thing far much less damning.
Clear Technica‘s Kyle Discipline, who was filming content material created whereas a Tesla fanatic who goes by DblCapCrimpin was behind the wheel, stated in a followup tweet that the noise was the results of the “entrance a part of the wheel nicely liner” coming free and “rubbing on the wheel.”
“I pulled it again and discipline repaired it such as you do…” Discipline wrote.
In different phrases, whereas we do have plenty of reasons to consider that Tesla CEO Elon Musk could have oversold the Cybertruck’s capabilities, this specific occasion might be chalked as much as a physique panel coming free — and never a catastrophic failure following a dip in a puddle.
Strobe Mode
Even the headlights slicing out and in intermittently possible had a easy rationalization.
“Lights and wiper got here on when Cybertruck (belatedly) detected water on the windshield,” one X consumer suggested.
Redditors had been quick to point out that Musk promised in 2022 that the “Cybertruck will likely be waterproof sufficient to serve briefly as a ship, so it could cross rivers, lakes and even seas that aren’t too uneven.”
Then final yr, Musk promised a probable fantastical add-on for a “mod package deal” that might enable the Cybertruck to “traverse a minimum of 100m [330 feet] of water as a ship.”
“Principally simply must improve cabin door seals,” he claimed on the time.
Tesla additionally launched a “wade mode” in December to optimize the Cybertruck for driving via water, which appears to work nicely sufficient, as a video released last month demonstrates.
That is regardless of a discover that seems on the automobile’s display screen, which warns drivers of “property harm, severe harm, or dying” when turning on “wade mode.”
Briefly, it could not take you throughout the Atlantic — or be a lot competitors to different rather more reasonably priced off-road automobiles — however the Cybertruck can actually survive a fast dip in a muddy puddle.
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