I find this incredibly wasteful
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Thanks for posting the video. I found it entertaining. He probably just made 5 cents off my view.
(what does that say about me?
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I did find the whole frame ripping off the rear to be abit odd.. but he did use a chain which puts a very high concentrated initial shock load on it.
If he used a stretch strap I doubt it would have been an issue.
Still the alum frame when towing 11k trailer could be put under considerable shock loading if hitting a pothole etc.
I dont view this type of content often.. but I vaguely remember a Carolina Squat video
(what does that say about me?
)I did find the whole frame ripping off the rear to be abit odd.. but he did use a chain which puts a very high concentrated initial shock load on it.
If he used a stretch strap I doubt it would have been an issue.
Still the alum frame when towing 11k trailer could be put under considerable shock loading if hitting a pothole etc.
I dont view this type of content often.. but I vaguely remember a Carolina Squat video
If that question was directed at me, I’d say all those words describe me to some extent. But I have my demons. I can be impatient and demanding, just to name a few. And I’ve got a major potty mouth.
Scott
Yep - that’s the Boy Scout Law. “A Scout is…” followed by those words.If that question was directed at me, I’d say all those words describe me to some extent. But I have my demons. I can be impatient and demanding, just to name a few. And I’ve got a major potty mouth.
Scott
Reckon you’re pretty close…
Haha. My lack of knowing that proves I wasn’t a Boy Scout! Thank you for your kind words @Astro14 .
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Didn't watch but OEM's are supposed to be doing testing to destruction--or ideally so. What's the weak point, and is it designed to be strong enough.
Now you'd think that an OEM is in better shape to do scientific testing, and so when some layperson does a test like this, it gets a bit tough to just accept the layperson's results--did they control ever variable? test objectively? but an OEM can have the same questions leveraged at them. "It's a feature not a bug."
Toyota seems to have gotten bit by this recently, the ADD thing that broke, as found by TFL simply using the truck as it was meant to be used. Not even destructive testing. Now that looks really bad! makes one wonder if Toyota bothered to test it at all... or if they tested it with some biased testing.
I met him while spending a bit of time with some others who are well-known on youtube. He has his niche, and he has made millions appealing to the audience he has cultivated. He is very shrewd, and not at all the simpleton some think. He has also contributed greatly to the economy. Love or hate him, he isn't hurting anyone.
He finds people to trigger and then triggers them. In between wrecking all the machinery he got some $2000 home-boy shoes and "tested" them as well. And him taking a truck out on the ocean on flotation tires was "Mythbusters" level creative.
I think those shoes were like $20k! Can’t say I’m shocked a bunch of 50+ guys don’t love his videos.
As an early 40s guy, I find them pretty entertaining and I think he’s a pretty stand up guy as well. The jet engine merry-go-round was a good one.
The fact that you could even dream that idea up upsets me.
Feel free to drop a cyber truck in Lake Tahoe. Lithium burns under water.
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dnewton3
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Yeah - that's stupid wasteful. This is just senseless.
Then again, I also think most 5k mile synthetic OCIs are wasteful, and that doesn't stop most folks from the act of "cheap insurance" ....
So, to each their own.
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Then again, I also think most 5k mile synthetic OCIs are wasteful, and that doesn't stop most folks from the act of "cheap insurance" ....
So, to each their own.
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Hey Musk is the scammer that said it would have way better specs then oops they downgraded the towing capacity, miles on a charge, it can forward in water etc. He claimed "It's the only truck that'll survive the apocalypse". The things are being totalled for minor damage that would be considered repairable on most other vehicles.
It's all about ROI. Destroy 100k to make $XXXXXXXX. No different then when the movie studios destroyed many cars in chase scenes back in the day before CGI reduced that.
That was hard to watch. I'm not a fan of the truck or the YouTube channel. The door slams were crazy. Sheesh! He is a product of our current society.
Sort of the way I look at it’s. It’s there truck to wreck. Shrug.
Super sketchy . Just imagine if it was just towing and that happened.
All those Crown Vics destroyed when movies were filmed in the 90's-2000's - when Ford was still making them.
LOL being sympathetic at a polygon polluting dead mall parking lots.
I guess Elon was thinking of a rather mild apocalypse since the CT was pretty easily rendered hors de combat.
The idea of testing a resource intense machine to destruction for no better reason than it being clickbait does seem a little wasteful, though.
The idea of testing a resource intense machine to destruction for no better reason than it being clickbait does seem a little wasteful, though.
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I think the rear body integrated trailer hitch "giga casting" was compromised when it slammed down on a concrete ledge @ the 5:26 mark of the video. The moment the hitch area hits the concrete block is conveniently edited out... This is not a normal occurrence and not the type of load a trailer hitch would be expected to undergo. I bet the hitch would never fail in real life, you can hook it up to 10 bulldozers, floor it, and it would stay intact.
Despite this type of impact very rarely happening in real life, it does appear that the damage is repairable. It would be a massive job and probably spend 2 months in the shop requiring disassembly of half the vehicle. Easily at least $25k+ in repairs and weeks waiting on parts. Tesla doesn't even have a repair procedure yet according to their collision manual and I do not see replacement parts available in the parts catalog.
I've seen vehicles total out for more minor damage though. I don't think Tesla will fix Cody's Cybertruck. They certainly won't like his commentary and destructive testing so they will probably refuse repair because the frame is compromised, the parts are on back order, find some other damage, or use stall tactics. He'll probably just buy (or has bought) another Cybertruck.
https://service.tesla.com/docs/Cybe...UID-4C3F3F0D-5803-4896-A60F-5DB778018F10.html
https://epc.tesla.com/en-US/catalogs/b685e77a-0f90-4a81-a1a5-3f3417542754
It's possible Cody will get hurt or killed in one of his videos, he's got to be more careful. With the merry-go-round he was complaining about jet fuel going into his eyes and how the centrifugal force was compromising his arm's strength to get to the controls to shut the engine down. He already had a bad Lasik job and now he's exposing himself to these hazards.
I think Cody will just buy another Cybertruck. He makes potentially $80k / mo just from clicks and he also has sponsorships and a merch store.
https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCdqp0KK_Io7TwK5cJMBvB0Q
