Lol. The "Cybertruck will act as a boat" but, if you drive your brand new Cybertruck with 26 miles on it in a tiny bit of water, not even reaching the cabin, your insurance company may total the car as not worth the cost of repairing your $100k dumpster on wheels.
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If your vehicle was scrapped with 26 miles on the odometer, will you continue to receive DOT recall notices for years as I have with scrapped Hondas and a scrapped BMW? Or because Tesla is a non-woke Texas-based company do they never register their vehicles with DOT so they will never get recalled?
I mean if this happened on the coast somewhere they might turn into coral which would be cool. But then the sharks might get electrocuted which would not be cool
I recognize that America has some very permissive laws re: deceptive marketing, but I'm kind of surprised that "you void your warranty on this six-figure purchase it you use it in the exact way the CEO of the company said that it could be used" isn't prompting litigation
Not sure if the decision's come down yet, but one of Musk's many lawsuits is over if the things he bloviates about on Xitter are 'official pronouncements' that can be used by investors or customers as guidance.
There is a near guarantee of a class action lawsuit in the very near future for Tesla.
Specifically when Tesla is forced to reveal no car in the road today can by to L3 without Lidar and new hardware.
Cybertruck owners are all cult members. So not sure they can get enough for a class action.
It was before he bought Twitter.
But either way I can’t see him using his own money to recoup his costs.
No, he will make some poor, gullible finance bro do it.
I'm genuinely mystified by our entire highway safety system at this point. I was under the impression that we had an agency or agencies that monitored these things, but I'm seeing reports like "sometimes the brakes don't work and it accelerates instead". I thought that would be a full recall, but?
Litigation is expensive and very slow... and as long as it feels like we've been mocking these, they've only been out a few months and I think only single-digit thousands exist.
The litigation will happen in time...
The reason it's not prompting litigation is that every single person who purchased a cyber truck is an Elon musk sycophant and wouldn't dare utter a negative word about their God.
In the 90s, a buddy had a 85 4wd Honda Civic. We were off road and came to a river. Water over the hood, hitting the windshield, floating and bouncing off rocks as we went. I thought I was going to die, but we made it. Twice.
TIL I'd rather have an 85 Civic than a Cybertruck...
Somehow, it was an absolute beast despite having wheels only slightly larger than dinner plates.
I've not seen any 4wd Honda Civics in a while. Every now and then I see a Toyota Tercel.
Someone (not me) in KC is selling a 88 Nissan Stanza.
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I had a Civic over 10 years, needed only minor maintenance. Got another one when the time came. They’re basic, well-made cars that do the job of getting you from point a to point b, which is all I want.
At the time I wrote this, which was, in retrospect, far too generous. Pretty clearly Elon said “it will serve as a boat” based on nothing more than “that would be cool and my truck will be super cool”.
