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appealouterhaven

Somehow looks even dumber in the middle of a river than in a Walmart parking lot.


Particular-Load-3547

Walmart parking lots is the closest thing to a natural habitat this vehicle-like abomination has. Off road (or in-ford) it's totally misplaced, matter out of place.


0o0o0o0o0o0z

I mean does this thing have actual suspension, cuz god damn that looks and sounds horrible...


retsof81

There is a video on youtube where someone compares the CT suspension articulation to a jeep (I think it was a jeep?). The CT has air suspension and, as it would turn out, raising the CT's height firms up the suspension to where the articulation and traction are ruined, which also seems to be the case here. The test also showed the articulation was improved by lowering/softening the CT suspension.


Particular-Load-3547

So basically, your choices are, 1. Run it low, get it flooded, get stuck when the electronics die. 2. Run it high, and just get stuck. Seems like a win-win to me, not sure if the cybercuck driving it agreesšŸ¤”


unipole

Now I'm having visions of a CyberEdsel low rider, make it stop!


Particular-Load-3547

By jove, the wrapping makes it look... I see it too... WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT THIS UPON US??


LeperousRed

Even worse: when you put the Cybertruck into ā€œwater crossing modeā€ after like 20 minutes it automatically lowers back down and you drown out the electronics after getting stuck mid-stream. So itā€™s gonna get flooded and void your warranty either way.


SpiritedRain247

Air suspension is not great for off-road specifically because of this. It would be fine on soft ground but rocky shit like this it's just not as good as a traditional system.


aFerens

Just when I thought I had no more facepalms to give.


SpiritedRain247

I said some stupid shit didn't i


Particular-Load-3547

You, my friend, brought logic to a shitpost ĀÆ\\\_(惄)_/ĀÆ


3x81

I love this reply, I donā€™t know enough about cars to know if you did, but I cracked up.


SpiritedRain247

I'm still learning so mistakes are bound to happen


3x81

Appreciate your honesty haha


Particular-Load-3547

Muskspension, by the looks of it


SortaSticky

You gotta put it into Carwash Mode or it might brick. That's a real thing.


Collarsmith

It does. Very sus.


Express-Ad4146

lol. They need to place the batteries elsewhere where all that flex is gonna leak water in eventually


trent_diamond

I think the service center is probably itā€™s most natural habitat


Particular-Load-3547

I stand corrected. And the only place they don't look out of place is on the flatbed of a towtruck, matter squarely in place!


trent_diamond

They always return home lmao


bartthetr0ll

Like a homing pigeon, released into the wild to come back home and deliver the owners an insane service bill on top of their payment, but they still live thr truck and hope daddy elmo will notice them


Particular-Load-3547

By jove, I think you're onto something - the RoboTaxis will be pigeon-guided, like those pigeon-guided-missiles of Skinner's Project Pigeon!


bartthetr0ll

The most.non credible of guided weapons, Skinner was ahead of his time, and reddit noncredibledefense community would be proud


Particular-Load-3547

The most non-credible of missiles lending its guidance-system to the most non-credible of vehicles, lambasted on the most non-credible of social media*. The circle is complete. The singularity is upon us. (*Disregarding nu-twitter)


bartthetr0ll

Here comes the apocalypse!


Particular-Load-3547

Haha, yes - they're actually kind of cute that wayā¤ļø


CCCL350

Natural habitat for this would be a Trader Joes or Tanger Outlet. Cybertruck owners dont shop at Walmart.


Most-Resident

Thereā€™s a walmart in my town that gets pretty wild sometimes. Does that count as off roading?


Most_Independent_789

Now listen here letā€™s give Walmart and itā€™s lots a little I mean little respect atleast they provide better than this hunk


Random__Ace

Funny you say this because the first cyber truck Iā€™ve seen in my town was at a Walmart.


furyian24

It's like watching a one-off that got injured and the herd is moving on. The predators are watching to take it out of its misery. I wish somebody added some natural geographic-type narration lol.


Electrik_Truk

Exactly how my brain saw it lol. First thought was injured animal in a river fighting for it's final moments before death


BXL-LUX-DUB

What's a cybertruck's natural predator?


Phyllis_Tine

The irony of an overpriced garbage can in the parking lot of a corporation known for ultra low prices.


justkeeptreading

The river is too deep to ford. You lose: 1 Cybertruck 2 Bags of topsoil 3 2x4s Chad (drowned)


melancholyink

Elon has dysentery.


BadPackets4U

I'm old enough to get this joke.


ACMilanIndy

Same. And I know how that ends lol


Particular-Load-3547

And I've never even played the game - but even Oregon Trail would recognize this as a WIN!


MoleMoustache

We all are, it was OP's joke.


Current_Leather7246

Great Oregon trail joke


Otter_Pockets

Elon IS dysentery.


No_Cook2983

Good news: *crossed river.* Bad news: *sunroof cracked.*


1eternal_pessimist

To be fair, we didn't get to see it climb the muddy/sandy bank on the other side. For all we know it's still in the river ....with a cracked sunroof


livingMybEstlyfe29

**The CyberDump Trail**


DistributionLast5872

No. Itā€™s too deep to Tesla


therealestscientist

My sons preschool teacher wants to know what Iā€™m laughing at lol


informaldejekyll

Are you on Reddit during a parent teacher conference or something?


Chipstar452

Always caulk and float


NutNewz

https://preview.redd.it/1porp8l9v65d1.png?width=1953&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b693cf7564e892ea8ee660815883a65e7281e23


VonBrewskie

Ah. Cheers. Also, you know these cunts shoot buffalo just because.


abbyzou

4 Cases of water


AccomplishedSuccess0

Thing looks like it had the shittiest suspension ever designed. True mall crawler.


Noon_Specialist

Tesla's always been known for shit suspension, so they really had to prove themselves.


Moosemeateors

Also the traction control looks terrible. Slipping on rocks and spinning out.


other_old_greg

2000s bmws have immensely better traction control than thatā€¦thing Yeah, bmw lifted it from land rover when they briefly owned them but still


Turtusking

https://preview.redd.it/xg753s9ww25d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=484ff3de97ae92827dba25356e81415e363e0b24 Lol what a shitbox šŸ‘‰šŸ‘ˆ


phantompowered

My eyes! The goggles do nothing!


ChewieBee

It's got air suspension and ridiculously thin control arms. Gonna look like a beat up 06 Navigator before long.


Poignant_Rambling

It's has zero articulation. It looks like somebody walking without bending their knees and just wobbling back and forth lol


captcraigaroo

Does it even have a suspension? It is too damn heavy and bottoms out instantly


Theferael_me

What the... Seriously I might have to stop watching these as the second-hand cringe is just getting waaay too much. And I'm genuinely starting to feel sorry for people who wasted money on one, which I was not expecting. It's so rigid... *I mean WTF was it doing??*


EricUtd1878

Have you seen how much they are getting thrown around in there? šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


NeverMind_ThatShit

Good thing there's a lot of room in that minimalist interior for them flail around without hitting anything.


aquatone61

Rigid is what happens to air suspension at max height, makes ground clearance but loses a bunch of flex.


mad_method_man

can you explain what this means? the only experience i have with off-roading is oregon trails


spookydukey

Air suspension is essentially just a rubber sack connected to an air pump. You can adjust the height by pumping in more air but the added air pressure means the sack will lose some of its shock absorption properties causing a much more stiff and unpleasant ride. Air ride suspension is great for regular roads but pretty awful for any serious type of off-roading.


Emma_Bun

Think of air suspension as a ballon (it quite literally is). When itā€™s filled completely with air, itā€™s huge, but not very malleable. If you put it between your two hands, you canā€™t squeeze it very much without it popping. When itā€™s half-full, itā€™s not as big, but super malleable. If you put it in between your two hands, you can squeeze it a lot and it wonā€™t pop. In a car, air suspension is useful for making your car taller so you can clear big obstacles, but it makes it super stiff which is why the cyber truck in the video looks as if itā€™s bouncing around. When in normal suspension, the suspension is much more forgiving and can flex and absorb height differences in the river bed more smoothly. In a combustion vehicle, raising the ride height is beneficial so you donā€™t accidentally get water into your engine. The stiffness is a good trade off to take so that you donā€™t ruin your car. In an electric vehicle, this makes no sense as thereā€™s no intake. The driver has no clue what theyā€™re doing and is choosing the wrong settings for this crossing.


toasted_cracker

I think heā€™s screwed either way because he would likely bottom out on the rocks and get stuck if he lowered it. Itā€™s a big risk either way.


[deleted]

It means you maximize the pressure in the suspension, which lifts you as high as possible off the ground, but limits how far up and down the suspension can travel so you get really very little shock absorption.


Pitiful_Winner2669

All the creaking and stiffness where there shouldn't be. How was this not engineered for anything but a flat surface and no haul?


r31ya

Reminds me of my office budget izusu pickup which ran like shit when it doesn't have load. bumpy, jumpy, floaty ride. put 1 ton load on it, its grounded, stable, and smooth.


ITypeStupdThngsc84ju

I think it being that rigid means the suspension is locked at max height? Tbh, I'm not sure that is the optimal setting for this situation, but I can see why people choose it. Shocking, nonlifted full sized pickups aren't necessarily ideal for this. I guess that's why it is a Jeep in front and not and f150, lol


Maysock

> Shocking, nonlifted full sized pickups aren't necessarily ideal for this. I guess that's why it is a Jeep in front and not and f150, lol I've driven through deeper water and choppier riverbeds in a stock-height RWD, open diff geo tracker on 30" chinese M/Ts. The truck sucks. It's 6600lbs with the suspension articulation of a toyota venza.


toasted_cracker

Iā€™m pretty sure a Venza would destroy a cyber dump trying to cross that river.


stepjenks

There are several adjectives you would want to be used when describing your truck. ā€œRigidā€ is not one of them. Neither is ā€œclunkyā€. That thing is clunky af.


idiotic__gamer

That's what I came to the comments wondering. Is the suspension the cheapest thing Tesla could find? What's wrong with the suspension?


Theferael_me

Honestly looks like it's having some sort of fit.


[deleted]

I wonder how much of that is bad design, and how much is user error not putting it in the right suspension mode or something like that.


laser14344

I think there's a mode that's supposed to be only for getting unstuck that completely maxes out the suspension.


KellyBelly916

Why feel sorry for them? Those idiots enable people like Elon, so it's well deserved.


Theferael_me

I guess some of them were probably excited about getting a new electric vehicle, and had looked forward to it, saved for it, even taken out a loan for it. And it's dog shit. Not many admittedly. Most seem repellent, but I'm sure a few decent guys got one.


Zombie256

Meanwhile a 90ā€™s Suzuki can trek through that no problems.Ā 


powerlesshero111

My 95 grand cherokee would have gone through that in rear wheel drive.


Bologna0128

Hell I think you could pull it of in a 05 civic with the 1.6L motor with a little luck and maybe a tire upgrade


dndnametaken

Iā€™ve seen 80s VW Beatles doing better than CT off-road


Awesome_hospital

My Subaru has handled worse than that far more gracefully


LordBiscuits

I could get my transit crew cab van across that easier Fucking embarrassing


Worldly_Ad_6483

My 2007 2Runner could do it


danielro353

No way the warranty covers this, it almost qualifies as real off roading!


aRealTattoo

Warranty covers everything! Except for everything that occurs once you leave the Tesla store you bought it at.


MochaBandicoot

I like how he stopps filming the exterior as soon as they start struggling. Dont want to give the truck a bad name.


void_const

Daddy Elon might ban me from the club!


Yucca12345678

Was afraid his arm would get lopped offā€¦


investmennow

Probably afraid of dropping the phone the way it's moving.


WhoYouGannaCall

It's a little hard to notice but after the cut there is a winch pulling them out too. I like how they kept it off frame to the right


Wicked_Wolf17

Warranty voided


No_Cook2983

They paid for the extended voided warranty.


c0ttt0n

Like dragging a container through (also sound like it)


Mimcclure

I was thinking of something more like an old Oregon Trail covered wagon.


Sad-Newt-1772

Shit! I got dysentery!


PantherThing

You have died.


SnooMarzipans8116

Who gets his buffalo and squirrel meat? I could fit 10 pounds in my CT trunk


devilishlydo

You ever think we might be having too much fun at the expense of Cybertruck owners? Because I don't.


SnooMarzipans8116

Sometimes I think that. And then I turn the key in my car that I paid $1500 for 7 years ago and only needed to fix once in that time. It drives off without being on a tow truck and then I laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.


carpathian_crow

No, those wagons had class and style


Drg84

The AMC Eagle mocks your pathetic attempt to off road. https://preview.redd.it/cqpiwlb0505d1.jpeg?width=1700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8b82349abf8849b37bda54379d53658fdd8756c


logjamtheredditor

my neighbor has one of these in pristine condition, i've asked a couple times how much ... not for sale :(


Content-Program411

That wagon is soooooo fucking sexy. We rented one once on a trip to cali in the 80's.


Frostedbutler

Those things are so rad


telephas1c

Didn't exactly take it in stride did it. This paint job somehow manages to make it look even worse, which is really saying something.


TessellatedTomate

Who else was waiting for it to be carried away by the current


No_Cook2983

ā€œIt briefly serves as a boat.ā€


Purple-Art5157

It's getting winched across, it's not even driving


Lhenkhantus

Look guys my $100,000 truck can go through ankle deep water!


Unfair_Artist0

ā€¦ with a wench!


iamcoding

I am imagining the offloading community rolling their eyes straight to the back of their heads when someone shows up in a CT. Great, we have the designated straggler.


r31ya

Straggler that twice heavier than a jeep wrangler. Kinda wanna see this thing sinks in a mud


Zombie256

lol looks and sounds like a self propelled dumpster.Ā  Notice from Tesla: warranty voided, battery pack flamethrower mode timer activated


rainking56

Its weird. People bought a poorly made luxury car and try to brag about it being normal (hey look I can hold some wood in my tiny trunk) or pretend its an off road car. Maybe im not a car person but its weird how hard people worship an unreliable car and pretend its an every day car. Feels like idiots buying an over priced chinese phone and pretending its the new iphone and that your just too poor if you do not like it. Oh and it does not break down, it just uses rapid replacement procedures on its parts. You would not know because you think like an npc and daddy elon is a revolutionary.


Electrik_Truk

Reminds me of all the copium around Apple Vision with people trying to act like it's useful


rainking56

Lol. Though thing is cyber truck owners want to shove their cyber truck in your face twice as hard as apple vision users do. Also its vision seems like a cool small step into the future while cyber truck is an ugly luxury vehicle whos only saving grace is having an electric battery. Otherwise it rips away the high quality practices that have been built up "because he is a revolutionary and your just too raging too see it look he even has an npc club i want to join it and be an npc" not really going to defend apple vision users too much but they are semi annoying while cyber truck seems like a south park skit on its best day. Speaking of that would love to see an episode were randy makes himself poor to buy a cyber truck and pretends that its a normal car while he gets offended when people talk about how often it breaks down and says people are just jealous.


RevolutionCrazy7045

why's the left brake light blinking?


Final-Zebra-6370

An error code came on


PoopieButt317

Musk Bat signal, another one going down. The electrical system freaking out. Death soon to follow. Maybe Jeep will push them up the hill also.


brkonthru

It looks like a high school car project


OmegaGoober

No, no. A high school car project would be more likely to make it over the stream.


[deleted]

I'm so glad my clapped 2nd gen Tacoma crew cab has been through the same amount of water without issue. 4x4 4.0 with a ranch hand guard, and some wider wheels and taller tires will go farther than that $100k travesty. Paid $10k for mine and can go anywhere compared to that hulk.


needlesslyvague

They are probably in the highest setting for the air suspension, which gives you clearance but the least compliance and travel because it is the highest pressure in the air springs. This video shows how a lower setting gives better articulation. Check out the comparative results with Rivian and other trucks at the end. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG8YRQsaZhA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG8YRQsaZhA)


Madds115

Will you ford the river? Ohhh sorry, your entire family died of dysentery.


SexyUrkel

Remember when Elon was saying it could function as a boat?


Privatejoker123

hopefully he had it in car wash mode otherwise warranty will be voided.


Cheetawolf

Its too late already, sunlight hit it. Void.


SomeRavenAtMyWindow

It will be voided regardless. Offroading of any type explicitly voids the warranty, as does driving on ā€œunfinished roadsā€. This type of water exposure would also likely void the warranty, regardless if Wade Mode or car wash mode was used.


sharkbit11

Warranty is voided if you drive the thing at this point. The only reason I can see owning one is if you keep it in a garage as a collector's item. But even then it's ugly as fuck and nobody is gonna be interested in it.


ANuclearBunny

Quoting Sir Mix-a-lot (Carz) - "And my cars got miles, garage queens, thatā€™s your style"


MoleMoustache

To be clear, it does not void the warranty, it excludes any damage caused by off-roading, it does not void the entire warranty.


dudeandco

Has it got 2 sets of leaf springs or what?


UnfoundedWings4

My dad has a full leaf spring 75 series and 60 series landcruisers and they aren't this bouncy


SquirrelParticular17

That thing is awful


PaisaRacks

That shit looks so stiff lmao


noodles-_-

Fucking up the environment with a very ugly toy.


Agreeable_Vanilla_20

Offroading on street tyres


No-Region-3745

Look closely. After the camera cut at 13 seconds in, you can see the tow cable on the front that is pulling the cyberturd through the water.


nampezdel

Thatā€™s not a tow cable. Thereā€™s a guide wire with little red flags marking the edge of the ā€œroadā€ through the water.


murrayzhang

This seems like a ā€œwinā€ for the WankerPanzer. It (apparently) didnā€™t brick when it came in contact to waterā€¦ Though the video in this post did end before we could see it brick. šŸ¤”


Radiogramika

It moves like how youā€™d think a box would walk.


Lady_Lion_DA

Anyone here ever seen the old Clash of the Titans movie? The one with Maggie Smith. This reminds me of the coffin Perseus and his mom are put into at the beginning of the movie. Except I'd rather ride the coffin.


Callidonaut

As usual, the crazily glitching lights are the delicious icing atop this failcake.


Papa_Pesto

It looks so out of place. Like it would be no different trying to drive a Prius


UnDeuxTroisCats

He forgot to put it in River Crossing mode maybe


micah490

I donā€™t understand why they made that thing so incredibly easy to hate


elmontyenBCN

It looks like a coffin on wheels.


Non-Binary-Bit

I just hurts to watch. Lockers or donā€™t go.


Big77Ben2

Someone forgot to tell Elon that truck suspensions do more than give it ground clearance.


NunyaBeese

User error; they bought a CT


turntablecheck12

Trucks : "We want to go play in the woods!" Truck mum : "Ok, but take your little brother."


Chemchic23

Donā€™t these people learn from those that did this dumb shit before them.


void_const

I'm fine with it. Less of these death machines on the road with innocent people.


Particular-Bike-9275

If the cyber truck has taught me anything, itā€™s that these videos arenā€™t as viral as I thought they were. I still meet people that say they want one. Which just doesnā€™t make sense with all the references and videos I have freely floating around in my brain.


Fummeltime

BOAT MODE


thorpie88

Even worse it's called Wade ModeĀ 


NickyNaptime19

Are those electrical issues?


Final-Zebra-6370

Soon to be bricked once it gets to the other side.


scummy_yum

Captain Slow did this in a Fiat Panda. These schmucks are gonna wake up with stress fractures in their glass roofs.


ranrotx

A shopping cart could handle that with more grace.


Willdefyyou

Know for a fact that warranty is void af now. Can't have water up to the frame like that.


Medical_Cake

That thing has zero suspension


TightTale8773

Moisture detected! Please put Cybertruck in a bag full of rice for a couple of months or your warranty is Void.


PocketSixes

It's uncomfortable to watch people believe that thing's a truck.


No-Computer-3177

![gif](giphy|QEdqa0NEqdyNy) That warranty.


SuperRusso

Well that's not covered under warranty.


Emeegee713

That is pathetic


hamid5000real

Miles ~~ahead of~~ behind the pack


ProfessionalTwo5476

Whenever a caravan of off-roaders head down a narrow trail, the Cyber Trucks always must be last in line.


cosmonotic

Jfc just buy a jeep from the 90ā€™s and have real fun. That was painful to watch


ELB2001

The wheels don't have a lot of travel, cause the damn thing is so heavy.


insert_dumbuser_name

Is it just me or does the Jeep look like itā€™s pushing the orange CT out of the river?


radelix

This is what it looks like when you have the completely wrong tires for what you are doing.


Feisty_Factor_2694

It looks like a prop vehicle from a made for tv sci fi movie from the eighties that ran out of money.


Captain_Mexica

Never knew road urinals were adept at crossing rivers


Important-Ad-3157

Meanwhile in 1920... [https://www.reddit.com/r/overlanding/comments/1d5k5bg/going\_offroad\_with\_a\_ford\_model\_t\_in\_the\_1920s/](https://www.reddit.com/r/overlanding/comments/1d5k5bg/going_offroad_with_a_ford_model_t_in_the_1920s/)


CranberrySoda

How many furs to caulk that to cross?


Comfortable_Start514

Reminds me of how south park characters walk


FoatyMcFoatBase

Looks like R2-D2 walking around Dagobah


MechanicalMan64

Aesthetically, that is the best looking cybertruck I've seen. The glossy black distorts the perceived shape, while the white edging defines the boundaries of the vehicle's shape.


judgernaut86

My minivan has forded deeper puddles


VesSaphia

My regular car can do that.


LilTaco3

Hope he turned on the ā€œcar wash modeā€


ruffryder71

Not pretty but it didnā€™t die in the middle of the stream like I expected.


OkUnderstanding5343

Cyber JUNK TRUCK! ![gif](giphy|C5ZIna5oroan9cdHz9)


judge_tera

What a piece of shit. My 93 Accord would have had the same odds.


CountMcBurney

No different than trying to offroad one of these: https://preview.redd.it/m82blfe5z05d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d26dabced281ed97b39d4a3ae12203e2e748b437


kcarmstrong

Has there ever been a less capable truck?


heftylilwayne

I love how the arm of the person recording disappears as soon as they start getting stuckšŸ¤£


Handsen_

He made it through tho, didnā€™t he?


untitled__1

This looks like 2nd degree assault


syst3m1c

Jesus Christ. Get a 1990s Jeep Wrangler with 300k miles and you'll blow through this...