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https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/18tllt0/another_pic_from_that_cybertruck_crash_posted/

Tesla owned vehicle so you won't see much footage since they're probably trying hard to suppress them. totaled by a corolla. and the only person to sustain any type of injury was driving the CT. corolla 1, cyberbox 0.

"The CHP summary of the accident: "On December 28, 2023 at approximately 2:05 pm, CHP Redwood City units were dispatched to a two-vehicle crash on SR-35 (Skyline Boulevard), south of Page Mill Road. Our preliminary investigation indicates a Toyota Corolla was traveling south on SR-35 southbound, south of Page Mill Road, at an unknown speed, when the driver, for unknown reasons, turned to the right and subsequently struck a dirt embankment on the right shoulder. The Toyota then re-entered the roadway, crossed over the double yellow lines into the northbound lane, and crashed into a Tesla Cybertruck traveling north on SR-35 northbound. The Tesla driver sustained a suspected minor injury and declined medical transportation. No other injuries were reported. It does not appear that the Tesla Cybertruck was being operated in autonomous mode. The investigation into this incident is ongoing."

This damage is structural, the chassis of the car is one solid die cast (like a big hotwheels car), you can't repair that quarter panel and the likely very bent frame below it without replacing the entire bones of the car. And if you don't repair it, that spot will forever be it's Achilles heel, and effect it's characteristics in all accidents (also, just generally, be a major liability to everyone on the road).

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 year ago

the chassis of the car is one solid die cast (like a big hotwheels car)

I can't wait for the Musk bubble to pop and take out the world economy with him. That's just capitalist efficiency!

be the change you want to see in the world

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

My idiot fucking tech bro teammate tried to convince me that the truck actually does have crumple zones and that it's safe

This thing looks rigid af from that damage, that thing does not have sufficient crumple

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 1 year ago

and declined medical transportation

Even someone stupid and wealthy enough to buy that car is not sufficiently stupid and wealthy to afford ambulance ride XD

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Tesla owned vehicle. Probably an employee with no workers comp

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 year ago

I wonder if the company will charge him for the repairs.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

i honestly didn't realize they were actually producing these things

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

According to that thread there are 10 of them on the road. This one is already totaled and there's potentially another one down.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's definitely way more than 10, I've seen 3 irl just in the bay

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

You might have seen this one. It was driven by a Tesla engineer who lives in San Francisco and it appears to be a company vehicle.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Imagine, your boss says to just take the company car to go do something, and it's a Cybertruck agony-shivering

[-] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

"Hello boss, i got stuck in 1cm of mud"

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Is silicon valley really that cursed?

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup, one of it was in my office parking lot and one was from a mutual friend cause he's an engineer at Tesla and got a rest vehicle

Also here's bonus silicon valley Tesla torture. Also my office

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ

[-] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

it is more cursed than you could believe, and it leaks into the entire software industry

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

same.. I've been seeing them around a bit in the past couple months.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Thoughts and prayers etc

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

i'm gonna believe it's a joke until i actually see one on the road

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I saw one last night. Ugly as fucking hell. It just looks like a piece of shit.

[-] buh@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Not all technicals wear guns

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Isn't the cybertruck one whole body?

That's a write off.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago
This damage is structural, the chassis of the car is one solid die cast (like a big hotwheels car), you can't repair that quarter panel and the likely very bent frame below it without replacing the entire bones of the car. And if you don't repair it, that spot will forever be it's Achilles heel, and effect it's characteristics in all accidents (also, just generally, be a major liability to everyone on the road).

It's like a macbook of cars

[-] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

I dont know what jdpon is and at this point im too afraid to ask.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Joint-Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Oppressed Nations, a maoist term, although i'm not sure what it has to do with Toyota.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago
[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Holy shit some people even did this:

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

When I parked my Corolla

Slightly scratched your Cyber Truck

Ok I smashed your Cyber Truck

[-] FarFarAway@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dash cam footage from a passerby after the wreck.

Edit :Scroll to the bottom

[-] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Tight winding road with no shoulders and obscured sightlines. I bet they see a ton of accidents there, given the wealthy location with young techies in cars way too powerful for their driving proficiency.

[-] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

the chassis of the car is one solid die cast (like a big hotwheels car),

first thing to pop in my head

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

noting this incident for my upcoming history of auto-class warfare

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I cannot WAIT to see the Cybertruck's consumer reports crash test ratings.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

"Go fuck yourself." - my-hero

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