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Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
The moment a Tesla Cybertruck owner discovers his car is not the boat Elon Musk said it would be.
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ah, the Tesla Cybertruck. It's the electric pickup that was built to look good on Mars but struggles to cope with conditions here on Earth. We've seen no end of Cybertruck design fails since the vehicle's release in late 2023, from parts flying off on the road to an inability to handle snow. Perhaps, it shouldn't be surprising, then, that the edgy-looking EV isn't quite as amphibious as Elon Musk once suggested it would be. One driver seems to have confused the Cybertruck with James Bond's Lotus Esprit S1, which we recently included in our pick of the most iconic car designs of all time. The California Highway Patrol Truckee Instagram account has posted images of a stranded Cybertruck at the edge of a lake with a reminder to users that 'Wade Mode isn't Submarine Mode.' This may seem less a design fail and more a failure of common sense. But, as outlandish as it may seem, Elon Musk did suggest as shortly ago as 2022 that the Cybertruck would "be waterproof enough to serve as a boat so it can cross rivers, lakes and even seas that aren't too choppy". That was a bold claim from the CEO of a company that historically had problems just keeping the rain out of its cars. It's strange way of phrasing it too. A Gortex jack is very waterproof, but that doesn't make it a boat. Based on what Musk wrote in the tweet above, we could assume that while the Cybertruck might not serve to sail around Cape Horn, it would at least be able to cross a shallow lake. Musk suggested it would be able to cross the 360 metres of water between SpaceX's Starbase and South Padre Island in Texas. Alas, while the Cybertruck did come to market with a 'Wade Mode', it seems this isn't the Boat Mode we were promised. The feature is supposed to lift the suspension and temporarily pressurise the battery to allow a shallow water crossing, but that doesn't help with mud. Perhaps it's best not to believe everything that Elon Musk writes on X. For Cybertruck's total antithesis, check out the Slate Truck. Its cheap price, no-nonsense design and almost infinite customisability make it everything the Cybertruck isn't.
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Tahoe Police Roast Ignorant Cybertruck Driver
A driver Truckee, California, just north Lake Tahoe, is getting called out for their dumpster fire of a parking job. Or maybe it's not the parking job that's as much of a dumpster fire as the vehicle itself... Although now that I look closer, it's actually just a Tesla Cybertruck. (Har har har, I think I'm funny). Just in case the driver hadn't already realized how poor of a decision they'd made by trying to drive into the lake, the Truckee police department posted a photo of a Cybertruck that took it's Wade Mode a little too far. The photo was shared on Thursday, April 24, 2025, and already amassed 15,000 likes. It seems everybody is joining in on the to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing? Subscribe to the new Powder To The People newsletter for weekly updates. Apparently, these Musk-Monstrosity's have a feature called Wade Mode that allows the vehicle to 'navigate shallow bodies of water' by raising the ride height and pressurizing the battery pack to keep it safe from water. This, however, does not look like a shallow body of water and I'm genuinely so curious what on earth the driver was doing. Normally, California Highway Patrol Truckee is tasked with reminding people that 2WD is not 4WD in snow storms, and that just because you want to drive through that snowstorm to ski pow, doesn't mean you should drive through it. But with the onslaught of drivable dumpsters in ski towns, they're now apparently tasked with reminding folks that just because your "truck" says it has auto-pilot, doesn't mean you should trust it. Haven't these folks ever seen A Space Odyssey?? I'd like to applaud Truckee CHP not just for posting this, but for the hashtags they came up with that had me giggling a little too hard. #CyberStuck, #WadeTooFar, #NotSoAmphibious, and my personal favorite, #SiriCallAWinch. Ha. Does any of this have to do with skiing? Not exactly, but if you've lived in a ski town in the last two years, you know that the roasts we used to reserve for rental car sedans without snow tires have now been directed almost entirely towards Cybertrucks. I'm all for saving the environment with electric vehicles, but at least Ford and Rivian are doing it with cars that actually look like cars, and I haven't seen any F150E's parked in a lake recently either...
