not sure i've ever seen an automotive CEO take an explosion involving one of his companies' vehicles and use it as a marketing opportunity
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…”don’t use our Cybertruck for a bomb, use our model Y - cheaper and with better shrapnel”
I'm not sure that it's a good marketing pitch either. 🙄
I absolutely knew what you really meant, of course.
Some people's 1st thought was "Oh yeah, another Tesla caught on fire"
Like it was cut & plated together by a teenager in a metalwork class.
Skipping lessons on ergonomics, impact behaviour, Newton's 2nd law, surface envelope optimisation, aerodynamics etc.
Oh yeah, I know… broken necks where normal cars would cause mild neck strain…
"A mental health disorder characterized by disregard for other people." - Mayo Clinic
Brazilian "Fusca" don't agree
Anakin: 😏
Padme: 😳There was a person inside the vehicle.
I think those would be far easier to ignite on command than the battery.
What kind of adolescent reasoning is that?
Yup.
The truck is a freak of engineering (in the negative sense) and is not going to contain a significant blast. A Google search of Cybertruck crashes would show that they are not quite that solid.
I used to take them apart for powder, and make my own because 10 year olds don't know better.
They're marginally confined and staged.
You peeps is goofy. Going back to warn them now
I hope all injured get well soon. Physically and Mentally.
And my condolences to the family who just lost a loved one. They probably didn't know how their new year is gonna start.
Finished your Bleat for you.
The cyber truck seems like it was deliberately chosen to send a message
Wonder what kind of material he thinks things like bombs and artillery shells use to hold everything together...
To speculate a little too much, my money's on a MAGA who's angry about them wanting foreign workers to come work for them on H1-B visas instead of deporteding as promised
As awful as it is, it's not an entirely new idea in other words..
Doing it immediately after the bombing when we don't know shit about what is going on? That is just callous.
Didn't realise the truck was carrying controversial legislation along with all those fireworks and gas canisters
It is pretty impressive that it contained the blast so well and the battery didn’t ignite.
*offer also applies to white supremacist killers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/14/angela-chao-tesla-accident/72969299007/
or so it may be......
Yeah, I'm sold.
...and often incapacitated by virtually anything which is not flat, dry pavement (and occasionally even that).
But yeah, if containing explosions is your thing...
Those voters will believe anything if you say it loud enough, hatefully enough.
If the plan was to blow up the hotel lobby, why did they park 5m away from the doors?
Pretty sure this was some guy who wanted to set off some fireworks later but then his vehicle spontaneously caught fire
The person who'd store a boatload of fireworks and accelerants together in a "truck" bed on a trip to Vegas for New Year's is kind of exactly the caliber of person I'd expect to own a cybertruck and stay at Trump tower.
At ~best~ I could possibly see it as a very poorly thought out protest statement that went terribly wrong, I suppose (to what end?)
I don't think the question is at all "who radicalized the driver" but "was it the battery that exploded first or the fireworks"
I suspect that the gasoline fumes seeped in somewhere that was either really hot or sparking, which then caused everything else to go up
https://youtu.be/WUtE3QlTpKI
Elon did this himself as both a warning to Trump, and to make his trucks look cool. Even if there is no evidence, tell me he would never do such a thing and mean it! 😋
includes LV death info ...
Even so, simple physics. You blow a low explosive in the bed of any truck and the blast is mostly going up because it’s either open or covered by a something much weaker than the body.
‘the explosion came from within the truck’