KayLeadfootCybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.
Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake,... #cybertruck #tesla #boatmode #swastikar
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AnUnusualRelicIt’s not science until the experiment has been repeated and thoroughly documented. Line up more Teslas, I say!
looks like its an excuse to get rid of it by the owner, without have to embarissingly trying to sell it to someone that wont buy the DUMP.
N = 1
Seems pretty inconclusive to me. Let’s throw in a couple more and see what happens.
FuglyDuckAccording to Fox 4, the driver is being held in Grapevine Jail as of Tuesday afternoon, with violations including:
Having no valid boat registration.That is both hilarious and stupid. You would have to imagine the definition of a boat would be something that floats, which the Cybertruck clearly isn’t in this photo. It’s also less water than the truck is rated in the owner’s manual to be able to handle.
This got me thinking, you're right, how can it be a boat if it can't float?
Turns out, everything is bigger in Texas, including the legal definition of what constitutes a boat.
Is it motorized, above 14 feet in length, and afloat, docked, or stored on Texas waters? Then it's a boat that needs to be registered, fam.
I’ve read that, and I don’t think any reasonable person would consider a vehicle being driven on a lake bed to be a vessel.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDownA submersible is a vessel.
It’s also not submerged, not entirely.
Even submersibles float, just underwater.
The whole thing is absurd.
No, but its owner was storing it in a lake, it’s over 14’ long, and has a (non-functional) motor.
This would mean every vehicle used to launch a boat would be considered a boat in it’s own right. As well as the trailer.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t tend to store my truck or trailer in the lake?
Neither did this guy, at least not intentionally.
It seems like a vehicle being driven in a body of water is considered a vessel, and that’s just absurd.
No, he intended to use it as a vehicle. Off road vehicles drive through water all the time.
Have an accident where you drive off a bridge in Texas, get charged with not having a boat registration.
I wonder if they charged the guy who crashed his Veyron in Galveston Bay? I mean with something other than insurance fraud.
I was trying to figure out why that name sounded familiar. I hadn’t heard of the story you referenced. I’m also pretty sure I’ve never been near anywhere with that name, though I think I might have encountered a road with a similar one.
Eventually, I remembered a book my then 5yo gave me after it was withdrawn from the school library and offered as a “keep forever” book.
The book did tell an interesting story partially based on real life first person accounts of a famous storm / flood, but overall it was fictional. There were some details I thought were inappropriate. I don’t know if those details (casual racism and acceptance of same, both by otherwise redeemable characters and by the victims of it; fairly graphic representation of bodily harm) match the reality of the time but, to put it bluntly, I agree with whomever made the decision to withdraw the book from a children’s library.
(I’m not sure what age group has access to the library. I do think it’s important for schools to allow access to uncomfortable facts, especially of history … But again, my kid was five at the time, so presumably other similarly aged kids also had access and I don’t think that they needed to hear these stories at that age.
My kid didn’t read, nor appear to want to read, the book, but given that they get freaked out by my surgery scars I don’t think that they would have benefited from doing so.)
I don’t know if those details (casual racism and acceptance of same, both by otherwise redeemable characters and by the victims of it; fairly graphic representation of bodily harm) match the reality of the time
1900 Texas, yeah, it matches the reality of the time. We’re talking about a state that 40 years before that had voted overwhelmingly to secede from the Union and ousted their governor when he refused to join the Confederacy. We’re talking full on Jim Crow, segregation as law, redlining, employment gating, etc etc - it was very bad.
But yeah I mean I probably wouldn’t say a 5yo should be engaging with that content, but I could see a 10 year old maybe? It feels 6th grade level is about right for that?
It’s not really on Texas waters, is it though?
DamaskoxWell, I think it’s not wrong to apply the same rules to any kind of vessel you take into the water. Therefore, it’s good to simply assume that every vessel in the water is some kind of boat so people don’t say ‘well akshually this is not a boat’ and do bullshit like this cybertruck driver.
WesDymA vessel, in a marine context, is typically something that floats.
What a I really want to happen, is for the day he is released from jail, for the warden, or whomever, to ask in a very condesending tone:
“Now…what did you learn?”
And if he can’t answer, he stays in jail.
To be fair, this was less than the wading depth advertised in the owner’s manual.
The owner had reason to believe the vehicle could do what he was trying to do.
Not even close, really. The top edge of the bumper/front edge of the hood is roughly 4 feet off the ground, for reference.
You’ll notice in the photos the front driver side corner is *close to under water. Wade mode is specified for 3”. Also the truck might be floating a bit.
*edit, I ran the video. It’s not quite under. Still deeper than the 32” depth. That said they probably smashed the under carriage romping over the rocks like it was a EOHV racing truck or something. (Dumbasses believed the incel marketing.)
Wade Mode is a feature in the Tesla Cybertruck that allows it to drive through shallow water by raising the suspension and pressurizing the battery to protect it from water and debris. It is designed for use in bodies of water up to approximately 32 inches deep at slow speeds of 1-3 mph.
That depends on how deep you go. You can definitely wade in a lake as long as you turn back soon enough. Apparently, the one in the OP never got deep enough to exceed the rating.
This one definitely exceeded the rating. Its slanted on one side pretty deep. Earlier in the video it was okay and not exceeding it.
Interestingly, it appears to drift in the videos - unclear if while it is powered on if it exceeds the depth rating. I lean towards no? I can't find any extended section of the video where it is either foundering or floating while in motion.
It 100% exceeds the depth rating later (like in your screencap), but it's floating or sliding into deeper water after being bricked.
Ya i was just going off the video in this post where it skips from ‘acceptable’ height to you’re fucked height. Its possible it failed in the stated limits as well, we just dont see it.
A_norny_mousse32 inches
That’s 81cm. Up to! That means, you need to stay below that. Since no natural body of water has completely even ground this effectively means if deeper than knee-deep you risk your battery exploding.
Something I’m sure any normal truck could handle without an extra mode.
I mean EVs are better of course, but why make a truck that is too low and probably has the battery at the bottom like normal Teslas do… Why, oh why, Elon. Choke on your stupid business decisions and unsold bad quality products.
Normal trucks can wade water as high as their air intake, which usually is above one of the front wheels, inside the fender. You can go a bit above that for short distances if you keep a good momentum and create a wave in front of you, but that’s risky.
Of course modern trucks, having turned from work to luxury vehicles, may have issues.
air intake, which usually is above one of the front wheels, inside the fender.
That sounds wrong. Even on my normal car it’s at the top of the whole engine compartment, thus slightly higher than inside the fender, and less likely to get water sprayed.
If you search “truck snorkel” images, where the tube starts on the outside is where the air filter intake is.
@Damage The top of the snorkel is obviously much higher than the air filter, as it's much higher than the hood, which the filter is under. The point where the bottom of the snorkel penetrates the fender MIGHT be the same height, but it really just connects to another hose on the inside, which usually runs UP to the filter. The filter is most commonly on top of the motor.
work to luxury vehicles
Still plenty of work trucks about. They didn’t stop making them because some pavement princess wanted all the options.
Totally disagree. Every single generation the bed gets smaller, the body gets bigger and the engine is moved further back for a lower center of gravity.
Again you’re just comparing the top of the line options.
A single cab 150 is still available to purchase.
You’ve been done in by someone pushing an agenda by obscuring facts.
And yet, find me one parked on a lot (you know, where fleets buy from). In fact, look at every work truck* you see on your way home and count how many are reg cabs vs ext 4 door /crew with a 5.5 ft box. Bet you irl you see at least 4 crew to every reg, if not more.
Work truck: something with company decals or ladders / equipment attached.
I don’t see any Brazilians on the way home. But I know for sure that’s a real place that people come from.
Also doesn’t change the fact you’re spreading misleading graphics. And deliberately being obtuse with your definitions.
Please, in what way am I being obtuse? I left an extremely broad definition of work truck lmao. And in what way are the graphics misleading? Seems you don’t like the fact trucks have grown
Work truck: something with company decals or ladders / equipment attached. extremely broad definition
That’s not a broad definition. That’s quite limiting. A carpenter doing small commissions isn’t likely going to have massive decals on the side.
I have got a friend whose a landscaper, none of their work vehicles have decals. Not the vans or pickups.
in what way are the graphics misleading?
Already explained this. Ford still makes single cab trucks. The graphic doesn’t show that.
Seems you don’t like the fact trucks have grown
I never said they haven’t. Although neither did you, that graphic you showed that the actual size of one specific model of Ford hasn’t changed. Just the proportion of cab to bed.
But it sounds more like you already have a world in your head, and don’t like the fact the real world doesn’t line up with your views.