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Here’s a story you all saw coming. If a new model pickup truck is on the road for any amount of time, somebody is going to ram a deer with it! What makes this collision unique is the pickup truck in question: a 2024 Tesla CyberTruck. The headline tells much of the […]

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Protip: just do a nazi salute and Teslas will avoid hitting you

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

No, no, that's how you heil the Cybertaxi.

The Cybertruck can't see well enough to recognize hand signals, you'll get plowed for sure.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Well, that'd certainly be a novel solution to the trolley problem. Just make sure FSD always defaults to hitting the non-nazis first.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember when the Hummer H2 was the douchebag SUV... how times have changed

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

it still is, there's just more than one now.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Elmo claims that....

Its a lie. If Elmo claims something, its automatically a lie. The guy literally doesn't know what else to do but lie, he hasn't done anything else but lie over the past decades.

If would be so nice if news media could pick up on that...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Safer for pedestrians

"It only slices deer in half, which is 100% fatal. Humans just get blunt force trauma that has a 1.59% survival rate."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Safer as in less suffering.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

he says in the video that his truck is "bombproof in the inside and outside" WTF does that even mean?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Car-bombers who recently purchased cyber trucks are gonna be pissed!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone already did that a bit ago with a bunch of fireworks and I think it worked?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Quiet down, Zangoose... You'll get us all-expenses paid tickets to Guantanamo Bay

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Meh. A motorcycle will split a deer in two. Not really the hill to be dying on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're only allowed to insult elon and the cybertruck, any thing else is wrong think

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I don't know. You see deer strikes all the time where I live (rural folks will know what I'm talking about).

You rarely see deerS strikes, where the deer get chopped into multiple deers. It happens, it's just rare, other than like, 18 wheeler hits.

I shared the story because I thought that was strange and alarming. The truck that looks like a guillotine blade seems to cut just how it looks like it would.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The guy made an innocent comment about motorcycles but because it was perceived as even possibly supportive of cybertrucks people downvoted lol I'm just pointing out to this commenter that you're only allowed to say bad things about musk/ cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Lemmy is like this. You better conform to the narrative or you are in trouble.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Strange, but your post is still here and so is his. You said you are only allowed to say bad things about Muskrat and Swatiscar.

Oh wait, you wanted people to up vote you. Pardon me while I exit stage left laughing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't say the mods would delete comments just that people get all pissy if you say anything that can be slightly construed as positive about musk or the cybertruck (even if your only comment is that you think it looks kinda cool)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice ninja edit. Oh look someone else to block.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Ninja edit? Wat?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I've seen the aftermath of that happening... Blood... Blood everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

75mph is a lot, regardless of vehicle. A deer's mass is horizontal whereas a human's is vertical, altering the results. Fuck the cybertruck, but at least be logical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, everyone knows the cutting and penetrative power is decreased in a linear fashion with contact area.