What’s that they say about the definition of insanity? Something about towing with a Cybertruck, probably.
Here’s a video to watch for a laugh, a Cybertruck towing over light snow… with predictable results.
As the truck loses traction, the trailer jackknifes like it just remembered it had somewhere to be, slams into the back of the Cybertruck, and then nails a tree for good measure. The best part? The driver shouting, with perfect comedic timing, “NOT AGAIN!”
Fuck the cyber truck and all, but there is clearly a lot of ice under that snow. It’s probably a road that isn’t plowed, and salted / sanded often. If the road, mass, and acceleration are correct, it doesn’t matter if you have AWD or 4WD.
He’s on an icy road, towing, and on an incline. Dude should have snow tires, chains, or should throw some sand down or something.
The driver is as dumb as his purchase.
Blew the whole budget on the Tesla, didn’t have any money left over for sand XD
Fuck the cybertruck but I agree. To me, it looks like a firm layer of ice and a distinct lack of tires which can handle ice or chains failing that. Cybertruck’s weight is doing it no favors here either, and the load helped pull him down the hill. Chains would have made a huge difference in this condition.
It reminds me of when I drive to a ski town in California, like Tahoe. It’s always full of weekend warriors with little winter driving experience, and expensive AWD / 4WD vehicles.
20 years ago it was Hummers stuck in the snow banks, now it’s Cybertrucks. Also, there is always a healthy smattering of lifted pickups chuds and WRXs drivers who think they’re playing the winter level in Colin McRay Rally.
You never see the slow driving minivan with chains stuck in the banks.
I think the Cybertruck is perfect. Nothing encapsulates the disconnect of the market to meet essential needs of the many, replaced by icons void of any utility to sate the appetites of the few.
Accurate title
Indeed. Left nothing to the imagination. Would check out again. 10/10
We strive for accuracy here at FuelArc News XD If the story is simple enough, we sometimes even achieve it!
Couldn’t watch this one but I saw one using an excavator to test the tongue weight of a CT, basically measuring the pressure while pushing on the (steel) tow hitch until it completely broke and exposed a lot of glue.
Hitch broke at almost exactly the official Tesla number
Odd fact about the cyber truck, it reacts to damage like anything aluminum, you can never repair the damage that time and driving will do. You can never make a crumpled piece of aluminium foil flat and shiny and smooth again.
New wrinkle in the “buying a car is buying an immediately and rapidly depreciating asset” category
That’s not true. You absolutely can make folded aluminum flat again. You just have to melt it down. Which seems to be the solution people are taking to cyber trucks.
Hitch broke at almost exactly the official Tesla number
The hitch broke at almost exactly the claimed towing capacity. Of course that means if you’re towing exactly at capacity and hit the tiniest bump you’ve now snapped your car in half.
I feel like my Toyota, the towing limit on the spec sheet doesn’t mean “after this number, the hitch snaps off.” For legal reasons, I need to state that that is only a guess, and that I have not tested it on anything but private roads.
For gods sake, the limit should have at least a 25% buffer. 1% buffer is madness. Toyotas, we don’t even know what the buffer is, it’s large enough that I’ve never met anyone who got nerve-wrackingly close to it. I’ve certainly never met a Toyota driver who’s frame or hitch has snapped off. I’ve now seen like 5 Cybertrucks with the whole towing assembly just tumbled across asphalt.
25% is even way too low. Factor of Safety is the term you’re looking for, which is generally 2x or more depending on the field. Most of the equipment I’ve ever worked on had a minimum 3x safety factor meaning the actual limits were 3x what the ratings indicated.
A quick search gave me the result of a safety factor of at least 2 for rigging and recovery components on vehicles.
I think you’re talking about the JerryRigEverything video
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I could carry that much lumber on the roof of my subaru lol
Can someone explain why he stopped accelerating when he started sliding back and seemed to just brake?
I get laying off the accelerator for a bit and sliding back a bit to get out of a rut, but he just gave up.
in most cars the brakes make it stop, even if it’s going backwards
Get out of here with your fancy logic
