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  • Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.

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  • 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.

  • Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.

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  • Pressurizes battery compartment, lifts the suspension to maximum height, and triggers a few off-road adjacent drive train features IIRC

    Well, that's what the manual says, but this Cybertruck's battery pack was about as pressurized as a submarine with screen doors, so your mileage will DEFINITELY vary

  • Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.

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  • 😂 Some of the time, the jokes are hard to shoehorn into the articles. This time? The jokes practically wrote themselves

  • Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.

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  • 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.

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    Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.

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    Waymo Fleet More Than Triples In Size Year-over-Year, According to NHTSA Recall Data

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  • (saw that, I agree, I bet it will be Tokyo next)

  • Waymo Fleet More Than Triples In Size Year-over-Year, According to NHTSA Recall Data

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    Waymo Fleet More Than Triples In Size Year-over-Year, According to NHTSA Recall Data

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    Waymo Fleet More Than Triples In Size Year-over-Year, According to NHTSA Recall Data

    fuelarc.com /news-and-features/waymo-fleet-more-than-triples-in-size-year-over-year/

  • Cybertruck Pulled from Beach by Toyota Minivan

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  • Cybertruck Pulled from Beach by Toyota Minivan

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  • what's the difference between a 200 pound average male passenger and a 2026 Cybertruck RWD at 6,117 pound curb weight?

    It's mostly in your head, I feel like.

  • Cybertruck Pulled from Beach by Toyota Minivan

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  • Boonhet is correct on this. The rescue vehicle getting a running start, that works and does not damage the vehicle when done correctly (it's slower than you might think).

    You can watch a Youtube video if you want to see it done correctly, but the straps designed for the purpose are cheap, I've got one in my Tacoma just in case.

  • Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

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  • Even on non-lethal accidents, Waymo generates something like 12x fewer.

    I think that tech will be the automotive equivalent of the polio vaccine. Dying in road accidents will become akin to dying of rabies, a freak accident of extreme rarity. Probably, so will driving cars with no autonomous capabilities.

  • Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

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  • I'm glad for you!

    Personally, I tried it. Wasn't my cup of tea, bad safety margins (it doesn't drive how I drive, and I am particular). There's a consumer for that product, though. So long as you watch it closely, I certainly don't mind, glad it suits you.

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    Cybertruck Pulled from Beach by Toyota Minivan

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  • Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

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  • I mean, there are traffic violations, and then there are traffic violations - if there's a dead body at the end, it was the second type.

    Neither is desirable, but it would actually be a big win to create a tech system that drives a car that produces fewer fatalities per mile than the average human, regardless of whether or not it generates speeding tickets or other inconveniences.

    That's my opinion, anyway. I won't downvote you, I only downvote comments unhelpful to the overall conversation, you're not being unhelpful, I just disagree with you.

  • Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning

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  • Love me some good Beeb coverage, this is great

  • Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

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  • I was actually surprised that Waymo had only thousands of units in operation.

    That being said, 3,000 commercially operating for years with zero fatalities, that's not nothing. It's not a ton, it doesn't change the world (much), but it isn't zero. Tesla's result so far rounds down to zero.

  • Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

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  • No, no, the AI calls APIs.

    That is to say, A.ctual P.eople in I.ndia

  • Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

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  • It's me. And yes, I'm bad at math, guilty as charged. I tend to make pretty simple points.

    But, yes, when a publicly traded company promises exponential growth on their earnings calls, and then delivers double-digit unit delivery a year later, I do tend to point and laugh. All of that is accurate.

  • Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

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  • Do they know how to scale up an autonomous taxi service? I mean, maybe? There's no sign of that anywhere in the Tesla data, though.

    The original target was Robotaxis to cover "half the US population by the end of 2025," so we're nowhere close to on-target, and those goals weren't given with any asterix on the earnings call when they were declared. I don't see any reason to move the goalpost, it's just a miss taken to a funny conclusion.

    https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/tesla-earnings-stock-price-elon-musk/card/musk-s-early-conference-call-comments-focus-on-autonomous-driving-PRJqKKBVRfnHS7TMLDis

  • Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

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  • "Fiverr-guy Supervised" didn't have the same ring to it

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    Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

    fuelarc.com /news-and-features/tesla-has-39-unsupervised-robotaxis-nearly-a-year-after-launch-at-this-rate-theyll-catch-up-to-waymo-in-85-years/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

    fuelarc.com /news-and-features/tesla-has-39-unsupervised-robotaxis-nearly-a-year-after-launch-at-this-rate-theyll-catch-up-to-waymo-in-85-years/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.

    fuelarc.com /news-and-features/tesla-has-39-unsupervised-robotaxis-nearly-a-year-after-launch-at-this-rate-theyll-catch-up-to-waymo-in-85-years/

  • An Enterprising Ioniq 6 Driver Got DOOM Running on Center Console

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  • ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    Figured I could trust you to find the link that says "WROTE A TUTORIAL."

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    An Enterprising Ioniq 6 Driver Got DOOM Running on Center Console

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  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    An Enterprising Ioniq 6 Driver Got DOOM Running on Center Console

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  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Cybertruck Self-Destructs in Shallow Water… Leaving Questions About the Promised “Boat Mode”

    fuelarc.com /off-road/watch-this-cybertruck-self-destruct-in-shallow-water/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    AWS Datacenter Lit Ablaze by “Objects” in UAE, Amid Other Outages in Region at War

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  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    AWS Datacenter Lit Ablaze by “Objects” in UAE, Amid Other Outages in Region at War

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  • Enough Musk Spam @lemmy.world
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    The Top 3 Fastest Depreciating Cars in 2026 Are All Teslas

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  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    DHS Agents Arrest Man by Pretending to Be Stranded Motorists… A Ploy to Get The “Worst of the Worst” Who are Midwest Nice

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  • Enough Musk Spam @lemmy.world
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    Tesla’s Head of North American Sales Out After Just Over Six Months, With Canadian Sales Down 60%+

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  • Electric Vehicles @slrpnk.net
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    Hyundai IONIQ 6 SEL Drops to 1/3rd of MSRP, or $13,995, After 2 Years

    fuelarc.com /cars/hyundai-ioniq-6-sel-drops-to-1-3rd-of-msrp-or-13995-after-just-over-2-years/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Tesla’s Head of North American Sales Out After Just Over Six Months, With Canadian Sales Down 60%+

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  • World News @beehaw.org
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    Tesla’s Head of North American Sales Out After Just Over Six Months, With Canadian Sales Down 60%+

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  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    ICE Agents Surge Into Minneapolis, Immediately Thwarted by Actual Ice

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    ICE Agents Surge Into Minneapolis, Immediately Thwarted by Actual Ice

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