New footage shows a Cybertruck stranded in the snow whilst a Honda breezes past.
More and more videos are surfacing online of Cybertrucks getting stuck or people getting stuck in their Tesla trucks.
And many social media communities on the internet are using it to poke fun at Elon Musk’s automotive company. No seriously, there’s even a Reddit community called ‘Cyberstuck‘ dedicated to showcasing Cybertrucks stuck in different scenarios.
Now, with new footage surfacing of one stranded in the snow, it seems the Tesla truck might not be the best vehicle for colder climates. The viral video shows a Tesla Cybertruck struggling to get out of a parking spot in the snow.
The clip made its fame over on TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), showing the boxy Tesla attempting to get out of a curb-side parking lot. The driver desperately tries reversing and moving forward, before the wheels lose traction and spin around. After a minute, the electric vehicle is shown to be going absolutely nowhere.
😆🤣🤣🤣 100 grand to watch a little Honda drive by you.
To add salt to the wound, the boxy vehicle is shown up by cheaper cars driving past that are displaying little to no problems at all.
According to the video, the clip was shot in Montreal, Canada after what appears to be a heavy snowfall a day or so before.
Boston Smalls posted the clip on X alongside a pretty impressive remix of 50 Cent’s In Da Club, captioned: “100 grand to watch a little Honda drive by you.”
The post has already reached over 25 million views on X alone. Surprised by the blowup, Boston commented on their original post: “Lol holy s*** this blew up. President Musk is definitely gonna see this.”
Viewers have been criticising the futuristic vehicle and its impracticalities in such climates.
“This is painful to watch,” one user wrote.
“The vehicle is simply TOO HEAVY!” another added.
After the post went viral, the account joked in the replies: ‘Lol holy sh** this blew up. President Musk is definitely gonna see this. Don’t delete my account bro.’
Tesla’s Cybertruck has had its fair share of controversies (NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty)
Someone else remarked: “Say you’ve never driven in the snow before. Without saying you’ve never driven in the snow before.”
It’s unclear what tyres the Cybertruck in the viral clip has. As stated by Tesla, Cybertruck owners are advised to use winter tyres or tyre chains to increase traction in snowy or icy conditions.
The Tesla website reads: “Use winter tires to increase traction in snowy or icy conditions. You can purchase winter tires on the Tesla Shop.
“Tire chains provide additional traction when driving in snowy or icy conditions. Check local regulations to determine if tire chains are recommended or required during winter months.”
It seems to be that if you buy a Cybertruck, chances are that you want people to know you’ve bought the armored Tesla beast. After all, with the minimum price coming in at $82,000 and going up from there, you’re effectively driving around with a giant price tag on your head.
Cybertrucks are expensive enough as is (especially if you go for the pricier Foundation Series), but nothing says, “Look at me,” quite like driving a gold Cybertruck.
Cruising around the neighborhood while looking like you’ve got the Midas touch might not be for everyone, and it’s something that sounds just as cursed as King Midas himself.
Opening up about what it’s like to drive a golden Cybertruck, Dr. Kumait Jaroje told CBS News that he’s constantly harassed for driving the ostentatious vehicle.
Speaking to the outlet, Jaroje explained that someone stuck an obscene sticker on his Cybertruck when he shared a photo of it on social media. A scroll of his X account shows a picture of the offending sticker, which reads, “Nazis f**k off.”
Kumait Jaroje says someone stuck the obscene sticker on his Cybertruck ( X / Kumait Jaroje)
Discussing when his wife found the sticker, Jaroje continued: “She was horrified. She was, like, crying, screaming out of her throat, ‘I will never drive that Cybertruck anymore.'”
Expanding on his experience driving the gold Cybertruck, he added how he feels “anxious and nervous about our safety and my kids’ safety as well.”
However, when Jaroje shared the incident online, he claims he got even more hate.
Saying that this harassment started when Tesla CEO Elon Musk started supporting President Donald Trump, the fact that Musk is now heading up the Department of Government Efficiency has only fueled the backlash: “Now, they’re not just waving at me, they’re not just giving me the middle finger. Somebody tried to cut me off while I’m driving with my kids and three guys came out of the car and just pointed the middle finger and started screaming at me.”
As for why he drives a gold Cybertruck, Jaroje says it is a symbol for his achievements and the medical spa that he owns since moving from Syria: “That’s why I came to this country. I pursued my dream. Now, I’m enjoying the free speech, but with this taking a different turn, that made me very concerned.”
Although he says he’s tried to contact Tesla about swapping his golden Cybertruck, the doctor claims he was informed via text that the EV manufacturer currently isn’t accepting trade-ins.
There’s been a recent uptick in Tesla stickers and backlash in general to the brand ever since Elon Musk was accused of performing a ‘Nazi gesture‘ at President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Summing up his feelings towards the entire debacle, Jaroje concluded: “It’s not just about what happened to me. It’s about everyone in this country. If you disagree, don’t retaliate. Don’t be violent. Don’t try to hurt your neighbor. We’re all human.”
One unlucky driver has bizarrely twisted their misfortunes by thanking Tesla on social media, as they don’t seem too bothered that the company’s self-driving technology caused their Cybertruck to crash into a light pole.
Full self driving tech, otherwise known as FSD within the Tesla ecosystem, is the electric vehicle manufacturer’s pathway into the future.
It allows select users who have forked up cash for the add-on package to let their car do the work, as the hands-free system utilizes several cameras dotted around the vehicle alongside complex neural networks in order to drive without assistance.
It has had its fair share of controversies, including instances of running red lights, delayed promises, and dangerous crashes, but studies show that in all but three instances, self-driving vehicles are safer than their human-operated counterparts.
That wasn’t quite the case for Tesla enthusiast Jonathan Challinger though, as he shared his unfortunate experience with FSD on Elon Musk‘s own social media platform X.
“Soooooo my Tesla Cybertruck crashed into a curb and then a light post on v13.2.4,” Challinger reveals. “It failed to merge out of a lane that was ending (there was no one on my left) and made no attempt to slow down to turn until it had already hit the curb.
“Big fail on my part, obviously. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Pay attention. It can happen. I follow Tesla and FSD pretty closely and haven’t heard of any accident on V13 at all before this happened. It is easy to get complacent now – don’t.”
Soooooo my @Tesla @cybertruck crashed into a curb and then a light post on v13.2.4. Thank you @Tesla for engineering the best passive safety in the world. I walked away without a scratch. It failed to merge out of a lane that was ending (there was no one on my left) and made…
While the story itself alongside the gnarly picture of the aftermath are understandably shocking, what’s perhaps most surprising though is Challinger’s response to the crash.
Instead of lashing out at Tesla for their tech leading to a brutal crash, he bizarrely thanks the company for the ‘safety’ of the Cybertruck.
“Thank you Tesla,” he pleaded, “for engineering the best passive safety in the world. I walked away without a scratch.”
It might seem like a strange response, but you can understand where Jonathan is coming from here. He must have been going at quite the speed to do the damage that we can see, yet emerging unscathed shows the potential protective power of Tesla’s vehicles – especially the Cybertruck which has been criticized for its unsafe features in the past.
This prompted a similar reaction following the Cybertruck explosion outside of Trump Tower late last year, as many remarked on the car’s ability to contain the large blast within its shell.
Challinger ‘thanked’ Tesla for building a passive safety system that left him unharmed following the crash (X/@MrChallinger)
He has had to deal with a fair amount of pushback for his strange reaction though, with one user joking: “Thank you Tesla… for making a car that crashed itself.”
Another pointed out: “I doubt if this ‘passive safety’ would have helped a pedestrian who that f****** monstrosity crashed into,” although Challinger argues that if a pedestrian had been there, the situation would have been averted due to FSD’s training on pedestrian interactions compared to those with a utility pole.
It does also challenge the argument that some other Tesla drivers have brought up, where they imagine a world of FSD-operated cars without a single crash.
One driver in particular has pointed out their own anxieties about manually driving after using FSD most of the time, but at least you aren’t likely to drive head first into a pole for no reason when you’re in control of the wheel yourself.
It will be fascinating to look back and study the arc of Elon Musk. How did one man go from making $175.8 million from the sale of PayPal to founding SpaceX, fathering three children Grimes, and donating to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign while saying Donald Trump shouldn’t be the President? Then, finds himself sitting by the President’s side as he heads up the Department of Government Efficiency and seemingly bleeds Republican while he wears a black Make America Great Again hat.
Somewhere between all of this, Musk has continued business ventures like the purchase and rebranding of Twitter as X, continued to push forward with Tesla‘s EV future, and even found time to squeeze in a cameo or two.
Musk was later mentioned in season 10 and popped up in Young Sheldon (CBS)
Before Musk became quite as a divisive character in pop culture, he stopped by in everything from Iron Man 2 to Machete Kills, The Simpsons to South Park. If playing ‘Elon Tusk’ in Rick and Morty didn’t have you questioning whether we’re all living in a simulation, a resurfaced video from 2015 is leaving viewers more than a little perplexed.
Whatever you think of The Big Bang Theory, it carved itself a popular niche across its whopping 279-episode run.
Landing memorable cameos from Stephen Hawking, James Earl Jones, Leonard Nimoy, and more, it became a cornucopia of tech and sci-fi faces.
Musk famously appeared in 2015’s “The Platonic Permutation.” Here, Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) met Musk while serving Thanksgiving dinner to the homeless.
In the clip, Howard is star-struck by running into Musk, who is pretty nonchalant about the whole thing. There are jokes about being too generous with the gravy and trips to Mars, but in the comments, plenty are saying that something feels a little off.
There’s something off and weird about Elon’s face and his head movements. I thought this was AI. Is this real? What’s going on here?
There’s been a massive rise in artificial intelligence and deepfakes in the 10 years since Musk appeared on The Big Bang Theory, but rewatching the clip, some are convinced Musk was using it back then.
One skeptic wrote: “There’s something off and weird about Elon’s face and his head movements. I thought this was AI. Is this real? What’s going on here?”
Another added, “Yeah it’s super weird that it looks AI. Makes me question everything,” and a third said, “He just has the same air about him as Mark Zuckerberg. poorly made animatronics posing as humans (jk but they do look like that).”
Someone else shared their concerns that it’s getting increasingly hard to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not as they concluded: “If one more old man says he can’t tell the difference between AI and real life I’m gonna lose my mind 😵💫.”
The world’s richest man was later mentioned in a season 10 episode of The Big Bang Theory when Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) discussed Elon’s theory that our reality is all part of a video game being played by aliens. In the aftermath of the ‘AI Elon’ video resurfacing, we’re inclined to look into this one a little more.
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A 31 day experiment has revealed what the true cost of charging a Tesla Cybertruck is.
One owner has broken it down to share exactly how much he spends on electricity to charge up his car every month.
The Cybertruck has had its fair share of controversy ever since it was first unveiled and Elon Musk smashed its supposed ‘bulletproof’ glass.
Since then, users have complained about things like the trunk closing on their fingers and the windshield cracking in a hailstorm.
However, it seems that there are some significant upsides to driving an electric vehicle as opposed to one that runs on gas.
And a huge factor is how cheap they are to run.
YouTuber Matt Wallace, who goes by MattWallaceTech on his channel, regularly shares updates about his own Tesla truck.
Earlier this year, he uploaded a video which detailed his thoughts on the vehicle after one month of ownership.
There, he gave his insight on ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ of the Cybertruck and has even lifted the lid on how much electricity he spends to charge it.
Breaking it down for his audience, Matt said: “I know the question that’s been on everyone’s minds is just how much does this thing cost to drive per month in terms of electricity and that’s actually a great question.
Matt Wallace gave his review of the Cybertruck (YouTube/@MattWallaceTech)
“So, of course, it really depends on your area just how much you’re charged for electricity but I’ll use me for an example.
“So I’m on a very special rate plan here in Las Vegas and so doing the math, crunching the numbers, this truck costs me about anywhere from $45 to $50 a month to drive in electricity which overall is not bad for something this size, like that’s pretty insane.”
Comparing it to the price of gas, Matt estimated that if the vehicle wasn’t electric, then he’d be spending ‘over $400 a month just in gasoline’.
Viewers were shocked by how cheap the car is to run, with many taking to the YouTube comment section to share their reactions.
One user wrote: “How is that possible?”
Another shared: “I have a MYP and I have solar panels. My average electric bill on this car is $20 a month.”
And a third person added: “Time to get solar power installed. Cheaper driving and faster ROI.”
This prompted a reply from Matt which read: “I have solar and powerwalls and it’s amazing.”
