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“The evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack. Cybertruck actually contained the explosion and directed the blast upwards,” he wrote on X. “Not even the glass doors of the lobby were broken.”
I'm sure that's very reassuring to potential Cybertruck buyers
Musk, ever the fucking idiot, misunderstands the situation as usual.
The contents of the cybertruck wouldn't have blown the doors off any car. It was fireworks and gas canisters. You'd get a hollywood explosion not a real one. Any real explosion would have demolished the vehicle (any vehicle) and left a sizeable crater.
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Police responding said it would have at least broken windows if set off in a less rigid vehicle. The cargo compartment is a double skin of stainless steel thicker than the steel used in the shell of normal vehicles
So it's designed to only harm the people inside? Seems accurate based on everything else I've read about it.
I don't think explosions were part of the safety design. The only picture I have seen of a cybertruck after a battery fire showed the rear of the vehicle destroyed but the cabin intact
The shape and solidness suggest it's much more dangerous to any vulnerable road users than to its occupants, just like every light truck used as an urban car
What am I supposed to do with this information?
Your options are either to wait for more complete information from confirmed sources, or do the standard internet thing and take a tiny bit of unconfirmed rumor and spin a wild conspiracy theory from it.
You can make guesses about whether the two 1 January attacks with light trucks hired through Turo one by an ex soldier, the other by an active service soldier who both served in Afghanistan at the same time and who both were deployed to the same base in America at the same time, are related
Or you could try attributing it to a political statement by a suicidal soldier who doesn't like Elon Musk's influence on Trump
Or nothing, just wait for more certain information once the investigation is finished
Absolutely nothing, it's utterly useless. The only useful info at this point would be if they can find some kind of evidence to prove this wasn't an accident, either some kind of intentional ignition source in the car, or a manifesto or some kind of proof of motive. Until either of those surface I'm just chocking this one up to Teslas doing Tesla things with some new years fireworks and camping supplies making it extra spicy this time.
It's like someone just posted an article asking if there was a link to this guy and the person in New Orleans because they were both veterans (like almost 16 million other Americans) and they used Turo (the most popular vehicle rental app) to rent their trucks.
Yes. That's the link. And that's probably it.
Find some way to use it to blame in the Great American Political Tribal War, I guess. As with every single other piece of information that is going to come out about anything in the next four years. Or longer.
As evidenced by the only other two comments in this thread, which are going on about whether Cybertrucks are safe and if Elon Musk is stupid.