For whatever reason, there’s a strange trend among Cybertruck owners to just abuse the crap out of their electric trucks, and often record it for the delight of the viewing public, who are blood/oil/coolant-thirsty monsters that seem to delight in seeing the wanton destruction of an expensive, low-polygon stainless steel electric truck. We’ve covered some of this before right here, to a combination of delight and disgust of our readers, for many complex and maybe predictable reasons. Now there’s a video that’s been making the rounds of someone else doing something wantonly destructive with a Cybertruck and a plastic white picket fence, but the motives and outcome are a bit different.
The video in question was done by a YouTuber named SupercarRon, and was first released back in June on Instagram, where the stated goal of the video was, at least in part, a pre-response to destructive Cybertruck content from a competing YouTuber or influencer or whatever the hell the general title is for this vocation. From the Instagram post:
“Just trying to get our use out of this thing before @whistlindiesel makes our cybertruck content obsolete.”
…and this was the video in question:
Now, as far as car videos go, this is hardly Citizen Kane; we have someone attempting, I believe, to showcase the Cybertruck’s perceived toughness by driving through a white picket fence, the kind made of hollow plastic parts. It looks pretty impressive and destructive, but of course this could be accomplished with pretty much any truck, or, really, pretty much any car. A ’73 AMC Hornet could do this, as could a ’95 Ford Aspire or, again, just about anything.
But, it did appear, according to this video, that the Cybertruck is able to fend off an immobile plastic fence no problem, and for the segment of the market that seeks to destroy plastic fencing with impunity, this is crucial information.
But! New information has come to light that completely changes the tone and outcome of this video! The video that was posted in June up there was not the full video! The full video has only been up since yesterday, and it has a dramatic ending. Watch! But first, perhaps stand over a dropcloth in case you unwittingly soil yourself from the shock!
????♂️ Social media 'influencers' planned to showcase a Cybertruck's prowess by having it demolish various objects.
However, the tables turned when the truck itself was defeated on its very first challenge: taking on a fence. pic.twitter.com/YNRHaPIWDT
— PiQ (@PiQSuite) September 8, 2024
Well, damn. Look at that. The Cybertruck sure looks a lot less tough when its vomiting out coolant from its exposed heat exchangers and radiators, which have been pretty severely damaged from chunks of plastic fence fake wooden planks being jammed up into the exposed intake. This is a pretty significant damage, as it would keep the truck from actually being driven, which I think qualifies as a significant detriment.
So, aside from the inherent betrayal of hiding the actual outcome of the fence-crushing which could severely impact those looking to purchase fleets of Cybertrucks for large-scale plastic fence-crushing businesses, likely a major market segment.
Now the question is what can be done about this? Luckily, we tasked the Autopian Labs Engineering Squad, along with Crapo, our new AI running on the Autopian Mainframe (recently upgraded to a Coleco Adam) to come up with a solution to this problem, and here’s what they came up with:
Just a nice sheet of hardware cloth or chicken wire or some similar sort of fencing, easily secured via washers and sheet metal screws! Problem solved, and, as a bonus, it looks fantastic!
So, spend $25 bucks at the hardware store and all you Cybertruck owners can mow down as many plastic fences as you want!
On any vehicle, there is a problem with things finding there way into places they shouldn’t go. I once crippled a Government spec Tahoe 3500 driving through tall grass, which managed to wrap itself around the prop shaft in enough volume to bring the beast to a stop.
If you run over enough of anything, it will kill your truck.
…or just don’t waste your money on a kid’s drawing of a truck brought to very expensive life…