I actually, genuinely thought it was an accidental fire.
Speaks to the shit reputation those shit trucks deservedly have. But also how dumb of a location for an intentional fire.
See that’s the thing.
Is a trunk/bed full of fireworks and gas average cyber truck stupidity or a real lazy attempt at arson/terrorism.
I think it might have been more about the message a burning cybertruck, in front of a trump hotel, right by the trump sign, sends, than it was about the violence. Especially since the person is military trained and knew this wasn’t going to go all OKC federal building.
But suicide bombing… Wasn’t that a Saudi thing?
The car is self driving ffs
I mean the guy may have been at the end of his rope for multiple reasons. I mean fort bragg/liberty has really high levels of lead in their water, mold in their facilities, etc., plus whatever PTSD he may have had. Who knows. However, being trained, he should have known this wasn’t going to be some massive explosion, that it was mostly just going to set the truck on fire.
This is beside the point of course, but I just want to point out that while I do think renaming facilities that were named after confederate soldiers is overall a good idea, in Bragg’s case they should have made an exception. Through incompetence, he accomplished more for the union than for the confederacy.
Kinda like the Finns calling their fire bottles “Molotov Cocktails” as a jab at Ambassador Vyacheslav Molotov.
You would think a little homemade thermite would be enough to reach the batteries and set them ablaze
yeah, lots of could have’s in this scenario. but who knows. maybe we will get more insight as time goes on.
Maybe he knew and is a misunderstood (trashy cyberpunk) “Burning Monk”
I wouldn’t be all that surprised honestly
For like 3 hours, it was glorious as my friend group wondered what part of the Cybertruck could have spontaneously combusted.
Then video came out and there’s colorful lights and we still weren’t sure.
It took a official report before we accepted it was a car bomb.
*bomb car
All I read is the truck bed was filled with flammables. ’ Is there a believable source for
A. Whether the driver started the fire or it was sparked on accident.
B. If it was not intentional, what was the actual target?
Some surprisingly low end explosives for a decorated green beret guy with his level of access. Fireworks and petrol cans?
Duh the actual target was Terrorism.
Since that word had lost all meaning like I said it would once they stuck it to Luigi.
Terrorism lost it’s meaning in America long before Hero Luigi.
Fair. The powers that be would stick it to anything but white mass murderers.
New years fireworks probably .
With military experience he’d know a little about fuel air explosives. Powerful fireworks are sufficient for making such a bomb, though they’re technically difficult (you need to trigger the second trigger explosion after the first has spread out the fuel enough to detonate)
I think he was expecting (in Marvin the Martian’s words) an earth shattering kaboom but didn’t do it right
Done right the amount of fuel would have done serious damage - all the energy released in the fire would have been released instantaneously, with a shock wave
I’m still not sure if it was an intentional car bomb or if he was transporting fireworks to use later that night and something about the car set them off.
A fully enclosed in non-air conditioned truck bed with a black lid in Las Vegas heat perhaps?
Is still probably intentional, otherwise it’s one of the more epic Darwin Awards.
Edit: Autocorrect stole my un from air conditioned.
Front row of the Darwin awards all happen to be cybertruck drivers
The lid is stainless steel, not black
Looks black to me.
It does in their promotional pictures now too. Colour me surprised. I shouldn’t be given how much it changed since the prototypes
I wonder if it’s still strong enough to stand on
You should try it.
I can’t. They’re not sold in my country
He was shot in the head prior to the explosion going off. Seems unlikely that sequence of events was accidental.
Yeah i just found this out late last night though
The cyber truck is exactly what I would expect from someone whos only job experience is memes and shitposts. A rolling dumpster fire, mocked by everyone.
Eh, my kids think they’re cool, so they have the K-6 market cornered.
No offense to your kids specifically, but children are dumb as fuck.
No offense taken. To them, being “different” is enough, unless “different” gets you bullied, facts just get in the way.
Kids aren’t dumb, just inexperienced.
TIL
FSD=Fully Self Detonating.
Trekkies everywhere: Did somebody say…self destruct sequence‽
Detonate the warp core!
Happy Shaxs noises
My first thought was literally “was it a bomb or did the batteries ignite?”
The Delorean fan in me loves the asthetic and used to get jealous.
Cyber trucks being POS deathtraps that basically fall to pieces when you breath on them, their inability to do anything a normal truck can do, and the fact they make you bleed touching an door alleviated that completely.
So thanks for making them embarrassing junkers, Elon.
The Delorean fan in me loves the asthetic and used to get jealous.
I almost agree with you, but the subtle changes made from the concept to reality make it not even look cool like it could’ve
For the comparison.
I don’t think you can compare the two really.
Certainly not for use case.
One was a sports car
One is (supposed to be) a pickup truck
But it’s clear to me what they were going for asthetically. There’s a bunch of people who already did BTTF prop time machine conversions.
That said, I wouldn’t buy a cyber truck because they’re poorly built, poorly engineered, and unsafe.
Gosh it missed the design mark so bad. It looks like a PlayStation 1 era car.
I get it as far as “they both have angles”.
But one actually looks like a car.
The cybertruck has everything up front. Like they designed something, then had to concede that people have to use it, tacked something on, and didn’t bother hiding it.
The delorian looks like it was designed with the fact there would be people in mind
Except that Delorean does not equal a Cyber Truck.
I keep hearing that they keep falling apart and catching fire, yet no one links pictures. I have seen exactly one out of the 27 thousand that is claimed to have had a battery fire and looks like it did.
Bro, what’s Elon’s cock taste like? You’ve been sucking it all over this thread.
“The future should look like the future.” - Elon Musk
The cybertruck future looks like 1982’s Blade Runner.
That’s highly insulting to Blade Runner, which had very stylish vehicles.
It looks like a shell on an El Camino in a straight-to-video 1980s Mad Max ripoff.
I’d been comparing them to the models for the Quake mod Quake rally some time, I actually went to verify that I was remembering Quake Rally correctly and now I have to stop because the 90s video game mod had higher poly counts.
Syd Mead should slap you in the face for saying that.
Hey, it was supposed to look bad. A dystopian future where the entire earth was basically a third world country where all the good stuff was manufactured for the off world colonies.
“car”
Self controlled IED
Ol kekius dick suckius made the shittiest car in existence
I WANT to give him that credit, but he’s never made anything in his life.
Made? Probably not. But I’m sure he’s responsible for pushing them out onto the streets knowing what potentially dangerous garbage they are.
If Trump were already in office I would still think they were covering it up with the claims of explosives.
Now please all aboard the SpaceX rocket everybody! A 6 barrel revolver with a single bullet is added for a fun game of Russian roulette. Just to out your mind at ease, the gun is not the biggest threat to your life.
SpaceX hasn’t killed anyone, incidentally it’s also the company musk has the least power over.
I wouldn’t necessarily call those two facts “incidental”. I’d be pretty confident calling it “cause and effect”.
whoosh
Tesla is publicly traded and has a board of directors. I believe Musk has more than half the votes though
SpaceX is privately owned by him and Gwynne Shotwell only serves as COO because Musk is happy with her in that role
Tesla engineers are limited in their pursuit of whatever weird shit Elon wants by pretty lose car safety standards. SpaceX has to comply with two governments, a dozen other companies, and hundreds of insurance companies safety standards.
loose*?
There’s still time
conspiracy in my opinion: that guy was shot in the head and dumped into that car and then blown up for threatening to out Trump or Musk for some dirty dirty shit.
Someone threatened a powerful person and then the powerful person made sure to retaliate in a highly public way which would link their own brand to the murder?
Sometimes I wonder why my conservative family thinks that liberals are just as conspiratorial as conservatives, then I come across the comment you responded to and go “yeaaaah still don’t agree but I see where you would think that” lol
I hope it’s not as bad
If the stop the steal people and the flat earth people all appreciate being a part of an “in group“, I wonder what the liberal version is
It’s definitely not as bad, I’m just saying that it helps enable whataboutism
Well that’s the most fun conspiracy I’ve seen yet. Unfortunately it doesn’t work as there is video of the vehicle stopping, no one getting in or out, then it exploding
Ummm, didn’t musk actually just hold a snake oil press party were he had people remotely drive his vehicles and told the sycophants it was perfect safe robot magic driving the cars?
Kind of fucks your rebuttal there… What else you got?
No idea, I really don’t follow Musk. The vehicles can drive themselves though so sure
akchually this can be legitimately spinned in favour of tesla
police are already saying that the explosion wasn’t as bad because it went off inside a cybertruck
Cops will say any damn thing that lets them lick the boot
Cops and simping for the rich, name a better duo
Yeah, it would have been worse if it went off inside something valuable
Pedestrians should be thankful that the windows gave out so easily, otherwise the body panels might’ve turned into giant shrapnel.
Or that the guy wasn’t good at bombs. If it has been filled with ANFO they would have been identifying victims from tiny parts and investigating by video evidence. Many in the hotel would have been killed
I remember ANFO from Mythbusters. It really hates cement trucks and train station mock-ups.
Except in the case of an accidental fire, apparently the doors lock down and trap the drivers? That’s what I took away.
How is that better?
While parked if the car no longer detects a key it locks. It’s still easy to open from inside. Emergency services can gain entry with an angle grinder
I’m sure during a collision they unlock
In this case I think the key went offline due to the explosion
Which is a weird fucking thing for a cop to immediately say when police also said explosion included “an electric vehicle” that they wouldn’t specifically identify right away.
