He says the trucks are “apocalypse-proof” and claims they can withstand bullets and have “armor glass” windows.
They also withstand emergency responders and the occupant’s attempts to escape.
Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cybertruck-crashes-battery-fires
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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Chances of you experiencing the apocalypse - Zero
Chances you will get trapped in an Cybercuck and be unable to get out - Not Zero
spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Elon is both building the “apocalypse-proof” (they are not) truck and the apocalypse (he really is)
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And the apocalypse will have working charging stations.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Let’s face face it. The most likely apocalypse is an economic crash brought on by the kind of crop of idiots. Not sure how a car is going to help with that.
arcine@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
He meant apocalypse proof from the INSIDE, duh ! If all hell breaks loose inside, it won’t get out, and neither will you !
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t Teslas have the highest crash fatality stats on the road or something? Terrible company.
rimu@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Cybertrucks are 17 times more likely to kill you in a fiery way than the Ford Pinto, the previous record holder.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto/
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m not in any way trying to downplay how bad the cyber-dumpster is, but is that an adequate sample size to extrapolate the fiery-death rate? The article says 17 times the rate of the Pinto, but it was only 5 total fires.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
With ‘murican healthcare prices the fatality rate is a feature.
bampop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You even get a free cremation. Saves time and money!
towerful@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
But maybe they have the lowest crash rate?
So like, crashes cost money right? Someone is responsible. Someone has to pay.
But if everyone dies in an inferno, then nobody is responsible. Who can pay? They’re all dead! What medical bills? What repairs? It’s all a write off.
Free market wins!pennomi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
According to the article they have higher crash rates and fatalities because the drivers are worse. The cars themselves actually rate fairly high in safety standards.
That being said, I think the safety evaluations are flawed and don’t consider things like electronic locks.
sploder@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t fathom having my husband burn to death so badly that he’s just … evaporated. But then again I can’t imagine my husband ever wanting a cybercuck so there’s also that.
arcine@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
I can’t imagine my husband.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I can’t imagine
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My wife and I are in need of a truck since we moved to a rural area and need one for stuff like trash disposal and whatnot. We’ve decided to get something practical like a hundai santafe or honda ridgeline
thebazman@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Comment of the week right here Username makes it even better
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do either of those evaporate your bones?
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Fires that entrap passengers are a well-documented and recurring problem with every model in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles, but Cybertrucks appear to have a disproportionate number of known deaths. Safety experts have told the Guardian that the truck’s unique design amplifies the deadly issue. The vehicles come with high-density laminated windows that are harder to break than regular car windows, making escape and rescue difficult when doors won’t unlock. And the trucks are built with materials not commonly used in the industry, like stainless steel, which can complicate the work of emergency responders. The Cybertruck is also the first Tesla model to entirely eliminate door handles on the outside of the vehicle.
First, “unique” design? It’s an ugly callback to the wedge-shaped cars of the 80s. It looks like a DeLorean model that refused to render properly, and the dev just went with it.
Second, the decision to exclude door handles is fucking mental. It’s a mundane feature that cars have had since the Model T. If they wanted to make a pickup, its handles should resemble those found on a typical pickup. If it’s “aesthetics” they’re after (which shouldn’t matter when it comes to a pickup), some of the best looking cars have had no problem including door handles into its design.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The reason to eliminate door handles that Tesla and others typically give is aerodynamic efficiency. Granted there are other bigger aerodynamic problems. gestures at the rest of the fucking truck
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
aerodynamic efficiency
For internal door handles?
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
That’s just nonsense justification they came up with after the fact. Ferraris have door handles, so clearly they’re not much of an issue.
Anyway the car isn’t going to exceed 80 miles an hour anyways so aerodynamics barely comes into it.
datendefekt@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The improvement removing the handles is there, but negligible. Especially considering the safety implications. Didn’t China ban flush door handles for safety reasons?
nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aerodynamics was obviously not a concern in the process of designing a vehicle that has (checks notes) literal corners.
sefra1@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It looks like a DeLorean model that refused to render properly
Lmao
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
looks like a DeLorean
Deplorean
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Fires that entrap passengers are a well-documented and recurring problem with every model in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles
How is this a perfectly valid statement about the worlds richest man’s car company without us beating him to death with hammers/ seeing how many of those baseball sized steel balls he can handle?
Soup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Unique” here refers to the fact that every other car is built pretty much the same way in as much first responders are concerned, and that makes them predictable and fairly easy to get out of while cybertrucks are strong enough and door-handleless enough to be incredibly dangerous(while also not being strong enough to do most of what they promise).
breezeblock@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Free cremation — it’s a service!
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You could almost say it’s like being put into an oven.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I mean you can just say that if you really want
romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Feature, not a bug.
Haaveilija@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
CaaS
skvlp@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
It will be monetised soon enough
meathorse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Popup on the screen:
Your Tesla is on fire, escape is no longer possible as your subscription to “Escape Hatch” has expired. In order to enable “FlameOn ™ mode” for rapid immolation, please approve the one time payment of $4,206.90
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ouch oof my bones
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Ford Pinto wishes it was this deadly…
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
I daily a Fiero and don’t think even at its worst point people burned inside trapped without handles.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I think your fiero is from the post-Nader era in u.s. car manufacturing.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s what futuristic hidden door handles get you. Nice and crispy.
Denalduh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not all of them act the same way. We have the hidden handles on our 26 Equinox EV but it still pivots open if you press on the opposite side of pulling to act as a normal handle.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Burned into a charcoal because noone around knew how to onanize door handle into cooperation.” Would fit well on the tombstone
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s a similar method to the Tesla Model 3 and Y.
The S and X had motorized handles that retracted.
The Cybertruck has no physical handles on the outside. It has a button on the B pillar that activates an electric release to pop the door open.
All of those methods are flush, but only one isn’t visible to rescuers and can completely fail with a lack of power or motor failure with no physical external backup option.
lmmarsano@group.lt 2 weeks ago
self-cleaning/pyrolytic oven on wheels
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
creep cremator
debil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Disposable too
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cremation is a new feature. It’ll be an extra $2500 and comes with a decision engine on whether you should live or die (door unlocking). Tesla knows, trust Elon.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
its also a 100, 000k coffin with a built in charcuterie machine, that can slice VENISON in half.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
cybertruck is a built in crematorium and Coffin at the same time,elon makes nazi impressed.
pau_hana@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
These horrific deaths and injuries are tragic. I see too many schadenfreude comments here approving of people dying just because they chose to drive a vehicle most people don’t like. If there is blame, it is not on the victims, but on Tesla and the regulators we trust to ensure minimum and obvious safety features.
TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Anybody that bought a cyber truck did so knowing full well Elon is a Nazi. They made their bed and now they can lie in it. No compassion at all for these selfish fucks.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anybody that bought a cyber truck did so knowing full well Elon is a Nazi.
The cybertruck was available to buy before he went full mask off. And not everyone is “in-touch” with everything.
No compassion at all
Disgusting.
uienia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Perhaps if we were just talking Teslas in general, but the cybertruck? I can’t imagine any non-assholes buying and driving those. That thing is a statement, a fascist “own-the-libs” statement in particular.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
anyone that bought a cybertruck did so knowing full well that it’s a giant “fuck everybody but me” vehicle
I have no sympathy for them. their victims, yes. the owner, not at all.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
anyone that bought a cybertruck did so knowing full well that it’s a giant “fuck everybody but me” vehicle
That’s how many people see it, but I know a few people that are entirely disconnected from “celeb culture” and the news in general, and just think the cybertruck is neat technology. And to be fair, putting aside the massive safety issues with it, it does have noteworthy technology that on their own are interesting.
And I think the cross section of people who are interested in the cybertruck, people who are not particularly intelligent, and who also have money are generally going to be the customer base. It’s fine to criticize, but to say “no sympathy” when they die is gross.
Jiral@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
I disapprove the Schadenfreude comments, but this is not merely a “vehicle most people don’t like”. It is a dangerous vehicle unnecessarily threatening health and even live of other members of the community, especially of children. There is a reason why it is not street legal in the EU.
pau_hana@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I agree the EU regulators made the right call, and this vehicle should not be on the public streets anywhere until it can meet basic safety standards, both for the drivers and for the public.
thlibos@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
When we finally start eating the rich, we will have readily available fires to cook them over.
GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The cybertruck actually burns so hot it destroys your soul. No afterlife for you!
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
FFS, design standards exist for a reason. Quit trying to reinvent the wheel, or car doors as it is here.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Cant wait til they start taking volunteers for the Mars rocket
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, see, that’s what you get for being a poor.
Solution is simple, you must buy the optional $700 Cyberhammer to bash out the glass.
Elon’s got it all figured out, 8D chess losers
ChadGPT2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reminder to keep one of those window breaker hammers in your car.
Also don’t buy cars from megalomaniacal nazis.
org@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
No body no crime
Elon
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve taken a couple uber rides in a Tesla and I wish they’d give you the option to select NOT THAT. I just stared at the stupid door button the whole time
crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
At this point if you’re still driving a swasticar, you deserve it.
green_goglin@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
POINT AND LAUGH
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This honestly seems like the most practical outcome. It solves the problem. It’s not like they have family that are gonna care for these fucking Nazis when they’re dead. Turn them to ash and throw them in the junkyard with the car.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Tesla Crematoria
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand why it doesn’t have a door handle. I don’t get it
6stringringer@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We have yet to ask one simple question. Is this a bug or a feature?
The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The funny part is, the doors have a manual release on the inside, Tesla owners are just too dumb to read the user manual.
The not funny part is, the ones in the back are deep inside the bottom of the door, there’s no possible way a child in a car seat could open the back door in an emergency.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
literal deathtrap
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sounds like a great way to fake your death. The only problem is that everyone will think you died driving a Tesla.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good point. Back to the drawing board.
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
See, there’s your problem. No one’s going to believe a drawing board disappeared a body.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It… also costs 100k
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean if you’re faking your death I don’t think you’re planning on paying off the loan
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you’re right. no one would believe that
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
Or dispose of evidence.
arcine@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Or BOTH !