# Cybertrucks falling apart **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780 "2025-02-25T12:45:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/81 "2025-03-17T16:18:32Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Still waiting for a class action to start some day. President Musk will make lawsuits illegal, un-American and treasonous. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/82 "2025-03-17T16:34:35Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@wolfpup](#): > > > > People have been fried in their Teslas because they couldn’t figure out how to open the door in an emergency, > > Is this true? [https://www.fastcompany.com/91227786/teslas-latest-tragic-fire-is-a-reminder-of-why-cars-need-old-school-door-handles](https://www.fastcompany.com/91227786/teslas-latest-tragic-fire-is-a-reminder-of-why-cars-need-old-school-door-handles) [https://sfist.com/2025/03/11/testimony-reveals-doors-would-not-open-on-cybertruck-that-caught-fire-in-piedmont-killing-three/](https://sfist.com/2025/03/11/testimony-reveals-doors-would-not-open-on-cybertruck-that-caught-fire-in-piedmont-killing-three/) > **[Door Handles Blamed For Driver's Death In Tesla Model S Fire: Lawsuit](https://www.jalopnik.com/door-handles-blamed-for-drivers-death-in-tesla-model-s-1839300667/)** > > A wrongful death lawsuit filed with the Circuit Court of Broward County, Florida earlier this month alleges the motorized retractable door handles on the Tesla Model S prevented the rescue of the driver as smoke and flames filled the cabin. > **[Mix-Up With Tesla Touchscreen Killed Angela Chao: Report \[UPDATE\]](https://gizmodo.com/mix-up-with-tesla-touchscreen-killed-angela-chao-repor-1851328861)** > > Chao had previously had issues with the touchscreen shifter in her Model X. > **[Why Tesla EVs Catch Fire and Why Victims Struggle to Escape](https://medium.com/@davidsehyeonbaek/why-tesla-evs-catch-fire-and-why-victims-struggle-to-escape-8ec89e59760c)** > > We have often seen news articles or news broadcasts about how the drivers or passengers of Tesla EVs were stuck in the burning vehicles and could not escape and suffered a lot before they passed out… Stranger ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/83 "2025-03-17T16:48:17Z")
Yeesh. Yet another reason (a) never to buy a Telsa and (b) always to carry at least one window-breaker tool in your car. I got one for the pocket on each of the driver and passenger doors after watching a Mythbusters episode about escaping a sinking car. Mine also have a razor slot for cutting seatbelts that won’t release. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/84 "2025-03-17T16:51:17Z")
Yeah, I keep a hammer/slicer tool thing in my car where I can reach it while wearing a seatbelt, just in case. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/85 "2025-03-17T16:56:21Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Yet another reason (a) never to buy a Telsa and (b) always to carry at least one window-breaker tool in your car. Apparently the Model Y and some Model 3 vehicles have [laminated side window glass](https://insideevs.com/news/460707/testing-tesla-laminated-glass-vs-regular-glass/). So…good luck with the glass breaker. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/86 "2025-03-17T16:59:18Z")
Aha! Yet ANOTHER reason not to buy a Tesla! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/87 "2025-03-17T19:53:21Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Yeah, I keep a hammer/slicer tool thing in my car where I can reach it while wearing a seatbelt, just in case. I always thought those were kind of a silly paranoid thing to purchase. Then I was in a car that rolled over a few times and stopped on its roof. Seatbelt was locked up and I wasn’t at my best to try to figure out how to get down. A passerby used one of those to break out the window and cut me down. Now I’m a believer. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/88 "2025-03-17T20:51:28Z")
I used a baton to break the window and a pocket knife cut the seatbelt on a driver on a car whose engine compartment caught on fire. Apparently they stopped because smoke was coming through the firewall and out of the front grill, couldn’t unbuckle the seatbelt, and got confused or partially incapacitated by smoke inhalation. I was able to get them out of the car (still semiconscious and ambulatory, thankfully) and away from the vehicle before it started burning in earnest. Since then, I keep a breaker/cutter in reach from the driver’s seat, then folding medical shears with glassbreaker and rescue hook on my trauma chest rig hung on the back of the headrest (plus flashlight with UV, cut resistant gloves, respirator mask, and all the major trauma items), and a hammer style breaker with cutter, a small Halligan bar, and a fire blanket on the back panel of the seat. I’ve never had to use any of it (and have only broken into the EMT pack between the jump seats for the boo-boo kit) but I’d rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it at hand. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/89 "2025-03-17T21:42:51Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > folding medical shears with glassbreaker and rescue hook on my trauma chest rig hung on the back of the headrest (plus flashlight with UV, cut resistant gloves, respirator mask, and all the major trauma items), and a hammer style breaker with cutter, a small Halligan bar, and a fire blanket "Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.” ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/90 "2025-03-17T21:52:20Z")
So, is it least a theoretical possibility that [**Matthew Livelsberger’s Cybertruck**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Las_Vegas_Cybertruck_explosion) had a power door lock failure, and that he did what any reasonable person (say: one who _desperately_ had to pee) would have done in order to swiftly exit the vehicle? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/91 "2025-03-17T22:10:07Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > "Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.” Certainly in [New Vegas](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/New_Vegas). Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/92 "2025-03-17T22:16:24Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > "Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.” > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > So, is it least a theoretical possibility that [**Matthew Livelsberger’s Cybertruck**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Las_Vegas_Cybertruck_explosion) […] Those two posts go very well together. It is not my idea of _a pretty good weekend_, but hey! that is how the quote goes. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/93 "2025-03-18T00:41:53Z")
This whole Jimmy Jimmel clip is well worth watching, but if you want a good chuckle, fast-forward to the 7:00 minute mark! 😁 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vXvhtJy3KrE/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump Shamelessly Shills for Tesla, Hurls More Tariffs at Canada & Stock Market Suffers Bigly") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXvhtJy3KrE) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/94 "2025-03-18T01:45:10Z")
I feel stupid asking, but is that real/legit? Did that really happen? Edit: That’s gotta be AI ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/95 "2025-03-18T03:33:48Z")
They could always beautify their trucks by running decorative duct tape over every seam. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/96 "2025-03-18T03:36:21Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I always thought those were kind of a silly paranoid thing to purchase. Then I was in a car that rolled over a few times and stopped on its roof. Seatbelt was locked up and I wasn’t at my best to try to figure out how to get down. A passerby used one of those to break out the window and cut me down. Now I’m a believer. I used to have one of these and I somehow lost track of it over the years (I don’t think I removed it when I sold my last car). After reading thus thread I went online and bought a replacement - actually I went ahead and got a two pack. It cost $5.99. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/97 "2025-03-18T03:45:11Z")
I do believe that a combined window-breaking and seat-belt-cutting tool, or two separate tools, are well worth having. Very unlikely to ever be needed, but small, cheap, and could save your life. I don’t have one but will probably buy several and give to loved ones. There’s a grey area somewhere between irrational paranoia and “why would I ever need this?” being famous last words as you sink to the bottom of a river. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/98 "2025-03-18T05:08:27Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I feel stupid asking, but is that real/legit? Did that really happen? The panel falling off was added with CGI. You can tell because the Secret Service and Trump didn’t panic that he was under attack yet **again**. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/99 "2025-03-18T05:36:05Z")
In these horrific days, I sometimes try to amuse myself by imagining how this era will be portrayed in history books, cinema, memorabilia, etc. .. Makes me giggle to picture this Cyberdreck as the next “Edsel”. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/100 "2025-03-18T08:20:42Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Makes me giggle to picture this Cyberdreck as the next “Edsel”. Haha, yes. I seriously hope so. Although, being somewhat weird, I would not mind owning an Edsel, if there are any extant and available in my little corner of the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780.md?page=6)