TL;DR: At least three Cybertrucks have caught fire after crashes involving fire hydrants or other strikes beneath the truck. Tesla now sells owners a battery shield for $3,500. Call it shrinkflation, because when the same basic thing happened in 2013, Tesla offered owners additional battery armor for free while under
The team at Jalopnik recently encountered a Tesla Cybercab prototype in traffic and delivered the kind of clear-eyed automotive analysis we expect from that iconic masthead: “This Looks Like Poop From A Butt.” After reviewing the footage, you know what y’all, you’re not wrong. But how does Tesla’s gilded boy
A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study compared smartphone telematics with police reports for almost 17,000 crashes in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. After excluding passive screen activity such as an untouched navigation display, the data still show a huge gap: phones detected active use before crashes far more
Here’s a guest post from Tony B, who is like me in that he’s been mulling German interwar history lately. – Kay Gather ’round while I sing you of Wernher von BraunA man whose allegianceIs ruled by expedienceCall him a Nazi, he won’t even frown“Nazi, Schmazi!” says Wernher von Braun.
FSRI spent three years burning 15 EVs and 3 gasoline vehicles to figure out what happens when an EV battery joins the fire. The answer is mostly reassuring, right up until the battery starts doing battery stuff. In some ways, we’re building the modern automobile while we’re driving it. Occasionally,
This article isn’t an article. It’s just an image. If I had to see it, so do you. OP’s Reddit Thread is Comedy Gold Highway backed up for hours in 100 degree heat while Temu Marty McFly celebrated winning his 1 man Mad Max competition. by u/Squirrels-on-LSD in CyberStuck So,
Take a look at this. A Tesla Robotaxi in Austin pauses, seems to reconsider a right-hand turn through some bollards, and then decides: I’m just gonna send it. Tesla Robotaxi Rams through several Bollards and keeps going. by u/bladerskb in SelfDrivingCars “You Can’t Go This Way! Don’t Do That! Holy
Somewhere in Texas, a Cybertruck owner saw the words “Wade Mode” and thought, let’s put that to the test. So he drove his Cybertruck down to Grapevine Lake, apparently to test the feature. The truck quickly became disabled. Thankfully the power windows didn’t lock up, and the people inside got
TL;DR: Between May 2025 and May 2026, Waymo’s recall-scope count of autonomous cabs rose from 1,212 vehicles to 3,791 vehicles. That is more than a 3x increase in the Waymo fleet size in roughly one year. We set out to measure Tesla’s robotaxi progress. Along the way, I accidentally tripped
Another day, another Cybertruck being towed from somewhere nobody really ought to need a tow from. Take a look, Toyota Sienna to the rescue: Source! A Very Non-Standard Rescue OK, so if you know what you’re looking at, this whole video is a goat rodeo. First off, the back hatch