A Cybertruck ‘blew up’ outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas
A Cybertruck ‘blew up’ outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas
The vehicle was parked directly outside the hotel doors.
A Cybertruck ‘blew up’ outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas
It’s still not clear what caused the fire
It's a Cybertruck.
From another article...
While some early Tesla models, including the Model S, were prone to spontaneously catch fire if they suffered underbody damage, it’s unlikely the Cybertruck, which has been recalled seven times since it went on sale in November 2023, was released with a similar flaw.
Nah, no chance a cybertruck would have the same flaw. No chance at all, am I right?
Having multiple models share the same defect is just being efficient!
Especially since musk does it's own safety testing right?
Probably even MORE likely, since these trucks are way less safety regulated than normal cars.
Well, it's certainly a different beast. Being a pickup, the chassis is higher off the ground than other teslas. The problem with other teslas was insufficient armor on the underbody, so road debris could puncture through the vehicle and damage batteries. On a pickup there's both more room for (essentially) an armor plate and any debris would have to punch much higher up.
All and all, these kinds of battery fires should be much less likely to occur on a truck than on a sedan.
Edit: Upon actually watching that press conference from the sheriff and fire marshall, it seems clear to me from the language they're using, that they're treating this explosion as likely an intentional act. And I have to say, there's a lot of damning evidence in that truck bed.
It wouldn't have been the first time.
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/31/cybertruck-catches-fire-dekalb-county-tesla-dealership/
Well, that is funny.
However the battery didn't explode, the truck bed was full of gasoline cans and fireworks.
And the steel body of the truck bed actually did a great job of containing the explosion, focusing it mostly upward. The sheriff points out that the windows in the all glass front of that hotel weren't even shattered because the blast was so well contained by the truck.
I think in some languages it translates to “matchstick kindling.”
Whoever is in charge of writing this simulation is just getting lazy.
They are really heavy-handed on the symbolism in the new season. And right in the first episode? Bold.
He hasn't even been inaugurated yet. We're still in the last season recap.
It does feel increasingly like we arent living in any sort of actual reality anymore. Maybe our universe really IS just a simulation. If so, the entities who made it should be ashamed of themselves. This is pathetic.
They probably just came from a holiday, give them a break!
Wait, your telling me this was on purpose? I just thought the cyberjunk was so shit, someone visiting the building just HAPPENED to blow up
The vehicle's battery was not damaged and did not catch fire.
The cargo area was full of fuel and explosives - in the form of firework mortars.
Explosives and fuel make a good fireball and fire. Fireworks being a 2 stage explosive (launch and pretty explosion), they may have expected the initial bang to disburse the fuel and the second to detonate it as a fuel/air explosive which would be very damaging, enough to take down the building.
Obviously were that their goal they did not sufficiently test. The vehicle contained the initial explosion and all they got was a fire
And the blast and fire exited through the passenger cabin, killing the driver. I hope it wasn't a valet.
I wonder if it was triggered accidentally early or badly set up and detonated on its own or remotely triggered too early.
I bet they thought they'd light up the battery. Poor quality bombers
Poor quality bombers
I've seen a source (poor quality source, won't quote) that identifies the likely suspect as a former green beret. Also, CNN says:
Authorities suspect that the driver had a background in military service, according to several law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.
They should not be poor quality bombers. In fact, they should be able to build a decent bomb by heart in several ways, if they learned anything at all.
I'm at loss regarding what this guy actually intended to happen, and whether he achieved that.
- Hypothesis A, inspired by claims of links to the New Orleans attack: failed terrorist suicide bombing?
- Hypothesis B: intended to do big time vandalism and live, but something went wrong?
- Hypothesis C: some sort of a suicide pact?
The car was there for 20 seconds according to police chief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDyQ93QAao&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F
There are reports of a firework mortar and gas canister in the back. Looks very intentional and showy from the video. Stupid way to end one's life, but that was part of it I think as well.
The weirdest thing about a cybertruck bomb is that the world has become so shit that it's not even interesting. Like, I just cannot care because every day something insane happens.
That's the real fucking signal IMO.
It's like the opposite of early-2000s games, where the car models had an ever-growing poly count but the fire was still an animated 2d sprite.
A cybertruck in it's natural habitat
Performing its natural mating display.
Looks a lot like a trunk load of fireworks exploded.
Good video on the Guardian's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9_zvpamUk
Video on the YT channel of The Times. Don't know who is talking but they killed me: https://youtu.be/JrDnramp8i8?t=34
CNN saying there were also gas tanks and camping fuel
Says a lot that like nobody knew what to make of it until the propane tanks were found.
Its still unclear if the driver intended for it to explode or if somebody tossed a bunch of flammables in the back and the truck lit it.
Thinking this through, they probably filled the car with gas until they couldn't breathe and then hit the firework mortar to set it all off. Also gives them a higher chance of ending it all then, as opposed to the "oops, all fire!" version, which would have been a lingering way to go.
The glass doors right next to the vehicle look intact in the image, so I can't imagine that the explosion was very large.
I don't think it actually "exploded", just caught fire. So you know, standard behavior for a Tesla.
Heh. Nobody is as mad as a betrayed zealot
The irony in the headline alone is enough sustenance to carry me through the lean months ahead.
I don't think we will be experiencing an irony drought.
Don't care. Sounds like a problem for fascists.
So lets see, a recall every few months, do not allow them to ever get them wet, dont drive them offroad, you're not allowed to sell them, and never use them to haul fireworks.
Don't feed them after midnight?
do not drive them through the mud or tow anything over a non-flat surface
Canyonerooo-oooh yah!
Canyonerooo
IntentionalRennaissance.
It must be a metaphor of Trump/Musk presidency 🤣🤣🤣
I'm making that image in the article the "hero" banner image in my Steam library for Cyberpunk 2077. It's just too damn perfect.
That entrance doesn't even look 2nd rate, it looks more like a 3rd rate hotel.
I thought Trump liked things to look expensive, but this looks like it's built with the cheapest of the cheapest standard parts available.I don't think he typically typically builds buildings, he just sells his name to put on them.
this looks like it's built with the cheapest of the cheapest standard parts available.
That's on brand for Trump. A thin veneer of flashiness hastily slapped onto a decaying carcass.
WHAT? Are you saying he is superficial. 😋
Sounds like it's full of fireworks.
Real Trumpster fire.
Just found this
Another article said it was full of firework like mortars. No real details past that ATM I don't think.
Looks like it too, in the X video posted elsewhere in this thread.
Praise the cameraman.
Staying at the Trump Tower? Let's not give them much praise.
the fire was put out within an hour
How does that work? I thought that with electrical car battery fires, you basically just had to spray water to keep it cool until it was done with what it wanted to do.
It wasn't a battery fire is was a cargo fire.
Ahhhh
The mystery reveals.
Thats one option, but just because the battery caught fire doesn't mean the entire battery pack is going to catch fire.
There are fire walls in the battery, so if you get to it in time, you could cool it off and prevent a breach of the next firewall, and then the fire will be stopped when those existing cells use all their energy.
Within an hour doesn't seem unreasonable in that case if everything went right.
Maybe they put the whole truck in an airtight container?
I think battery fires are self oxidising, you cannot suffocate them. The advice for small lithium cells for radio control toys was stand up wind, ideally have a steel bucket of sand to put it in.
Also discharge them completely as you can before disposal. The RC batteries had no protection so we could take them to zero volts
I'm so cold right now. I could use a cybertruck in the fireplace right now.
Foreshadowing
lol
Heisenberg strikes again
My guess is it wasn't random, that the vehicle was intended to damage or destroy the building but it went off early and they didn't count on the vehicle being so resistant
It would have been pretty bad if it had been parked under the hotel and the battery had caught, but as it was the blast was directed up and into the cabin, and the fire was contained to the tray and the cabin leaving the battery safe
Where the fuck are mods....
Like holy fuck, all the comments blatantly ignore everything?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDyQ93QAao&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F
2 cars rented from the same company both used clearly for terror and all you got to say is "Roflmao! Just Tesla things!"
Fuck this place, worse than Guardian comment section. Yes I am angry and yes I do expect better. I found more civil comments on reddit.
Found the tesla owner
You know where the door is.
Please report any rule breaking behaviour. We cannot see everything.
So do you think it's funny that the Tesla self destructed, or do you think it's funny someone blew it up?
I think it's funny either way
I'm hoping the vehicle's onboard camera views are released. Teslas have many cameras, including one watching the interior. They are all stored in the vehicle and unless all online activity is disabled are uploaded to Tesla for training the fleet and investigating failures
Tesla almost certainly know who owns or owned the vehicle and has video of whoever most recently drove it, possibly including view into the cargo area which seems to have been filled with a fire bomb
Teslas have many cameras, including one watching the interior.
"Honey, let's fuck in the surveillance mobile."
Tesla employees got in trouble years ago for sharing sexy videos their customers' cars recorded
The car also uses the internal camera to tell if you're watching the road. I understand that can be defeated by sunglasses.
They really are surveillance machines, and in Australia we can't even take advantage of it to get cheap insurance if we're good drivers
Someone tried to copycat the FBI building bomb from 1995.
Obviously not.