A Tesla Cybertruck owner shares his truck was totaled after it was sideswiped by an E-scooter. However, the insurance company is only offering to pay him a “fair market price” of $77K, even though he paid $198K for the truck and still owes the bank $171K.
I read the article hoping to find out how being sideswiped by an e-scooter could total a truck, but I was left unsatisfied.
Remember that a “totaled” vehicle doesn’t mean it can’t be used, or even that it is heavily damaged just that insurance has decided that the specific repairs needed would cost more than just paying out the current value.
They don’t care if you get your vehicle fixed or replaced, insurance only cares about paying as little as possible using every loophole as possible.
Yeah, I’ve been on the other side of that, but sideswiped by a scooter? I get that they aren’t worth as much as they were, but still…
Cybertrucks are really, really bad for repairability. Consider the fact that on a normal car you can fix a dent by getting the panel most of the way back to the correct shape and then fairing it the rest of the way with Bondo before painting it. But with a Cybertruck, you’d have to metalwork the panel all the way back to perfect and then somehow figure out how to match the surface finish. It’s a lot more labor, if it’s even possible.
It could be that the insurance doubts that the vehicle can be completely restored to its pre-loss condition at any price.
My dude, have you ever seen a Swastikkkar? Those panels ain’t even perfect when they leave the factory.
Thats the hard part, how would a bodyshop mimic the shittyness of the factory look
Step 1: take in damaged Cybertruck.
Step 2: do absolutely fuckall to it.
Step 3: charge owner $6000 for repairs.
Step 4: watch happy owner drive off.
i think insurances are either not covering it, or they double, triple the cost of preniums.
I’m with you. How fast was that scooter going?!
At least 2mph.
Probably.
to a cybertruck it might as well go 2mps, 2 miles per second.
It was a made up story posted to reddit. The original reddit post was deleted but people mentioned the pictures were taken directly from this story of a Cybertruck being hit by a Toyota: https://www.electrifiedmag.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-holiday-hiccup-first-reported-accident/
A truck would be fine, but this fragile piece of shit just fell apart.
It doesn’t make any sense. eScooters are all plastic lol
Right, but cybertrucks are mostly bovine excrement.
Whoa hey now, that’s not true at all.
There’s plenty of rust on them after it rains too.
I suspect his story is bullshit. His truck was sideswiped by an e-scooter with enough force to damage the doors, wheels, deploy the airbags, and render the vehicle immobile? How fast/massive was this e-scooter? Did the e-scooter rider survive this incredible impact? None of this passes the sniff test unless there is some misalignment in the understanding of what constitutes an e-scooter or he was hit with a glancing blow by a magnetically launched scooter with a rather large rider.
I feel like I have to address the airbag situation. Airbags don’t deploy upon impact (at least not directly), but rather upon any significant deceleration. Anytime the vehicle decelerates enough that your body is thrown forward with force is when an [front] airbag would deploy. You know the thing where your seatbelt locks up as you’re braking? Same principle, but a higher threshold.
So the father back up your point, I cannot see how an e-scooter, sideswiping or even being hit head-on, could cause enough deceleration that would deploy the airbags.
Then again, it’s the cyber truck, so from a “safety” perspective who knows.
I was imagining the side airbags deploying if it was a sideswipe.
A different set of forces would activate those to be sure. I know rollover forces deploy side airbags.
Again, it’s a cybertruck, so its poor craftsmanship is probably enough to blame.
Good points
Put a crease in the metal down the whole length of any vehicle and the bill wont be gentle.