Elon Musk talks.
He talks a lot.
Usually about nonsense.
He claimed his angular steel toy was “apocalypse-level safe.” He also swore it could float. Not like a barge, exactly. Just enough to act as a boat briefly. Rivers. Lakes. Seas. “As long as they aren’t too choppy.”
Well.
Texas is rarely polite to engineers.
One driver took that quote literally.
He backed a Cybertruck off a ramp into Grapevine Lake. Near Dallas. It’s a big lake, 8,000 acres of it, and completely indifferent to marketing speak.
The truck didn’t cross.
It sank.
The driver bailed out. Passengers too.
Grapevine Fire Rescue had to drag the disabled vehicle out of the muck.
Now the guy is in jail.
Charges include operating a vehicle in a closed section of the park and violating water safety equipment rules.
The driver stated he intentionally drove into thelake to use the Cybertruck “Wade Mode.” The vehicle became disabled.
Here’s the problem with “Wade Mode.”
Read the fine print. Tesla says the truck can drive through rivers and creeks. Sure. But the maximum depth?
32 inches.
From the bottom of the tire.
Not the hood.
The tire.
Musk tweeted that the truck could drive from Starbase to South Padre Island by crossing a channel. That’s roughly 400 meters of open water. Wikipedia says that channel is 42 feet deep.
42 feet is 504 inches.
Do the math.
The truck would drown instantly. It’s not a submarine. It’s a pickup with good styling and bad physics.
This isn’t even new news. People keep putting Cybertrucks in lakes. It’s stupid. It voids the warranty. Someone might actually die trying to recover it from the mud at the bottom.
Still they try.
Why?
Maybe they want to be heroes.
Maybe they just hate rules.
The lake doesn’t care either way. It just holds the metal until the fire department comes to get it.
The next owner is probably still looking at a flooded dashboard. 🌊
