I actually, genuinely thought it was an accidental fire.
Speaks to the shit reputation those shit trucks deservedly have. But also how dumb of a location for an intentional fire.
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"The future should look like the future." - Elon Musk
The cybertruck future looks like 1982's Blade Runner.
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My first thought was literally "was it a bomb or did the batteries ignite?"
Now please all aboard the SpaceX rocket everybody! A 6 barrel revolver with a single bullet is added for a fun game of Russian roulette. Just to out your mind at ease, the gun is not the biggest threat to your life.
SpaceX hasn't killed anyone, incidentally it's also the company musk has the least power over.
Tesla is publicly traded and has a board of directors. I believe Musk has more than half the votes though
SpaceX is privately owned by him and Gwynne Shotwell only serves as COO because Musk is happy with her in that role
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There’s still time
I wouldn't necessarily call those two facts "incidental". I'd be pretty confident calling it "cause and effect".
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IRA agent
conspiracy in my opinion: that guy was shot in the head and dumped into that car and then blown up for threatening to out Trump or Musk for some dirty dirty shit.
Well that's the most fun conspiracy I've seen yet. Unfortunately it doesn't work as there is video of the vehicle stopping, no one getting in or out, then it exploding
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Someone threatened a powerful person and then the powerful person made sure to retaliate in a highly public way which would link their own brand to the murder?
Sometimes I wonder why my conservative family thinks that liberals are just as conspiratorial as conservatives, then I come across the comment you responded to and go "yeaaaah still don't agree but I see where you would think that" lol
I hope it’s not as bad
If the stop the steal people and the flat earth people all appreciate being a part of an “in group“, I wonder what the liberal version is
It's definitely not as bad, I'm just saying that it helps enable whataboutism
The Delorean fan in me loves the asthetic and used to get jealous.
Cyber trucks being POS deathtraps that basically fall to pieces when you breath on them, their inability to do anything a normal truck can do, and the fact they make you bleed touching an door alleviated that completely.
So thanks for making them embarrassing junkers, Elon.
For the comparison.
The Delorean fan in me loves the asthetic and used to get jealous.
I almost agree with you, but the subtle changes made from the concept to reality make it not even look cool like it could've
I don't think you can compare the two really.
Certainly not for use case.
One was a sports car
One is (supposed to be) a pickup truck 
But it's clear to me what they were going for asthetically. There's a bunch of people who already did BTTF prop time machine conversions.
That said, I wouldn't buy a cyber truck because they're poorly built, poorly engineered, and unsafe.
Gosh it missed the design mark so bad. It looks like a PlayStation 1 era car.
I get it as far as "they both have angles".
But one actually looks like a car.
The cybertruck has everything up front. Like they designed something, then had to concede that people have to use it, tacked something on, and didn't bother hiding it.
The delorian looks like it was designed with the fact there would be people in mind
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Except that Delorean does not equal a Cyber Truck.
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For like 3 hours, it was glorious as my friend group wondered what part of the Cybertruck could have spontaneously combusted.
Then video came out and there's colorful lights and we still weren't sure.
It took a official report before we accepted it was a car bomb.
I’m still not sure if it was an intentional car bomb or if he was transporting fireworks to use later that night and something about the car set them off.
He was shot in the head prior to the explosion going off. Seems unlikely that sequence of events was accidental.
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A fully enclosed in non-air conditioned truck bed with a black lid in Las Vegas heat perhaps?
Is still probably intentional, otherwise it’s one of the more epic Darwin Awards.
Edit: Autocorrect stole my un from air conditioned.
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All I read is the truck bed was filled with flammables. ' Is there a believable source for
A. Whether the driver started the fire or it was sparked on accident.
B. If it was not intentional, what was the actual target?
With military experience he'd know a little about fuel air explosives. Powerful fireworks are sufficient for making such a bomb, though they're technically difficult (you need to trigger the second trigger explosion after the first has spread out the fuel enough to detonate)
I think he was expecting (in Marvin the Martian's words) an earth shattering kaboom but didn't do it right
Done right the amount of fuel would have done serious damage - all the energy released in the fire would have been released instantaneously, with a shock wave
New years fireworks probably .
Some surprisingly low end explosives for a decorated green beret guy with his level of access. Fireworks and petrol cans?
Duh the actual target was Terrorism.
Since that word had lost all meaning like I said it would once they stuck it to Luigi.
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*bomb car
akchually this can be legitimately spinned in favour of tesla
police are already saying that the explosion wasn’t as bad because it went off inside a cybertruck
Except in the case of an accidental fire, apparently the doors lock down and trap the drivers? That’s what I took away.
How is that better?
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Pedestrians should be thankful that the windows gave out so easily, otherwise the body panels might've turned into giant shrapnel.
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Yeah, it would have been worse if it went off inside something valuable
Cops will say any damn thing that lets them lick the boot
Cops and simping for the rich, name a better duo
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TIL
FSD=Fully Self Detonating.
Trekkies everywhere: Did somebody say....self destruct sequence‽
Detonate the warp core!
Happy Shaxs noises
"car"
Self controlled IED