Cybertruck Owner Drives Car Into Lake to Test ‘Wade Mode’, Gets Arrested
A Tesla Cybertruck owner was arrested after driving the vehicle into Grapevine Lake to test its 'Wade Mode' feature. The incident occurred despite warnings in the vehicle's manual against such actions. The driver and passengers abandoned the vehicle, leading to the arrest and subsequent public outrage on social media.
- ▪The driver attempted to test the Cybertruck's claim of being waterproof enough to serve as a boat.
- ▪Grapevine Police responded to the scene where the vehicle was stranded in the water.
- ▪The driver was arrested after abandoning the vehicle, which became disabled in the lake.
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Here’s a scene that has played out at some point in every primary school class across the world: A child does something obnoxious, dangerous, or just otherwise inexplicably dumb; After removing the coathanger from the power socket or whatever else, the flustered teacher demands to know why on earth the child did this thing; The child points at his neighbor, who is looking studiously out the window, and says, “He told me to”; The teacher sighs and says something like, “If he told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?” There are children who stare sheepishly at their shoelaces at this point and mumble, “No.” And then there are the ones who grow up to purchase a Tesla…
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