The Tesla Cybertruck has emerged as a major aspect of pop culture since its release to the public last year, boasting a jarring futuristic design and cutting-edge technology like autopilot. However, that doesn’t always go as planned.
On Tesla Cybertruck owner recently went on social media to share that his Cybertruck suffered a horrible failure in its autopilot made, causing it to jump a curb and slam into a light pole.
Bizarrely enough, the owner of the car actually praised Tesla for “engineering the best passive safety in the world,” which is ironic considering that the car itself is the reason why the accident happened in the first place.
“Soooooo my @Tesla @cybertruck crashed into a curb and then a light post on v13.2.4. Thank you @Tesla for engineering the best passive safety in the world,” Jonathan Challinger said in a since-deleted post.
“I walked away without a scratch. It failed to merge out of a lane that was ending (there was no one on my left) and made no attempt to slow down or turn until it had already hit the curb.”
Challinger went on to blame himself for not paying enough attention.
“Big fail on my part, obviously. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Pay attention. It can happen. I follow Tesla and FSD pretty closely and haven’t heard of any accident on V13 at all before this happened. It is easy to get complacent now – don’t,” he wrote.
He went on to reach out to Tesla about sharing the data from the incident and admitted that he didn’t want to give “haters any material.”
“[Tesla AI], how do I make sure you have the data you need from this incident? Service center etc has been less than responsive on this,” Challinger wrote.
“I do have the dashcam footage. I want to get it out there as a PSA that it can happen, even on v13, but I’m hesitant because I don’t want the attention and I don’t want to give the bears/haters any material. Spread my message and help save others from the same fate or far worse.”
Challinger even tagged billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk in his post.
Clearly, it attracted the attention he was seeking to avoid as he has since the post has now been deleted.
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