Featured Image Credit: Reddit/sjadam
Topics: Cars, Reddit, Social Media, Technology, Tesla, Cybertruck
Poppy Bilderbeck
Topics: Cars, Reddit, Social Media, Technology, Tesla, Cybertruck
People are flooding to social media to weigh in after a Tesla Cybertruck got fairly obliterated by a semi-truck trailer.
If you splashed the cash on an $80,000+ car, you'd think you'd probably try and take extra good care of it, however, unfortunately for one owner they made a pretty rookie error.
U/sjadam took to Reddit thread r/pics to share a photograph of their boss' Tesla Cybertruck.
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They explained their boss had the new vehicle on order for four-and-a-half years and just a 'whole week' after finally getting their hands on it, a 'semi-trailer' got the better of it after it 'backed into it'.
The first image shows the Tesla Cybertruck looking like some sort of Lego vehicle a toddler decided to thwack on the side, part of its window smashed and other chunks of its body lying in pieces on the floor.
The second shows the accident as it was happening - presumably the person behind the camera wasn't just stood there taking a photograph but you'd hope they'd also have shouted out to the semi-trailer driver to get them to stop.
And the third image shows a close-up of the damage in all its nail-biting glory.
And unsurprisingly, rather than rushing to the comments in commiseration and with words of support for the Tesla owner, Reddit users had other ideas, many saying exactly the same thing.
U/Spaniardman40 commented: "As a warehouse worker, the loading dock area is the stupidest place to park your valuable car at."
"Maybe he shouldn't park in the loading dock," u/hikeonpast echoed.
U/OtterishDreams responded: "This is the correct answer."
"Well now he can get a check from insurance and pay it off and forget about this horrible mistake he made buying it in the first place," u'Omahaspeedster added.
And u/JWBIERE suggested: "Good news! If there's a stainless refrigerator in the break room they can use the door to replace the damaged panel."
Although, one user - u/interesseret - quickly replied shooting down the suggestion, joking 'it'll be obvious when the 'stainless' steel on the actual car starts to rust and the stainless on the fridge doesn't' eluding to multiple Tesla Cybertruck owners having come forward to claim their $80,000 vehicles have begun to 'rust' despite the car being described as having an 'ultra-hard stainless-steel exoskeleton helps to reduce dents, damage and long-term corrosion'.
UNILAD has contacted Tesla for comment.