Cybertruck stuck in the snow, rescued by a lowly Ford

[hal]

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/...557129.php

the internet laughs hysterically

After a Tesla Cybertruck struggled to climb a snowy off-road hill in California’s Stanislaus National Forest — documented in a video that went viral this week — Forest Service workers decided to spin the incident to their favor.

In a quippy press release, which called the company’s new stainless steel offering an “immediately recognizable vehicle,” Forest Service staff offered to partner with Tesla on “an education campaign” for off-road vehicle use on public lands. They sent the message to Tesla’s press email, Stanislaus National Forest spokesperson Benjamin Cossel told SFGATE, but haven’t gotten a response. Tesla CEO Elon Musk infamously dissolved Tesla’s public relations department in 2020.

In the video, a Cybertruck, laden with a single Christmas tree, spins its wheels on a snowy slope as a Ford truck slowly wrenches the futuristic car uphill. Tesla has been advertising the new vehicle as “durable and rugged enough to go anywhere,” and “built for any planet.”

[Forrest]

I saw that video yesterday. In all fairness, that truck was a release candidate. It doesn’t look like the truck was in low gear considering the amount of wheel spin. Does the truck have a low gear?

[August West]

“You never have to worry about a software update at an incredibly awkward moment with one of our MVUM maps,” Forest Supervisor Jason Kuiken said in the release.

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[ztirffritz]

Release candidate vehicle without rescue points installed, with non-functioning AWD software, on street tires, off-road where it shouldn’t have been. Clearly the driver wasn’t versed in off-roading.

[TheTominator]

PEBDSASW









(Problem Exists Between Driver's Seat and Steering Wheel)

[steve...]

The Cybertruck was going up a steep icy/snowy hill while the Ford was on flat ground. It seems like the Ford could have been spinning it's wheels too if the trucks were switched.

[kj]

He clearly has AWD, but anyone with sense wouldn't try to drive where he is. Maybe he'd make it with chains, but still...mostly driver error.

Plus, if you're really "4-wheeling", people just get stuck, and the non-stuck people pull them out, and then you keep going. But I wouldn't call that real "4-wheeling". He's just out there being a jack-butt.

[DeusxMac]

hal wrote:
...as a Ford truck slowly wrenches the futuristic car uphill.

Looks like the Ford is winching the Tesla.

[srf1957]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=hal]
...as a Ford truck slowly wrenches the futuristic car uphill.

Looks like the Ford is winching the Tesla..

No the ford truck has a yellow tow strap . Not a winch . The forest service should have pulled the Tesla the other way . The slope of the hill was better .

[C(-)ris]

ztirffritz wrote:
Release candidate vehicle without rescue points installed, with non-functioning AWD software, on street tires, off-road where it shouldn’t have been. Clearly the driver wasn’t versed in off-roading.

I don't think anyone well versed in off-roading would ever be caught dead in one of those.