A Cybertruck owner says that the 10-year-old kids at his son’s baseball practice initially thought the Cybertruck was the coolest vehicle. However, their excitement faded & they started to point & laugh after the Cybertruck had to be towed on a flatbed.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30097794

Ernest says the children were initially cheering the Cybertruck, but their enthusiasm turned to skepticism when the truck experienced an issue that rendered it undrivable.

The issue began when Ernest drove his 10-year-old son to a baseball match in his Cybertruck.

Ernest placed his son’s baseball gear in the front trunk (frunk); however, when they arrived at the field, the frunk wouldn’t open.

This is quite frustrating; however, the Cybertruck owner and father stated he was prepared to drive 40 minutes back home to fetch a replacement glove for his son.

Regrettably, despite his willingness to make this sacrifice to support his child, Ernest states that the Cybertruck detected an issue with the frunk and went into “Limp Mode.”

This is where the truck limits the top speed to 15 miles per hour, meaning that, besides repositioning the vehicle to be towed, there is nothing the owner can do.

At this point, Ernest says he was so frustrated that he briefly considered tying a rope around the frunk, connecting it to a tree, and yanking the frunk open.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    99·
    3 days ago

    Paid for an overpriced, under-engineered piece of garbage from a Nazi.

    It broke.

    Kids laughed at the broken, overpriced, under-engineered piece of garbage I bought from a Nazi.

    Kids are cruel.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I can see it. Those things look like giant toys and are still rare enough to catch the eye. If the kids were even moderately hyped, “My dad has a CYBERTRUCK! Wait till you see!”, I can see plenty of yelling.

      I have a 9 and 11-yo. They’ll dance and scream if they see a fish or snake or funky bug, well, anything.

    • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
      26·
      3 days ago

      And then everyone clapped

      back at the stupid idiot and his stupid “truck”

      Fuck, frunk is the dumbest word I’ve ever heard and the fact that it can’t be manually opened is just ridiculous.

    • ceenote@lemmy.world
      12·
      3 days ago

      Admittedly I probably would have thought it was cool looking when I was a kid. Luckily the only children who can afford them are manchildren.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        I thought it was pretty cool looking, until I saw one up close. I cannot overstate how drastically my opinion shifted. As I’ve said here before, we could only cram 15 bags of mulch into the “bed” and the man had to make a third trip to get all his stuff. Oh, and he couldn’t close the top.

        For context, I can cram 15 bags in my Mitsubishi Spyder (convertible Eclipse) and put the top back down. We fit 40 bags in a regular truck, easily. Hell, I’ve hauled pallets of mulch home, pallet and all. Had a dude pull up in a passenger car with a monstrous trunk, about the same size as a cyber bed.

        Now when I see one in the parking lot I get a viscereal reaction, wanting to kick the shit out of it. Don’t want to be responsible to totaling the thing with my combat boots.

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        3 days ago

        Would you have, though? Did you think the Nissan Cube was cool? The Cybercuck is just so boxy, and the stainless steel is so ugly and boring…

      • nthavoc@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I can see that. Although, the awesome trucks in our kid imagination looked like the cybertruck on paper. All that is missing is the pube-lines to indicate lights.

    • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      They were cheering, they were.

      And one of those children? Albert Einstein.

    • MyBrainHurts@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Like what, these kids had never seen one of these dumbass trucks? Just such a weird thing to lie about.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    561·
    3 days ago

    Pretty pathetic to hope to impress children with a truck. In fact, just trying to impress people with a vehicle tells me all I need to know about that person.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      It wasn’t that he was trying to impress, that was a neat side effect. What he’s really talking about is the humiliation of a bunch of easily impressed children thinking you’re a dork. Ouch.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      3 days ago

      You know what would really impress that group of children? A Costco size box of rocket pops.

      The Cybertruck is less cool than $20 worth of frozen sugar water.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      3 days ago

      If you want to impress folks with a vehicle go to a car show, quite often they respect both stock but well maintained cars and absolute monstrosities that are doing their own thing. I once saw a Yugo with a V10 shoved into it, I was pretty damned impressed.

    • Reddfugee42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      The swasticar is junk but showing off cool stuff to your kid’s friends is pretty innocent from nice cars to home stereos

      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        I’m new to this. My kids are toddlers.

        Of course I will want their friends to think they’re cool and have cool stuff.

        This guy seems to have taken it to the next level somehow though.

  • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
    60·
    3 days ago

    The children were “cheering” the cybertruck as it pulled up? This is what people who purchase certain types of vehicles imagine will happen, but it never does. I don’t believe him.