“No Alarm, No Notifications to my phone… literally nothing happened just found it like this…” wrote Cybertruck owner Anuj Thakker, who shared the upsetting news on Facebook a few days ago.

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    3 months ago

    It’s a rude awakening for Thakker, who may have bought into the Cybetruck’s various security features

    May?
    They don’t know? They didn’t, like, ask him?

    who shared the upsetting news on Facebook a few days ago

    Oh. They wrote an article about a Facebook post without any follow-up questions.
    Modern ‘journalism.’

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        3 months ago

        Imagine if you subscribed to a YouTuber and they had good content. You subscribe to their patreon. At some point later, they take on a bunch of sponsorships, and eventually they just become a corporate mouthpiece for their sponsors. Then their entire channel just gets bought by the corporation and is ran as a corporate social media account. At what point would you cancel your Patreon subscription? Would you say that refusing to pay that YouTuber for their videos means that you have a part to play in the process whereby they ultimately ended up as a corporate social media account?

        Because that is ultimately what happened with the media, in my opinion.

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      3 months ago

      You want those teenagers joy riding a 100,000 yacht around town?

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        3 months ago

        Better then some working mom’s 10 year old GMC Yukon. Both are fucking tanks but one belongs to a douche bag and one doesn’t

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          3 months ago

          Lol holy shit cybertrucks are 1k lbs MORE than an old Yukon (6.6k to 6.8k lbs)

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    3 months ago

    Oh, he shattered the window and peeled it down. I was picturing peeling the whole side of the vehicle down.

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      Not the whole side, but several high end German cars in our neighborhood where attacked with a can opener to access the wiring to the alarm. Once that is off the car is gutted. Steering wheel, center console, dash… everything gone. While on your driveway.

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    3 months ago

    But if you’ve been following the development of the Cybertruck, the glass window’s failure does not come as a huge surprise.

    That right there is the best sentence in the article

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    The burglar then peeled down the window and reached inside for an unattended backpack…

    I don’t care what kind of vehicle you drive - if you leave thief-bait in plain view, don’t be surprised when your shit gets broken into.

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    Well he also shattered the window with a crowbar and the bullet proof sticker or whatever kept it together instead of a million pieces. It’s actually a win for cyber truck the fail is the alarm didn’t go off and there was no notification to the owner. Window peel is the least interesting part of the story.

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        Not necessarily true, most alarms only go off when a door is opened. If they break a window to open the door from the inside the alarm will sound, but if they break the window and leave the door shut: silence.

        Source: multiple cars broken into this way outside my apartment building, not one alarm went off

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          I thought those alarms were mainly triggered by movement? Every time I’ve been on a ferry with a car they tell everyone to turn their alarms off for that reason.

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            From what I’ve read, some cars do have movement/shock sensors, but they can be defeated by breaking the window in such a way as to cause minimal vibration to the vehicle, like a spring-loaded glass breaker. The guy who broke into my neighbour’s car took a metal rod or something, stuck it down between the glass and the dew wiper, and pulled back, putting pressure on the bit of tempered glass inside the door and causing it to shatter.

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      3 months ago

      But it takes more effort and make more noise to break cat windows than “peeling” it

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      3 months ago

      Sure, but a 100.000 dollar car that is sold as a bulletproof car that can drive over other cars in an apocalypse?

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      3 months ago

      Isn’t the car not actually driveable or something in Fortnite?

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        It drives for up to four hours before suffering a mechanical fault, then you have to get it towed and wait six months for repairs. The game is hyper realistic.