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Man Arrested After Driving His Cybertruck Into a Lake (and Then Abandoning It)

No one could’ve seen this coming.

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Remember when Elon Musk claimed the Cybertruck could be used as a boat?

It happened more than once, in fact. Before and after the vehicle’s release to the public in November 2023. “Yes. It will even float for a while,” Musk wrote on X/Twitter back in 2020 in response to a question about the car’s wading depth.

Years later, the topic arose again. “Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes & even seas that aren’t too choppy,” Musk wrote in a September 2022 post on X/Twitter.

After the Cybertruck’s 2023 release, Musk made a slight adjustment to his previous claims. Rather than implying boat mode would be a standard feature of the brutalist “truck,” he said it would be available in a “mod package.”

“We are going to offer a mod package that enables Cybertruck to traverse at least 100m of water as a boat. Mostly just need to upgrade cabin door seals,” Musk wrote in a December 18, 2023 tweet.

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