- Farmington Hills officials are fuming over a glut of unsold Cybertrucks being stored in the city.
- Tesla has been parking the EVs at a shopping center earmarked for major redevelopment.
- Officials say the electric vehicles violate zoning codes and are warning the property owner.
Tow them and fine them. Simple as that.
Towing them without putting them in tow mode will total them.
Sounds like the vehicle owners’ problem. “Unauthorized vehicles will be towed at the owners expense.”
Even better.
These ugly things need to be in “tow mode”?
I was going to say what a stupid idea, but that’s just the tip of the stupid ice berg.
Any vehicle with AWD has special towing considerations.
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Ah thank you! today I learned. Also learned that I’m part of the inferior fwd race.
… What does that mean?
Every one of these that gets towed unexpectedly is totalled?
You have to use a flatbed tow truck, same as Subarus and other AWD cars.
Tow trucks have never cared about wrecking their cargo before. Why should they care for Cybertrucks?
Oh well.
The property owners should seize them for unpaid storage fee’s. That has happened in my state. Putting your property on someone elses property is considered a tacit admission of a debt when it comes to storage. Ironically there is another law that states you can’t charge for more than six months storage without a signed agreement. However there is nothing regulating how much that fee is. Case in point a person failed to pick up late model car at a towing company for two years. The towing company gave the owner a huge bill and they went to court to get it reduced to six months. The towing company just resubmitted a bill for six months at a increased rate that equaled the amount of the original bill. By the time the asshole who should have come and got their car sooner got through the bill had went up again. It was quite entertaining. to watch.
Everywhere you look in Illinois you’ll see variations of “unauthorized vehicles will be towed at owners expense.” So I don’t know what those guys’ problem is; impound them.
Aren’t these atrocities full of nice lithium batteries? If so, confiscated cars can be scraped for parts with the batteries going to hospitals, schools, the ACAB offices and fire departments to be used as backup electricity.
I’m surprised nobody has stolen the rims or the batteries, or even tried to steal the catalytic converter.
What catalytic converter? They’re electric.
The metal body panels that have just been haphazardly hung onto the frame on the other hand…
Hence “tried”.
Haha, nice one. Now I’m just imagining some methhead cutting into random parts of one of these things trying to find the nonexistent catalytic converter.
You sly fox
ACAB offices? Never knew they had offices?
The city should just confiscate all of them. I mean, at this point they are abandoned on city property.
And send Tesla the bill for recycling cost
And do what with them? Seems like an unnecessary hassle.
Scrap them, and also fine the fuck out of Tesla for it.
If they did it proper and put it in the paper for 2 weeks that they have to be claimed by Tesler, then they can auction them off. Even bricked they have to be worth more in parts than scrap…
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…you mean private property, read the article.
few cans of gasoline and some matches could go a long way to help solving this problem
definitely would rather see people
stealingrecycling the batteriesYou are right since they are made from stainless Steal and lift-ium.
By setting them in fire, cyber trucks are recycled. They return to the Earth from whence they came!
I was thinking pragmatically about the availability of Lithium as a resource and not so much about the idea of Cybertrucks just ceasing to exist
steel to steel , lithium to lithium.
That’s what they’re hoping for. If they all caught fire Tesla could put in an insurance claim and get their money back.
Large companies don’t always insure like that. They may self insure.
Tesla owners usually have to get insurance through Tesla because most insurance companies refuse to underwrite those death traps.
I’d rather we didn’t pollute things further… a wrecking ball would do fine.
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Actually, steamrollers and most industrial equipment have surprisingly weak locks and key ignition systems. Usually, the biggest obstacle is the window itself.
The keys are usually on a hook in the foreman’s trailer. ;)
And they often all use the same key. Which you can get online
Honestly, the thing you have to worry for the most is getting caught making a difference.
Sounds like construction equipment is as secure as US democracy.
I could probably figure it out.
Or fly a drone overhead and drop paint or Liquid Ass.
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Just set them on fire.
This was my first thought. But the top comment talking about the batteries and what not going to hospitals and emergency centers made me feel different, hopeful even. Like, a feeling of organized chaotic good anarchy. Why burn the cars completely, when we can resources the useful parts, and then burn the left over scraps of the worthless useless billionaire? I mean… car.
Oh I mean I totally agree, the “burn them” was just a reflex. I agree that scavenging them for parts would be magnitudes more beneficial to everyone.
Scavenge then burn.
Together with the billionaires.
Think of the environment. Scavenge them, fill them with waste after as they are dumpsters anyway. Let Tesla deal with the disposal, will cost them loads of money, running them further towards bankruptcy.
By sitting here and waiting, we are all kind of setting them on fire a little bit. Statistically true statement.
Did he park them in a lot away from cameras, hoping there would be some “demonstrations” that would then allow him to claim insurance money? Does the policy cover “domestic terrorism”?
Same thing is happening in Europe with Chinese EVs. Chinese EVs are piling up at European ports because they’ve gone unsold and the carmakers were way too optimistic or it’s some sort of book keeping trickery to rack up the sales figures.
Executive bonus target, deliver x number of cars in Europe. Job done!
Is that still the case though? I can only find articles from 2024 about this
Did you know the Cybertruck was designed to mimic a Porsche? Specifically, this one.
Except it has the durability, function and safety of this one.
Here’s a lot I pass by every day.
Monstertruck v. Cybertruck: Dawn of Justice
They’re just so damn ugly. One pulled up next to me at a light the other day and it looked like a cockroach skittered into my side vision.
I’m honestly impressed by how many I see. It’s probably just such an eyesore that I notice every one the enters my fov without fail. I always give those death machine a wide berth, as not only is the vehicle itself deadly, I don’t trust the drivers in the slightest.
I’ll offer $15,000 firm. They won’t get a better offer.
Everyone involved in that business are shit at business through and through
Considering the fear people have because EV’s could burn all the time, this is a massive threat to environment and should be fixed (or towed & billed).
