6mo ago

Fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel used in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel

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Tesla Cybertruck explosion at Trump hotel in Vegas investigated as a possible terrorist act, law enforcement official says | CNN

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6mo ago

Fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel used in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel

www.cnn.com /2025/01/01/us/cybertruck-fire-trump-hotel-las-vegas/index.html

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The vehicle was rented through the car rental company Turo
The truck used in New Orleans earlier today was also rented through Turo. Is this a coincidence?
- In my area, Turo is the lowest cost for car rentals, and they just act as a middleman between someone with a car and someone without one. They may have some vehicles of their own, but most of their fleet are not cars they own. It could just be people were going for the lowest cost form for their killing & destruction.
  I've rented through Turo and they just have you take a photo of your drivers license, front/back. No one confirmed it when picking up the car. It could be that their prescreening is flawed and fake IDs were not being detected? I'd have to imagine this violated state laws, so if they were found to not be validating the information, they are probably in some shit.
  
  Presumably even if those IDs were checked, I doubt both those people have priors. This sort of terrorism is different from other crimes in that they don't start with 'small time' terrorism.
- Coincidences happen.
- Probably the only way to get a cybertruck for relatively cheap?
  
  Well, their insurance rates are gonna take a beating at this rate.
Shit man, it's only Jan 1.
- Horrible never rests.
- Not sure about this new marketing campaign "Cybertruck: The worst possible choice for a car bomb"
  
  There was a car commercial from Germany I think like that. It had a terrorist try to car bomb some place. They flip the switch and the entire explosion is contained in the car. It was about how good German made quality was.
  
  We're going to go from mocking cybertrucks for exploding to mocking them for not being good at exploding?
  
  You're just not thinking of the bigger picture:
  Cybertruck: The worst possible choice for a car bomb. Prove that you're a true American patriot and not a terrorist for as little as $100.000.
  
  CyberTruck: The best choice for blowing things up above it.
  
  I guess it is apocalypse-proof.
  If you want to use it to cause an apocalypse.
- likely because it was in the truck bed.
  The walls would have directed any explosion upwards rather than outwards. Further, Fuel-air bombs tend not to be very destructive unless there's the correct mixture of fuel-to-air; in a confined space. (like, for example, Trump Tower Lobby.)
  Either this person is a complete and total moron, or he didn't mean to cause a lot of damage, (or it was a total accident. Who knows. maybe he was planning a rave out in the desert and a spark triggered the gas.) I say that because there doesn't seem to be anything that would have stopped them from ramming the doors.
  it should be noted, that Tesla/Musk probably wants to spin this as terrorism for a lot of reasons. Including being that if it wasn't an intentional act; then it's definitely going to paint CT drivers as complete and utter morons who store fuel and fireworks in the back of a truck. (and yes, static electricity can set off a fuel-air mixture, including static electricity built up in plastic bed liners. Or a sparking motor to open the bed...)
  
  I could swear there was a video out there about these things having live electricity on random bits of metal (shit quality control/design) on the body
  
  Given that it was the most readily identifiable Tesla vehicle parked outside of a Trump hotel, it doesn't take much to see some symbolism all over it. That they used a bunch of gasoline rather than something like fertilizer/anfo, and just parking it outside rather than in the lobby, would make it out to be more about messaging than destruction.
  
  Either this person is a complete and total moron
  gotta be this one. why do you need gasoline in electric car
  also notice how musk hypes up surveillance capabilities of this rolling 1984 and how it "helped" while not mentioning how doors locked after explosion
  McMahill said officials were able to track the route the Tesla took to Las Vegas with the help of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who provided video of the Cybertruck at Tesla charging stations and by having the truck unlocked after it auto-locked in the explosion.
  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tesla-cybertruck-appears-burst-flames-trump-hotel-las-vegas-rcna185932
- I'd guess it's because on the shape of the car structure. In a pickup bed the blast goes up. But if it was in a car or suv all the energy would go horizontally out the windows since there's a roof stopping it from going up.
If ya really dislike your truck you can always sell it. No need for such extremes.
- It was a rental
  
  Hope he got the insurance package
Not very well, apparently.

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