May have gotten better results with a Ford. It's right there in the name.

/obligatory: don't actually try to ford a river with a Ford

According to Fox 4, the driver is being held in Grapevine Jail as of Tuesday afternoon, with violations including:

Having no valid boat registration.

That is both hilarious and stupid. You would have to imagine the definition of a boat would be something that floats, which the Cybertruck clearly isn't in this photo. It's also less water than the truck is rated in the owner's manual to be able to handle.

Look, it didn't work this time, but don't stop encouraging Cybertruck drivers to use their vehicles in water!

They are fully submersible submarines, after all. I hear one guy got all the way to the Titanic in one!

1700s oxen towed wagons: can be floated down river if sealed properly. Oxen sometimes poop.

2023 cybertrucks designed by modern engineers. Dies instantly in water. No poop.

The thing about "wading" in deep water is the water has to be pushed aside by the vehicle like the bow of a ship. Except in a car, if you go too fast the water won't be pushed aside and will instead rip off bumpers, underside panels, and forcefully enter the vehicle dousing motors, electronics, air intakes etc. Of course the Cybertruck is a terrible truck and was sold on lies and embellishments, but common sense also applies. Even most ICE vehicles including trucks would fare no better unless they had snorkels and other mitigations.

"Hold on. I just put you on speaker. Can you please explain what happened again for my coworkers? Its been a stressful day and I think they could use a laugh." - car insurance lady

Well that video was about as pathetic as you would imagine. It's about 4 ft offshore when it fails when the driver gets out it's below waist height. I'm pretty sure I've seen a bus drive through deeper puddles than that.

Wade Mode is a feature in the Tesla Cybertruck that allows it to drive through shallow water by raising the suspension and pressurizing the battery to protect it from water and debris. It is designed for use in bodies of water up to approximately 32 inches deep at slow speeds of 1-3 mph.

Should have called it creek mode.

If I had a nickel every time a Cybertruck driver re-enacted the end of The Perfect Storm while casting themselves as George Clooney, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Comedy gold.

I love how the picture of that trashcan in the water has this black and white effect applied like it's 1933 and somebody accidentally dropped a garbage can off the docks into the harbour

N = 1 Seems pretty inconclusive to me. Let’s throw in a couple more and see what happens.

There's something to say about how an idiot you must be to buy a Cybertruck to start with: it's less capable than other electric (or not electric) pick-up, it's unecessarily big, it's fragile and expensive, and owning one doesn't convey the image of their buyers they think it conveys.

And so not surprisingly, that pool of people counts amongst the biggest idiots who will do these kind of idiot tests.

I can't but wonder how many CT buyers would be dead by now if Musk had claimed the CT can glide.

Obviously, wading ain't swimming. The mode is probably useful in some edge cases. Driving straight into a lake just isn't one of them.

Serious question: would there be a risk of electrocution with that much stored electrical energy being submerged in water?

I don't understand what "wade mode" does?

If there's an air intake, it's just for cooling, not combustion. So like what is the point of "moving it to a snorkel position" or whatever?

Thankfully the power windows didn’t lock up, and the people inside got out safely.
That could have been the best Darwin Award of the month, maybe year.