{"id":1075747,"date":"2024-12-01T02:51:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T07:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/the-only-thing-sadder-than-this-cybertrucks-gaping-wound-is-its-bumper-sticker.php"},"modified":"2024-12-01T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T07:51:18","slug":"the-only-thing-sadder-than-this-cybertrucks-gaping-wound-is-its-bumper-sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/the-only-thing-sadder-than-this-cybertrucks-gaping-wound-is-its-bumper-sticker.php","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing Sadder Than This Cybertruck&#8217;s Gaping Wound Is Its Bumper Sticker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-assets.futurism.com\/2024\/11\/cybertruck-bumper-sticker-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"A Cybertruck owner waited two weeks for Tesla to patch up his car's bumper, and the sticker he plastered on it makes the bad situation worse.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2><b>Crash Course<\/b><\/h2><p><span>A Cybertruck owner waited two miserable weeks for a Tesla collision shop to patch up his car's torn bumper, and the sticker he plastered on the vehicle makes his bad situation worse.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\"I bought this after I knew Elon&nbsp;was awesome,\" reads the bumper sticker, which the truck owner <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dzeeg\/status\/1856718805847720129\/photo\/2\"><span>shared as part of an explanatory post on X-formerly-Twitter<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p><p><span> It's meant to be a defiant response to the much more <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/embarrassed-teslas-drivers-stickers\"><span>popular stickers<\/span><\/a><span> sheepishly disclaiming that a Tesla's owner bought the vehicle \"before we knew Elon was crazy\" &mdash; b<\/span><span>ut after the accident, it feels more like a sad trombone.<\/span><\/p><h2><b>Boulevard of Broken Teslas<\/b><\/h2><p><span>While waiting for repair parts, the collision shop had stripped part of the Cybertruck's steel body to reveal the white exoskeleton beneath.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\"I want Tesla to be the best,\" pleaded the Cybertruck owner, whose X name identifies them only as \"Tryangle.\" But the \"truck was perfectly drivable, and it's just been sitting in the lot for 10-plus days torn down.\"<\/span><\/p><p><span>\"No one can give me a clear idea of when parts will be available, or when things will be completed,\" Tryangle continued. \"I feel like my truck is being held hostage.\"&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span>One man's woe here speaks to a larger issue with Musk's most passionate followers: they'll endure anything to feel close to the billionaire. They don't mind that the $74,000-and-up&nbsp;Cybertruck <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/man-shoots-cybertruck-not-bulletproof\"><span>clearly isn't as invincible<\/span><\/a><span> as advertised, or that it's a nightmare to service, and that it <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/cybertruck-fire-water\"><span>sometimes bursts into flames<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p><p><span>As for Tryangle, his Cybertruck <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dzeeg\/status\/1859305958259949587\"><span>is now fixed<\/span><\/a><span> and back in his possession &mdash; and he couldn't be more thrilled.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\"I ordered my @cybertruck five years ago,\" he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dzeeg\/status\/1859559532428492942\"><span>recently wrote<\/span><\/a><span> on X-formerly-Twitter. \"Never has anything in my life been worth the wait like the Cybertruck has! (Sorry to my wife, baby boy, and future children.)\"<\/span><\/p><p><b>More on the Cybertruck: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/cybertruck-magnets\"><i><span>Warning! Do Not Expose Cybertrucks to Common Magnets<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p><p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/cybertruck-bumper-sticker\">The Only Thing Sadder Than This Cybertruck's Gaping Wound Is Its Bumper Sticker<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>View original post here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/cybertruck-bumper-sticker\" title=\"The Only Thing Sadder Than This Cybertruck's Gaping Wound Is Its Bumper Sticker\">The Only Thing Sadder Than This Cybertruck's Gaping Wound Is Its Bumper Sticker<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Crash Course A Cybertruck owner waited two miserable weeks for a Tesla collision shop to patch up his car's torn bumper, and the sticker he plastered on the vehicle makes his bad situation worse. \"I bought this after I knew Elon\u00a0was awesome,\" reads the bumper sticker, which the truck owner shared as part of an explanatory post on X-formerly-Twitter .  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/the-only-thing-sadder-than-this-cybertrucks-gaping-wound-is-its-bumper-sticker.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1246809,1247253,1247254,1247255,1247252,1246831,1247106,1247257,1246827,1247012,1246920,1247256],"class_list":["post-1075747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","tag-billionaire","tag-broken-teslas","tag-bumper","tag-bumper-sticker","tag-crash-course","tag-cybertruck","tag-future-society","tag-shared-as-part","tag-tesla","tag-vehicle","tag-white","tag-x-formerly"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}