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

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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 & eve…

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Sometimes the faith in technology plays a bad game for you, and this time it has been noticed even at the bottom of the lake. A man put his brand-new Tesla Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake in Texas, convinced that the ‘vade mode’ would turn it into a boat. Spoiler: it wasn’t like that. The owner, whose name hasn’t transcended, believed that the vehicle could float like James Bond. The reality was much more muddy: the car got trapped, the passenger…

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A Tesla Cybertruck owner was arrested in Texas after deliberately driving into a lake to use the amphibious mode of Elon Musk's vehicle.

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Gameblog broke the news on Monday, May 25, 2026.
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