A video appeared online in the run-up to the launch of the Cybertruck last year showing the angular electric pickup splashing in the shallows of the Gulf Coast close to Tesla’s Texas base. On that occasion the employee-driven Cybetruck managed to leave the beach without incident and would go on to clock up some impressive social media views, but the owner of this retail example wasn’t quite so lucky.
Related: The Tesla Cybertruck’s Windshield Is Bulletproof, But Not Idiot-Proof https://youtu.be/iTY7yZdA71w Then the footage switches to reveal two people pushing the Cybertruck as the driver makes another attempt at reversing, this one more successful. Given that the Tesla weighs an outrageous 6,843 lbs even in the lightest configuration currently available, we wonder how much assistance the human helpers really added.