Tesla Cybertruck driver arrested after intentionally steering the vehicle into a Texas lake to try out its wade mode feature.
The Grapevine police Department got the call on Monday. A Cybertruck was sitting in Grapevine Lake, partially submerged and completely stuck. The driver and his passengers had already abandoned it after water started pouring in. They walked away. The truck stayed behind.
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Wade mode is a real feature. Tesla designed it to allow the Cybertruck to drive through bodies of water like rivers or creeks at a maximum depth of about thirty-two inches. The owner’s manual says it is the driver’s responsibility to gauge the depth before entering. It also warns that damage from driving in water is not covered by the warranty. The driver in Texas either did not read that part or did not care.
Police say the man admitted he drove into the lake on purpose just to test the feature. The vehicle became disabled. Water rushed in. The experiment failed. He was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle in a closed section of the lake and for water safety equipment violations.
The fire department water rescue team helped pull the truck out. Police made it clear that just because a vehicle is physically capable of entering shallow water does not make it legal or safe. They said they would not encourage anyone to willingly drive into a lake.
The Cybertruck sells for upwards of seventy thousand dollars. It is made of rocket-like bullet-proof steel and looks like nothing else on the road. Wade mode is an impressive piece of engineering. It is not a license to treat a lake like a test track. One driver learned that the hard way with handcuffs and a wrecked truck.
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