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It has a maximum wading depth of 32 inches, for once this is on the driver.
Although I'm surprised musk didn't try to make the cybertruck amphibious.
He did, actually
Anything can serve as a boat briefly.
We might argue that it's precisely the "briefly" part that separates the true boats from the not-boats-after-all
Even as a U-Boat.
FFS 🤦♂️
And we will live on Mars by the end of this decade!
By using those amazing functional starships!
Was it marketed that way?
Yes, you are looking at a social media post of the CEO of Tesla promoting the Cybertruck as being waterproof and being able to serve briefly as a boat, so that it can cross rivers, lakes & even seas that aren't too choppy. So it's not too stupid for someone to believe that the "wade mode" in his Cybertruck is allowing him to cross a lake
There have been cars that can manage it.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/amphicar-president-johnson-1960s/
It is, in fact, too stupid to believe anything Me-lon says.
Because the people that make them are cunts and the people that buy them are cunts.