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by sandworm101 490 days ago
It is passive-aggressive sarcasm. If you say mean things about Tezla on X there is a chance you may be banned/sued/delisted, especially if it involves a crash. So everything has to be couched in false praise. Nobody really thinks the cybertruck does better in a crash than a merc or bmw. Its just something said by the posfer in order to get thier story to a wider audience.
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I hope that's the case. It almost read like someone trying to still believe in God right after their mom died.
It does not seem to be the case.

> Big fail on my part, obviously. Don't make the same mistake I did. Pay attention. It can happen. I follow Tesla and FSD pretty closely and haven't heard of any accident on V13 at all before this happened. It is easy to get complacent now - don't.

> I do have the dashcam footage. I want to get it out there as a PSA that it can happen, even on v13, but I'm hesitant because I don't want the attention and I don't want to give the bears/haters any material.

https://x.com/MrChallinger/status/1888546351572726230

Full tweet is below and it doesn't sound like sarcasm. He even says he doesn't want to give the haters ammunition.
>He even says he doesn't want to give the haters ammunition

That part was what made me question if it was real! "Don't want to give the haters ammo" at the tail end of a story about how his $100k pickup truck drove into a lamp post.

What exactly does he think he's doing?

A description and a picture is one thing - a video would be on every news station by the end of the day.