You Won’t Believe How Easy It Is To Rob Stuff From A Cybertruck
The Tesla Cybertruck doesn’t have traditional door handles. There are buttons in the roof pillars that pop them open, then you grab the door to pull it the rest of the way. But one thief found a different way to get inside.
Cybertruck owner Anuj Thakkar shared the story of a break-in to the Tesla CyberTruck Facebook group that involved an unexpectedly easy method.
Video from the vehicle’s built-in security camera shows a Nissan Altima pull up to the truck in an Atlanta parking lot and a hooded figure get out.
The person then appears to slide a tool into the top of the driver’s door window — which is not tucked all the way into the frame at the top — and simply peels the laminated glass down as it cracks.
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Once the window was out of the way, he reached into the window, grabbed a backpack, got back into the Altima and the driver pulled away in no hurry. The Tesla’s alarm never went off.
Thakkar said he didn’t receive any notification on his Tesla app that anything had happened and only learned about it when he returned to the vehicle. The video resolution at night wasn’t clear enough to see Altima’s license plate number and no arrests have yet been made. He did not confirm if he had properly activated the alarm system.
The Cybertruck’s body is made of sturdy “bulletproof” stainless steel that can withstand some small caliber arms fire and features “Armor Glass” that is not bulletproof, but can be hit by a baseball being thrown at it at 70 mph without cracking, Tesla claims. Tesla head designer Franz von Holzhausen famously shattered the glass with a small metal ball during its reveal as a prototype in 2019, but successfully threw a baseball at it without breaking it at the production Cybertruck’s official reveal last November. Bending it from an edge puts different forces on it, however, which is how the thief was able to crack and open it the way that they did.
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As far as securing personal items is concerned, the Cybertruck also has a lockable front trunk along with a hard tonneau cover for the bed that is strong enough to walk on, but that’s no guarantee a clever crook still can’t get in.
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