What happens when you stick your finger in the closing trunk – or in this case, the “Frunk”-by a Tesla Cybertruck? Far too many Cybertruck owners are asking themselves this question these days. And a new video posted to YouTube appears to show the most grotesque answer yet.
The video, uploaded on Sunday by YouTube user Joe Fay initially explains that viewers thought he was cheating previous video by not simply letting the frunk close properly.
“In my last video, everyone kept saying that when the Tesla Cybertruck came down on my finger, I pushed up so it would open and feel my finger, but that’s just not true,” Fay explains.
“And to prove otherwise, this time I’m going to put my finger completely flat against the Cybertruck. I won’t hide it. I lay it really flat and see if it crushes my finger because everyone asks about it,” continues Fay.
Incredibly, the content creator even tries it out with a stick, which promptly breaks in half.
“But first I will test it with this stick. That’s exactly what I’m going to do with my finger. “I’m going to put it right there and hope my finger doesn’t break like that, but let’s figure it out,” Fay says.
We offer you the opportunity to watch the video yourself what happens next.
Well, that was exactly what you expected, wasn’t it?
These videos may have seemed funny at first, but seeing someone literally break their finger in this perverse display of belief in Tesla, Cybertrucks, or Elon Musk more broadly becomes quite disturbing.
Amazingly, YouTuber Jeremy Judkins, one of the people who previously tried this in a viral video with the trunk firmly on his finger, told Business Insider that an engineer at Tesla told him he was doing it wrong. How? Apparently the Cybertruck doesn’t interpret your knocking on the car as a request for help as it shatters your bones, but rather thinks that you want the door to be closed harder. Seriously.
Out of Business Insider:
Judkins said that after the finger test, a senior Cybertruck engineer at Tesla said he got the video wrong.
The engineer told him that the pressure in the frunk increases every time it closes and encounters resistance, Judkins said. It assumes that you want to close the trunk and there may be something like a bag in the way that would make it difficult to close.
“Using this information, that means it closed tighter around my finger than my hand and much tighter than my arm,” the YouTuber wrote.
And if you think that’s bad, it gets worse. Judkins tried a new experiment with a bag, and it still closed in a terrible way.
Judkins said the algorithm should favor safety rather than having a bag get in the way. But even when Judkins put a bag in the way to close the trunk, it still closed, meaning he didn’t respond to resistance quite as much as he should have.
Gizmodo is not aware of any videos showing a finger being severed while attempting this trick. At least not yet. It feels like it’s only a matter of time before someone chops off a finger completely.
Please do not do this with a Cybertruck. Other vehicles have sensors that detect that something foreign, like a human finger, is in the way and is not actively trying to harm you. It’s not worth losing a digit while proving that you’re worthy of the Musk cult. However, if you decide to prove your worth in this way, be sure to upload it to YouTube so the world can see what an idiot you are.