Defensive momentary electrification of exoskeleton?

[Bseddy1]

Musk has made comments about his desire for his products to have the ability to be defensive to threats ... "We want to be the leading provider of apocalypse technology" and the "saving summer sentry mode"... I was thinking it could be possible to have the cybertruck emit an electrical charge of a certain voltage for a split second through the metal exoskeleton to produce a light taser effect to anybody that touches it (many instances where this would be helpful in the riots and mobs of today's society)... What do you think??

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[Crissa]

No.

Also, there's laws against that.

It'd be a horrible drain of battery power, too.

-Crissa

 

[Cyberman]

Yeah, you're not going to be very popular with Officer Johnson when he gets a lightning bolt up his armpit from touching your vehicle...

 

[MUSK007]

Musk says a lot of Things.

 

[Dids]

Riots and mobs? Do you live in Portland? Do you watch fox "news". I'm guessing yes since you are calling protests , riots. So many questions on why you would need to electrify the skin of your vehicle. Do you live in an area where your vehicle gets broken into alot? Wouldn't you feel bad if you shocked innocent people who touched your nearly indestructible truck? No? Do you belong to a group that thinks boobytraps are fun?

 

[MUSK007]

I don’t know if it’s indestructible, it seems they had some problems with the prototype during the unveil event.

 

[Crissa]

I don’t know if it’s indestructible, it seems they had some problems with the prototype during the unveil event.

The steel ball stayed outside the cab, right?

-Crissa

 

[MUSK007]

Boy that was a crazy mistake.
“”Hey OJ, try in these gloves””

 

[Mini2nut]

Tesla's legal department would give this suggestion a big thumbs down for liability reasons alone. Technically I think it would be easy to accomplish however.

 

[Bseddy1]

Riots and mobs? Do you live in Portland? Do you watch fox "news". I'm guessing yes since you are calling protests , riots. So many questions on why you would need to electrify the skin of your vehicle. Do you live in an area where your vehicle gets broken into alot? Wouldn't you feel bad if you shocked innocent people who touched your nearly indestructible truck? No? Do you belong to a group that thinks boobytraps are fun?

Wow, jump to conclusions much?

 

[rr6013]

Musk has made comments about his desire for his products to have the ability to be defensive to threats ... "We want to be the leading provider of apocalypse technology" and the "saving summer sentry mode"... I was thinking it could be possible to have the cybertruck emit an electrical charge of a certain voltage for a split second through the metal exoskeleton to produce a light taser effect to anybody that touches it (many instances where this would be helpful in the riots and mobs of today's society)... What do you think??

FORD model - T door handles used engine electrical coil for this hack. Surely, time and technology could improve the deterrent factor.

 

[craz]

Cool idea - gives me Home Alone vibes! Probably wouldn’t be very difficult to DIY, not sure Tesla legal would go for it as others have stated.

One potential danger being that your vehicle might contact another piece of metal and weld itself to it! I’m sure you could adapt some taser circuitry to prevent this and other overcurrents. As far as unwitting passerby’s, pets, distracted passengers, handsy children, well those are just collateral damage ?

 

[Bseddy1]

This idea is a play on what Musk has previously said combined with the novelties of having an all metal exoskeleton. Its meant for a novel discussion, and I'm not speculating this is actually going to happen nor am I necessarily advocating for it. I know the idea is ripe for wrongful assault suits, and for other abuses or misuses of that function, which would likely outweigh the potential benefit. Just saying putting two and two together - it is technically feasible.

 

[Dids]

This idea is a play on what Musk has previously said combined with the novelties of having an all metal exoskeleton. Its meant for a novel discussion, and I'm not speculating this is actually going to happen nor am I necessarily advocating for it. I know the idea is ripe for wrongful assault suits, and for other abuses or misuses of that function, which would likely outweigh the potential benefit. Just saying putting two and two together - it is technically feasible.

You could use an electric fence. Some of them have solar panels so you don't even need to plug them in. The only challenge there is that one side of the unit needs ground.
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...mile-solar-low-impedance-charger?cm_vc=IOPDP2

 

[TerryMack]

Musk has made comments about his desire for his products to have the ability to be defensive to threats ... "We want to be the leading provider of apocalypse technology" and the "saving summer sentry mode"... I was thinking it could be possible to have the cybertruck emit an electrical charge of a certain voltage for a split second through the metal exoskeleton to produce a light taser effect to anybody that touches it (many instances where this would be helpful in the riots and mobs of today's society)... What do you think??

What Elon could is have the car announce things like, "Step away from the car!" or "Warning-alarm system armed!" or things like that... like Kit on Knight Rider.