--- title: "Cybertruck Crashes, Entire Wheel Ripped Off" description: "Another day, another Cybertruck mishap — and this one crashed into the Beverly Hills Hotel sign and lost at least one wheel." date: "2024-03-04" modified: "2024-03-04" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-crash-hotel-sign" categories: - "Advanced Transport" tags: - "cybertruck" - "elon musk" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Cybertruck Crashes, Entire Wheel Ripped Off ![Another day, another Cybertruck mishap — and this one crashed into the Beverly Hills Hotel sign and lost at least one wheel.]() *\Image: @jackdidthatt via X / Futurism\* ## Stop Sign Another day, another Cybertruck mishap — and this one crashed into the Beverly Hills Hotel sign. Images from the collision show the futuristic steel-silver pickup stopped headfirst at the base of the palm-lined sign. It appears that the front right wheel was [ripped clean off](), while the driver-side wheel was [close to joining it](). While the iconic signage was fortunately unharmed in the incident, the reputation of the hotel's valets took something of a hit after a prankster decided to "joke" that one of the hotel's valets had been driving the Cybertruck when it crashed. Naturally, [*TMZ*]() and [others]() ran with the valet story, and [Elon Musk himself weighed in]() on the platform he owns to suggest that the misidentified hotel worker who crashed the vehicle might have been caught off guard by its raw power. "Cyberbeast is faster than a Porsche 911, but looks like a truck," Musk tweeted, "so perhaps the valet wasn’t expecting so much acceleration." But the hotel's parent company, the Dorchester Collection, later told *TMZ* through a spokesperson that none of its valets were involved in the crash. ![]() *Images via @jackdidthatt/X.* ## Steer Clear Notably, there was a significantly more dangerous Cybertruck crash that went viral on the Musk-owned social network over the weekend — and in [that case](), the driver definitely doesn't appear to be at fault. As Phoenix-based lawyer Matthew Chiarello [said in a post on X](), his Cybertruck experienced a "catastrophe \[sic\] failure with steering and brakes" while he was taking a road trip with his wife and toddler. As if that weren't bad enough, the attorney noted that Tesla's service center wasn't open when he tried to reach it. In the post, Chiarello shared a photo of his truck being loaded onto a flatbed truck, and quipped that the whole situation was "pretty pretty pretty not good." Now that Cybertrucks are on the road, we're going to keep seeing these kinds of mishaps, which do seem, as the Phoenix lawyer said, "pretty pretty pretty not good" indeed. **More on Cybertruck:** [*Cybertruck Goes Off-Road, Wheel Snaps Off*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()