you can say whatever you want on the

internet and even if it isn't true some

people will believe it that's why as a
6'6 250 lb man capable of bench pressing bench pressing đẩy tạ hoặc gì đó.
twice my body weight I feel the need to
call out nonsense when I see it the Nonsense điều vô nghĩa
latest example Tesla showcased their Showcased trình diễn
cybertruck towing a Porsche 911 while Towing kéo
beating up Porsche 9911 in a drag race beating up đánh bại
now when I first saw this I thought wow drag race cuộc đua kéo
this is a genuinely clever and well genuinely chân thực
executed marketing stunt it showcases marketing stunt chiêu trò marketing
the potent acceleration of EVS that the potent tăng tốc, hiệu suất cao\ struggles
world of combustion engine struggles to struggles khó khăn
match but then I heard rumors it didn't match đối đầu, so sánh kịp
actually complete a/ quarter mile in the instead thay vào đó
drag race instead it only completed the
Eighth Mile this was easily verifiable
watching the video because you can see
in the split view that when the
cybertruck crosses the Finish Line it's
only halfway to the timing boards which
Mark the end of the quarter mile now
when it comes to drag racing the quarter
mile is the most important metric it's
why Tesla provides the quarter mile time
at the end of the drag race video for
the cybertruck and yeah it's misleading
to show this immediately after watching
an eighth mile race without informing
the viewers but it's not like Tesla is
saying it can tow a Porsche 9911 across
the quar mile faster than the Porsche
911 can go by itself it can tow a
Porsche 9911 across A4 mile faster than
the Porsche 911 can go by
itself say what faster than a 911 while
towing a 911 okay so two statements that
definitely seem like blatant lies back
to back will ignore the pedantic
definition of the word faster the Cyber
truck has a top speed of 130 mph the
Porsche 9/11's top speed is 181 mph
there is no world where stock to stock
the Cyber truck is faster as in higher
top speed yet they even show on the
screen faster than a 911 which again is
objectively not true now did I just say
I wouldn't get pedantic and then
suddenly get very pedantic yes yes I did
do you see how annoying that but what
about the quarter mile statement now
perhaps an obvious rhetorical question
but if the cybertruck actually was
quicker in the quarter mile while Towing
why would they end the race at the
Eighth Mile in the video now that's of
course the easy way out and this is
engineering explained where we use math
to find definitive answers to questions
that nobody really cares about so let's
deter which vehicle would actually be
quicker in the quarter mile now before
we do the math we need to be absolutely
certain that the cars are running an
eighth Mile and not the4 mile so very
quickly you can see there are bleachers
when the vehicles cross the finish line
then we get an overhead view and you can
see that that finish line is across from
where the bleachers end which marks the
halfway point of the track you can see
the timing boards are all the way in the
back where the quarter mile ends and
there are no bleachers at this point
clearly the Finish Line was at the 8th
mile but if that's not good enough you
can go on Google Maps for Sacramento
Raceway Park and measure the distance
from the starting line to the line
across from the bleachers which turns
out to be 660 ft or an eigh Mile and if
you measure to the timing boards you get
1,320 ft or a/4 mile so we have
positively confirmed the video shows
them finishing the race at the 8th Mile
Line okay so ultimately what we're
trying to figure out is is a cyber truck
towing a Porche 91
quicker in the quarter mile than a
Porsche 911 doing it all by itself so we
have a lot of unknowns here as you can
see so let's establish what we do know
well we do know that a Tesla cyber truck
by itself can complete the quarter mile
and 11 seconds dead at 119 mph as
verified by Jason kamissa who took one
on the drag strip okay so how quick is
the 911 by itself all right so Car and
Driver tested the current gen generation
base Porsche 911 which did the4 Mile in
11.5 seconds at 120 m per hour so you
can see that's not a very big gap and it
seems highly unlikely that a Tesla
Towing another vehicle would do better
than 115 however we don't know exactly
which Porche 911 Tesla was testing
against we do know that there is a
slower portion 911 out there the 911t
and the reason why it's slower is
because it has a manual transmission
offered so both car and driver and Motor
Trend have both tested the 2023 Porsche
911 Carrera T and that vehicle has a
quar mile time of 12.2 seconds at 116
mph again slower because it's using a
manual transmission rather than
Porsche's very quick dual clutch
transmission now hopefully this goes
without saying but I think it's
important that we use third-party test
results to understand what is the the
slowest possible quarter mile time for a
current generation Porsche 911 which
according to Motor Trend and Car and
Driver is 12.2 seconds so that's the
target to beat for the Tesla cybertruck
towing a 911 all right so we've
established our Baseline and now we're
trying to figure out how long does the
Tesla Towing the 911 take to complete
the quarter mile now we don't know this
because they don't show the full clip of
it completing a quarter mile however
they do show a full uninterrupted clip
of it completing the eighth mil so we
can get this information so if we start
the clock at the very first frame before
the stage light goes out which indicates
when the drag strip timing begins and
end the clock when the cybertruck first
touches the Finish Line you get 8.25
seconds this comes from Counting frames
or the number of images that make up the
video so in this case we have 198 frames
for it to complete the quarter mile at a
frame rate of 24 frames per second 198
divided 24 that gives you 8.25 seconds
now if you do the same thing for the 911
the stage light actually goes out one
frame later however it takes four more
frames to cross the finish line and so
you have a total of 2011 frames at 24
frames per second giving you a time of
8.38 okay so how quickly can the Cyber
truck by itself run the Eighth Mile well
once again thanks to Jason kamisa we
have this number so the average of two
runs running in opposite directions the
fyber truck completes the Eighth Mile in
6.94 seconds at 99 mph okay so if the
Cyber truck towing a 911 completes the
8th Mile in 8.25 seconds and a cyber
truck on its own completes that 8th Mile
in 6.94 seconds well that means we need
an additional
1.31 seconds to complete that Eighth
Mile while Towing what does that mean
well it means at an absolute minimum we
have to add 1.31 seconds to our cyber
trucks quarter mile time of 11 seconds
in other words 11 + 1.31 that gives us
12.3 seconds absolute best case against
the 9/11 which can do it in 12.2 seconds
boom it cannot win it cannot win in this
race realistically that's all you need
to know it cannot beat the slowest
current gen 911 while towing a 9911 in
the quarter mile but yeah again I'm not
quite satisfied to get get a more
accurate answer let's figure out how
quickly the Cyber truck is going when it
crosses the Eighth Mile Mark all right
so we're trying to figure out the Cyber
truck's velocity velocity is equal to
distance divided by time in this case
for distance we're going to use the
entire vehicle with the cybertruck
towing the 9911 and per time we'll say
how long does it take this entire length
of vehicle to cross the finish line so
the Cyber truck itself is about
224 in between the Cyber Tru and the
Porche 911 looks to be a little bit
bigger than one wheel of the Cyber truck
the wheels of the Cyber Tru about 3 ft
so let's call that Gap 4T and then we
have the length of the 911 which is 178
in about so you add that all up you've
got 450 in divid by 12 that gives you a
distance of
37.5 ft okay so how much time does it
take the entire vehicle to cross the
finish line so if you start with the
frame just before it touches the Finish
Line we go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 frames and you
can see the back of the Porsche is just
over the start of the finish line so in
s frames or 7 24s of a second we
traveled the full length of the towing
vehicle all right so 37.5 ft ided
724 of a second gives us about 128. 6 ft
per second or about 88 mph so in the
Eighth Mile the cyber Tru Towing the 911
does it at 8.25 at about 88 mph so now
we can get a better estimate for the
remaining time to complete that final
Eighth Mile okay so you can see there's
an 11 mph gap between the Cyber Tru on
its own and the cybertruck towing a 911
so let's be generous and say that it can
maintain this 11 MH gap for the
remainder of the4 Mile so we're going to
be going from 88 mph to the final speed
of 119 - 11 that gives us 108 in other
words an average speed across that 8th
mile of 98 mph if we want to figure out
time we just take distance divided by
velocity so we have .125 1/8 of a mile
divided by 98 mph multiply that by 3600
seconds in an hour and that gives us a
total time for that remaining 8th mile
of
4.59 seconds so if we add 4.59 to 8.25
well we get a realistic quarter mile
time of around
12.84 seconds at about 108 mph again
quite a gap between that and a Porsche
911 so as you can see it will be slower
while towing a 9911 in the quarter mile
all right so a couple very important
concluding remarks to me all Porsche
911s look pretty much the same I don't
know exactly which one Tesla used in the
video Elon describes it as follows and I
I should say this is this is an actual
Porsche we literally just got it from
the dealer 2023 Porsche 911 if I had to
guess I would guess that it's the
Carrera T because that's the slowest 911
and it's also the lightest 9911 so that
would give the towing Tesla as much of
an advantage as possible one indication
to me is that you can see a very
noticeable Lurch when the porsa
seemingly changes gears you can see the
whole car heaves forward briefly
something you wouldn't expect to see if
it was a dual clutch Porsche because
even during a gear shift these dual
clutch Transmissions maintain positive
torque meaning very little if any visual
indication of lurching the base 911 does
not offer a manual and it's quicker
which is what leads me to believe that
it's the 911t okay the second Point what
the cybertruck achieved here is still
bonkers the fact that it can put down A4
Mile in the high 12s or low 13s while
Towing a Porsche 911 is nuts and
hilarious to watch this is another case
where the engineering of the vehicle
alone was absolutely enough for the
cybertruck to deserve some hype so why
muddy this achievement with a marketing
stunt that's difficult to interpret put
plainly how this was presented during
the cybertruck reveal was misleading now
maybe he simply misspoke but if that's
the case it only seems fair to me to
apologize to Porsche for misrepresenting
the true Gap in Pace there's definitely
interesting engineering to talk about
with this vehicle so expect those videos
in the future and if for some reason
you're upset that I'm singling out Tesla
here I have great news you can check out
my video on how the Ford Lightning can't
realistically tow 1 million pounds or
how the SSC to Atara didn't actually hit
331 mph despite their claims I actually
think the cybertruck is cool but
marketing stunts that mislead the public
always leave a bitter taste in my mouth
or maybe that's whatever's in my
cup if you have any questions or
comments feel free to leave them below
thanks for watching cheers