Cybertruck lake arrest - Wade Mode

32 inches is the cited maximum fording depth for Cybertruck Wade Mode, and Grapevine police said a driver was arrested after intentionally driving into Grapevine Lake to use it notateslaapp.com and ctvnews.ca The clean read for TSLA is that this is a user-behavior headline, not a vehicle-performance datapoint, but the tape sensitivity comes from the gap between how Wade Mode is discussed online and the narrower use case described in guidance for shallow-water crossings. Road & Track, citing the Grapevine Police Department, said police alleged the driver overestimated the feature and then had to get out with passengers after the truck entered the lake roadandtrack.com That matters because Cybertruck already sits in a noisy headline stack around demand, recalls, and product perception, so even a local police item can travel as a brand story. Separately, Mashable noted Musk said on X the truck would be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, but that is different from product guidance on fording depth mashable.com If this stays a police-blotter oddity, it is noise; if Tesla has to re-clarify Wade Mode publicly, the market reads it as another product-messaging cleanup.