Modern-Day Cyberpirate Towing Meme

Toyota Is Working on “Hitchless Towing,” Where Two Vehicles Are Only Connected Through WiFi ... See more Catch me being a modern-day cyberpirate screaming up alongside you on the 405 in my mad max car with half a bitcoin farm’s worth of RAM in the backseat as I hack your Bitchless Toyota™ device and steal the boat you’re towing right off the back bumper of the tesla your dad bought As i roar into the sunset you have to swerve* to avoid the small flotilla of hacked Toyota devices trailing behind me (*in fact you do not swerve because you're on hands-free driving to go along with your hitch-free towing so you can only watch helplessly as your tesla mistakes your stolen boat for a small child and accelerates crashing into it and killing you instantly)

The meme shows a parody social-media post about Toyota’s fictional WiFi-based “hitchless towing,” illustrated by a car towing a caravan without a visible physical connection. The caption imagines a cyberpirate hacking the towing system and stealing the boat, escalating into absurd dystopian chaos involving Tesla’s driver-assistance technology. It is used as a reaction to futuristic technology that seems convenient but creates ridiculous and dangerous unintended consequences.

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