We'll Do It Live
Emailed on November 22nd, 2019 in The Friday Forward
Months ago Elon Musk tweeted that the new Tesla truck would be, "unlike anything you've ever seen before."
That was accurate. Picture below.
After running through some specs and hitting the truck’s door with a sledge hammer during Tesla's debut of the Cybertruck last night, Elon asked an on-stage companion (Tesla’s lead designer, Franz von Holzhausen) to demonstrate the strength of the Tesla “Armor Glass” by throwing a solid metal, baseball-sized ball at the driver side window.
That window broke.
While the glass didn’t completely shatter, it did appear to crack from edge to edge.
“Oh my [bleeping] God,” Musk laughs. “Well, maybe that was a little too hard.”
Anyone who has ever built anything and then given a live demo has experienced this. You gotta love the live demo.
They tried the stunt again on the rear window to the same result.
While no one would expect most standard windows to stand up to a test like this, even Elon seemed surprised by the results. “We threw wrenches, we threw everything.” he said on stage. “We even literally threw a kitchen sink at the glass, and it didn’t break. For a little weird reason it broke now, I don’t know why.”