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Tesla accidentally busted two windows on the Cybertruck while demonstrating how tough they are
TechCrunch / Yahoo Finance ^ | November 21, 2019 | Greg Kumparak

Posted on 11/22/2019 3:29:03 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

Well, I don't think that was supposed to happen.

In what was one of the more surreal product launches I've seen, Tesla debuted its $39,900 Cybertruck pickup tonight. After running through some specs and hitting the truck's door with a sledge hammer, Elon asked an onstage 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.

It... did not go well. 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."

So they tried it again on the rear passenger window... and it cracked too. "Room for improvement," Musk says with a shrug.

Was this a gag? A "Hah hah! Just kidding, here's a test on the real glass!" sort of thing? Nope. Elon stood in front of the truck, two broken windows and all, and completed the presentation.

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."


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To: TexasGator

“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.”

Proving that Elon is still an ignorant ‘tard no matter how much taxpayer money he milks the public for!

Maybe someone should explain “Mass” and “Density” to him?
Sure a light, low mass item, like a wrench bounced off, that could happen with standard glass.
I actually have some familiarity with this particular glass as I’v e been doing some research for a project of my own.
It’s impressive stuff when used in the proper application, but it’s NOT “Transparent Aluminum” as musky seems to think!

If he were half as smart as he wants us all to think, they would have used the same objects at the presser as they had tested the glass with before.


21 posted on 11/22/2019 4:02:47 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Unconstitutional "Law" is void from inception.....)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Was this inspired by "The Vehicle" in the Logan's Run TV series?


22 posted on 11/22/2019 4:04:39 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (Between the parted pages and were pressed In love's hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If you can afford this thing, then just custom order better glass.


23 posted on 11/22/2019 4:09:11 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: lee martell
The stagecraft build up was incredible...

It looked like a low-budget MTV music video from the 80's.
24 posted on 11/22/2019 4:16:10 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: TexasGator

Why blasphemy that cannot be repeated.


25 posted on 11/22/2019 4:18:28 PM PST by odawg
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To: Ex gun maker.

Top three safest cars according to NHTSA:

1. Model 3
2. Model S
3. Model X


26 posted on 11/22/2019 4:21:25 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

The same top three cars you local fire department wants NOTHING to do with in event of a fire and the toxic cloud that will erupt!
And also not really germane to my post.

Musk seems to lack any real word grasp of elementary physics.
His “People” should have known better,. but maybe you have to go down several levels to find “Common sense” in his world?


27 posted on 11/22/2019 4:34:09 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Unconstitutional "Law" is void from inception.....)
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To: Ex gun maker.

“Musk seems to lack any real word grasp of elementary physics.”

Are you referring to the man that has the world’s most powerful rocket?


28 posted on 11/22/2019 4:40:58 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) picks for the safest cars from model year 2019.

Honda Insight
Hyundai Elantra
Kia Forte
Kia Niro
Kia Niro plug-in hybrid
Subaru Crosstrek
Subaru Impreza
Subaru Impreza wagon
Subaru WRX
Hyundai Sonata
2019 Hyundai Sonata Hyundai Kia Optima
Subaru Legacy
Subaru Outback
Toyota Camry
Genesis G70
Lexus ES 350
Toyota Avalon
BMW 5 Series
Genesis G80
Genesis G90
Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Hyundai Kona
Mazda CX-5
Hyundai Santa Fe
Kia Sorento
Subaru Ascent
Acura RDX
BMW X3
Mercedes-Benz GLC
Mercedes-Benz GLE

not a Tesla in there.
29 posted on 11/22/2019 4:41:10 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Wait till we demonstrate how this piece of crap runs!
30 posted on 11/22/2019 4:44:07 PM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: DannyTN
Here is the Timex live commercial where the watch fell of the prop. But they managed to show it ticking under water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NHq3Yze6s0

31 posted on 11/22/2019 4:44:32 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: Ex gun maker.

https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-safety/

‘Boring’


32 posted on 11/22/2019 4:46:53 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
That's a truck?

Dave's Site



Where does one put the hay, wood, tool box at?

I can think of a lot of words that rhyme with "uck" but "truck' doesn't come close to describing this "thingy

i guess the sloping sides help deflect radar beams so the cattle don't see the farmer approaching....

33 posted on 11/22/2019 4:47:13 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: Dr. Sivana

That one has WAY more style LoL


34 posted on 11/22/2019 4:52:42 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: SpaceBar

“Not a Tesla in there.”

ROTFLMAO!

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/top-safety-picks/2019

Tesla Model 3 Top Safety Pick Plus!

Of course you didn’t provide a link since the link would prove you wrong!


35 posted on 11/22/2019 4:55:52 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: SpaceBar

“Not a Tesla in there”

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/19/iihs-tesla-model-3-earns-top-safety-score-in-all-8-test-categories/

IIHS: Tesla Model 3 Earns Top Safety Score In All 8 Test Categories


36 posted on 11/22/2019 4:57:14 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Ex gun maker.

“Ex gun maker.”, are you drunk? Stupid? Lying? Bat sh!t crazy?

You are at least one, if not all of these.


37 posted on 11/22/2019 4:57:35 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: semaj

Musk recently started a keto diet who’s main ingredient is spinach.

Popeye the Sailor Man!


38 posted on 11/22/2019 5:00:55 PM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"Room for improvement," Musk says with a shrug."

Musk is also famous for this quote after one of his rockets that blew up: "Rapid unscheduled disassembly"

39 posted on 11/22/2019 5:03:49 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Dr. Sivana

Maybe the short lived Automan?


40 posted on 11/22/2019 5:04:12 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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