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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“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.
If you can afford this thing, then just custom order better glass.
Why blasphemy that cannot be repeated.
Top three safest cars according to NHTSA:
1. Model 3
2. Model S
3. Model X
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?
“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?
That one has WAY more style LoL
“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!
“Not a Tesla in there”
IIHS: Tesla Model 3 Earns Top Safety Score In All 8 Test Categories
“Ex gun maker.”, are you drunk? Stupid? Lying? Bat sh!t crazy?
You are at least one, if not all of these.
Musk recently started a keto diet who’s main ingredient is spinach.
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Popeye the Sailor Man!
Musk is also famous for this quote after one of his rockets that blew up: "Rapid unscheduled disassembly"
Maybe the short lived Automan?
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