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."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Are you sure that isn’t the IIHS picks for the safest FOREIGN cars from model year 2019?
That's funny because my very first thought was that it took its styling cues from a modern stealthy destroyer...
...or the old F-117 Nighthawk
I like your idea of the farmer being able to sneak up on his cows! LOL!
that’s a rELEVANT post.
They said it was BULLET PROOF. Did he throw a bullet? NO!!! He threw an object that is MUCH HEAVIER.
So...more Fake News.
Right, it stymies COWDAR. lol
Well, at least he doesn’t throw like a girl.
“COWDAR” — LOL. Moooo!!
“That’s a truck?”
Reminds me of a cross between a Humvee and a M3A1 White Scout Car.
The door held up well
I have always wanted a Humlorean!
They needed a smaller rock.
NHTSA to Tesla: Stop claiming your cars the safest.
tl;dr:
Telsa has been lying about the results NHTSA produced.
Maybe if he hadn’t used such an awful phrase about his Creator, things would have gone better for him.
It turns out that my brother-in-law bought one of those things last night. Or, at least he put In a reservation to get one. I would love to see how this thing turns out when he finally gets it.
Oh yeah, total liberal too.
“Humlorean” — nice coinage! I like that a lot. Fits perfectly.
Yes, “The man”, not his staff.
He was surprised that a large solid steel ball broke his windows, twice.
Oh, and “Worlds most powerful rocket”?
Pretty certain the Atlas/Saturn series pre-date him.
It was no accident: It was a publicity stunt.
Everyone’s now talking about that fugly POS.
And the same to you too!
Whatever set you off.
And no, I am not a Musk/Tesla fanboy.
I dread what the results are going to be for my local economy when Tesla crashes.
Kind of hope for sooner rather than later, the overall damage will be less severe.
Many a mickle makes a muckle.
You would think a engineer would know that.
“Engineer”?
Does he actually have any genuine (Not honorary) degrees in his own name?
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