Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/22/watch-teslas-cybertruck-a.html
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I like to think that there was a production assistant standing in the sidelines who passed a note to Elon right before the demo that the reinforced windows weren’t ready so they put in some plate glass for the show and then noticed in horror that Elon had never opened the note.
Then he brings out the guy with the metal ball and the assistant is all:
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If i win the lottery tonight, I’ma buy one.
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Yes, the window broke, but the metal ball did not go through; It bounced off, so the window succeeded in preventing penetration. From the “Failure method”, it seems their “Armor glass” is some form of laminate, like vehicle windshields.
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Tesla has officially launched their first Aztec.
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Obligatory:
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Rolling with the “not in the script” - Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both had notable presentation failures.
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before you go to far on this bend you might want to search federal regulations on windows and which are actually supposed to break. Windshields no…but side windows provide egress. Musk might want to show off a vehicle that seems impervious, but the federal regulators might have real requirements the truck needs to meet.
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You’re probably right about that. Unbreakable windows could trap occupants in certain situations. It still makes me wonder why they chose that as a demonstration point though.
In addition, I’ve got to say that this truck is mind blowingly bad looking to me. It feels like a prop from a bad futuristic '80’s movie. That knife edged roofline ugh! I can imagine all the panels wiggling on the golf cart chassis below it lol.
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They were clearly surprised and not happy in the moment, and then Musk said it didn’t break during testing.
So no, in this case it pretty clearly wasn’t an intentional break by design.
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So they’re pitching something as ultra high tech, but it’s actually like what we currently have, only not as good.
Seems legit.
Actually, yes. Not even being sarcastic.
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This is true. If I drop my phone and the shatterproof glass looks like that - it didn’t fail.
It just succeeded with style.
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Found it!
Truckers in space!
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The explanation I heard is that Teslas aren’t exactly drooled over by the pickup crowd, so they have to overcompensate on the toughness.
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don’t want to watch:
running scared. 80’s movie. they are close to retiring so stop taking chances. get bullet proof glass and then the windows don’t roll down.
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It absolutely does. It’s like someone cut and folded some sheet metal and stuck in on a chassis, the kind of thing a cheap '80s sci-fi movie would do. It’s like something that was too cheap and cheesy for Megaforce,The Last Starfighter, Trancers or Space Mutiny.
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… or the Johnny Cab in Total Recall or this snow vehicle: https://66.media.tumblr.com/b797511b9c2bbf9128f2ffab50262d2f/tumblr_pgdj3hBGZU1xusffbo9_540.png
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That went about as well as most of my live demos, which is to say, NOT AT ALL WELL
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If you do, can I borrow it? I have a sudden desire to film my next great feature, “Megaforce II: The Quest for Water”, a low-budget post-apocalypse epic that will feature men and women with wonderful hair and white jumpsuits. It will have a soundtrack with all the synthesizers. It will be both radical and awesome to the max.
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