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BenK wrote:
Wonder if Tusk was planning on proving one of his Cybertruck claims...that it would stop a 9mm bullet...
I'd be more concerned about being trapped in the event of fire or water if the doors got jammed closed in an accident.Reisender wrote:
I always find it amusing when people compare Tesla to a Ponzi scheme. LOL.
I know. Mr. Ponzi was downright honest by comparison.BenK wrote:
Wonder if Tusk was planning on proving one of his Cybertruck claims...that it would stop a 9mm bullet...
Tesla has camera shots of 3 bullet marks on the panel.
Obviously they won't be able to do on that stage live.
But I bet somebody will test it and post it in Youtube.;)- Wonder if Tusk was planning on proving one of his Cybertruck claims...that it would stop a 9mm bullet...
- Some Tesla owners are saying it was deliberate so it will create a social media buzz which indeed is still happening.
But I doubt it. Elon looks genuinely embarrassed and even cut short the event. - More likely that they wouldn't have posted the video if the results had been a broken window, Musk didn't have the option of a do-over. And maybe they removed the plexiglass and replaced it with real glass for the public show. Hard to say.
8.1 Van wrote:
Tesla’s Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen has a wicked pitch. Here is a slow-motion video of the Tesla team tempting fate, hurling a steel ball towards the Tesla Cybertruck right before they were set to debut it to the world.
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Hmmm... if it was the same vehicle used later in the public reveal, I wonder if the window had been weakened by the "test"?stsmark wrote:
306 Cold Rolled Stainless sheet in 11ga. (.120) thickness, which is the thickness they are using within .002. Weighs 5.050 lb per square foot.
On the Starship they’re trading the weight for heat resistance on reentry. It’s probably a wash when you back out the weight of a thermal treatment for a different metal.
Somebody asked about the dash and it’s actually molded paper.
Musk called it exoskeleton. I suspect it is also engineered to hold the structural integrity of the car.8.1 Van wrote:
Tesla already received 146,000 Cybertruck pre-orders worth over $8 billion
https://electrek.co/2019/11/23/tesla-cybertruck-pre-orders/
My kids are teasing me to sell my low-number high priority place in the waiting list.
I ordered in the first hour of the reveal.
