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The test before showed them dropping softball-sized metal balls onto a horizontal pane of Tesla Armor Glass from 20-25 feet in the air without any damage, so it
by Magi604 7y ago
The test before showed them dropping softball-sized metal balls onto a horizontal pane of Tesla Armor Glass from 20-25 feet in the air without any damage, so it set the expectation of impervious glass. Maybe if Musk stated that the glass was meant to just crack but not shatter, it would have made sense, but to me the impression I got was that the live demo on the truck was done on the fly without prior prep (Musk did say after the glass cracked that "at least it didn't go through", but not beforehand).
- taborj 7y agoI think the reactions that Musk and Holzhausen had tell the story. They were not expecting that to happen at all. Also, as noted in another story[0], the horizontal plane didn't break at least in part because it wasn't fixed rigidly in place, and thus was able to distort. [0] https://www.thedrive.com/news/31158/tesla-cybertrucks-armored-windows-break-during-on-stage-durability-test https://www.thedrive.com/news/31158/tesla-cybertrucks-armore...