One of the dramatically styled truck’s signature features is the Tesla Armor Glass used for the windows that CEO Elon Musk described as “transparent metal glass.”
(Tesla)Musk exclaimed what sounded like “Oh my (expletive) God,” when the stunt went wrong.
“Maybe that was a little too hard,” Musk said as he laughed off the mishap. Undeterred, he asked von Holzhausen to do it again to the rear door window, which had the exact same result.
“Oh, man, it didn’t go through,” Musk said optimistically, adding that there was “room for improvement.”
Musk then said that they had thrown tools and even a kitchen sink at it in testing and that “it’s a little weird reason it broke now, I don’t know why.”
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The Cybertruck also features a body made out of a high strength stainless steel that fared better than the glass when von Holzhausen hit the door with a sledgehammer without denting it. A video was also shown of 9mm bullets being shot at it and disintegrating on impact.
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