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6 year oldNew York - In a tweet over the weekend, Elon Musk explained why the supposedly unbreakable windows on Tesla's new Cybertruck cracked during a demonstration Thursday night.
Ordinarily, glass shattering after being hit with a steel ball would not be surprising, but Tesla (TSLA) workers had just gone through a lengthy demonstration dropping steel balls down a long vertical shaft onto a piece of Tesla's new window glass to prove there was no effect. Then, when Tesla designer Franz von Holzhausen came on stage and threw a ball at the driver's side window of the truck on stage, a spiderweb of cracks appeared.Yup. Sledgehammer impact on door cracked base of glass, which is why steel ball didn’t bounce off. Should have done steel ball on window, *then* sledgehammer the door. Next time …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2019
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