Elon Musk Remembers the Moment the Tesla Cybertruck Window Broke Onstage

What was it like when the dude threw the steel balls at the window and they were supposed to not break and it broke? Well, yeah. I mean... I know. It's extenuating circumstances. You know that our demos are authentic. Yeah. So I was not expecting that and then I think I muttered under my breath. It was like, holy shit. Yeah. You didn't get mad though. No, I... You didn't Steve Jobs it. No, I definitely swore but I didn't think the mic would pick it up but it did. And so like we practiced this behind the scenes. Yeah. It tells us we don't do like tons of practice for our demos because we're working on the cars. Like we're building new technologies and improving the fundamental product. We're not spending it like doing like hundreds of practice things or anything like that. We don't have time for that. But just hours before the demo, both Franz is a head of design and I were in the studio throwing steel balls at the window and just bouncing right off. And like, okay, this seems pretty good. It seems like we got it. Okay. Okay. And then we think what happened was that when Franz hit the door with the sledgehammer, sure, like this is like exoskeleton, high strength hardened steel. You can literally wind up with a sledgehammer, full on double handed sledgehammer and hit the door and there's not even a dent. It's cool. But we think that that cracked the corner of the glass at the bottom. And then once you crack the corner of the glass, the years game over. So then when you threw the ball, that's what cracked the glass. So in hindsight, it didn't go through. That's true. That's true. It didn't shatter the whole thing like a regular window would either, which would just dissolve. Right. So in hindsight, the ball should have been first sledgehammer second. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You live, you learn. Yeah, exactly.