If they were honest and smart about the glass, they would’ve only ever went with something like a baseball or anything soft-ish and really beamed it in to the window. They might be able to take bullet levels of force, but not from a chromed ball. A chromed ball will focus force WAY better than lead ever would, though if a baseball would’ve broken the window, a damn .22 would…
It was a steel ball. They recreated the event with the same guy but this time with a baseball and the dude gave it the most obvious limp wristed toss, it was incredibly cringe I highly recommend you seek that clip out because it’s absolutely hilarious.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cornpop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Admittedly car windows are just strong as fuck from the outside due to their curve and construction, and they did throw the metal ball hard at the glass before when practicing for the announcement event and it bounced right off.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Come to think of it, how much do Cybertruck windows curve?
Eccitaze@yiffit.net 1 year ago
You think there are curves on this abomination?
Cornpop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not much but they have a curve.
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends on your pov. Not curved much compared to a window from any other car. But it is curved just as much as any other piece of flat glass you may want to compare it to.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If they were smart about it, they would have tried it out once before doing it in public to see if it worked.
PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Was it a baseball? It bounced quite a bit and looked a lot like a light rubber ball
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That was exactly my thought when I saw it. Baseballs don’t bounce like that normally.
Cornpop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Edit: “baseball”
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
God, that was worse than I expected. youtu.be/IUCMGB2AGaE
314xel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol, Franz is a wimp.
“So anyway, the glass is tough, basically”. Is this how they test their rockets, too?
wtfeweguys@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 1 year ago
Tbf the rockets seem to work. Not easy to fake that.
Fermion@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I wanna see large gravel chunks at 80mph not a baseball at 25.
ugh@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My 1995 truck could handle that throw, but sure, we’ll call it “innovation”
Petter1@lemm.ee 1 year ago
🤣🤣🤣