- Tesla is promoting a $55 Cybertruck decal impressed by Elon Musk’s notorious window smashing incident.
- “OMFG decal” references second a Tesla engineer smashed the Cybertruck’s home windows with a metal ball.
- Tesla recreated the stunt on the Cybertruck’s launch — however with a baseball, not a ball bearing.
Tesla is promoting a Cybertruck decal impressed by the home windows that famously smashed throughout an indication on the futuristic pickup’s unveiling.
The decal, which pokes enjoyable at Elon Musk’s botched try to indicate off the Cybertruck’s unbreakable home windows at its 2019 unveiling, is at the moment on sale for $55 on Tesla’s on-line retailer, with the itemizing describing it as “celebrating the second that made us all go OMFG.”
It is a reference to the second the futuristic pickup was first revealed, when Tesla engineer Franz von Holzhausen tried to indicate off the toughness of the Cybertruck’s “armor glass” home windows by throwing a metal ball at them.
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The demonstration backfired horribly, with the window cracking and the livestream audio choosing up a surprised Musk muttering “Oh my f—ing god,” within the background.
A second try went simply as badly, with Musk joking that there was “room for enchancment” after the Cybertruck’s rear window additionally smashed.
4 years later, Holzhausen efficiently repeated the notorious stunt at yesterday’s Cybertruck launch occasion in Austin — though this time he threw a baseball, quite than a metal ball bearing.
Which means it nonetheless stays unclear whether or not the Cybertruck’s home windows are literally as unbreakable as Musk initially instructed.
The billionaire instructed the Joe Rogan podcast in October that the premium “Cyberbeast” model of the pickup, which prices practically $100,000 earlier than tax, will include correctly bulletproof home windows that will not roll down.
Yesterday’s launch occasion marked the primary Cybertruck deliveries after years of delays and manufacturing challenges, with Musk admitting that Tesla had “dug its personal grave” with the Cybertruck’s distinctive design.
Nonetheless, not everyone seems to be celebrating, with some Tesla followers criticizing the corporate after it revealed that the Cybertruck would price extra and have much less vary than it initially introduced in 2019.
Tesla didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider made outdoors regular working hours.
