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Elon walked off stage to kill the guy who designed the glass.

ye, Elon was sweating like crazy right after the blunder. I also thought the presentation could have been rehearsed a little bit better as the slides seem to be off most of the time (I assume Elon is just way too busy to rehearse these things).

This is how every Tesla presentation goes. It's never been about Steve Jobs level presentation polish, it's always been about the quality of the product.

Especially the glass.

The glass was extremely impressive. You obviously saw the height drop tests demonstrating the Tesla glass as vastly superior to traditional auto glass.

He’s the CEO. It’s his job to represent the company. It’s his job to rehearse the slides.

It's definitely not his job to rehearse slides. Who would define that as part of his job for him exactly? The board?

As a CEO that is particularly overly in control, ultimately he'll decide how to present, when to present, what to present. It's a take it or leave it package, Musk is a very abnormal executive. He'll rehearse slides if he feels like it, that's clearly more like his personality.

I'm pretty sure Elon doesn't rehearse these presentations at all. He's had trivially-correctable wrong info on slides before, and had to explain it away during the presentation.

Hahaha... probably. I think it actually made the thing look a lot more bad-ass while he gave the rest of the presentation. I own a Tacoma (and have owned a few) and I've had my truck broken into quite often. Some places you don't even want to park because they're hot spots for getting your windows broken into (I'm looking at you Lombard Street). This will be a bit of a deterrent to thieves which is nice.

Does he kill the guy who designed the glass or the guy who suggested trying it again on the rear window?

You mean Tesla's chief designer Franz von Holzhausen? I'm not so sure. ;)

Wow that's the guy who doesn't know how to swing a hammer? I just assumed he was a random model. How embarrassing.

Ah that's the guy. He drove the new roadster last time. I kept wondering who the guy is. He looked really like Reed Hastings...

And the web team

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Order page eventually went up, and my down payment went thru.

when is it launching?

Late 2021.

Context?

they broke the armour glass on stage, maybe accident? maybe not?

During the demo of transparent metal glass Elon invited Franz to hit the glass with metal ball and it broke. It wasn’t supposed to because it is extra hardened or something.

To paint the whole story, they tested it on a sample not mounted on the car before. Which went fine.

Here's the timestamp of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvDOdBHYBw&t=7m22s

Thank you!

Half-joking aside...

I trust the glass will be fully bulletproof by end of year, if not some time next week.

You think they will edit the glass demo out of the version they post?

Failed demo is a 100% totally intended publicity trick.

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