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Elon walked off stage to kill the guy who designed the glass.
by mffnbs 7y ago
Elon walked off stage to kill the guy who designed the glass.
- oxplot 7y agoye, 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).
- leesec 7y agoThis 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.
- new_realist 7y agoEspecially the glass.
- adventured 7y agoThe glass was extremely impressive. You obviously saw the height drop tests demonstrating the Tesla glass as vastly superior to traditional auto glass.
- coddle-hark 7y agoHe’s the CEO. It’s his job to represent the company. It’s his job to rehearse the slides.
- adventured 7y agoIt'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.
- jccooper 7y agoI'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.
- fastball 7y agoContext?
- internet_user 7y agothey broke the armour glass on stage, maybe accident? maybe not?
- ceocoder 7y agoDuring 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.
- iamcreasy 7y agoTo paint the whole story, they tested it on a sample not mounted on the car before. Which went fine.
- shasheene 7y agoHere's the timestamp of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvDOdBHYBw&t=7m22s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvDOdBHYBw&t=7m22s
- jbc1 7y agoThank you!
- andrewbarba 7y agoDoes he kill the guy who designed the glass or the guy who suggested trying it again on the rear window?
- oxplot 7y agoYou mean Tesla's chief designer Franz von Holzhausen? I'm not so sure. ;)
- nodesocket 7y agoYou think they will edit the glass demo out of the version they post?
- petemill 7y agoAnd the web team > 429 Too Many Requests
- dylanz 7y agoHahaha... 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.
- ctdonath 7y agoHalf-joking aside... I trust the glass will be fully bulletproof by end of year, if not some time next week.
- de_watcher 7y agoFailed demo is a 100% totally intended publicity trick.