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About that Cybertruck Glass...

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It's been over a week now since Tesla unveiled their newest creation, the Cybertruck, and what we can now refer to as windowgate .  If you've managed to escape the news cycle last week, here's what happened: Elon unveils new truck Truck is very un-truck like. Cue tension as people try to figure out how they feel about it. Elon talks about its steel frame and bullet proof "armor glass". A ball drop demo is used to show the difference between a normal piece of glass that shatters and a sample of the cybertruck glass that the ball just bounces off. Hammer time: Design lead Franz Von Holzhausen hits the front door with a hammer. Nothing happens!  Time to ball: But then, Franz tries to show off the unbreakable glass by throwing a steel ball at it and the unthinkable happens-- the glass cracks.   And then to add salt to the wound, when Franz tries again on the back door window, it also cracks.  And now, we have Elon, standing in front of his newest creati...