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What did I just watch?
You watched them appear to accidentally break both side windows then do the rest of the event with shattered windows.
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Who would have thought that the comically ugly renders of a few weeks ago would turn out to be spot on? This was jaw dropping.
What kind of design would you have gone for?
Would like to see a render that looks like this did.
I’m unsure what to think. Kudos for breaking the mold, I guess.
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.
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.
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...
You think they will edit the glass demo out of the version they post?
And the web team

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Order page eventually went up, and my down payment went thru.
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.
Half-joking aside...

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

Failed demo is a 100% totally intended publicity trick.
Interesting, the no rear-view mirror design is already approved by regulations and being deployed. Roadster shouldn't be far now +.+
No side-view mirrors, you mean? Or is this lacking a rear-view mirror?
The rear-view mirror is a display that shows the back camera feed. In the prototype at least.
Interesting. It's also lacking side-view mirrors, but I haven't heard anything about how they managed that.
Performance is nuts as is affordability, looks like an evil cop or military truck in a dystopian future though.
For the 30 seconds I saw before the stream went private that car-truck-thing looked like something out of Total Recall
I watched the whole thing. The stream never went private.
It did, and it is now. This is one of those things that's trivial to check before you tell someone they're wrong. Not everyone could watch it exactly live. Everyone who was was kicked out.
Probably it is now. But not when it was live.
Not withstanding the grandeur of the truck, its unique look, and specs; I love Elon's composure following the somewhat failed glass test that broke both windows on the vehicle during the live unveiling.
Well, the steel ball didn't go through which is pretty amazing still.
After announcing the prices, I was really hoping he'd say "..and that's without broken windows."
I'm not the one who would buy this as I live in Boston and drive a tiny car. But I thought it was really cool. Reminds me of futuristic cars from 80's action movies.
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Woah. I think it it's actually pretty cool!
This is nearly April fools joke level. Ignoring the individual aesthetic, it just stands in such stark contrast to the rest of the curved, sleek vehicles in their fleet.

Surprising.

I literally checked my watch to see the date.
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Yes, the year must have been of some cyberpunk future, because the look is right from there.

I can't but notice how the "futuristic" car designs from my childhood are now pretty common in mass-produced cars. I suggest the recent sci-fi movie esthetics are going to be common soon enough, and this truck is an example.

Because all the people that grew up reading/watching sci-fi ended up as CEOs and important people in business.
I'd buy it. In Rocket League.
Well, trucks aren't usually meant to look curved nor sleek. Those who drive trucks probably wouldn't want one that looked that way.
Those that drive trucks want it to show masculinity/power. This is just a triangle on wheels/kids toy.
Granted, it looks more like what makers of cheap '80s cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic movies imagined what masculinity/power looks like.
An April Fools joke.. in November.

This is possibly the ugliest car I have ever seen - its less lovable than the Aztek.. somehow.

I can't be the only one who sees the design similarities to the Delorean, right? And to top it off it's stainless steel...
My first thought as well.
Same here, though the DMC car looked futuristic for its time. This is simply hideous, a meme of itself.

Any idea what the curb weight is?

For me it is reminiscent of TARS from Interstellar.
Any chance this is the chassis of SpaceX's inevitable Mars Rover being tested on Earth first?
I don't think you'll need hard exterior on Mars. Instead you need protection from extreme weather.
You don't even need that. Mars' atmosphere is very thin. Windspeeds can be extreme but there is so little mass being moved that the generated forces are pretty minimal.
Are you saying the wind storm that stranded Whatney in The Martian was inaccurate?

So much for that book being well researched...

Supposedly that's about the only technical liberty they took. The rest is said to be pretty realistic.
It's been noted again and again. The author also has stated multiple times that this was a deliberate inaccuracy for story purposes.
Yeah, it's like they took a Delorean, added an El Camino style bed and made the whole thing more rugged... and electric.

Gas stations? Where we're going, we don't need gas stations!

A Delorean Hummer love child.
I thought this was the car from Moonwalker. Was expecting it to turn into robot Michael Jackson. There's no way this wasn't modeled after that?
The unpainted steel of the DeLorean made it a pain in the ass to repair. You can't pull dents, apply body filler and repaint, you basically need a whole new panel if you want to restore damage.
The part of the demo that was actually impressive was the part where they took sledgehammers to the body panels and didn't leave dents. I think it'll be fine.
Was thinking the same thing. Sounds expensive to repair. Leading to higher insurance premiums
Unlike a DeLorean, I don't think a few rough weld marks would ruin the aesthetic of the Cybertruck.
Late 2021 delivery of the dual motor, late 2022 of the trimotor model
It is amazing how weird and poorly produced these things are. The cheesy outfits, the terrible lighting, the window demo failure. Its like they go out of their way to cut corners and look unprofessional to strike some kind of authenticity note. Like, obviously they're not faking the demo, or the windows wouldn't have broken. And the mumbling fumble/botched-transition to the ATV...

VH1 interns could produce a better event than this.

I was kind of hoping the Tesla pickup was going to be a reality. I was thinking of a cross between A model 3 and an F150 and was legitimately excited.

If this is the "Tesla Pickup" count me as bitterly disappointed.

Because of the design or functionality?
This [0] is the Tesla pickup.

[0] https://youtu.be/R35gWBtLCYg

I've got a truck (an older Tacoma) and too many hobbies that make it hard to give up, so I'll likely always have a truck.

If Tesla had introduced a factory version of Simone's, I'd be screaming at them to shut up and take my money.

This thing...I'm sorry, I can't get over the styling. I love the numbers, and don't even find the pricing to be too horrible, but there's no away I'll have something that looks like that. Maybe Tesla truck 2.0 will be worth looking at.

What's "Simone" in this context? (my name is Simone and I just got curious)
Simone Giertz, the Queen of Shitty Robots.
The video link stopped working halfway through for me, but that design isn't final, right? Looks like an early prototype for integration testing- that angular look can't be what it'll actually ship like?
That's the final look, what i'd like to see is more about that new ATV!
The tent/camping mode looks cool. I’m excited to make an autonomous truck + RV my next home.
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Is it April first already?
I feel like we're going through a similar phase as the 50's where all American cars had huge flarings that had no purpose, but they had aesthetic value. This thing is too much style for the sake of style. In some ways, it is cool - use aesthetics to market to masses, change the world - one gas guzzler at a time.
Reminds me of an old game I used to play where you drove around a blocky vehicle with a similar shape. Now I can't stop trying to think of the name of it.

EDIT: Was the link changed right after posting? Everyone's talking about a failed glass demo with Elon and all I'm seeing is photos of an odd looking truck.

Kinda reminds me of the ships in the Descent series.
Oh yeah, the Pyro (GL?) looked absolutely awesome.
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I agree that electric trucks are important to combat climate change, but wow. If their goal is to sell to the market that buys pickup trucks, I think the styling is way off the mark.

Huge, beastly trucks are a status symbol and signalling to others that you are are certain demographic. Same reason some people buy cheap cars and add shiny wheels and lights. Same reason some people buy BMWs and Mercedes. These are all part of socioeconomic norms. I don't see how the normal truck crowd will latch on to this.

The specs are pretty impressive though. 500 mile range got my attention.

Eh, that portion of the truck crowd was never gonna go for a truck that doesn't make loud ICE noises anyway.

I think the goal was to look heavy duty (which it does), not big, which is for people with insecurity issues.

Is the normal truck crowd going to latch onto a $70k truck?

I think this is going to resonate really well with techies. Not a huge demographic, but one that can afford it.

The market for sci-fi/cyberpunk cars won't be huge, but in exchange, this looks like it'll capture _all_ of that market, as opposed to a small slice of a more conventional one.

When I lived in rural Missouri, I was shocked at how many of my neighbors and colleagues were shelling out $70k for their pickup trucks.

The price here is not a concern at all. The design.... not so sure about that.

Rest assured, if you slap a "Punisher" sticker on this thing, it will be welcome at any roadside bar in Texas. It looks like the sort of thing the SEALs would roll up in.
I don't think we can know how the market that buys pickup trucks will react to this without running the experiment. Pickup truck buyers haven't had the option of buying a pickup truck that doesn't look like a conventional pickup truck.
Take a look at the FJ Cruiser, or the Wrangler. This fits right in with that look.

There's also a Chevy truck with a toy look... But I can't remember the name.

People don’t buy cheap cars to belong to a demographic, they do it because they don’t have money for better generally
Watching this was... cerebral. The impression I get is that Tesla made this truck because they wanted to, and they don't really care too much what people think of it.
They made it to erase any doubt about an electric truck being tough.
Or practical. That bed is insanely bad.
Why, exactly?
It’s on 6.5 feet. You can’t put an existing truck camper on it.
What a great opportunity for the Aftermarket market.
Yeah, I’m sure the truck camper companies like Lance are going to jump on this. Hopefully they design something that matches the CyberTruck design and integrates seamlessly.
Beyond the camper, like the other person said, it won't function for contractors. Drywall and plywood are sold in standardized 4'x8' sheets, which won't fit in the bed of this thing.
so assuming Elon launchs one of these into space heading for mars in the near future, will this thing drive on mars? Does the air pressurization system, super rugged shell, and ATV make this thing ideal for life as a martian?