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Hello everybody and welcome back to the show, I'm your host will
Walden. And on this episode, we're going
to be talking about cyber truck in the demonstration that Elon
Musk and company did a couple days ago.
Well there was a little bit of a snafu during that and the snafu
was that they threw a steel ball, a metal ball into the
windows of cyber truck. Just say like hey these things
are bulletproof. We can throw whatever we an atom
and nothing's going to happen to him.
But something did happen to him the windows cracked the windows
smashed, the front window, big old dent in that thing the back
window. Same thing.
It looks like the front window was a little bit worse than the
back window and Elon Musk actually tweeted why this
happened, right? So he was a little bit
embarrassed when they happen. He pretty much said, we got some
R&D to do some stuff happens. Looked a little bit embarrassed
on stage, he laughed it off. Like it was no big deal and said
they have two years to fix this and figure out why this
happened. It didn't go through the window
because if it went through the window that would be a huge,
huge deal. But I just like other car
windows. They're meant to kind of break a
little bit if something bad were to happen.
So if you know if you needed to get into a car because somebody
else was trapped in it, there's a way to break into it, so way
to smash the glass, it looked like something out of that kind
of Reception to a tool, right? So, there's a big hole in it,
that actual hold, just some shattered glass.
And, you know, it's fine, didn't go through into the driver seat.
So, Ilan, said that the demonstration didn't work out
well, because They hit the side of the car, with a sledgehammer.
Elon Musk will Rob adeeb said. I know the real reason behind
the window crack. It's okay.
He'll on, but maybe you should have thrown the ball of the
window before you decided to hit the door with a sledgehammer.
It was on Twitter and Elon Musk said, yep, Sledgehammer impact
on door cracked base of class, which is why steel ball didn't
bounce off, should have done steel ball on.
Do then Sledgehammer, the door and he said, next time.
So, Elon is shown in other videos.
This cyber truck windows are pretty damn tough.
The steel ball throw at the Cyber truck, window was tweeted
by Elon Musk, and Franz the guy who was on stage, when they did
the Cyber truck event, he was the one that threw the ball at
the window again, you know. So that's cool.
Same guy, same ball, same window.
So they have a lot of time before they go into production
now. So this is got a weird though
and this is this doesn't really add up to me if they hit the
front door with a sledgehammer and it cracked the front window
but it also cracked the back window so must have cracked the
bottom and D stabilized. Something in in the In the
chassis of the door that connects to the window, and the
window must have cracked because of the vibrations from the door.
Now in between now and 2020 to when you're going to get your
cyber truck, there's going to be some refinements to this
mechanism. I'm sure there's going to be
some dampening. I'm sure because if you know
what if you get you know what if something happens and you get
smashed into on the side of your truck?
What happens if you know, one of your buddies is like a At what
really? Let me check and see if this
thing breaks and hits it with a sledgehammer himself, just to
test it out. You can't be running around with
windows that are cracked underneath and you don't know
it. And then the windows break,
that's not a cool thing to be involved with.
So Elon Musk is putting these sort of protocols into the
production line so we don't have to worry about our cyber trucks.
I am on the fence myself. I would really love to get a
cyber truck. I think it would be pretty cool.
And I saw this really, really cool picture of a model 3 next
to a cyber truck in the Cyber truck is huge compared to it.
It looks cool. I mean, I had my first
impressions podcast about it yesterday.
So if you want to check back that to that episode of hear
everything that I had to say about it, there's way more to
and I could get into that for an hour probably about why I want
to get a cyber truck. Why?
I think it's pretty cool. The model 3 though, it's pretty
tempting to me right now. Model 3 is more in my wheelhouse
more, something that I would drive on a daily basis.
Now, the Fact that the Cyber truck had sort of a weird thing
happen in the unveiling event. Hey man, it happens, things
happen all the time. Remember, I don't know how many
of you have seen the video. It's an older video but I
believe it's Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98.
When they were showing off the operating system and how cool it
was. There's one of the windows
versions, but they got the blue screen of death during the
presentation and they had to reboot the PC.
And they were just like, oh, that's not cool, but it's
technology, you know, and Elon Musk is doing something
different. It's a whole it's a steel car
like it's a steel truck. Totally different than a Ford
F-150. Totally different than any other
truck out there totally different than any of their
vehicle that you'll have on the road at this time.
So I mean they have the manufacturing to make a steel
and why not? Right may as well.
I mean they make Starships out of the stuff so they might as
well make these cyber trucks out of it, to get to be cool man.
The next couple of years, things are going to happen that are
going to change the landscape of electronic Vehicles.
If electric vehicles Eevee's, if you will.
And most of the major brands that are out there right now are
going to have some sort of stake in this game.
The new Mustang SUV has just been announced, you know, about
a week ago. One of those competitors to Elon
musk's Tesla vehicles. But you know I was checking out
the website. I was checking out the Mustang
sight to see what the range was and you could compare all the
models. You could compare all the models
and I didn't see a range, and then when the range was, I had
to go back to like their normal page, their Mustang page, and
check it out. And when I check that out, it
was 300, but it wasn't a real complete number.
It was 300 ish, you know, the wording was kind of weird and I
don't want to go back there right now and check it out.
But the wording was kind of weird and know it's a perception
thing. If I want to get an Eevee, do I
want to get it from somebody who's going to tell me, okay,
this thing has the possible range of 325 miles.
Or do I have to say to myself? It's gonna get around 300 and
the charging stations for the Mustang.
This is kind of like an off thing here.
There was a, there's no specific charging stations that are
listed on their map. If you go to Teslas site, you
can see every single charging station ever.
For Tesla, you can see exactly where they are on a map and
you'll know as a buyer. If you're going to spend 40
grand, 50 Grand on a car. You want to know exactly where
your chargers are so Mustang getting into the whole EV thing,
it's going to be crazy in the next couple of years, they have
to refine their process, and I'm going to do an EV take on the
Mustang as well, that UV Mustang.
So that's going to be another episode.
But for now we figured out why the windows of cyber truck got
broken. By the way, we're trending,
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