It is worth repeating that Tesla infamously marketed their Cybertruck as a $100K survival vehicle to withstand the harshest challenges.

“Armor glass can resist the impact of a baseball at 70 mph or class 4 hail.”

Class 4 hail? Not actually a thing. I’ll get to that in a minute.

Armor glass? Uh huh, a basic lamination that doesn’t mean much. Just like “full self driving” can’t drive, the Tesla armor glass… isn’t.

Elon Musk said his armor glass that he falsely promoted as “shatterproof” would have a bulletproof option too.

Elon Musk has long claimed the Cybertruck will be bulletproof, saying he wants the futuristic pickup to be “really tough — not fake tough.” […] Thanks to a patent filed by the company in 2021, we know how that “armor glass” works, with several different sheets of glass layered together for strength and flexibility. This “armor glass” won’t be able to stop a bullet — but Musk’s said that Tesla will offer the option to buy a “beast mode” Cybertruck with properly bulletproof windows.

Instead it has delivered a practically worthless dud, which fails tests at every level. Don’t bet your life on this circus clown.

Owners are basically victims of fraud, allegedly still surprised when they realize the lie.

The burglar immediately puts his glass-breaking tool over the windows and shatters the driver’s side glass. Analyzing the footage, the cop can be heard saying, “It’s a tool the thief pushes in the side; look at the top; he pops it…there you go.”

Here, the assailant can be seen grabbing hold of the shattered glass from the top and peeling down the glass to leave the window completely open.

After pulling down the windows, the burglar climbs into the Cybertruck.

This comes after a basic hail storm cracked a Cybertruck windshield even as other cars weren’t affected.

CT windshield did not withstand a freak sudden hailstorm in Austin, rest of vehicle seems fine. None of the other cars parked next to it had windshield damage…

Fake tough. The first sign of fraud was Elon Musk incorrectly using a roofing shingle reference for glass on a vehicle.

Hailstones aren’t classified by their size or weight. Class 4 hail refers to the UL2218 Impact Rating test conducted by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a not-for-profit organization that independently tests and certifies roofing products. […] In order for a roofing product to achieve a Class 4 rating, it cannot show any signs of penetration or fracture after a 2-inch steel ball is dropped twice on the same spot from a distance of 20 feet.

Class 4 rating for roofing products. Not a class of hail. Presumably someone in Elon Musk’s circle mentioned their solar panel roofing business (also fraud) had materials measured relative to Class 4 and he used these same words elsewhere without understanding any of them.

Remember this Elon Musk giant scam about his roof shingle business?

• Nov 2016: “Musk Says Tesla’s Solar Shingles Will Cost Less Than a Dumb Roof. ‘Electricity is just a bonus.'”
• May 2017: Elon Musk bets homeowners will pay a premium for resilient panels that look like an ordinary roof.

They’ll cost less! You’ll pay a premium! Up is down. Down is up. They’ll be dumb. They’ll be ordinary. They’ll be so amazingly resilient… whatever, whenever, all lies all the time in constant contradictions.

In reality a 2-inch steel ball is supposed to be dropped twice. On the same spot. From 20 feet. It’s science, meant for roofing material comparisons yo!

And now this. A 2-inch steel ball thrown like a PT Barnum show…

I’ve covered this before, when Elon Musk uses the “some of my best friends are” defense. It’s wrong to use for many well known and studied reasons, including being clearly racist.

Here’s yet another example of him using it, as if he really doesn’t care.

The forthcoming book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, relates an awkward scene in which Musk tried to assure the CEO of Revolt, a media company founded by Combs, about the surge in racist content that accompanied his appointment to chief executive at Twitter. (Combs sold his stake in Revolt this summer.) Detavio Samuels, the head of that company, was worried that Black users would be assailed by hate speech. Musk deflected by saying, “I don’t know if you know this, but Puff [one of Combs’ former stage names] is an investor in Twitter.” He added, “You know, he’s a good friend of mine. We text a lot.”

As I have been saying since 2022, the Twitter takeover never was about direct revenue. It was a calculated loss — cost of disinformation — to benefit racist tyrants who almost instantly implemented targeted censorship on the global propaganda platform.

Elon Musk used billions to elevate toxic narratives for Saudis and Russians. Thus asking Musk for a Twitter profit plan is like asking who makes money when Russia drops bombs on billboards in Ukraine. Forget advertising.

The buried lede in the article is that Putin’s elites are behind the Twitter purchase and reorganization, specifically two 8VC henchmen named Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich.

The founder of 8VC, also known for his conflict generating Nazi-affiliated Palantir, has responded officially to criticism of these two by stating he is a “better” man than anyone else, one who trusts only his own judgement in hiring Putin’s soldiers (Source: Twitter).

That’s the unmistakable voice of tyranny. “Lesser men” are defined as those who disagree with a man who only listens to those who agree with him.

But let me be even more clear here about the horrible racism allegedly in 8VC culture. The founder literally has been saying a candidate for hire shouldn’t be accountable for their family, let alone their country politics, history or culture.

The narrative is that “lesser men” wouldn’t take the big risk to hire a Russian prince out of Putin’s inner circle of billionare jerks to land him a plumb job, because this 8VC founder doesn’t take important background stuff into consideration.

Ok? That sounds awful. Even worse, when you follow the logic presented and look at his publicly stated position on why he doesn’t hire non-whites… there’s a huge glaring racist double-standard.

Who has the courage to talk about broken Russia? Not this guy. He’ll say he hates Putin, as if Putin doesn’t lap that up, and that’s it.

Meanwhile…

He’s saying Black candidates carry a huge burden and responsibility for their entire country’s history if they expect to get hired by him. That is unless they’re Russian, in which case nothing about their father’s direct role in a oppressive dictatorship is worth talking about.

Who wants to bet hiring Putin’s henchmen’s kids is an investment loophole, where laundered coins magically get invested into American companies, to help Russia fund the invasion of Ukraine if not fund anti-American propaganda? We’ve seen this before.

Lonsdale’s Palantir people literally still promote nativist “America First” as if their shrill bugle call of racism isn’t obvious.

Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale… donated to a new super-political action committee supporting Donald Trump… Jacob Helberg, a Palantir executive and big Trump donor, said Vance was “a pro-technology and pro-America First pick…

We’re supposed to believe 8VC can’t hire American Black people because of so many big picture societal concerns. Palantir founder tells us he blames the big picture for his pattern of discrimination against Blacks.

Ok sure, everyone sees Elon Musk pumping babies out of wedlock to save the planet but every Black candidate has to explain why children born out of wedlock are bad for the planet?

Meanwhile, an avowed foreign enemy leader’s boy was brought into the 8VC team during high war-time sanctions because… just an America First angel unto himself.

Laundering never looked so dirty.

A case in the UK is being widely reported, as the justice system wisely is cracking down on extreme hate speech.

“Whilst your activity ceased in 2021, recent events in the United Kingdom demonstrate that there is, for the first time since the 1930s, a real risk of gross, potentially violent, antisemitism becoming normalised on our streets.

“The publication of this kind of material is corrosive to our society and highly damaging. Antisemitism, in particular, is a destructive force. It has been used before to tear at the heart of Western democracy. It must not be allowed to do so again.”

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[Judge Bayliss] told the defendant: “You were engaged in a campaign of hatred against minority communities and you were, I am sure, quite deliberately trying to stir up racial hatred.” […] “How you could have thought that to distribute [white supremacist slogans] and have them plastered on public infrastructure without committing a criminal offence is impossible to believe.”

The defendant said he totally thought it was just a normal conversation to post things in public like his belief Muslim immigrants are genocidal “rape gangs“.

That’s just an admission of guilt, really, because Nazis view extreme hate speech and incitement to racist violence as normal “centrist” conversation, which it’s obviously not.

Nobody in their right mind (pun not intended) believes Nazism on Twitter is anywhere even close to center.

Or as @SmoothDunk put it on Twitter about the guy who bought Twitter using Russian and Saudi money…

Who can forget the massive fraud?

How big was the lie? It couldn’t have been any bigger.

Tesla spent a year testing the new hardware, and Musk said the company’s goal is to do “a demonstration drive of full autonomy from LA to New York by the end of next year.”

A year of testing! Done. All problems solved. Obviously. Elon Musk promised 2017 would be the last year drivers needed to touch their wheel.

For some reason the initial news release posted by Tesla has just been taken down.

But nobody forgets, right?

As some pundits have put it, the whole thing is a lie.

In 2016, Musk announced that all Tesla vehicles built going forward have “all the hardware to enable self-driving”. At one point, he even specified “level 5 self-driving”, which is the highest level and means capable of driving anywhere, anytime, under any condition.

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Last year, Musk went as far as claiming that FSD will get better on HW3 first as Tesla’s “focus needs to be on getting FSD on HW3 working super well and provided internationally”. He went as fas as claiming that FSD performance on “HW4 will lag at least 6 months behind HW3” because of this.

Tesla quickly reversed this strategy. With the release of FSD v12.5, Tesla deployed the software first to the newer HW4 vehicle, and Musk said that Tesla would need more time to optimize the code to work on the older HW3.

As we previously reported, this signaled that Telsa is getting closer to reaching the limits of HW3 while FSD v12.5 is nowhere near ready for the unsupervised self-driving capability that Tesla has been promising to those HW3 owners since 2016.

What a giant mess. Perhaps the worst car maker in history, a total fraud.

Tesla has offered free upgrades to newer hardware to owners who purchased FSD, but when it started offering its FSD subscription service, it started charging owners $1,500 for hardware they already bought. After we reported on this, Tesla reduced the price to $1,000 – which is still $1,000 more than owners should have to pay for hardware they already paid for. Tesla, and its self-described “free speech absolutist” CEO Elon Musk, both retaliated against Electrek for our report on this matter.