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Well, I don't think that was supposed to happen. In what was one of the more surreal product launches I've seen, Tesla debuted its $39,900 Cybertruck pickup tonight. After running through some specs and hitting the truck's door with a sledge hammer, Elon asked an onstage companion (Tesla's lead designer, Franz von Holzhausen) to demonstrate the strength of the Tesla "Armor Glass" by throwing a solid metal, baseball-sized ball at the driver side window. It... did not go well. While the glass didn't completely shatter, it did appear to crack from edge to edge. "Oh my [bleeping] God," Musk laughs....

The futuristic pickup truck that also looks the part. =============================================================== In full Blade Runner fashion (a film originally set in November 2019, coincidence?), Elon Musk revealed the Cybertruck, it's long-awaited "crazy torque" machine. Of course, the design was no secret. He said Tesla would make a truck with a decidedly "futuristic-like, cyberpunk" design, and Musk delivered on the promise tonight in Los Angeles, California. The truck really doesn't look like anything else. With sharp, angular lines and a decidedly futuristic design, the Cybertruck looks completely ripped from a sci-fi film (or the mind of John DeLorean). The chassis is constructed...