Elon Musk Says His Tesla Truck Glass Stunt Went Fine—in Rehearsal

Watch the Windows Get Smashed on Tesla's New Cybertruck
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Were the shattered windows during Tesla Inc.’s Cybertruck reveal a brilliant viral marketing strategy, or a major screw-up that caught the electric-car maker by surprise?

“We threw the same steel ball at same window several times right before event and didn’t even scratch the glass,” Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk claimed in a Friday afternoon tweet.