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Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?
The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.
These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.
These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.
Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.
Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.
For the curious, the edges are painted because UV light weakens the adhesive holding the windshield secure over time. The paint protects it from deterioration, and as mentioned in the post, the dots help graduate the temperature levels between clear glass and black paint, which prevents cracking
Who knew cars were so fucking hard? Everyone but Elon, evidently.
bUt He'S a GeNiUz!!!
Elon legitimately probably looked at what it cost to add those dots, without caring about why they are there, then proclaimed a cost savings by removing a useless feature.
The manufacturer of the glass probably warned him.
I'm 100% sure he's been warned of every dumbass decision he's made at his companies, which just makes him that much more stupid.
It's one thing to be stupid in areas you're not an expert, most people are fine with that. It's a whole other level of stupid to be unwilling to learn from the experts in that area.
But even if you're not willing or able to learn, it's an additional magnitude of stupid to go around making decisions in those areas as though you are an expert instead of just letting the experts do their thing.
Well, he knows more about manufacturing than anyone else on the planet possibly, so he can't be wrong... /S