A new Tesla easter egg was recently discovered over the holiday weekend. The easter egg appears to be exclusive to the Cybertruck and goes back to the now famous window-shattering event during the Cybertruck's reveal in 2019.
During the unveiling, Tesla's chief designer threw a steel ball at the Cybertruck's window to show off the truck's strong armored glass. To everyone's surprise, the ball shattered the glass and Elon Musk exclaimed, "Oh my f****** God."
Von Holzhausen then suggested trying the rear window, which Tesla apparently tried multiple times before the event, but the rear window also shattered upon meeting the large steel bearing. This time, Musk replied, "it didn't go through."
Musk cleverly makes a joke out of the situation, saying there's “room for improvement,” and continues the presentation in front of the now-smashed Cybertruck.
Tesla has embraced this mishap by offering shirts featuring shattered glass and now even sells window decals that you can buy for the Cybertruck called "Cybertruck OMFG decal."
The window shattering has become part of Tesla culture and now Tesla has built it into the Cybertruck as an easter egg.
Window Smashing Easter Egg
Tesla has immortalized this event by building it into the Cybertruck as an easter egg. The easter egg was accidentally discovered by DennisCW on X who was tapping around on the Cybertruck's display.
While parked, the vehicle's visualization is displayed front and center on the display, a feature that's expected to come to all vehicles in an upcoming software v12 release. If you tap multiple times on the truck's front or rear (driver's side) windows the window will shatter and an audio clip will be played.
After shattering the front window, an audio clip will play Musk saying OMFG, and the audio snippet for the rear window will be of Musk saying, "at least it didn't go through."
OMFG one of many small delights maximizing the area under the happiness curve pic.twitter.com/pkDo8cBRKR
— Wes (@wmorrill3) December 31, 2023
The windows will automatically fix themselves after not interacting with the display for several seconds, at which point you can tap on them again if desired.
Tesla has mostly gone away from incorporating true easter eggs into their vehicles, instead adding them to the ToyBox for more people to be able to find and enjoy them, but this appears to be an exception, adding homage to the now famous event.
