Elon Musk is one of the most important people in Donald Trump’s inner circle.
Musk is also one of the greatest minds in human history.
And Elon Musk made one daring move that nobody saw coming.
As American Media Watchdog reports:
Cybertruck Explosion in Las Vegas Kills Only the Attacker
As the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk is constantly trying to innovate to create what he believes will be the cars of the future for millions of people.
This means he and his team have to come up with designs that not only deliver ultimate performance but also safety.
Musk had no idea what was about to take place on New Year’s Day in Las Vegas, but it’s a good thing he paid so much attention to his car’s safety features.
If he hadn’t, many people could be dead right now.
The design of Musk’s Cybertruck ended up containing the explosion when a man blew it up in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas.
If he and his team had designed it a different way, the outcome could’ve been much worse.
But thankfully, no lives were lost in this explosion besides the attacker, thanks to how Musk engineered the Cybertruck.
Elon Musk Says the Design of the Cybertruck Saved Lives
According to the Wall Street Journal, “The blaring New Year’s Day headlines would be panic-inducing for any CEO: Your signature product, in this case Tesla’s Cybertruck, caught fire and exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.”
“In the hours that followed, Musk used his social-media platform X to muscle his way into the investigation, shape its coverage and portray his newest product in a positive light.”
Musk didn’t “muscle his way into the investigation” for no reason.
The facts he was sharing were extremely relevant.
The car didn’t blow up because something was wrong with it – the car blew up because there were bombs in it.
The design of the car ended up saving the people who were in the vicinity.
The article continues, “Musk blasted out key facts about the explosion to his followers, often revealing crucial information before it had been confirmed by law-enforcement authorities. His voice carried added weight given he had spent the New Year’s evening alongside Donald Trump at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.”
“By day’s end Wednesday, Musk was framing the Cybertruck as the story’s hero: It was built so tough that it might have actually saved bystanders from the apparent attack.”
It’ll be up to scientists to determine the exact truth, but on the surface, it is quite amazing that people who were standing around the truck weren’t killed by the blast.
And it does seem to indicate that there was something special about how the car was designed that led to the explosion being contained.
Elon Musk has every right to do a victory lap after his car seems to have saved lives during the attack on New Year’s Day.
Hopefully other auto manufacturers will consider building similar safety features into their cars as well to prevent similar attacks from taking place using their vehicles.