Elon Musk parked a $80,000 SUV 5 inches from another car. Then he opened the door anyway.
Fremont factory, September 29, 2015. Model X launch. Thousands in the room.
Normal doors don't open in that gap. Falcon Wing doors do.
Sensors scan the space in real time. The door lifts straight up first, then unfolds outward, recalculating the arc if it senses a wall, a roof, another bumper.
Zero contact. Zero scratches.
The room stops talking for a second. Then it erupts.
Musk had chased this design since his DeLorean obsession nearly killed the whole X program. Engineers fought him on it for two years.
The doors won.
10 years later, the clip still runs as the moment a car door became engineering theater.