The poor guys are self-DDoS'ing themselves. They keep requesting https://livestream.tesla.com/haveReservationsStarted every 30 seconds. Most of the requests are failing with 502 HTTP errors.
It seems like it will require a $5000 deposit (with a $50,000 "full deposit") and the truck will cost between $200,000 and $250,000, according to the page source.
wow.. why would that be in the JS? synchronized onscreen graphics?
Why are they hosting their own streaming service instead of using YouTube?
Looks like they using Akamai. a23-56-119-116.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com Fail, using an old version of NGINX 1.10.2 and no HTTP/2 support enabled.
This live stream consistently causes the first crash I’ve noticed in ages: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418059. Yes, when you use Firefox Nightly as your browser it does just occasionally cause trouble. But mostly it’s just awesome.
What it's about isn't exactly secret. Tesla has built an electric semi (truck). This is them unveiling it... in 15 minutes. Presumably the email is to get a notification... Edit: Turns out you actually have to enter a email... thankfully it doesn't verify anything.
Supposedly with a 300 mile range versus ~1400 miles for a typical semi truck. I'm sure there are niche uses, but it isn't any sort of enormous breakthrough. Edit: Product page says 300/500 range, so some option I guess: https://www.tesla.com/semi/?new
Shouldn't be an issue - not all trucks are long haul, lots of trucks do pickup & delivery and never leave the city they're in.