Museum of Useless Inventions

[u/Numerous_Position649]

[u/Cacamaricahey]

Anything but good public transit, even flying cars 🤦‍♀️

[u/Musical_Xena → u/Cacamaricahey]

Right?? And then we can string the cars together in a tunnel, like a... No, not a train or subway, not like that at all. 🤦🏽

And considering how many absolutely terrible drivers there are, we definitely want to give more people the ability to fly short distances in a multiple ton vehicle.

Thank goodness this isn't going to be a real thing.

[u/MaoAsadaStan → u/Musical_Xena]

The amount of air traffic controllers hired will stimulate the economy /s

[u/Musical_Xena → u/MaoAsadaStan]

In the alternate reality where they did mass produce these flying cars, the government would absolutely make the already overloaded air traffic controllers just manage the 1000x increase in air traffic without hiring anyone or updating their tracking technology.

The deep dives I've seen about air traffic control are absolutely insane and terrifying. (Thanks, Reagan.)

[u/SlothsAreFuckinRad → u/Musical_Xena]

Not that us peons would ever be given access to such vehicles, probably cheaper to buy a small plane 🫪

But yeah what I wouldn’t give for walkable cities and cars being secondary to trains. Cities built primarily for cars is just completely insane to me, so many fatal crashes that are completely avoidable caused by people who shouldn’t be driving, and even decent drivers getting into accidents because just one little thing has to go wrong when you’re driving.

[u/Musical_Xena → u/SlothsAreFuckinRad]

Yeah. The only way it makes sense is capitalism. It is not logical by any other metric.

Personal vehicles should be as niche as vehicles like farm tractors, used in specific circumstances where they are the only viable option for whatever task is required. Not the first option, the last one.

[u/Cacamaricahey → u/Musical_Xena]

Oh, tell me how many times have tech bros "reinvent" trains and called it something else. What's worse, their "trains" are waaaay worse than what we have right now.

[u/Yourownhands52 → u/Cacamaricahey]

That's falling with style...

[u/tempgrandpa0520 → u/Cacamaricahey]

Tech bros will literally strap rocket boosters to a sedan before building a bus lane.

[u/-Codiak-]

The best part about this is: Even if the car was mass manufactured (It won't be) Capitalism wouldn't even let you own one.

[u/jim45804 → u/-Codiak-]

It would let the wealthy own one

[u/-Codiak- → u/jim45804]

Good luck insuring it.

[u/Odd-Statistician-866 → u/-Codiak-]

Me to insurance agent: so, I accidentally flew my car on top of Walmart today

[u/Diddlydom35 → u/Odd-Statistician-866]

Also landed on a pedestrian....

[u/AnonAwaaaaay → u/Diddlydom35]

The Walton Heiress ran over a kayaker on her boat in Texas and killed the guy. No trial, no payout, nothing. She just paid to have it buried. 

We live in their world.

[u/DirtandPipes → u/AnonAwaaaaay]

Don’t forget the Walton Heiress who drove over and killed a lady while driving drunk and who wasn’t even charged (Alice Walton). Though the next time she crashed her vehicle drunkenly into a gas meter she finally got some fines and a DWI, and then another DWI while she was speeding drunk down an interstate.

It must be rough being a billionaire and having cops shake their finger at you every few years.

[u/Diddlydom35 → u/AnonAwaaaaay]

Oh....wow. I ahh don't have words for that...

[u/TotallyACP → u/AnonAwaaaaay]

got a link for this?

[u/Synaps4 → u/TotallyACP]

I didn't see a kayaker incident right away but she did run over someone in a crosswalk while drunk and on her phone and wasnt charged.

https://www.mic.com/articles/79039/the-untold-story-of-alice-walton-s-dwi-incident

[u/TotallyACP → u/Synaps4]

Christ, what a piece of shit.

[u/foxontherox → u/AnonAwaaaaay]

We are all NPCs.

[u/MegatronusThePrime → u/-Codiak-]

Didn't you hear! Tesla has it's own insurance to insure these fucking jokes. Just like the cyber fuck, you can get the same "insurance" through the illegal immigrant that's trying to tamper with the elections, yet again.

The same Nazi saluting piece of absolute human garbage that said he would donate 6B if he got a concept drawn up to end world hunger.

Oh cool, you can make a bulletproof dumpster, and a flying piece of shit, but can't invest in ending world hunger.

Got it.

The same dude who always wants to "party" on Epstein, child rape island?

His company, will insure it.

[u/F1shB0wl816 → u/-Codiak-]

It’ll never be on public roads so there’s only insurance that’d make sense would be life.

[u/mighty_conrad → u/jim45804]

Unfortunately, actual great hypercars like Rimac exist. This one-way ticket to ride will be for various scammers and other scum who bought Cybertruck.

[u/GottaLoveLoginWalls → u/-Codiak-]

I mean, the whole system is insane and makes no sense. It serves no purpose and adds weight to the car making it less efficient.

Like, is there anyone who looks at that and doesn't see it as some bizarre gimmick to just drive up attention for their brand?

It's a marketing stunt in the most literal sense of the word.

[u/strangeapple → u/GottaLoveLoginWalls]

For someone that has said that marketing is a waste of time Elon sure loves his viral marketing. Also lest we forget that he's outed himself as a drug addicted fascist.

[u/N8CCRG → u/GottaLoveLoginWalls]

It doesn't even do that. They remove the car and replaced it with the propulsion system. It's just the shell of a car on top to make it look like a car.

Motherfucker and his engineers could be creating things that actually help humanity but they're doing bullshit gimmicks like this instead.

[u/Historical-Cress8985 → u/N8CCRG]

The gimmicks juice the stocks, that's all there is to it, why do you think that all his "improvements" are perpetually 3 years away. They're never going to happen but donkey brained investors eat that shit up

[u/ipeedinthetoothpaste → u/GottaLoveLoginWalls]

Yeah, this is either to try and recover some stock valur that hemorrhaged after the whole world saw that Musk is a nazi, or he's going to try to absorb Tesla as some robotics subdivision of SpaceX and this little stunt is the first step down that road. This car isn't road legal anywhere, and it's not meant to be. It's meant to do what it's doing already, distract people and entice the gullible, which is what Musk actually knows how to do.

[u/HingleMcCringle_ → u/-Codiak-]

Capitalism wouldn't even let you own one.

the government owns the sky. you'll need to abide by the same standards as any pilot, if you can get in a craft that can fly.

this is the same as those things where people put turbine engines on the back and wrists to fly around. sure it exists, but the limits on it make it a paperweight.

[u/Erdos_Helia → u/-Codiak-]

Why won't capitalism let you own one? It would be a regulatory body that won't let you own one.

Capitalism would absolutely let you own one lol

[u/Seanrocks30 → u/Erdos_Helia]

My guess is insurance, or lack thereof with none taking that risk

[u/SordidDreams → u/Seanrocks30]

The requirement to have insurance is a regulation.

[u/Contagious_Zombie → u/-Codiak-]

Capitalism would let you own one, even encourage it. It's social responsibility to each other that stops absurdly dangerous stuff like this because we recognize that it's dangerous for everyone. Capitalism is about profit not social well-being so if a large enough group want something the capitalists will provide it even at the detriment of the entire planet. What aspect of capitalism do you think would stop this from being sold?

[u/SordidDreams → u/Contagious_Zombie]

if a large enough group want something the capitalists will provide it even at the detriment of the entire planet

Or if a rich enough individual wants it. Money talks, doesn't matter whether the sum is coming from one customer or many.

[u/StringTheory → u/-Codiak-]

Dude, it's just a one time thing. Where do you store the gas to make this fly more than 5 seconds?

[u/absolutefugginidiot → u/-Codiak-]

Considering how far consumers take products, I'm pretty sure you're gonna answer to the FAA at some point if you own this, and that's a big fat, "The FUCK you are..."

[u/555byte]

It's basically a lunar landing craft by thrust design packaged in a car form. The amount of fuel needed to do that short demo was basically all the fuel. We have a specific gravity that requires anything that has mass a lot of thrust to change direction in that fashion. And the fuel is most of the mass

It's a sham... Elon thought, he was being clever again to raise capital for his bullshit... And his sycophants ate it up like flys at a shit eating competition.

Isn't AI supposed to find a way for energy efficient anti-gravity flight? With emissions that actually pull CO2 from the atmosphere...

Wow. Shit is getting so dumb.

[u/Top10DeadliestDeaths → u/555byte]

Lets not forget he launched his last roadster into the sun and then never built another one. The chuds ate it up then too and the stock printed money without anything actually delivered.

First trillionaire of pure bubble money

[u/Darth-Felanu-Hlaalu → u/Top10DeadliestDeaths]

I really hope his bubble completely implodes on itself.

[u/JuanRunJunior → u/Darth-Felanu-Hlaalu]

I hope he fucking does of an incurable, horribly debilitating disease and people take photos/videos of every moment of his suffering so we can all watch that absolute piece of shit suffer. I hope he clings on to life in the most pain a human can possibly feel for as long as possible.

[u/Bromlife → u/JuanRunJunior]

His only regret is that he has boneitis.

[u/Kinkajou1015 → u/Top10DeadliestDeaths]

Lets not forget he launched his last roadster into the sun and then never built another one.

I hate this is going to be seen as defending a pedophile, but I need to correct you a bit here.

It was a test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket, they needed a significant payload because a payload of nothing doesn't really prove anything. They could have done concrete blocks with a metal cladding to hold them together, but imagine you are the top of both the company making the rocket and a company that makes something that basically everyone needs (cars in this instance). Marry the two together as a publicity stunt, boom it's the kind of advertising you can't help but take advantage of.

If Tesla was a household appliance company then the payload could have been an oven/stovetop range, an upright refrigerator, and a chest freezer. Fill the internal voids with concrete, weld all doors shut, obviously don't have any lubricating oils or refrigeration gas. Maybe also have a washer and dryer in there too. Boom you spent maybe 2000 dollars in product, use defective ones that did not pass Q/A, another few thousand or two in concrete, and that's extremely cheap advertising.

As for into the sun, no, it's in orbit around the sun, it goes out around as far as Mars, and it has a small chance to crash into Venus (less than 3%) or back into Earth (about 6%) at some point in the next three million years.

[u/Degenerate9Mage7 → u/Kinkajou1015]

Oh god. Imagine you're just some human living on earth, the past of 2020s far gone, and suddenly you're hit by an outdated EV that was flung back on earth. 💀

[u/freesteve28 → u/Degenerate9Mage7]

making you the last car crash victim ever.

[u/NotoriousPete → u/555byte]

Yesss thank you. I thought I was going crazy in other subs where people were really defending this bullshit. I can see 12 year olds being impressed by this but everyone else should see right through this.

[u/hates_stupid_people → u/NotoriousPete]

Well over half of those people were probably not people.

[u/Bandro → u/NotoriousPete]

I found the stunt itself really cool as a stunt. Anyone that thinks it's more than a stunt is an idiot and Elon is a piece of shit grifter.

[u/kaninkanon → u/555byte]

It's also not a real car in the demo. It's an empty light weight car shaped chassis over a testbed for air thrusters.

[u/WildFlowLing]

No one has ever done this before… because it’s a waste of time and money. Not because the tech didn’t already exist for this.

Nothing was invented for this stunt. And it’s not a “product” demo because this is not a current or future product.

It was simply a demonstration of what people with infinite wealth choose to pay their monkeys to do for attempted clout. Keep in mind tried (and failed) to convince everyone he’s a pro gamer.

[u/NervousHovercraft → u/WildFlowLing]

The only real use I could think of would be as a movie prop with practical effects. In real life traffic it's just a dumb pr stunt...

[u/WildFlowLing → u/NervousHovercraft]

Why are we contemplating “real use cases” for a fake product?

[u/atfricks → u/NervousHovercraft]

Funnily enough that's where this tech already exists and is in use. Practical effects use pemumatic jets to toss things around all the time.

[u/xdr01]

Distraction from meddling in elections again

[u/No_Priors]

"How about instead of universal healthcare we give them a pointless spinning car to cheer at?"

[u/jdPetacho]

Very surprised that in a sub as pedantic and nitpick-y as this one the comments are still defending Tesla so much.

That was not an invention, thrusters being used to slow down falling objects is nothing new and it was called a "flying car" for marketing purposes only, it will never be a flying car. It is just another attempt by Elon to keep the public and investors believing that his big, world changing creation is right around the corner, like he's been doing for 15 years, becoming ever richer and directly making everyone's lives worse. I have to try not to roll my eyes back into my skull when I see shit like this

[u/Many-Count-2369 → u/jdPetacho]

It was more like a jumping car.

[u/Some_Bus → u/Many-Count-2369]

Falling with grace car

[u/notthefirstsealime → u/jdPetacho]

I mean tbf starlink was kind of exactly that "world changing invention" now he just has infinity dollars to blow

[u/CX52J → u/notthefirstsealime]

I would argue that SpaceX was the world changing innovation as the Falcon 9 is what has enabled Starlink to be cost effective.

But at the same time, had NASA not been underfunded and mismanaged for decades and not had a proper replacement for the shuttle , then the environment for SpaceX to emerge would not have been possible.

[u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity]

I don't understand why!? Is it just incase a bridge collapses when your driving over it?

[u/BoogerSugarSovereign → u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity]

It's not a real product they are ever planning to produce though they'll lie and say they will. It's a marketing gimmick to bilk investors that grew up watching the Jetsons that they're doing cool future stuff. Need a new lie now that their AI product has pretty much failed 

[u/GhoullDen → u/BoogerSugarSovereign]

yeah it’s basically marketing to people “we have flying cars now, it’s officially the future” people are eating it up and I don’t understand how

[u/Ash_an_bun → u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity]

Elon has to make line go up by posting fake shit.

[u/csprofathogwarts → u/Ash_an_bun]

It's not fake. The technology involved is nothing new. The upside-down driving using powerful vacuum fans have been demonstrated before (McMurtry Spéirling in April 2025).

The thrusters are all small sounding rocket technology. They just used compressed nitrogen rather than fuel. This one has not been used before in cars - because it is pointless. It will never be in consumer vehicle (not even for the rich buyers). They used a COPV (carbon fiber + plastic composite) and filled it with N2 at 630 atm pressure (10,000 PSI). COPV offers little penetration protection. A little bump at the wrong angle - and it will pop like a balloon but with the energy of a bomb.

[u/yeahsotheresthiscat → u/Ash_an_bun]

I also thought this was fake when I first saw. While I do highly doubt this car will ever actually be mass produced or be on the road, this footage was actually from a live event with a live audience. Pretty crazy.

Edit:

Here's one: https://youtu.be/7oFL2ObpM08?is=v4j276OwVXE9wlD2

And another: https://youtu.be/_lq-DpCE9rU?is=fS7lL9ejabwqZ0mY

Y'all I hate Elon Musk. I'm not a bot. I thought this shit was fake too!

[u/Ash_an_bun → u/yeahsotheresthiscat]

Dude put a another dude in a zentai suit and called it a robot. I am skeptical of things.

[u/Bandro → u/yeahsotheresthiscat]

Yeah there's nothing about the stunt that's not perfectly reasonable for a specialized piece of equipment to do. It doesn't need to be faked. It looks weird but it's a stripped out car sticking to a track with suction and RCS thrusters doing what RCS thrusters do. That doesn't mean there will ever be a real production car that does that.

[u/PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_ → u/Bandro]

Yes, but the fake part is acting like this will become a product that they will mass produce and sell.

[u/Truth_Walker → u/yeahsotheresthiscat]

I keep seeing people say it was a live event with an audience but I’ve seen zero video of an audience and absolutely no footage from people in the audience filming it themselves.

[u/willbekins → u/Truth_Walker]

ive seen references to it being a live event with an audience enough times in the last few minutes to be suspicious that those things are probably not true

[u/Kirk_Kerman → u/yeahsotheresthiscat]

If that's the case then where are any new POVs of the stunt?

Also, you can clearly see during the stunt that it doesn't have a battery onboard. That's an empty frame being thrown around.

[u/Rocket_of_Takos → u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity]

Because everyone’s 12 now

[u/Occult_Asteroid7 → u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity]

It's to let Elon island hop to his favorite Epstein island.

[u/DasArchitect → u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity]

It also works for roadblocks and border checkpoints!

[u/maniacreturns]

The only reason this video came out is to make you forget Elon and Trump got together to slow down Starshield satellite data over Ukraine which made it more difficult for them to defend against Russian strikes.

[u/GottaLoveLoginWalls → u/maniacreturns]

The whole system is insane and makes no sense. It serves no purpose and adds weight to the car making it less efficient.

Like, is there anyone who looks at that and doesn't see it as some bizarre gimmick to just drive up attention for their brand?

It's a marketing stunt in the most literal sense of the word.

[u/formermailboxhaver]

Why even make it a car? Why not make it a little house that has GTA6 and a monster mini fridge?

[u/comprehensivechick → u/formermailboxhaver]

it isn't?

[u/David_temper44]

Idiocracy is real.
That car is useless in real life yet millions or even billions were spent on it.

A VULGAR DISPLAY

[u/klownhammer → u/David_temper44]

It is actually just a cheap stunt.
It is not a real car. it is an empty shell around a fuel tank

[u/Essentially_Me → u/klownhammer]

To be fair it was an expensive cheap marketing stunt

[u/EEEe703 → u/David_temper44]

a real vulgar display of power 👀

[u/-YellowFinch → u/David_temper44]

We're literally living in Hunger Games... Just watching their senseless waste compound as we are struggling to have social lives due to the price of gas and insurance. 

[u/TWDYrocks]

My favorite comment was how this was Cris Angel Mindfreak for pedophiles

[u/PullMull]

It's not even a invention. It is a new, useless, appliance for an really old invention.

[u/TheSilverSeraph → u/PullMull]

It's not an invention. It is a stunt.

[u/Active-Cookie-774 → u/PullMull]

Applied by one of the most corrupt rich people on the planet.

[u/calangomerengue]

I think people are slowly realizing these companies won't solve our direst problems, because those problems are caused by them.

[u/KingMap]

It's a distraction, from Elon, from a movie released today about Elon.

[u/Septopuss7]

Looks like something a guy with a botched penis surgery would drive

[u/gierOK]

Now watch the most obnoxious and awful people you know get excited over this shit

[u/MoefsieKat]

I am 90% certain that the car had no driver and that the interior is filled with propellant. I bet you would t be able to even fit a human inside the one that they showcased, and anybody who says they looked at the inside were probably shown a different machine than the flying one.

If the event showed a car without such heavily tinted windows and a passenger who opened the door and got in, buckled themselves in and then rode along with the car and had it do those stunts, then maybe i would be impressed.

But to me, what we saw was not a car. It was a spacex reaction control system mounted to barebones electric car chassis and dressed up like a tesla.

[u/Relative-Meet8469]

humans create problems just so they can sell them to you. What function would a car like this have.

[u/Cuchococh → u/Relative-Meet8469]

Raise the nazi's reputation amongst genuinely braindead idiots

That's the sole function

[u/MrTubby1 → u/Relative-Meet8469]

The function is an advertisement.

And since it got posted everywhere, it worked. It worked really well.

[u/White_Falcon_1263]

he just emailed me and asked for 1k in Google play gift cards to help him get this in production. he said I'll get the first one, so jokes on you guys.

[u/JustKapp]

this is how you know it's all fake

[u/bazookateeth → u/JustKapp]

Same as politicians. They know they can't affect any change so they just act the most bombastic

[u/Dear-Smile]

I mean its neat... but it is pretty useless.

[u/Ocvius]

I can't wait to stop at a red light only for some retard who could wait to fly over me (thank god these will never see commercial use)

[u/Sader325]

I paid $5 a gallon yesterday.

[u/jmeador42 → u/Sader325]

If you had one of these you could’ve used the compressed gas thrusters!

[u/AerieMysterious8730 → u/Sader325]

NOT ENOUGH

[u/theasciibull]

remember when Elon said he could solve world hunger with his money...

[u/RuxTheGoblin]

Seriously not looking forward to the news casting talking about how many people failed trying to hop over someone they couldn't pass and squished them instead

[u/billocity]

“I take tax breaks and subsidies from the government and turn them into useless performative bullshit to keep my overvalued stock up” - Elon probably

[u/Pacifist_Socialist]

Costs more than an actual airplane not nearly as useful

[u/Routine_Strategy5929]

RCS thrusters have existed since the 1960's for spacecraft. Controlling their position with extreme precision. Some idiot just put a few on a car and is trying to sell 60 year old tech as something new and exciting.

[u/NiobiumThorn]

It's less than worthless

[u/SpookyVoidCat]

It’s a fun to see what trained stunt drivers can do with it but this is absolutely not something I would trust in the hands of any regular person.

[u/terroristteddy]

I'm an Elon hater, Tesla skeptic, and overall liberal socialist commie scum, however, I think that at a base child-like level this is actually cool and fun.

The same arguments can technically be made for any sports car, especially hyper cars. As a utilitarian mode of transportation, a Rav4 Hybrid or Ford Maverick are surely the epitome of pragmatic transportation. But cars as toys are fun and stroke the imagination, which I think is important as humans.

[u/Agile-Importance-673 → u/terroristteddy]

I'm a pedo enjoying conservative republican Trump knob licker but even I like this car. You have to have a level of whimsy when exploring the world and all it has to offer. Elon might be a retarded twat but even a simpleton like me can understand you have to have some smoke and mirrors to impress an imbecile like me and others in my similar mental and physical (fat af) condition.

[u/Vast-Daikon-2746 → u/Agile-Importance-673]

Brother, let me tell ya: as a roadkill-humping, cousin-loving, skid-mark-sniffing, forever Trump voter, it is a cool little trick. Cant wait to see how it lands on a pedestrian.

[u/DigiVeihl → u/terroristteddy]

It's a cool and fun tech demo. It's not a useful product or a car you're going to see you on the road. I mean you might eventually see something this shape, but even if it has cold gas thrusters it won't be doing flips.

[u/sharklaserguru → u/DigiVeihl]

It's a cool and fun tech demo.

I'd even take that with a grain of salt. I'd bet everything that car was just a shell with a super lightweight tube frame to hold it together, there's no way it'd be able to actually carry passengers. I'm even suspicious that it's 100% gas thrusters doing the work!

[u/JuanRunJunior → u/sharklaserguru]

That’s exactly what it was and you can see that’s what it is in their own video. It was a box welded frame with wheels and body panels slapped onto it.

[u/Noah0x01 → u/DigiVeihl]

it's just a ad from a guy that is rich.

[u/briefcase_vs_shotgun → u/terroristteddy]

Agreed. These ppl sad at the world and can’t find joy

[u/JuanRunJunior → u/terroristteddy]

It’s a stunt about a car they stole deposits on a decade ago. Hot wheels are fun, lying and stealing people’s money only to turn around and do it again ten years later isn’t fun. Maybe you need to pull your head out of your ass and see reality. You can see shit like this in movies and they’re as much of a real car as this one.

[u/Meikos → u/terroristteddy]

Yeah I agree, I don't like Elon either but there are far worst things he could be doing with his money than making real life hot wheels. Not really a concern for me and it was pretty cool, to be fair.

[u/No-Bread7576]

My favorite thing about Elon Musk and the rest of the world is 10 years ago liberals would be losing their mind about this calling it amazing(we used to love him), and conservatives would be calling it a stupid waste😂

[u/ProfessorVolga → u/No-Bread7576]

I mean speak for yourself, he's been a piece of shit in public for more than 10 years and I was telling people so even back then.

[u/nismo2070 → u/No-Bread7576]

I disliked Elon before it was cool. He is a horrible human.

[u/Carpeted_Bathroom2 → u/nismo2070]

Always has been

[u/stuffedskullcat → u/nismo2070]

I still flinch when he shows up in Iron Man 2. 🤢 Elon is the Tony Stark of useless chodes.

[u/TimothyMimeslayer → u/No-Bread7576]

Was 10 years ago before or after he called the guy working to save the kids in the cave a pedo?

[u/MediocreAnalyst2121 → u/TimothyMimeslayer]

Before. Believe it or not that was 2018.

[u/PastaXertz → u/TimothyMimeslayer]

People more or less liked him till he started talking. That was his downfall.

[u/TerribleStorm6391 → u/No-Bread7576]

I lean left. It is both amazing, and useless.

[u/PatchyWhiskers → u/No-Bread7576]

I don’t think liberals of 10 years ago would care. They liked the cars because they were eco friendly, and this isn’t an eco-friendly feature.

[u/Willthisaccountlas → u/No-Bread7576]

The world doesn’t consist of only liberals and conservatives.

[u/Exact-Difference-422 → u/No-Bread7576]

The first I had ever heard of Musk it was when he stole someone's art for his pfp on twitter and refused to credit the artist. The backlash was so huge he raged and changed his pfp to a black circle. I was like who is this 50 year old freaking out? Looked at his wiki and saw he was a nepo baby with blood money and no inventions or claims other than buying companies. Then the cave thing. I never knew why people glazed him even back then. 

[u/generally_unsuitable → u/No-Bread7576]

People with any sense always smelled that he was a con-man.

[u/Iseah → u/No-Bread7576]

I never really cared for him before. He was always a lille pompous for my taste.

[u/AggravatingPeak6982 → u/No-Bread7576]

Nah... been driving EVs exclusively for over ten years now.

NEVER drove a Tesla.

Never will.

[u/CurlySphinx → u/No-Bread7576]

For real. I remember from like 2016-2018, Elon Musk was idolized across Reddit. Many comments across multiple subs about how Elon was paving a better future.

I’d even say up until and even after the pandemic I noticed Elon’s fanbase pretty strong. I had a coworker in 2021 ask me why I did not care for Elon Musk.

People legitimately saw Elon Musk as some sort of techno savior that would make the future of humanity better.

Been interesting to see this shift. Guess Elon had a lot of people fooled, despite being a billionaire

[u/toastguy125]

I hate musk as much as the next sane person but a lot of technology has to be invented and improved to make these useless gimmicks work, that can get passed down to other products. Not to credit musk ofc, all he did was pay rly smart people to make something stupid.

[u/lorddragonstrike → u/toastguy125]

This is not some tiny step forward in science, its an engineering gimmick. Every ten years someone builds a flying car and says its the future. Its not, because they are too exspensive, a half measure in both worlds of flying and driving, and the average driver really shouldnt be allowed to leave the ground with 2 tons of metal on the highway.

[u/JuanRunJunior → u/toastguy125]

There was no invented technology in this. Absolutely none.

[u/AnimalShithouse → u/toastguy125]

All the tech on there has already been invented. It goes onto rockets.

They just spent a lot of time and money to put it onto a stunt car so that nobody would ask about the actual performance of the car.

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/toastguy125]

What had to be invented for this?

[u/Beneficial_Hat_6288 → u/toastguy125]

This is a stunt car. Very impressive but so are dragsters.

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/Beneficial_Hat_6288]

It’s not even a car.

[u/Post_Lost → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

It by definition is a car

[u/RModDogWalkerTyRANNY → u/Post_Lost]

It's a one trick pony, and GL carrying this much compressed gas. Going to be hilarious watching the first tesla-nazi realize that carrying around hundreds of gallons of compressed gas is something you need a CDL+Special endorsement for.

But hey, elmo musk who can't even get his own rocket to leave it's small launch pad, will do ANYTHING except implement FSD.

And judging by comments like this, he doesn't need to create FSD. They'll lap up anything he puts in front of them.

[u/_pray4snow_ → u/toastguy125]

But didn't NASA literally do this exact same thing but on a different planet? They used pretty much the same thing to lower a rover down to the surface of Mars but I'm now supposed to shit the bed because Elon and his company did it here years later........

[u/Jonesy1348 → u/toastguy125]

Flying cars literally can’t happen tho. Do you understand how dangerous it would be? Cars crash millions of times per day. Now imagine that shit hurtling through the air at 60 miles per hour packed to the gills with fucking rocket fuel.

[u/JuliaLouis-DryFist → u/Jonesy1348]

No sir ive seen star wars its fine.

[u/TheVividCashew → u/Jonesy1348]

You sound like a turn of the century grand father complaining that cars are gonna rip your skin off cause they go so fast.

[u/MossyPyrite → u/TheVividCashew]

I mean, there’s a reason air traffic is so heavily regulated and controlled. We may get flying cars some day, but honestly The Jetsons probably actually predicted the safest possible way to implement them which is just more lanes for traffic, some of them are just in the sky.

[u/Jellyfish-Wide → u/TheVividCashew]

there’s a bit of a difference between the jump from horse and carriage to car and car to flying car. you sound like you didn’t quite make it through high school

[u/Anisarian → u/TheVividCashew]

The problem people actually had with cars early on in their production was that they where dangerous, and drivers expected too much catering too. The fear was that cars becoming more and more normal would make it dangerous to be out on the street as a normal person walking about your day. This is exactly what happened, society literally warped itself to cater to cars, something we are still struggling to undo in even the smallest ways.

Now imagine that, but it's every possible later of the sky.

[u/Vindhjaerta → u/TheVividCashew]

We don't need flying cars. We need less cars if anything.

Just because it's new and shiny doesn't mean it's good. Not to mention that literally everything about this "flying" car is stupid. If actual flying cars would ever be developed, they would look nothing like this. This is just a stupid gimmick that seems impressive to stupid people who doesn't understand how things work.

[u/kookaburra302 → u/toastguy125]

If I am not mistaken this is just a stunt showcase where they are just showing us what they are able to do. Getting us to believe we will get flying cars soon and such which is definitely cool

[u/WloveW → u/toastguy125]

That's the thing that technology was invented for something useful and now it's being put into something completely useless that is why it's a waste.

We're going backwards in terms of making things useful. Show use case that is useful. 

[u/Hello_Goob → u/toastguy125]

That’s the problem, they didn’t even create anything:

https://youtu.be/g6LYcgaQ46c

[u/Maleficent-Sky-7156]

It's less than worthless my boy

[u/Clairifyed → u/Maleficent-Sky-7156]

This follow up quote always works so well

[u/No_Suit7363]

It's not even a car. So dumb that morons went nuts over a stunt.

[u/patdfrog]

If you have a better way to reach your island lair when your custom boat ferry is on the wrong side of the crocodile-filled lake, I will be glad to hear it.

[u/Bob4Not]

It’s a tech demo. Not an auto anouncement

[u/pixeltweaker → u/Bob4Not]

They literally announced it would go into production in 2028.

[u/Cuchococh → u/pixeltweaker]

Musk announced*

Just like he would be in Mars by 2020

The nazi has been away from the spotlight for too long and craves attention, pay him now to receive nothing!~

[u/jeremyw013 → u/pixeltweaker]

the rocket version as shown in the demo is supposed to be invite only. so not really.

[u/yeahsotheresthiscat → u/pixeltweaker]

And are taking pre orders. Which is idiotic lol.

[u/GreatTunk → u/yeahsotheresthiscat]

This is the classic Tesla cycle

First you announce an implausible product with an unrealistic price.

Then you move it back to 2032. And remove the thrusters while raising the price 40%

When it actually ships in 2033 it’s going to be double the price with none of the actual features promised at the announcement.

But seriously what is the practical use for those thrusters? The down force could be practical for a faster car but the actual wall climbing and driving upside down would be a regulatory nightmare.

[u/AverageMako3Enjoyer → u/GreatTunk]

“We have created fully autonomous self-driving cars. Preorder yours today”

car is released with none of these features available but a promise it’s coming soon

“We have created cars that use air thrusters to do acrobatics. Preorder yours today”

sell your car that never got self-driving so you can do a front flip ahead of traffic

Sadly they will launch without these features, but don’t worry they will come soon after 

[u/alfa66andres → u/yeahsotheresthiscat]

Yeah, and they also took preorders for the Roadster back in 2017 and it still hasn't entered production. Taking preorders doesn't mean anythin

[u/blueblip → u/alfa66andres]

It does mean something. It means Musk is a grifter.

[u/mark_able_jones_ → u/pixeltweaker]

LOL. They announced the last one in 2017 with a 2020 production date. Tesla admits this is not a production model.... they don't even know what material they will make the body from, which means they are super far from production -- and, of course, there's the problem with a device than can make a very large explosion right behind the driver.

And the version with rear thrusters was listed as not street legal, if they ever even make any of them.

The real reason for the thrusters is to distract us from the fact that Elon promised over 600 miles of range on a single charge.... and this new car does half that.

[u/South-Ad-9635 → u/pixeltweaker]

They announce a lot of stuff that doesn't happen.

And whatever goes into production isn't going to include the cold gas propulsion. That's dead weight with no sensible use case.

[u/Far-Scallion7689]

I can fly this right through my hyperloop on my way to the mars colony!

WOW!

[u/Beldizar]

This feels like a monster truck feature stunt. That feels like the beginning and the end of its usefulness.

[u/heritageseekersfarm]

Never still waiting on his self-driving car and his robots that were supposed to be here YEARS ago. He's such a pos

[u/EntertainerNo4509]

All part of the big distraction.

[u/screamoutwutang]

Anything to pump the stock. Elons bread and butter over the years

[u/No-Style3104]

https://youtu.be/RnofCyaWhI0 This is 30 years old.

[u/omgitsduane]

The amount of work that went into this could have been used to do anything better for humanity. Instead he gutted the government like a fucking leech then leaves.

[u/registoyyst]

It’s like a 12 yr olds version of progress. Doesn’t understand anything beyond car go zoom zoom hotwheels woah omg it’s a flying car!!!! 🚗 while the world literally falls apart

[u/dvdmaven]

Other than the lateral jets helping is cornering, it's a stunt.

[u/Midnight_Moon_Magic_]

My brother (a Musk simp) sent this to our family groupchat in awe and it took everything in me not to comment “who the fuck cares?!”

[u/InternationalFall222]

How much of the internal Volume is occupied by the gas tanks and pumps and computers that control the nozzles?

Looked kinda cool tho.

Elmo is still a pedophile, election meddling, dictator worshipping, cringy loser tho.

[u/SabbthBloodySabbath → u/InternationalFall222]

Tf did Elmo do

[u/ms-fanto]

you can jump over a tree that is on a roadway

[u/TintedApostle → u/ms-fanto]

You know how many people can’t even drive right now? This would be a danger on the road because of morons who do risky stuff.

[u/BlueWater321 → u/ms-fanto]

You can get a truck winch at harbor freight for a few hundred dollars, or a chainsaw, and when you move the tree the next person can get past. 

[u/Essentially_Me → u/ms-fanto]

That would have solved the problem on From

[u/Beneficial_Bit1756]

oddly people thought computers when first invented were pointless and wasteful but here we are. Everything is pointless and wasteful. Sports, racing, trucks, gaming in 4k with a 6000 gpu... most of the things you do in your day are wasteful in one way or another.

[u/TintedApostle → u/Beneficial_Bit1756]

No one thought computers worthless…. They were expensive, but available. Flying cars have what value really?

[u/Repulsive-Lie1 → u/TintedApostle]

That’s not even a flying car. It’s a missile shaped like a car but there is no passenger cabin.

[u/Switchmisty9 → u/Repulsive-Lie1]

I’ve been trying to explain this to people, for days

[u/Beneficial_Bit1756 → u/TintedApostle]

really love how people dont know history - IBM and DEC thought they were worthless to everyone person outside of the govt.

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home," stated by Ken Olsen at a 1977 World Future Society convention. In an earlier 1974 internal meeting, he similarly remarked, "I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own"

IBM - 1943 - "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"

[u/Southern-Economy-497]

The use of this tech in a car is worthless yes. But the tech itself is incredible. Technology is developing at light speed and this is a great example.

[u/tortoiseupatreeagain → u/Southern-Economy-497]

It's not new technology though, its literally just compressed air released through nozels. Don't deify this grifter.

[u/nuggetk1]

It is going to fly for less than 10 seconds, so yes, it is a worthless piece of expensive and explosive trash

[u/Centerman2000]

When I first saw it I thought it was just some kind of silly AI joke.

[u/Due-Activity-913]

People keep saying this is useless but what if you get stuck upside down or in a ditch or a sinkhole emerges, literally any kind of natural disaster/freak accident. this thing is saving your life hands down. yall are TOO QUICK TO HATE.

[u/TintedApostle → u/Due-Activity-913]

What happens to the compressed gases in a collision? Oh right it helps eject you from the car at 20Gs thus saving you the trouble of living another day.