“Let them eat cake”. The man behind this starved the population of my home state in Africa and fired all the people in government that could hold him accountable for a number of financial crimes. I don’t care if he made a car do a kickflip over a semi.
You are witnessing theft from the poor funding entertainment for the rich. Parasite class indeed.
He is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths SO FAR. Mostly children. DOGE cut the entire US AID program at his command. This is indisputable fact.
If you give a voluntary donation to someone and then you take it away because it was voluntary in the first place you're not responsible for what happens with the lack of that money.
My home state feeds a good chunk of the surrounding states.. a lot of it out there just rotting as we no longer share it with countries that used to trade more with or receive aid from us. Poor wording on my part using state to mean “US state” as a size comparison and not actually an African nation state. Cutting aid actually hurt American farmers.
Your entire African home state was dependent on American tax dollars for food? And by starved, you mean he killed them all? Damn. Or is this just Reddit bullshit once again?
People will blame anyone but the government in any African country. In South Africa we are marching against illegal foreigners instead of the blatantly corrupt government that still has majority support (who let's in the illegal foreigners anyway)
Musk comes from an emerald dynasty in South Africa. Entirely likely he's created food insecurity there as a result, yeah. "Starved" is different than starved to death.
Is this an honest question because you cant read, or are you sucking Musk off because he has a faked video of a concept of a useless vehicle? The fucking thing sticks to the ramp upside down for seconds before it starts to fall. Are we seriously this gullible?
Show me the fan that can hold up the weight of a car and we can talk. Its an empty shell with pressurized air tanks in it, 100%. Yall are seriously this dumb?
I don't know man,maybe your citizens should use the money properly instead of putting it in their pockets. America can do what it wants with their money.
We already have had this it's called a helicopter and it's not flying it's a propulsion system it's more or less a jump button it cannot sustain flight.
It's a cool stunt but that's all this is nobody is driving this around.
It's a propulsion system it's not flying it's a fueled powered boost/jump system it's needs stabilization and perfect conditions to come down and not crash.
It's why jetpack videos are overarge bodies of water because they cannot land or control it fully reliably.
Flying is something that can maintain and control somewhat itself.
My buddy has a small Cessna for example it flys it can fly and glide without anything running because auto dynamicly it's designed to fly.
A 5000+lbs vehicle with a possible bomb under it is not designed to fly
They want money. Impressing idiots with investing in something that would never be legal. Seems pretty easy seeing the reactions. They get money and do nothing more. Tax breaks, more corruption, blah blah idiots don't care about that stuff!
yes, jetpacks use that. To lift a single human body weight is practical.
But to lift an electric car that's even heavier with lithium battery packs is impossible. You would need hundreds of them to generate enough lift to even levitate a car.
All it does is cushion the fall even with multiple thrusters.
First, it was a race. Whose racing to be the first to make car go boing?
Secondly the moon has enabled tons of scientific research. Moon rocks and dust, experiments done on the moon and in zero gravity. So much that has helped humanity
Why are you shellacking Elon for this? You’re convincing yourself you’re not trying to convince us you know this. You’re just trying to reenforce your own personality here. You can be an adult and unbiased say two things
It was a cool as thing. So are monster trucks. Cool ass shit. I never said it wasn’t cool. It’s cool.
Would you drive a monster truck? Does a monster truck wow anyone on the highway? Are they considered peak engineering?
car is too heavy, even worse with electric car battery packs - known to be the heaviest thing compared to conventional cars.
For a single human, it already exists and works.
To call this innovation is using the words loosely, has it been done before in car before? No. Has compressed air been used to create lift? Yes. This is old technology used in a pretty useless way, hardly innovative
Who cares? There's lots of concept cars that aren't street legal. They're just cool and sometimes innovative. Isn't that enough? Oh, of course it's not. Bitching and moaning about Musk is way more important.
This is not pushing engineering or innovation. Engineers already knew what would happen if you put thrusters on a car... But keep on sucking nazi elon dick
imagine calling someone "simple" while defending that something new may have uses even if those are not the intended or obvious ones... the simple people are the ones simply dismissing it as complete waste of time before even trying to think about it.
So do you think the wright brothers were flying trans continental? Lol what an idiotic thing to say. Of course this prototype won’t be around long, just as the wright flyer was never actually used. It’s pushing advancement.
gods, leaving aside how awkward the climbing and the flying was, as in, that's not how physics work, remember all his other lies, from the robot who was a guy dancing to the whole cybertruck mess...
guys, come on, don't get bamboozled by yet another controlled presentation! liars are going to lie
and people are lapping his bullshit yet again from a faked presentation. a man who by all rights should be considered causing a genocide already -just from the USAID part-
Even then it’ll be a very limited production expensive car for collectors. Ideally what it will do, is get more people to buy the standard EV trim they are going to mass produce and then they make their money off it that way.
You could only hope , because anything Elon does is bad because I was told I have to think that to go the dinner thing that my wife is so excited about
After watching the promo and seeing all the negative comments about its usefulness my mind goes to a particular movie ( hancock).
When Jason Bateman gets stuck on the rail road tracks and willsmith flips the car over onto the car behind him. After expressing his gratitude and calming the angry crowd he agrees passively and says to Hancock you should have went up.
You guys see a kick flipping jumping car, I see accident avoidance in its infancy. No body likes air bags to the face and the survival rate is not increasing to a 100% rate. If the entire car just moved itself out the way without any impact everyone survived.
Oh yes, I’m sure this will work perfectly every time and not add more the body count. A computer controlled Tesla has never hurt anyone before. So yes let’s allow it to fling its 5 ton self into the air whenever it feels like it.
You don’t need a license to fly an Ultralight or Experimental craft. The lack of this requirement has proven to be just fine. Flying cars will be fine.
Because they can only weigh a maximum of 255 lbs to be considered an ultra light and can only have a maximum fuel capacity of 5 gallons, if you crash one of those you will die but you won’t kill someone else unless you directly fly into them. Not to mention that because their flight ceiling is so low there’s not a lot of risk for potential collisions, any motor issues will have the plane glide safely out of the sky.
A flying car would be significantly heavier and way more dangerous.
Flying cars don’t exist because they are incredibly dangerous and create the potential for massive death tolls that regular cars just don’t have the same risk factors for. It has nothing to do with the technology not existing. The technology has been there for 60 years. There just isn’t a reason to make one and it’s not solving a problem that doesn’t already have a solution.
If your car has a mechanical issue, it just dies and you can move over to the side of the road. If a flying car fails you fall out of the sky and just die.
Don’t think the market saw this as a real investable event. It’s not being marketed as a product they plan to sell millions of. The price point and exclusivity clearly suggest this is not going to be mass-produced. It was just a cool concept they were showing off.
Yes, the Elon bot farms from India are aggressively pushing it, reposting and defending him.
All he did was strap 12 jetpack thrusters to a car to cushion its fall. I don't see what is so groundbreaking or new about it, definitely just an expensive stunt. He's banking on people not knowing whats been going on in science and engineering.
do you know how heavy a car is? Do you know that electric cars have been well known to be even heavier than conventional cars due to their lithium battery packs? And I am not talking about a little bit heavy, its so heavy that people have concerns that being hit by an electric car is far more unsafe for pedestrians to survive through. And including those cyber trucks that Elon wanted sharp corners instead of curvatures, it also increased the deadly risk because those curvatures acted as a crumple zone to dissipate the force during an accident, so as to minimize the force. But instead he doesn't care about that and just thinks its "cool". That is why I tell you, he has no sense or intelligence, just a man baby with a lot of money to throw around.
Well when the CEO is a fucking Nazi then yeah don't be surprised when people don't give a single fuck about a thing that is nothing but performative so his little moronic nazi followers can buy into his nazi company
It’s a cool tech demo. They engineered a car to be sonic the hedgehog. Fascinated if they can actually jump that canyon though.
Is it practical? No. Is it neat and something out of cyberpunk but actually out of cyberpunk? Yes. Would that ever be street legal? Not with the build they showed.
It feels like a crazy skunkworks project even though I’m sure Elon was breathing down their necks.
It's fucking useless and will kill people just like Tesla autopilot if it comes out. The Aerocar came out in 1949 and actually had certifications for airworthiness. This is a stunt meant to prop up Tesla stock.
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u/Rich_Instance 18h ago edited 18h ago
God forbid some company makes a cool flying car
Edit: y'all really make powder kegs outta nothing