r/SipsTea • • 23h ago

SMH Museum of Useless Inventions

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u/CompetitiveReview416 22h ago edited 21h ago

It's not a flying car. It's a jumping car. Great if you live in a place without roads

Bots down voting me is hillarious

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u/Spirited-Lifeguard55 20h ago

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.

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u/CompetitiveReview416 20h ago

Yeah, we had this tech for decades. Just nobody saw the point of actually hooking it to a car

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u/Spirited-Lifeguard55 20h ago

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.