r/SipsTea • • 19h ago

SMH Museum of Useless Inventions

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u/ExiledCanuck 11h ago edited 9h ago

So, at face value, maybe not so useful. But one thing I was thinking about, was especially with the self-driving mode, imagine it being able to use that capability to avoid an accident? Especially if there was no time to slow down. Could be useful there.

But of course for the most part all I see on Reddit is Musk=Bad, so no real discourse over it.

Edit: Seems people are getting really hung up on my shower thought of accident avoidance. It was a single idea, don’t get caught up in the semantics. This could have more use cases we don’t see, because this kind of thing has never been possible.

Like with the first flight of the airplane. Nobody needed to slowly coast a few hundred feet somewhere, but today, planes are pretty useful. Same goes for cars, when they first came out, they couldn’t hold a candle to a horse, and now? Horses as a means of transportation are quite rare when compared to cars (yes, they’re still used, but not as common as cars)

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u/CIS-E_4ME 11h ago

Except there's a reason the stunt car had blacked out windows. The propellant gas tanks probably took most of the space inside the cabin.

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u/Proud_Field1968 10h ago

They admitted on top gear that is exactly the case. On tank in bank another in passenger seat. Cool thing to watch but no way it becomes street legal.

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u/RemaniXL 10h ago

They've already stated it isn't street legal and that it only seats one person.

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u/Dramatic-Fly761 5h ago

So I’m still not getting my roadster