r/SipsTea • • 23h ago

SMH Museum of Useless Inventions

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u/ExiledCanuck 15h ago edited 13h 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/aselinger 14h ago

Okay let’s have some real discourse.

What’s the use case for somebody paying an extra $100,000 so their car can stick upside down?

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u/ExiledCanuck 13h ago

What’s the use case for a hypercar that can go 200+ mph? There isn’t, except to give people with an obscene amount of money, something to splurge on.

Yet they still exist. And I can watch people race them in videos on a racetrack and enjoy it.

And there’s already a car that can hold itself upside down, this new Tesla isn’t the first. The McMurtry Spéirling, it’s actually really cool.