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)
All the commentary are looking at this wrong. Its a tech demo. The tech are thrusters that can move an object around in 3 dimensions precisely. This can be shrunk down, put on an exo-skeleton and boom you have Ironman suits. This could be made even smaller and you have micro drones for moving around in space. The uses for this, eventually, will be plentiful.
I didn't realized it also could do time travel. It's four directions of freedom. Also precise thrust vectoring is all ready well established drone tech. This is not something new. Shrinking it into a wearable suit runs into energy density and heat limits, not just a size problem. Which is another reason why this is just a stunt and nothing actually practical.
What makes the Ironman suit work isn't the precision thrusters, we've had those for decades. It's the magic battery with limitless power. Without it you have to factor in weight, which is distinctly why the tech doesn't work at a practical level.
Yes your right, this technology isn't new in itself but new in its implementation.
Jetpacks are becoming safer and eventually most cars may be implemented with the system if it does become viable.
Here's a tip for the science/ technology space: not everything that is revealed or released becomes common or is successful in itself but the fact they are released gives it the possibility to become so and allows more inventions closely related to be made and improve like how the release of the black berry phone allowed apple to become what it is today.
If you attached those thrusters to a human and tried to make them fly like iron man you’d rip their limbs off the second you fire the thrusters. Believe it or not the iron man character is not based on real science
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u/ExiledCanuck 20h ago edited 17h 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)