How much fucking money was deposited to make a piece of shit car fly for a couple of seconds
They basically used the stabilization from SpaceX mixed with the old compress air gimmick that was used in the 1984 Olympics, which only work for very short flights because you quickly run out of compressed Nitrogen after a couple of seconds, which is a technology from the cutting edge 1960s. It's great to make a visual stunt but you need to constantly recharge the nitrogen canisters each time the feature is used to impress your friends for a couple of seconds.
I don’t get Reddit. This was a dope demonstration. Everyone acting like their personal money was spent on something stupid. Spending money on plastic water bottles when perfectly good water comes from some pipes nearby is just as insane in my book.
It's technically less impressive than the similar 1974 Bond stunt which had to be calculated on 1974 computers, less practical than the 1960s olympic jetpack, and will never ever reach production. Where exactly should anyone be impressed?
Really, the 1974 stunt in which a driver drove the car to a predetermined speed and aimed at a ramp, which made the car spin and land?
Keep in mind we had computers calculating bomb trajectories in planes in 1916 onwards.
This was an entirely automated demo in which a car drove upside down and then flipped and automatically self-righted. It is really not technically less impressive at all.
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u/ArcticCelt 5h ago
They basically used the stabilization from SpaceX mixed with the old compress air gimmick that was used in the 1984 Olympics, which only work for very short flights because you quickly run out of compressed Nitrogen after a couple of seconds, which is a technology from the cutting edge 1960s. It's great to make a visual stunt but you need to constantly recharge the nitrogen canisters each time the feature is used to impress your friends for a couple of seconds.