r/SipsTea • • 8h ago

Lmao gottem Valid point

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u/True_Protection6842 8h ago

One exists and is wildly useful. The other is self indulgent bullshit to distract from the fact that Tesla is a terrible company that would be bankrupt without the circus act. 

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u/TheQuadricorn 7h ago edited 7h ago

How much fucking money was deposited to make a piece of shit car fly for a couple of seconds that could have changed many many lives makes me sick. Fuck this timeline and fuck that musk gooch

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u/ArcticCelt 5h ago

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.

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u/Googleitgenius 4h ago

It's all nonsense. That vehicle was built on a lightweight composite frame—essentially just a big, light shell with no battery or other systems. But the Musk fanboys think they'll be flying next year, lol.

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u/_kissyface 2h ago

It's also a flying bomb that would literally vaporise the driver if it exploded.

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u/Heavy-Balls 2h ago

if

when

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u/Cool-Customer9200 1h ago

It would be funny if they pushed it onto US consumers in a couple of years, only for us to end up with endless videos of random explosions and falling debris. I’m sure pedestrians would appreciate the excitement.

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u/orixandcrake 1h ago

We have flying cars now in the same way we had cars capable of going into space when Muskrat strapped one to a rocket that one time.