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They were sold a lie. Like this bullshit is a lie. But you can give Elon $250k today for it.
Or the cybertruck that didn’t look like a dumpster. Or high speed rail. Or mars by 2030. How are people still accepting these lies and paying for them?
It was on german news yesterday, nobody said AI, but even if its real: A quick stunt is one thing but you won't even be able to do this a few times in a row without a refill.
It's a purpose built stunt car that weighs a tiny fraction of a real car. No one will ever drive that car outside of a stunt track. They're using the same tricks as energy drink companies to artificially pump the stock price in spite of the fact that Tesla revenue is flat.
I knew a ton of people who worked in Lights Motors Action in Disney and got to go behind the scenes and see those stunt cars. They all look normal from the outside, but on the inside every single one of them was completely gutted outside of the specific adjustments made for each stunt.
What we saw was doable by a purpose built stunt cars but no way in hell by an actual consumer grade car with entertainment systems and ass warmers.
fun note on those specific cars - a few of them were built "backwards" internally as im sure you saw. they would do all their stunts in "reverse" in the show. but in reality the cockpit / "car" were just installed backwards inside the body. tripped me out as a kid
Also, there is no way in hell you can be in the car while it does the tricks. So its really just a crazy expensive drone that’ll do a 5 second trick and then you need to wait for the tank to fill up again.
And yet again one of Elon’s marketing moves has worked out perfectly. He’s once again got the whole world talking about his company and his cars. And as per usual some smooth brains actually believe it will happen.
People haven’t figured out left lane right lane etiquette yet. I can’t imagine they would do better in airspace. An airborne pit maneuver would be cool to watch though.
No one will be able to afford the “ rocket model “, as there are 3 levels you can buy. Plus, the contract says they may only be driven according to there state/country’s laws. And they don’t “ fly “ , they boost to slow down your rate of descent from a fall.
I can’t imagine the insurance payments on this thing, and the $ you’d have to pay for a special track to go to and test out its capabilities.
The demo is real, and absolutely something we can do today with current rocket technology. That car would be obscenely expensive and not road legal however.
I thinks its just a test to see if people enjoy the science. Like others have said it had only a Redbull logo on it. And they didn't know it was a Telsa the response would be different.
People literally won't be able too drive them, anyways, that's kind of the thing
A whole new layer of road and care legislation would need to be created to even regulate legally how a car that can fly CAN drive, where it can fly, etc etc, and also just the degree of overhead hazards already in most cities (power lines, lights, signs), and billion things one could crash into and the liability insurance involved, etc etc
Like, guys, the roads and world literally are not designed around flying vehicles, and flying vehicles would need active controlled routes and so on and ATC of somekind to keep billionaires from driving willy nilly and crashing into one another
This is a lot like the 'we're goona have a colony on mars in the decade' shit Musk pushes. It's a tech demo and has no real application, it isn't really something people can 'use,' and is also actively something with so many fail points that the average consumer can't actually access or buy through the sheer cost of what liabilities and so on would make licensing / insuring shit like that would be
I remember back in the 90s and instructor explaining to us that, while flying cars are cool, practically actually having flying cars would be chaos, for how bad of drivers folks already are and now adding the layer of verticality into things too. Shit would be chaos, aint no practical means to really do it without roads alone for the sheer scale of accidents it would cause.
Fuck man people on boats regularly smash into one another still going full tilt over a lake or something and that is still way less vectors than the risk flying cars have lol, we cannot practically actually use flying cars at all, this is a stunt to pump stock prices, not actually release and move a product to market.
Exactly lol, there are just to many, idk, holes in where and how they can at all be safely used by any kind of general public, that I only see it being impossible to really justify lol. Way to dangerous, we're going to have these bricks just flying through living rooms and grocery stores if we unleashed them to the people lol.
To anyone thinking they can just buy a flying car… you realize people suck at simply driving right now right? Imagine giving them the verticality to really mess things up..
Pilots have to go through a TON of training for a reason.
The dream that one day everyone would have a flying car is just that, a dream. Unless somehow all the regulatory authorities really step down and roll over… this would lead to a surge in all kinds of insurances as well since now we’d have to worry about some baffoon flying their Tesla roadster into our home’s roof… or imagine a car landing on another car… it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
Cool tech if it’s real but outside of trying to reduce friction to increase 0-60 capabilities, I don’t see an application for this and the other part is what about emergency stopping as well in this mode?
This is just another rich people only flex thing. Only rich people are going to have them. They will drive it on private property or a race track they rented. Won't be surprised about hearing of a multimillionaire or billionaire getting killed playing around in one of these things.
You lost me at Fly, It didnt fly, it Jumped. Due to thrusters under neath and on its sides.
It is a very impressive concepet car, but that all it is. how would the thrusters be refilled? How long they last? Even at the end of the 'reveal' viedeo they saw we might be able to clear more? IT didnt fly, if jumped.
this is not a viable on road vehicle, ANYWHeRE. Unless the driver is Michael Knight.
It's all the idiots that think, for even a microsecond, that any department of transportation will ever think about the thought of considering this being allowed on the road... It's a meme car, that's all it was that's all it will ever be.. a bad, expensive joke.
Do you see any issues being behind something like that with the thrusters on!? I'm sure you can't see anything. You lack elon vision... Imagine dodging the epstein files with that.
There’s multiple flight logs of elon going to the island by the way. He eventually managed to beg his way in there. Leon is a pedo like the rest of them
Of course people aren’t going to drive it. For a start, it wouldn’t even be road legal. Furthermore, the amount of thrust they needed to pull off this stunt was likely used up to do the stunt. It’s not as if there’s enough available to actually fly it for many miles.
I don’t get how people can’t take it for what it is: a cool stunt for marketing the new roadster. Nobody thinks they’re going to be flipping over semis on the freeway.
because musk himself is just another lying sales focused ceo . im supposed to clap like a seal about a car doing a flip while he acts like he himself can dictate foreign policy and gut govt funding for research .
My guy, check the pro-musk subs. They're already planning on going to this track in Texas. There's not a Musk fan that doesn't think this is going to get them flying cars.
That "frame" is a rubber skirt that is retracted here and can be deployed to create a vacuum that makes huge amounts of downforce, which is how they climbed the ramp. The smaller grid panels seem to be the intake areas for the air duct that go to the fans.
“Why would they sell a car with a function that’s illegal? That would be like selling a car that can deploy an oil slick, so clearly it has to be legal”
I have taken it for a "cool" stunt because that is all it is. But instead of getting better quality cars made, better service centres that will actually live up their promises, they are throwing money at the next car gimmicks.
Even if this was real, could you imagine the kind of destruction this would cause, the thrust would be enormous. It would leave a trail of destruction everywhere it went. There's no way it gets approved. And who would approve it..the FAA? Because that shit is definitely not below the weight of a private plane.
Its a stunt. But there is a really awesome car out there called the mcmurty speirling thats worth your attention.
It won't even get to that point. Whatever he showcased, he'll never get the amount of thrust required to perform those maneuvers and also have a functional car.
Either it has to be entirely rocket engines and fuel with no room for a ground drivetrain, or it'll be twice the size of a regular car to accommodate rocket engines and fuel.
Im not one to trust this corrupt govt especially whwn it comes to personal favors to billionaires but my guess is that this still is beyond what they can just rubber stamp
Of course it's real... that's just starship booster scaled way down and car shaped. But it's not a real car... i bet the whole 'interior' is just fuel tank.
If you actually watched the announcement you’d know they actually said that the version with the rockets boosters would only have them on the rear for boost. The flying was a proof of concept. I’m not a Tesla or really electric car fan but I thought it was cool.
I think 1% of people here have probably watched the whole thing. Heck, the title says just another stock pump, $TSLA is -%7 for the week. There was no pump lol.
I have no doubt that what we saw in that video was a physical object doing its thing independently without wires or anything else
I am absolutely convinced that that physical thing was a lightweight car shaped shell around a thruster system with no other functional car parts inside of it
Yeah i bet it was a lightweight version of the chassis empty inside, with only the bare minimum needed to drive and do the stunt, not like the whole battery, seats, etc...
Exactly, this wasn't a car, it was a car shaped box full of compressed gas. If anything it has a small battery powered motor in 2 of the wheels, but no seats or electronics or engine. There is a reason that Rockets are the size of skyscrapers.
I mean a lot of car companies have prototypes and concept cars. This is an extreme example for hype. I am sure it’s hollowed out and made from lightweight materials and engineered. This is so far from the production car it may as well be a bicycle. But I guess it’ll have 4 wheels
No. And realistically there will probably only ever be the base model, assuming they ever make it. The other versions can't be street legal. The dumbass thrusters aside, you can't really get a fan car legal. All that air is being exhausted somewhere and usually backwards. It's a hazard to motorcyclists, and would just be a general nuisance to anyone stuck following.
Also, it needs a skirt to work. The demo did not show one. If I had to guess, that car was propelled by magnets or cables, because I have a hard time believing it could grip such a tight radius loop. If you research how McMurtry built their skirt, it's really cool tech. But it's really only practical on a track surface that can seal well and doesn't have tons of bumps. The radius of that loop should have been enough to crack a seal on any skirt that isn't super-flexible. And again, we just don't see the skirt.
Now, it's possible that all those boxes on the undercarriage are ducts that have some extending skirts that can better conform to contours in a road's surface. But that would easily be the coolest tech they could show, and it would actually be practical for track settings, as opposed to the stupid RCS thrusters. But they didn't focus on that at all.
So my conclusion is that this is a hollowed out shell with some thrusters, which is why you have no interior camera shots of it flying around. Then they might have a showroom model with an actual interior and nonfunctional parts slapped on.
This is all to distract from some earnings mishap, I'm sure.
Bottom line it just won't be road legal. You probably won't even be allowed to have it in your own garage. It's going to be stored at a facility and you're basically paying for the privilege to drive it at that facility, or maybe certain tracks.
Edit: So I looked it up, there are 3 or 4 variants, 3 of them have this thruster shit and one of them can do the jump thing I think, they will never be road legal and do not qualify as aircraft. One of them is meant for track use. The performance variant is the only one that doesn't do any of that, and is also the only one that MIGHT be road legal.
The thing is… even if it is real and they did plug this car with rockets. It will never be safe for standard road compliance, so no one would be able to drive this normally. It’s nothing but a show car. Basically, an item to put on the shelf.
They’re so busy worrying about litter boxes at school and somalis eating their cat that they don’t even have time to check the mailbox for their DOGE dividend cheque.
This will completely work. They saw him puff a joint with Rogan. He’s their Tony Stark.
It's... Not a flying car. Why do I have to point this out? It was a tech demo. It was showing that the tubby edgelord decided to throw millions into R&D to make a kick flip car. The fact you are posting that this is an example of a flying car is kinda scary. This is not claiming to be a flying car. Don't misunderstand, I am NOT trying to defend Elon here. I am trying to get you to see that you're wasting your time debunking a flying car. It is not that.
The most mindblowing thing to me has been seeing the people who dont understand whats happening.
No this is never gonna be a production car. And its never gonna come out in 2028. And a big F U to elon musk all around, just for clarity here.
But yeah, a real car did that. And its really not that insane. I mean its wild but - if you wrap your head around the tech spacex has already pioneered- this is truly not that deep.
A real drone in a shape of a car, not a car. Guess why the windows are blacked out. And I doubt the car has internal components other then required for a 1 minute stunt.
They weren't even able to release the Roadster 2 and that was a normal electric car. Even if we say that this is only a showpiece, the real one won't have that, the fact still stands that they have been promising the Roadster 2 since 2017 and now they present a completly new model with a different design without ever building the previous one.
The issue is it's a misrepresentation of what this vehicle can do, it's not a real production car that did this stunt, it's a mock up stunt fabrication, basically a movie prop.
Until I see someone get into or out of that thing, and see it drive more than a few feet under its own power, I am classifying it as 'car-shaped object'
I'm sorry but there's enough dangerous idiots on the road, we don't need them flying through the sky too. They hit a traffic jam are they just going to yolo uncalculated kickflip boost attempt over it to get home quicker ?
That pos is just a prop. You can see the reinforced chassis when it rolls. Hollywood has been doing this for decades. They practice the stunt with the chassis then when they get it figured out they bolt a car shell to it for the shot.
ironically getting a car to 330 mph isn't that impossible (people routinely get custom built vehicles well past 330 mph on drag strips, salt flats, and dyno runs), the big issue is getting the tires to survive the speed and finding a road long and smooth enough for a production car to hit those speeds. Granted, Tesla famously overpromises on a lot of things, so take what they say with a grain of salt.
Pretty sure this was more of a SpaceX commercial than a Tesla commercial. The practical application of thrusters that precise is obviously space equipment.
Very few of these will ever be built, probably 10-20 at the most in this variant.
The "thrust" version will probably have a hundred in the world, whilst the regular version will sell a few hundred to a couple thousand.
It's a big stunt to say "we built a flying car", it's cool and the engineering is actually amazing, but it is a stunt car and they aren't denying that either.
The fact that they never shipped the previous one, took nearly a decade to ship the Semi, then compare the technical and legal challenges that will come with this. I doubt we'll see one delivered before this decade is out.
But people love to defend anything Elon does, and some people hate on it because it is Elon. I think the engineering is great, although purely non-practical (like that chinese car that can jump). But it's tied to a guy with questionable aims and friends.
I'M A CAR JUNKIE. I'VE OWNED OVER 100. I DIDN'T EVEN WASTE MY TIME WATCHING THIS CLIP ON THE NEWS. I LIVE IN REALITY. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOT FAKEASS FLYING CARS!!!
I remember when Brownlee used to suck up everything Elon spunked out. I wonder what brought about the change where he no longer shills for the ole nazi
It’s a marketing stunt. Nothing more. A good distraction for them very real fact that him and Trump cutting starlink out of spite, cost innocent lives.
Again just a marketing ploy that you "smart" people are falling for. It is just a car that they strapped boosters to, so people keep posting about it lol
It's another stock pump, it's another empty promise to distract from FSD, automated robots, colonization of Mars, and all the other things he failed to do, and probably most importantly to Elon it's something to keep people from talking about the documentary about him that released in theaters on the 9th.
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