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.
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.
If you show this image you have to show the video from multiple angles where it literally drives vertical, upside down and then off the inverted curve. It’s a prototype car for sure since what drove onto the ramp had the suction system, battery and some kind of motor.
Or, magnets! This is coming from the man that had his robots controlled off-shore, he’s a good salesman but he’s not showing you a real car, you really think that was an actual prototype?
This was not a test lol, there’s a reason there were many cars, it’s because the cars were set up for each stunt, specialized to perform that one trick. They weren’t ‘tests’ they were performances
“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”
It’s like similar to selling racing cars that aren’t street legal. There’s a market for them. I think the demographic that can afford this knows they won’t be doing barrel rolls.
277
u/BusBeginning 14h ago
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.