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u/MacGuyver913 21h ago
Anyone who thinks the roadster will “fly” should go out and briefly use their cybertruck as a boat and see how well that works out.
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u/RedWarrior42 Meme Stealer 19h ago
It just feels like jingling keys
Something to distract us all
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u/Overclocked11 17h ago
All of it is. This tesla shit, the press secretary lasting all of 4 days, all of it is just noise and distractions from all the other corrupt shit going on seemingly all the time with this administration
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u/Tyke_McD 18h ago
The thing people don't realize is, "flying cars" have been feasible for a while but no companies are investing in their production because they would require a pilot's licence to operate.
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u/Livid_Technical_Pand 15h ago
Right? Like the average commuter probably breaks a dozen rules of driving on their drive in to the office in the morning. Now imagine a million of them over a city, where the consequences of sleep deprevation, or dropping the coffee cup are 100x. Not to mention the noise, pollution, and chaos. Also the danger of them just falling out of the sky when joe bloe doesn't get their thrusters repaired. There's a reason that planes require such strict maintenance logs, and pilots need intensive training and logging their flight hours.
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u/Banana-Oni 11h ago
Even if none of what you just said was an issue, can you imagine the cost? Even aside from the vehicle, fuel, and maintenance.. flying car insurance 😰
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u/sudanesegamer 13h ago
And new laws would have to be written which would be nearly impossible to enforce. What if someone flies over your house, what if people crash into a building on the 6th floor, what if we end up with a car crashing into a plane.
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u/Deathless616 12h ago
Yeah, I've seen endless YouTube videos of actual flying cars, mostly in a rotor drone style Formfactor. All of those were able to lift of, hover, gain height, turn around, have a stable flight
The Tesla thing is merely jumping.
The brothers wright would have had a much simpler life in this timeline, just jump from a chair and the idiots would think you flew.
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u/Treasures_Wonderland 11h ago
Personally, I don’t want cars in the sky. I don’t trust people and the more cars in the sky, the more increased the likelihood of having a car fall on me becomes.
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u/Routine_Phase_8980 22h ago
If anyone is going to get flying cars, definitely wouldn't be us normal folks
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u/dre_valle 20h ago
Us normal folks aren’t even getting the non “flying” version of the Roadster either 😂
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u/Capraos 16h ago
Say it with me.
Hel-i-cop-ter. Helicopter. They are flying cars.
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u/Citizentoxie502 15h ago
Given their track record, more rich people should use them for daily transport. That and carbon fiber submarines.
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u/RubyWeapon07 Duke Of Memes 11h ago
if that rocket league jumping car was given to the masses we would have people landing in trees and inside/on top of buildings.
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u/CookiePond 21h ago
You joke, but someone in the replies is definitely defending it right now
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u/JurrdTurth 21h ago
When was the last time a Tesla has ACTUALLY lived up to the promises made?
What happened to the sub- $30k sedan? Or the $39k truck with bullet proof glass?
I'd be shocked if the car ever actually makes it to production.
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u/dthains_art 21h ago
Or that presentation with the humanoid robots that were actually just guys in costumes.
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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 20h ago
There was a website dedicated to Elon's lies, like 10 years ago. He's...told a few. Anytime you hear him say "about", he's lying. He says about a lot.
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u/LegitimateSituation4 17h ago
Updated a bit over a year ago, but not updated so regularly anymore.
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u/CrimsonSage_ 20h ago
We cannot even get normal drivers to use turn signals and people want flying cars
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u/Riscs2 20h ago
Even car communities still dont get that concept cars from any brand will never be available.
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u/Dpgillam08 19h ago
Having seen how bad most Americans drive, who wants them flying?
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u/ABearDream 18h ago
Most disappointing concept car for me was the Ford f-100 eluminator . They got me before I realized it was never gonna exist
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u/aqualink4eva 13h ago
People aren't seriously thinking this are they?
Like it doesn't take much thinking to realise how quickly that burns through its resources just to do that lol.
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u/vextryyn 13h ago
I mean, they did say its for special contracts only ,so rich people how want an expensive cool new toy to play with for a weekend, get bored and sail on their yacht
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u/Independent_Mud2794 12h ago
Oh they do. I saw so damn comments drooling over Elon thinking they will get a flying car. Just browse some posts, so many idiots think that publicity stuns was a flying car, not just a car jumping and slowly falling as a one trick pony.
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u/Some-Opinion8391 12h ago
The Roadster he promised in 2017 still hasn't come out. Now they think he's going to deliver on a roadster that jumps?!?! 🤣
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u/KevinFlantier 10h ago
Even if you could somehow consume the fuel slowly. Think of the damage idiots with regular cars can do and imagine a car with 4 thrusters that are basically welding torches on steroid.
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u/It_just_works_bro 9h ago
One jump and you blind everyone with smoke, burn 200$, get assaulted by the FAA (they will kill you first), crush a minicooper and flip over a highway guardrail.
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u/SubstancialLuck1000 8h ago
This is exactly the mentality I have about why we'll never have flying cars. Normal car accidents can already cause enough damage to life and property. A drunk driver with an actual flying car like those in the movies? No thanks.
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u/Warbot_Titan 5h ago
so long as you remove the human driver factor, you can do it,
just has to be automated, and managed either centrally or in a network of local carsdon't get me wrong, I don't see actual cars that can also fly any time soon,
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- Plus, you'd need a genuine pilots license or hire someone who does and can actually fly the car.
- It has to be rated safe to fly by an inspector.
- You have to have all the car shit, registration, license etc.
- You have to send it to the manufacturer and have very qualified, expensive people to repair half the damn thing.
- Mechanics would run the risk of just getting you killed.
- You have to request access to the damn air.
- You have to risk in-air collisions if you decide to fly higher.
- You can't fly low because it's considered a decently large aircraft.
- You can't safely look downwards.
- There is zero help outside landing it yourself, find clearance on your own.
- Safely landing a damaged car would be a nightmare as one damaged thruster would fuck you all-the-way over. Basically making every damaged landing a crash landing.
So, so many things.
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u/Mrsoandso6 10h ago
Torches? LOL, it’s all compressed air my guy. And it refills itself.
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u/AncleJack Nice meme you got there 12h ago
I've heard someone calculated it had like 10 seconds of usage from the tanks so one kick flip and Ur done
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u/Mrsoandso6 10h ago
Until it refills its self. It’s just compressed air.
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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 9h ago
You wana drive around with several 10,000psi tanks next to you?
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u/Mite-o-Dan 8h ago
In 1969 people thought we'd have flying cars and living on Mars by the year 2000. We just landed on the moon. Seemed logical to do in 30 years.
So, why wouldnt they think that now?
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u/holyoctopus 8h ago
Go check any car sub. These morons are talking about how awesome it is and how they can't wait to get one.
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u/specialgray 20h ago
Helicopter pilot here. My job is safe until I retire and plenty more after that.
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u/ArsenLumia 5h ago
Let the common people stick to delimited roads on the ground. I've seen how they drive and I certainly don't want them near my windows.
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u/ufailowell 18h ago
Grounded car crashes are bad enough idk why we want drunk kamikazes flying towards houses
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u/Potential-Ad1139 20h ago
I hope Elon succeeds in manufacturing and selling these and they will most certainly kill everyone who buys one
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u/SufficientBet3389 8h ago
Isn't helicopter technically a flying car??....am i being idiot all the time or what...???
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u/One_Adeptness3803 21h ago
Can’t wait for the first insurance claim where the car launches itself into a freeway overpass or power lines crossing the road
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u/physicsking 10h ago
Samsung who thinks the car that they were showing on stage is the same car/model that was doing jumps and flips is ...... Well let's not be mean to the simple folk
FYI the cars were not the same. The one on stage was different. It did not have thrusters by the doors.
Let me see someone in stage taking ads showing off the inside of the car, then get in, drive away and do a flip. Than I will believe this.
If someone tries to sell you a horse and tells you it can fly, make are you see it in action rather than let them show you videos.
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u/Ultrafalconxv7 21h ago
I can't wait to see a squadron of these things dogfighting a chinese drone swarm over israel during the battle of armagedon.
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u/Project_IGNYTE 1h ago
I think the demo vehicle weighs about a third as much as anything resembling a production vehicle is going to weigh. Which makes sense when you look at the underside and see there is no battery which is usually the heaviest component of an EV. I don't believe that thruster technology could pull off the same performance, both acceleration and falling with style, when the car weighs 3x as much.
Not to mention the test car had double the thruster fuel capacity. And also the fuel is compressed nitrogen gas at 10,000psi, which takes many hours to fill and buys you 5-10 seconds of use. I don't know who in their right mind would want to drive and/or share the roads with a nitrogen bomb that can supposedly accelerate hard enough to cause blackouts in some drivers.
It's futurism tech slop for people who don't care, designed to pump up Tesla stock prices for whatever Elon wants to do next. And no, Elon, we didn't forget about all the other heinous stuff you did, a rolling chassis falling off a platform and flipping around a bunch is not a good enough distraction from the racism, transphobia, pedophilia, and whatever the fuck else.
Praise the engineers who made this thing, not the ketamine-fueled man baby who still thinks money buys popularity and acceptance.
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u/whynotll83 11h ago
Imagine flying through the air and then the car suddenly drops from the sky because you missed payment for the subcription.
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u/Volkmek 19h ago
I do not love the guy, I do not hate the guy. I am just sick of hearing about the guy.
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u/xxDankerstein 15h ago
It would be a disaster if the public had access to rocket cars, and it will never happen. It was still fucking cool though.
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u/Kimi_Antonelli_12 21h ago
No one thinks that.
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u/TrashGoblinH 21h ago
No... People do... I was at a college orientation thing with the kid today and some presentation dork commented about how amazing Elon is and how college could get you to build flying cars like he is... Fools are real.
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u/OHoSPARTACUS 21h ago
Seriously. I had a guy tell me he’s gonna preorder one
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u/TalentTess 20h ago
People do not understand that there are laws that require you to announce every flight, regardless of you are 1 or 1000ft up before it's made. Anybody who sees you flying can call the FAA and if you haven't received approval before leaving the ground, your shits gonna get fucked.
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u/reditmonke 19h ago
Obviously that would change if flying cars became commonplace. But that’s not happening anytime soon.
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u/EstablishmentAny2728 20h ago
I am allowed to think the technology is fascinating without being a musk bootlicker or even liking him at all
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u/Imn1che 15h ago
There’s nothing fascinating. It’s a massive pressurised tank feeding high pressure gas into nozzles and launching something. Shit like this has existed for decades.
Why has no one put it into a car yet? BECAUSE WHY WOULD ANY ONE BOTHER? The best you can do is hop over something’s, like in the demo. What use does that have? You’re also sacrificing more than half the car’s space and weight for all systems, it’s crazy expensive, and you need to recharge it after every jump. It’s a useless gimmick
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u/geniusgravity 11h ago
But reddit has to pretend that because other wise it was a great demo of the extremes of the technology.
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u/Mr_McMuffin_Jr 19h ago
nobody thinks they are getting a flying car...
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u/bownt1 19h ago
i might be getting a flying car
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u/piratecheese13 Tech Tips 16h ago
A: hopping. Not quite falling with style (gliding) and not sustained flight, but definitely hopping
B: can only buy this rocket trim by invite only. “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it” Made to order. This is not advertised as a mass production vehicle
C: the real product people preordered years ago is the non rocket version. The mass production version will have the wall crawling fans for increased traction and a pop out spoiler.
D: cyberpunk was a fucking nightmare of self inflicted wounds. Quite possibly will take the throne of “worst car” from the gremlin. Probably the last time Elon gets to make decisions on mass production.
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u/Angel_Dust_696969 16h ago
Flying car makes no sense not because it's impossible, but because most people would be too overwhelmed having to drive in 3 dimensions. Some people struggle in 2.
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u/ravenwind2796 20h ago
I can't wait for the thing that they're going to come out with having exactly none of the features advertised or it's going to be such a shitty rendition of it that it's going to kill somebody or it's going to be so prohibitively expensive that only the richest of douchebags are going to be able to buy it
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u/Ok_Place_2551 14h ago
It's basically a proof of concept.
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u/Moquai82 13h ago
It is a flying light mockup with a giant gas tank that fills the complete interior.
It is a marketing stunt.
Like that underwater james bond super sports car.
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u/QBekka Breaking EU Laws 13h ago
It's just plain old marketing.
Look at us all talking about Tesla again, how 'futuristic' they are.
Actually implementing this in the end-product will be impossible in any market around the world. This breaks like half of the vehicle and road safety guidelines. Even in america. This jumping feature has zero benefits.
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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 21h ago
Almost nobody thinks it's a flying car lmao. It's just a lot easier to say "flying car" than "air jet launch and 3D controlled decent system" or something else.
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u/2Crest 20h ago
If China posted it, you'd think you were. Can't have a single unbiased opinion on Reddit.
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u/WaterPrivacy 12h ago
Only an idiot would think anyone is getting flying cars regardless of who posted it. And not because the technology is impossible.
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u/GloveDry3278 13h ago
The common population is NEVER getting their personal flying machine in this world run by current governments.
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u/TonyGalvaneer1976 9h ago
Honestly that's probably for the best. If the sky was filled with billions of individual flying vehicles, that sounds pretty awful.
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u/OwO_0w0_OwO Dark Mode Elitist 6h ago
It could only do like 2 flips before the compressed air tanks run out.
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u/Wookieman222 6h ago
I see the way average person drives. We absolutely will never have fly8ng cars for the masses.
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u/Inorganic_Zombie 21h ago
I all see was stunt demo to next James Bond... little green canvas here an there so the make it land to plane that doing lift off or some shit
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u/Artistic_Prior_7178 20h ago
Did some cool stunts like the Ruiner from GTA V, but surely it's not worth suddenly treating that mf like a celebrity
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u/siegetip 20h ago
I can’t wait till one of those has a faulty valve and yeets itself through a garage roof
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u/YandereRaven 19h ago
I don't think the public will get flying cars until they are fully autonomous, the way people are and drive with just normal cars isn't happening. But it is cool to see something that was entirely fictional come to life.
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u/RealKillerSean 18h ago
Bro even he said it on the Joe rogan podcast, it would really be more like a helicopter.
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u/SABBATAGE29 17h ago
It's definitely only hover right above the ground, just low enough for you to scrape speed bumps if you're going too fast for the system to automatically adjust
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u/onemansquest 17h ago
I have literally seen several personal flying devices that are relatively car shaped and fly way better than that. That tesla is jumping not flying.
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u/Bleedingfartscollide 17h ago
The Russian data centres must have recovered so they could defend this crap atm.
Its cool. I'm impressed, it's fucking useless and won't make it to the final form..thankfully.
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u/Jules040400 17h ago
The 2017-announced Roaster literally never happened, despite people putting in FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR reservation payments down. They were to be built in 2020.
This stupid stunt will be exactly the same, I hope no-one falls for it
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u/UniBloomie 14h ago
Honestly, I'm just here waiting for my flying pizza delivery priorities, right?
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u/Glittering_Ocelot_67 ifone user 14h ago
Nobody alive here now is getting a “flying” car in their lifetimes, keep dreaming 🛌 You’d be better off getting a low rider with hydraulics if you wanna play gangster gta
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u/iaderia 14h ago
The only reason he did this is because now he can say to his TSLA shareholders: “look, spacex is integrated! We need to merge companies”
SpaceX has an essentially dictator-control with Elon but TSLA doesn’t (so he has to listen to the shareholders)
Merging Tesla into SpaceX means he doesn’t need to listen to any shareholder any longer
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u/OL1V3R14 14h ago
Flying or jumping, dawg I can’t buy a 300k car I just afterpayed my McDonalds meal…
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u/Ready-Ad6113 14h ago
Some of you guys don’t even use your turn signals. There’s no f*cking way the government will let you operate one of those things.
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u/Junior052781 13h ago
Three of my coworkers argued with me yesterday when I said I doubted this would be something we’d see in our lifetime. They claimed we’ll be in flying cars in the next ten years.
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u/Brilliant_Deal_7542 13h ago
Anything that’s marketed as “by invitation only” means don’t even think about it. This isn’t for you.
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u/sudanesegamer 13h ago
At best, its basucally a parachute for cars to prevent them from falling. At worst, its an ugly car with no promises kept.
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u/MattTheRadarTechh 12h ago
I mean even the website says that it’s not a real thing, so anyone who believes that is just dumb.
As an engineer myself, it was a fantastic engineering demo though.
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u/biscuotto 11h ago
It's funny people dream of flying cars while I can't still have a decent biking lane in my mostly flat city
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u/JakeLegacy Breaking EU Laws 11h ago
it was just a hollow body with some boosters. you could clearly see once the car was flipped
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u/AlexTheMan05091992 10h ago
Yeah, I don't see this sitting too well with local law enforcement or public safety. It a cool publicity stunt for sure. But I doubt that this feature would ever be available without certain safety restrictions in place to acquire the one that can actually thrust into the air. And they wouldn't sell it to just anyone off the street with no experience to launch it. If at best it will be a show and display car.
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u/Luzzgar 10h ago
Making a car sized flying thing has been possible for decades, but it really isn't the hard part.
It was done with off the shelf drone parts straped to a bathtub 8 years ago by a guy in his garage.
The hard part is making it a real transportation device at a reasonable price, with useful autonomy, with some amount of reliability, without being too dangerous and with a legal framework for operating the vehicle.
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u/kthxnbi 21h ago
That was a jumping car, we already have flying cars, they're called helicopters