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
False. Two people I know passionately dismissed my meme of this. One of them I really like. People will look past anything to just watch the next circus it seems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tesla cars aren't making mistakes as well. Having a service like the Cybercab but flying doesn't seem out of reach to me considering how well those work. And aircrafts already don't make mistakes, you forget most the times planes fly they're in autonomous mode? And even then, there's an automatic landing system if needed. Damn, we already have autonomous Black Hawks in the army. The only real challenge here would be a very trustworthy technology for those flying cars, and also not being as expensive neither as maintenance heavy as an helicopter.
But realistically flying cars would just be smaller helicopters. Brazil's Embraer has a eVTOL model which is called a "flying car", I think that's the further we will go with a production mode (and it seems good enough honestly). Those just aren't a vehicle you own to go to work I believe, more like a cheaper aerial cab than a proper helicopter (city focused btw)
I'm not sure you understood what I said. You're going over things I've already mentioned.
I'm speaking to the person that says that we dont need anything to fly a car and the AI will do everything and that's not and will not be the case at all.
P.S. Tesla cars have made mistakes, and still do make mistakes all the time.
You just never hear of them because they never end as a crash. They're mundane/low threat so the driver just takes over when the autopilot deactivates.
You're never gonna see on the news that a Telsa accidently took a turn onto a construction road because there wasn't a sign indicating it, or that it drove down the middle of a two lane road because it's a side road with no markings. The driver just starts driving it.
Torches? LOL, it’s all compressed air my guy. And it refills itself.
Something tells me that the few of these that actually get made won’t be able to be doing backflips going down the highway.
Alright I stand corrected. The images I saw were probably edited to look like rocket plumes.
It makes tons more sense that it would be compressed air, and it confirms that it's not a viable project and yet another fundraising scheme from one of musk's company and/or a pr campaign to make musk look cool and let us forget he is a nazi that aims to hoards all the money in the world.
It’s a cool car that goes upside down and hops. I understand not liking the dude, but when you are trying this hard to connect everything he does to “schemes” you just look dumb.
The jets only last a few seconds, take six hours to fill up, isn't street legal and will only go to a few private buyers for an unknown, unbelievable price.
It's a cool gimmick, but that's it. I mention that and tend to get downvoted by the hype train saying "don't ruin our fun!!".
I'm not sure if the one with just the bottom fan ("fan car" tech has been seeing since the 60s in racing) would be street legal (they never are, even illegal in almost all racing), but I would love to drive one....
Yea because everyone and their cat will have one of these and driving around everywhere.
5 rich people will have them and auto pilot them for their rich friends.
You wanna drive around with a 15 gallon tank of extremely flammable liquid? Oh or perhaps you want to drive around with a slab of lithium that will burn even underwater? Good luck. Maybe you're better off just bicycling to wherever you wanna go if you're this paranoid.
If you're comparing a tank of gasoline that might ignite, to a tank of extremely compressed air that will absolutely fail if even minimally damaged... Maybe you'd be better off taking a break from the internet.
Hydrogen tanks used in cars operate at similar pressures, except those are flammable gas stored at high pressure. You just want something to jeer about, regardless of whether it works or not.
He wasn't calling them morons for being in the car sub. So not sure what being a meme sub has to do with anything. It has to do with seeing this obviously one-off performative exaggerated b******* stunt of a single vehicle and thinking it means anything other than another b******* distraction and over promise
I neither hate tech or am inherently anti musk, but skepticism is warranted when he has dishonestly portrayed his products in the past (for example full self driving cars back in 2016, 10 years later, they still can’t be legally marketed as fully self driving). When the system is commercially available, then it’s worth getting excited over IF it has all alleged features
They think it will be standardized - or they think they can sell stock options, get rich over night, and buy one.
I’d be willing to be no major insurance company will cover the cost of aerial maneuvers gone bad and that Tesla will be the last line insurer. Which is likely what Elon wants so his company can make even MORE money.
I swear he wants to be the car manufacture, dealership, “fuel” provider, and insurer all rolled into one.
This particular way? Yeah probably. There is a clear physical limit how much you can compress air. To do this little 1-2 second stunt it needs dozens of gallons of liquid high pressure air, no way around that. And that's assuming the car in the demo was not just an empty shell
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u/aqualink4eva 23h 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.