There is zero chance that âfeatureâ will ever see public roads. The amount of compressed are needed for that would probably vaporize everyone within 50 feet in a minor accident.
I would actually be more comfortable if it did use propellant.
This was a publicity stunt and the only to only noteworthy thing is the vacuum downforce which also seems dumb when you consider itâll be sucking up squirrels and random shit on public roads.
Itâll be a regular car with regular features. This stuff will be â2 years outâ for the next 20z
"You know how our electric cars have giant batteries that sometimes burst into an unquenchable fireball that burns hot enough to melt metal? What if we add a bunch of highly compressed gas in cannisters around the frame!"
Also, can 1-3 seconds in the air even be considered as "Flying" vs other machines?
For example:
The Kiity Hawk vs Tesla Roadster, what flyes more?
Kitty Hawk wins by a wide margin in actual sustained atmospheric flightâwhether comparing the 1903 Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk or the modern Kitty Hawk eVTOL aircraft against the newly demonstrated Tesla Roadster.
âThe only scenario where a Tesla Roadster "flies" farther is if you count Starmanâs 2008 Roadster launched atop a Falcon Heavy in 2018, which is in a ballistic heliocentric orbit rather than achieving self-powered aerodynamic flight...so not exactly flying, more like falling forever.
Carbon fiber canisters. Like the submarine that imploded on itself. We car guys figured that out way back in the early 2000's. Carbon fiber intercooler pipes look cool until you hit boost.
It was a concept car, and idiots are just lapping up the bullshit. Every single generation of Corvette from the C3 to the C7 had a concept car alongside it that was mid-rear.
This is nothing more than a thought experiment, and will never see the roads.
We've had rocket packs since the 60s.
The one used in that James Bond film? Not a special effect, actual thing.
Nobody uses them for a reason.
Same for this car.
There isn't a zero chance, Elon was proud to admit how he was able to get road safety measures cut so that the cybertruck could get onto American streets, pretty much nowhere else, and with the current US we've got the cyberpunk without the cool robots and implants.
Road safety measures aren't what will stop this thing from going to market. Literally no insurance company in the country will insure this this, and that's what will stop this from going to market.
Cars that can jump traffic like that could never be safe enough to do that on a public road. They donât even have FSD down. So regulators will either say this simply canât operate on public roads or has so be disabled and air tank empty. There isnât really anything comparable on CT from a public safety perspective. Not even close.
Unfortunately, from what I understand, they already have commercial pricing and branding. It's called the "SpaceX Thruster Upgrade Package" and it's $690,000 USD
I can also, guarantee that this will not see any sort of preventative regulatory oversight to keep this jumping car off the road until this administration is gone. Hopefully the midterms euthanize their mandate and we can finally go back go a little bit of normalcy around here.
Yeah, because any time Elon uses â69â or â420â, heâs being completely serious. 690k for what amounts to a parlor trick will cement this into the hall of automotive oddities. There wonât be more than a handful produced if any are actually sold. That will only make it harder to make them street legal.
States can also exercise discretion, just like they have with those little Kei pickup trucks.
All this amounts to is a PT Barnum style marketing stunt to get people talking about Tesla. And as you can see, it worked. Whatever they invested to do this, is dwarfed by the amount of discussion/attention this got. The usefulness of the feature ends there.
Also, calling this a âflying carâ makes about as much sense as calling the General Lee a flying car.
Those of us who have worked in computer networking have heard of RFC 1925, which sums this up nicely:
âWith sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.â
Itâs just the most literal example Iâve ever seen to decribe this dumb assed stunt.
Given what a pile of shit the CuckTruck was I can only imagine trying to use this. Two fire normally, one doesn't work, one blasts out all it's air instantly and you cartwheel into the fourth floor of an office before exploding.
To add on to this: Tesla isn't nearly the first company to use fan driven suction. The tech has been around since 1970, and McMurty Automotive were the first to use fan suction to hang upside down and drive their electric hypercar in April 2025.
MarquĂŠs on YouTube did a video on it with the info he has. That specific unit will not be sold to the public because for 1, it's stupidly loud. And two, yeah. It is not street legal. They will give them out to a few influencers and rich dudes. But as of now it's invite only. At least till Elon just pays off who ever he needs to pay off to make it street legal.
The vacuum tech was done by the McMurty Speirling last year, where the car was able to generate enough downforce to stick to the road upside down without driving forward.
If Tesla is actually taking deposits on cars on the promise of jump jets, it starts to feel like fraud. Or maybe a complicated method of money laundering.
And they literally followed it with some scientist/engineer guy saying it's an incredibly inefficient form of propulsion being used, and the "fuel" would probably last 6-8 seconds
From what I understand the ramp did the sucking not the car. There is however a real car already in production that can suck itself upside down, and can already do over 4gs in turns. Twice what this has claimed.
This is it. Firstly, the average American will never be able to afford this. The people that could afford this will be able to afford any damage they inflict with it. Are they going to try and jump over traffic? What reason is really behind the building of this? It would be a great getaway car after a crime. But it has no place on American highways.
Now, it wouldnât be out of place on a less populated planet, say Mars? Or even the moon? I donât think the rich asshole ever stated what the use of this car would be. All I know is that it can âsuck the chrome off of a bumperâ, or âsuck a bowling ball through a garden hoseâ, because his humor never developed past the fifth grade.
The only real application I can think of for something like this is emergency collision avoidance similar to how airbags work, but considering that it wonât be capable of anything resembling sustained flight, it is still likely way too dangerous to use on a public road.
Not to mention the practicality of it all, this was just a show, doing something like that is highly illegal and they'll have a hed time getting that car on the road if the average idiot is equipped with high pressure air tanks.
I was saying the same thing to my partner last night. He witnessed a cyclist get âpancakedâ by a car (cyclist was able to walk after) and he kept doubling down on how flying cars would be better than road cars. sigh Iâm tired, boss
No kidding, the number of pepole who try to merge into my work truck makes me wonder if the us is actualy going blind. It's a big fucking panel van, kinda hard to miss.
I feel like everyone is smoking crack. 12 years after he promised a fully self driving car, he still hasn't produced it, and now people think a flying car is somehow real, and going to be sold?
If the flying car ever does make it somehow to market. It's only going to be reserved for the 1% filthy-ass rich people. So they can look down upon us as they are driving too đFlying car isn't intended for everyday regular people.
Donât worry. Itâs a concept car that will never be released for production and is purely cheesy advertisement to pump that shit stock that is overvalued by 10x
Always a middle aged bald/balding dude in tactical gear. I laugh at every single one of these dickless losers. When weâre out driving, my wife and I will point them out to the other one so that we can both have a good chuckle at the idiotâs expense.
True, I do believe the suction underskirt that allows it to hang like a bat for a while is new... but it's not Tesla's idea afaik. Also not exactly the most useful tech - it's ment to create some ridiculous downforce for hypercars on track, but in everyday life it's about as useful as a snooze button on a fire alarm.
Not useless at all; it's all part of the scheme to prop up the hyped Tesla stock price so Elon can have the illusion of being the "richest man" to compensate for the fact that he's too obnoxious to have friends and that no one laughs at his jokes.
SpaceX and Tesla engineers built that shit while this guy runs around trying to figure out how to rig elections. People are so stupid, which is why they want to defund education, I mean have.
It is still a useless invention which isnt legal on street and dumb people will activate it at random location which will result to more stupid accident on the road.
bridges and tunnels need more signs. it is illegal to activate jump in this zone.
maybe cars need a jump disactivation switch and everyone has to press the jump disactivation switch before going into bridges, tunnels, and parking garages
People already have problem to use their direction flashing to other car expecting them to be bright enough to use put the button on hold is asking them too much.
Even if he did invent it, or engineer it, or build it, which he didnt, it is a supremely bad idea to have a giant compressed air bomb inside of a car. Especially one that flies. Some would say, thats not smart
It's kinda funny that thats the most unflattering pic she's ever taken, and it was clearly just having fun. But then they put up Susan dell as this, idk, mold of womanhood, or some crazy shit
Itâs not even a true car most likely. It is definitely a roadster shell over a spaceX control rocket control system with the suction stuff thrown in the bottom. I doubt that a person can actually go in (I havenât watched any of the testing videos). I do know that it was fully remote controlled during its demonstration. And not to shit on the Telsa engineers that do pull this off, but they probably took the everything directly from SpaceX
Well, to be fair, he almost certainly came up with this loony toon idea while smoking a blunt. Then went to the actual engineers and was like, "Yo, *puffs*, what if we had a car that, like, stuck to the road and could do flips man!" and then the actual smart people had to make it happen.
That's 1960s technology anyway, nothing new. It's basically a revision of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV). Pretty much the whole "car" has to be a fuel tank just to show off a few seconds of flight. It's physically impossible to ever be practical, there's no way to carry enough fuel for anything more than a demonstration like this.
It's an "invention" with zero practical purpose. Tesla released it as a way to take heat from the fact he's trying to sway our elections with his money and there is currently a documentary with 4 hours of content about how deranged and dangerous he is. And these fucking people fall for it.
Elon didnât invent it, nor help build it, but also what âitâ is isnât impressive.
The fine print of the ad specifically states this model is for sale with âinvitation onlyâ, not public road legal, and there is currently no release date, nor final cost estimation for it.
If anyone gets the invite to buy this one seated, non street legal turbo booster car, they have to pay 250,000$ within 10 business days to reserve it, and there is no guarantee date of release or final expenditure on it.
The other street legal model has a reserve of 50,000$, but also likely has those same ânon official release dateâ concerns.
Itâs insane that he keeps pulling this. He promises big, releases a demo video showing how badass his project is, gets folks to invest and fund his further ridiculous expenditures with no guarantees of anything final. Heâs like the shitty grifter king of GoFundMe.
Can't trust AOC... she says wear masks and stay away from people... then vacations in Florida with no mask in popular cities lol. The hypocrisy can go both ways
He certainly had something to do with them, financially. He didn't do shit tech wise though, even xAIs big thing is that he bought a bunch of compute early before anyone else, they sell more compute than they use and it props up a lot.
So he steered multiple companies into such high values, but really had nothing to do with them? Look, I think he's also a moron, just like you do. But to call his accomplishments stupid makes you look dumb.
Didn't the engineers at PayPal famously need to go back and revert elons changes whenever he would try to add to the code base because it broke stuff and didn't work?
And isn't there a dedicated team at spaceX to keep him placated and feel like he's "helping" without messing up the actual real work the engineers are doing?
And didn't he sue the actual founders of Tesla to label him as a "founder" despite the fact he didn't invent or work on the cars?
Reddit lore: SpaceX "babysitter" story literally came from a fake Tumblr post . SpaceX's founding propulsion chief Tom Mueller and NASA veterans have confirmed for years that Elon leads real engineering decisions. Plus, you have the Tesla lawsuit backwards Eberhard sued Elon, also when Elon basically bought tesla , Tesla had zero prototypes, zero cars, and didn't even have a factory yet. like i said in another comment. Elon can be a total moron, but to say he's not accomplished makes you sound dumb. like lunar lander denier dumb.
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They sure love using that picture while side commenting they'd bang her
And Elon didn't invent that đŠ