Elon is unintelligent enough to think that flying cars are a good idea when most people either suck at driving normally or can barely afford gas for a regular car, let alone a flying car that would need way more energy to work.
Go on any of the tesla subreddits and you'll see people applauding him for making a flying car for "only $250k" and saying they'll order one immediately.
While I wouldn't be surprised most are bots, it's likely there are real people among them as well.
They actually believe this is a product they're already producing.
Of course the same idiots who can't find a buyer for the piece of shit Cybertruck they spent $120k on are going to line up to spend double that on a "flying car" LOL
We're gonna see a lot of Elon fans dying in horrible electrical fires if this goes mainstream. Shit like this may work beautifully, at first. But people are absolutely terrible at maintaining their cars. There's a reason there are strict maintenance schedules and laws for helicopters and planes. Crashing into something is bad enough, but falling out of the sky adds a whole new dimension to your accident.
You will be unpleasantly surprised to learn most of those idiotic posts are from actual real-life human beings who support Elon Musk as the great white hope for America while also denouncing EVs and the infrastructure that would make EVs better supported.
They're literally fighting against supporting the imaginary electric vehicles they are shelling out $250k for. They're just really fucking stupid.
Flying cars are easy to build. There's millions on the road right now. A few of them get launched off bridges and overpasses every day. "Landing safely cars" are a lot more difficult.
Besides, musky didn't invent or build that "car" either. He just paid off the guys that did.
it also never occurred to them that this shit is almost certainly not street legal to drive either, and even if it was, the insurance, repair, and fuel costs would be insane.
I think a large part of it is that people can’t understand by Republicans support an admitted sexual predator. What do you think is wrong with them that causes this? Is their excuse for supporting a sexual predator that they falsely believe they will be better financially off?
Yesterday someone submitted an X post from an anonymous person stating that Elon personally corrects calculations at SpaceX as proof that he is an actual engineer doing most of the work over there. They want to believe this bullshit so bad it’s crazy. I can’t even post on the Elon sub anymore because I dared to say he wasn’t really an engineer. Instant ban. My question is: what the fuck have they been working on for the last decade if not beginning production on this thing? This stupid fucking demo?
Yeah I don't understand why so many people think Musk is an inventor or an engineer. He's a finance bro who employs inventors and engineers. Big difference. When Musk visits his companies' factories, the engineering heads intentionally try to distract him with pointless bullshit, because he's constantly meddling in projects he has no technical understanding of and fucking things up.
I remember one time talking with a fanboy several years back who insisted that Musk was doing most of the engineering at SpaceX. I asked him why, if that was the case, the company employed over a thousand engineers. He insisted that they must have just been there for "refinement and detail work."
It's marketing precisely because some people think this is a fully working telsa car. Because it looks like it and has tinted glass so you can't see the mass of pipes and condenced gas cannisters inside.
and even if there was, there's no way in hell something like that would be street legal anyways. Even if it was legal, could you imagine how much your insurance premiums would increase if some dumbass could jump and flip onto your car like a Mako from mass effect?
I don't think people realize the amount of thrust this would require and the almost impossiblity of storing the amount of and the high pressure of the gas this would take. Like, where are you filling the tanks for this with? Elon is not an engineer no matter what he says. To engineers, he is a god damn parasite that comes in takes a good idea and the drains the companies he is in for money to fund his god awful AI product. Twitter was the first, space x is feeling it now, and Tesla will probably go next.
Yep, not a chance in hell this thing is ever sold in any sort of quantity beyond a billionaires curiosity. Even than I doubt they ever actually try it. The g-forxe likely requires a three point harness and a roll cage. Not even sure if people were in the vehicles.
And even if it was... why do people think he had ANYTHING to do with it's design? He's not an engineer. The only thing he's ever brought to the development table at any of his companies is the shape of the CYBERTRUCK, the dumbest looking vehicle design in history.
Yes, even the demo makes clear that it is a "jumping" car. It seems like it can "fly" about equally to the Wright Brothers Flyer at Kitty Hawk.
The next issue that no one thinks of, this will not be street legal (or even street able). The thrusters in the back would spray all sorts of dirt and debris on cars behind it, which could lead to a lot of insurance claims against the car. The fan keeping it on the road would suck up everything close, dirt, trash, manhole covers, grates, etc., which would destroy the fan underneath the car. And that is assuming he can bribe the Trump administration enough to certify it as a road car.
The car can't fly; it can't hold enough compressed air, it doesn't have enough power, it can only jump, maybe 100 feet, and then land safely. And that is ignoring the amount of processing power it needs to keep the car stable, adjusting the airflow to each nozzle, while being able to do the "tricks," like flipping over.
Probably since people have been falling for flying concept cars since the 90s, and even back then they had better ones than this. It helps to have a dumb audience that falls for it.
It at best is a hopping car as it has a max "flight" time of 4 seconds. Plus, DOT is never going to allow a passenger car to be on the road with a 10,000-psi carbon fiber air tank on board. Even if they did, it would require a 5-year hydrostatic inspection, which would require the tanks removal from the vehicle.
For how long? What kind of gas did they use for propellant, and how much? How much did this single jump cost? How would someone behind the wheel even CONTROL this? Is it automated? And should anyone with a license have access to it? The fact is nothing like this is ever gonna be street legal, and if this car is the first it'll only be because Elon's blackmailing the president.
Yes, but its not a car. Did they show what's inside of it? Like does people fit inside of it? Nope, its a car shaped thing that was made to do one thing.
Its a marketing gimmig, how can you not understand that?
I’m not convinced there weren’t wires. Show me the same demo on a clear sunny day and I might change my mind, but this was all bells and whistles without substance.
That 5 seconds of "flying" you saw is about all it can do. A vehicle that size is burning through propellant very fast. Nobody is going to be air-commuting to work in one of these.
I don't understand this fixation with it not being a real stunt
Making a car do a flip is hardly the most difficult thing the spacex guys have ever done. Remember these are the guys who put the previous roadster in space with a rocket that landed itself in 3 parts, and they're now consistently catching the biggest and most powerful sex toy ever built out of the air using 3 gimballing thrusters and a big tower with 2 metal arms.
it's vaporware, it will never be on the roads or in the hands of consumers, and it's not a complete car, just a show car, but it makes no sense for them to not just do the stunt at full scale
Its like with space rockets. People dont seem to understand that like 80% of what they see in the videos is the fuselage to hold the fuel needed for liftoff.
And those are designed to break away when the fuel is spent. Where are you putting that infrastructure on a car?
You DO understand that what you were shown is not an actual, working, flying car, right? THe compressed air "thrusters" were very showy for cameras and eyes, but NOT capable of getting that amount of weight off the ground, let alone sustain it, and do any stunts? RIGHT?
Cars can't hold enough fuel for sustainable wingless flight. You are implicitly telling me you don't have much of an education. You shouldn't have dropped out of school.
Son, we have had light aircraft forever, and guys are out there making rideable drones. We are not getting generally available flight, period. We can’t trust motherfuckers to signal on lane changes, observe crossings, or drive sober. What makes you think they’re going to be allowed to be the Jetsons?
Not having to pay for roads would be rad, but imagine everyone and their mother flying around wherever they want with typical road lemming spatial awareness. Think of the worst drivers you’ve seen on the road, then imagine them zipping along over your home. God imagine being in a mid rise apartment and having to keep your eyes peeled for some dumbass on a cell phone barreling into your living room.
This is going to be autonomous, as I said. This will use planned routes with planned exits if you have trouble. It will not be a free for all, flying around willy nilly
Imagine the fun they could have with it. 15 years into the future not brushing your teeth is an "act of terrorism" and the crew at Reno 911 can search your luggage under the Patriot act. During the search they find an unregistered personal vibration device, which originally contained an Amazon camera, but the camera was illegally removed. Actually they better not do this show. Our government officials might see it and think these are good ideas.
Like, thruster based VTOL capability is the most energy hungry form of flying. There is a reason planes have Wings and helicopters have blades.
If you ever want a flying car to be remotely able to lug its own energy storage around for a distance longer than a quick jump, you will always end up back at the plane/helicopter design.
The energy use of a dedicated flying car is why higher than that for a conventional car, but this is worse because it’s a Tesla with the extra 600-1000 curb weight from the battery packs.
Also Tesla’s are notorious for weird little failures due to software issues or dust (ask how I know) that would almost certainly result in a car like this going into an uncontrolled flip or simply failing to engage.
My coworker was showing me this yesterday and this is exactly what I was thinking. The amount of resources that would be needed to use this thing is unbelievable. To top that, if I were to use this, my house would catch on fire. I don’t have a long driveway to where the vehicle could be at a safe distance from my house. There are so many scenarios that just makes this a terrible idea.
It’s for clicks. A gimmick. Tesla stock is flailing. This a desperate move to prop it up. It seats one. Will never be legal. And will never be built. But next time I’m driving up a 90 degree inclined ramp I’ll sure wish I had one.
People always bring up how people suck at regular driving so flying cars would obviously be too dangerous. The thing is though if flying cars ever become feasible they will be fully automated while in the air, no normal person will be controlling their car while it's airborne.
That's not a flying car. That is just a jumping car. It can't safely land, and flips in the air. MAGA try this at home, and they are landing upside down.
In all fairness. I'm pretty sure he is fully aware it's nothing but a marketing stunt and will never happen.
He just know his fanbase will eat it up and continue to buy his stocks for ludicrous prices because of it.
Elon is the world first trillionaire because he found a new business model where the main product of his companies is the stock itself and the money from selling the stocks gets reinvested into stunts to further prop the stock.
Is it sustainable? No. Is it dumb? Yes. But not for him.
I recall him saying, during discussions about the Hyperloop, that flying cars would be a very bad idea. No one wants these vehicles flying overhead, potentially falling onto their homes or families. Insurance companies wouldn't get involved.
I DO see at least one interesting use case for this actually. While I think 99% of the idea is batshit crazy and is a trick to give Wall Street people a hard on.....I think theres a use case for emergency vehicles.
Imagine if you will, an awful car accident, or a fire. Miles of traffic gridlock. A fire engine, ambulance, etc, needs to get to the scene but cant. Fire the boosters to do a controlled boost over the traffic into the shoulder, or a safe zone, to get to the scene.
This is NOT a controlled boost, its timed or predicted (or appears to be). I mean more like true low height flight for short distances.
Wrong. He and all his fanbois/supporters are full on morons, because they still believe Elon has invented this or just about anything. He isnt the inventor or designer, he is the owner. He sits back doing fcking nothing, and takes all the credit. The car "flying" isnt the work of Elon, even saying he was the one who had the idea is pure delusional insanity, as the idea of flying car is atleast 30 years old, aka likely the entire idea is older than Elon himself, so he wasnt the inventor, designer or the idea man, then what is he? Fcking rich douche taking credit for the work of others, and taking 99% of any profits made from other people's work.
only the really rich people will be able to afford this, and you know what? that’s cool. the rich people deserve it. if they want to fly their cars all over the place, then we should let them do that, in the same way we let them get into a submarine to go look at the titanic.
It depends on what you mean buy flying did you ever play air hockey I belive it will be something like that you'll be Basically flooting not flying also I doubt you'll be able to move like a car you most likely be on special type of road or track as for fuel or energy the road or track would probably power it like a tram car
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u/klako8196 7h ago
Elon is unintelligent enough to think that flying cars are a good idea when most people either suck at driving normally or can barely afford gas for a regular car, let alone a flying car that would need way more energy to work.