There is zero chance that “feature” 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 it’ll be sucking up squirrels and random shit on public roads.
It’ll be a regular car with regular features. This stuff will be “2 years out” for the next 20z
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 “69” or “420”, he’s being completely serious. 690k for what amounts to a parlor trick will cement this into the hall of automotive oddities. There won’t 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 “flying car” 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:
“With 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.”
It’s just the most literal example I’ve ever seen to decribe this dumb assed stunt.
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u/NEKORANDOMDOTCOM 13h ago
They sure love using that picture while side commenting they'd bang her
And Elon didn't invent that 💩