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.
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u/Murky-Course6648 6h ago
This is not a flying car, this is advertisement trick. This is purely about the attention, that all these post about it gathers. This is marketing.
Why do people think this is an actual flying car?