Hilariously that didn't disprove our point though. Elon took the credit instead of the engineers behind it. The company should've been named Edison instead of Tesla.
I mean, it's not even really a great feet of engineering. The car isn't drivable. It's an empty shell. A reinforced steel grid with a cheap car skin on top. It's not and never will be a product, it's just an investment scam
And that technology has been around for a while now. Darpa was prototyping gyroscopically balanced drones with thrusters decades ago with their MKV platform.
Yeah thruster technology isn't exactly ground breaking. They were using that shit even in the 60's landing on planetary bodies, and modern ones we have now were invented in the 40's. They were experimenting and conceptualizing with Ion thrusters over a hundred years ago.
It’s a giant RC with air tanks. It’s wasn’t human operated and technical specs aren’t public, so things like weight are unknown.
The engineering aspect that is interesting is the air canisters. The claim is they’re self replenishing so my curiosity is how that’s achieved with enough power to support car acrobatics.
Right. I’m specifically referring to the added layer of being able to move an allegedly full weight vehicle the way it did, rather than a striped down carbon fiber body. That takes an incredible amount of energy and heat that would need a solution for.
Also updoot for your username alone. Lemme know a good recipe for snake juice lol
The “self-replenishing” part is actually a super impressive feat of engineering.
Using satellite telemetry the vehicle identifies a ground station. Then using local compute, the vehicle navigates to the ground station. Finally a robotic arm attaches an air-tight fluid pump to the vehicle to exchange propellant.
I mean, that is how it will work when Tesla definitely brings this to market. Right now they just have Pedro filling the CO2 canisters by-hand, but the rest is for sure on the way.
/s if it wasn’t obvious. This thing is just a large lightweight RC car with some compressed air canisters and microcontrollers. Even if the air canisters replenished on-board, that’s not new, that’s just an air compressor you can buy at Home Depot. Most impressive feat of engineering is getting the weight calibration right for balance, and drones solved that decades ago.
Self replenishing air compressors have existed for decades.
I don't want to shit on the probably hard working engineers, but, film studios have been building way more impressive stuff for decades
The claim being they self replenish to do controlled landing and maneuvering of an allegedly full weight car is the interesting part- if it’s truthful.
It is in fact just a big RC car. Most people could do this at a smaller scale with purchases made on Amazon or at Home Depot.
They have, I’m just doubtful they even used them here since they’d have no need and it would have forced compromise between weight, noise, and efficiency. If they actually used a compressor on-board then it was probably just to technically tick a box so they aren’t technically lying about “self-replenishing” but I’d easily bet $50 they’re still swapping whole canisters in practice just because the output volume isn’t great.
I was reading an article about how the majority of hype or ideas that Elon has are never executed. People invest in his companies because he has the strongest RDF out there. What exactly is a RDF? Reality Distortion Field. By the time people figure it out, he's on to the next scam.
Oh I didn’t realize you knew me personally and were aware of my achievements (or lack there of according to you). How ya been, man? Ok if we’re giving credit where it’s due then look to the people that actually built and put this toy together. Musk didn’t do shit 😂
Been doing alright. Just trying to make it. I know you’re doing fine, you’ve probably achieved more than I gave you credit for. Just try and keep it real for everyone. Janitors to Trillionaires.
Prototype for something that cannot be put into production, no human operator, regulatory agencies would take 20 yrs to exact some standardization and also its not practical for any road only hot wheels courses, i get ur point and ya it was neat spectacle, but thats all. But hey its working ppl r talking
I hate the guy, but this is factually untrue. There was a court case about it... the original founders sued to get him to stop saying that, but they settled and the settlement agreement included him being able to say "co-founder". So yes, he's legally a co-founder now. The terms of agreement aren't public beyond that, but safe to assume the OG founders got something out of it. And honestly, he was employee #3... the first 2 being the OG founders. The company had no buildings, no funding, no products, no designs, nothing... just an idea of what they wanted to do, and they would not have survived without him pouring basically all his own money into it. It's not like he came in when the Model S was launched and claimed he founded it.
Whenever people fail to account for the fact that billionaires like Elon hire people to research, design and produce their products, I’m like “oh, so you’re stupid too?”
The product is a new version of the Tesla roadster. The entire gimmick here is sell the new roadster by presenting a bunch of "cool" features alongside it that will almost certainly never practically be in the finished product.
But the engineers without Elon would not come up with these sort of things. They have the knowledge but not always the vision. That’s what separates a leader from the rest.
You mean fake PR stunts no engineers don’t do that kind of shit.. He is not some sort of genius visionary… if you had your daddy‘s billion dollars, and a team of slaves to do your bidding I’m sure you could come up with some pretty cool shit that maybe actually works
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u/Alexfan_collector163 5h ago edited 5h ago
Hilariously that didn't disprove our point though. Elon took the credit instead of the engineers behind it. The company should've been named Edison instead of Tesla.