Vehicles - Roadster
Tesla: Beyond the limits of physics - multi-mode fan & ground sealing system generating enough suction to hold it upside down while stationary
They only ran it in one race. FIA gave it permission to run for the season but Brabham withdrew it themselves, because Ecclestone was team boss and was more interested in the politics.
Lauda hated it but did win that race in it, mostly because he was Lauda (and Andretti broke down)
I actually met Andretti before! My high school used to take us on trips to see the Martin Guitar factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Andretti apparently lives across the street from the factory and was there on a tour the same day that my class were. So they went on the entire tour with us.
Anyway, the F1 drivers apparently didn't like the Brabham BT46 because of the way that the fan was tied into the drivetrain. Because of this design, they had to stay on throttle in order for the fan to work. Meaning that lifting off throttle would cause you to lose all of the downforce at once and would lose control of the vehicle.
Because of this quirk, the drivers had to keep it in the throttle throughout the entire corner. That is a massive divergence away from their normal driving styles, as they are supposed "drive with the pedals" by balancing throttle and brake to make the car yaw a corner properly. So this forced everyone to relearn how to drive basically.
Because there are rules in racing. Many many many rules and regulations that are designed to make the vehicles mostly equal in performance.
Various ideas and concepts are banned every year. Just like an all compressed gas booster nonsense on this car will be banned from every public roadway in the US.
Why not? They don't want that to be part of the racing so they banned it. F1 has tons of stuff that's allowed and not allowed.
For example, in 2026, despite having 50% of their total power coming from an electric motor, they don't allow front axle regen braking. As a result on certain tracks the cars are starved for power.
Dont get the downvotes. Mcmurtry is breaking circuito records all over the world. O-100 km/h is 1,5s. Can corner up to 3g… this means there is a car in sale for the last 3 years that already as an excelent implementation of this technology
In the T.50, the fan is not sucking the car to the ground. It is there to improve the performance of the diffuser, by allowong a steeper angle than what would be possible without one.
In the Tesla it has the four blowers in the lower section of the rear bumper, they are angled upwards to blow a bit higher up compared to the GMA T50 and McMurty that have a single fan blowing in the middle straight back.
Yet boring exist and is tunnelling around as we speak.
Ask yourself why that is? Is it because of Elon or because of the government and their ridiculous regulations and processes in order to do any infrastructure projects?
Do you know absolutely nothing about engineering, just because the version of hyperloop you are used to seeing won't materialize. But tunnels are capable of doing the same thing by using vacuum. See you want reasons to dismiss his ability but have no understanding of application and applied engineering.
Elon has an interview with media in the Las Vegas boring company tunnel, and he explains that you can reach those same speeds of hyperloop.
It had nothing to do with the disaster of cahsr. Don’t let the progressive idiots of this state convince you of their incompetence. They knew how much cahsr was going to cost and proposed a ballot that only had funding for 10% if even of the entire project from the very beginning.
If they can land a Super Heavy Booster rocket, it's not.... rocket science to make a lightweight mule car drive up a ramp and land.
It has been done before, as others have pointed out.
There is not a beyond or near limits of physics. It's all perfectly according to physics, otherwise it would not be possible. There is no hard stop of physics. You can't use a catchy tag line and pretend it has scientific objective meaning. Even if they manage to do something entirely new, like open a wormhole in the frunk at their next ridiculous attention event. It will, again, be nicely according to physics.
There won’t be a doubling, since there are no vehicle stocks available. However, it will serve as a strong sales booster for several years, thanks to endless discussions, debates, and the like.
Yeah, sure. It won’t exist beyond this. You’re gonna be stroking your boner to this same video for eternity because it won’t go beyond this. This is pure smooth brain satiation.
Did you also say that Cybertruck would never release? Or Model Y? Or Model 3? Plenty of people did, and they were all wrong.
And for the record, I hardly care about Roadster. It's just a cool flex, and I'm not in a position to own one anyway. I care way more about things like Cybercab. Things that are actually world-changing. That's what I love.
No, I didn’t. And that is a poor comparison because all of those were actually realistic. This is, as directly stated in the demo, a fever dream. The impracticality of this is clearly represented by how the market responded to it.
Lmao, quit rewriting history. Plenty of people said the others were unrealistic. Cybertruck was the most recent one, and I remember all those silly redditors saying for years that it would never actually come out. Of course, they were wrong, and you will be too, because you don't learn from those mistakes.
The market is irrelevant. This is a toy that has almost zero effect on the company's financials. It's a hypercar, and hypercars are never planned to be big sellers. Tesla stock goes up and down by 2% basically every day, so it's hilarious that you think a fluctuation like that means anything. Shows how much you know.
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I think this is the first car that demonstrated the concept. It was also banned