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It can fly? Wow! What a time to be alive!
This is pure marketing fluff. No way in hell this would ever make it into a street legal car.
Is this a broken link for anyone else?
> An invite-only "Rocket" variant is a single-seat model with a "full flight system."
Tesla should be sued into oblivion over "full self driving", but after that, if you believe this nonsense and buy one that's on you.
Potholes no longer an issue, just hop over them.
The rocket flip part looks like CGI, in my opinion. I get the same feeling as when I see CGI on some random B movie. Would be happy to be proven wrong if there was a crowd of people filming from their angle though.
Also "Beyond The Limits of Physics"... would any actual engineers at Tesla/SpaceX agree with that marketing statement?
So it can fly?
Just like we will have 1 million robotaxis on the streets by 2021?
EDIT: wow it really can fly, that is crazy
oh man, this is so ugly.
Paid subscriptions everyere, I bet.
Tesla hitting their lambo era?
The thing that made the design of the original Tesla cars successful, before they went all in on this "future looks like the future" idiocy, is that they just looked good. Tasteful. All that crazy new tech was put in a package which hid it and it just became a sleek, good looking car on the road. Now Tesla design is obsessed with it cosplaying a Ridley Scott 80's wet dream and it looks stupid. The cars look like a show at universal studios theme park. When you do the "future looks like the future" it's always a sci-fi author's idea of "the future" which is cheesy and outdated as soon as its done. This is a boomer's idea of "future" aesthetics and it's not what the actual future looks like.
You can hate the man, but you must respect him. Flying cars have truly arrived.
The homies have had flying cars for years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJDQURYkSvc
Looks like Tesla didn’t learn from the abject cybertruck failure
What a downgrade from the renders we've seen so far.
So, almost 10 years after the reservation for this version of the Roadster.
Tesla death throes, looks cool but they’re done.
of all the things you could do for the world.
Did you see 0 to 60 in 0.81 second, now THAT is flying!
A car that jumps - am I missing something? The speed numbers are cool.
As a father of a growing family, I am still waiting for the RoBovan.
Reminder: anyone reserving one of these then has 30 days to send paper mail to Tesla to opt out of binding arbitration, which is heavily anti-plaintiff biased.
Now put six of them in a field and throw in a huge soccer ball.
That surpassed all expectations.
I'm so glad Elon exists. He must have spent over $100 million to build the flying variant with no hope of ever profiting off it. I can't imagine any other CEO ever doing that.
Unavailable to visit?
I recall that about 8 (10?) years ago the “Roadster 2” was advertised. Am I correct that that was repeatedly delayed and never delivered?
My sense is that this is just more Elon Musk bullshit that will never materialize.
cool asf
Nobody needs that kind of acceleration on a car designed for use on public roads, and anyone who uses that capability in the vicinity of other people or vehicles deserves to be arrested. Its just criminally dangerous.
Like the Cybertruck, this is just the Musk "fuck you, get out of my way" worldview realised as metal and plastic.
Flying car? That looks more like a jumping car to me - great engineering but a bit misleading imho.
If this is real, it's going to kill people.
So they are going to send one of to space again?
That the supposedly smart ppl here get their knickers in a twist over this theatre piece is telling.
Literally no proof of this working in real world conditions.
I call bull.
Are they serious about the rocket version??
Very COOL, I like this Roadster retro style
If it allows me to fly over a traffic jam, I'll buy it
We are truly in the dumbest timeline
Oh look, not street legal.
Fun demo, never will see the road. There's a billion ways this can kill scores of people instantly.
What a wonderful illustration of the technofeudalism that many seem eager to push our world into. That doesn't diminish the engineering feat it embodies, in fact it rhymes pretty well.
Will this car ever ship?
"Tony Hawk would be called, we call that the kickflip."
Uh what? Rodney Mullen invented the kickflip
Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/LC97wdQOmfI
I mean, this is the gimmicky of gimmicks for the ultra-rich.
It just means you can do jumps and stunts programmed into the vehicle at the push of a button with zero skill at being a stunt driver.
The Dukes of Hazzard had to do that without the thrusters.
Can't wait to see how people kill themselves and other people with those things by being stupid...
Hopefully that shit gets blocked by the DOT and kept off public roads--which is probably the goal to get a bunch of drooling simps outraged over "government overreach" keeping them away from their "flying cars".
I absolutely detest the leadership and what he is actively doing to this country... but holy fucking shit. I want to reserve one, but when you're broke as a joke... ooph.
Who is the impressive to? 12 year old boys and Elon Musk?
At this point this is some sort of IQ test right?
Sorry about the eggs honey, I had to use the thrusters to get past this cyclist.
Crash test rating: undefined