Tesla Roadster

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.

We are truly in the dumbest timeline

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.

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.

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.

Reading some of this feels like I’m having a stroke.

>This provides enough suction to hold the vehicle upside down, even when stationary.

Neat car though.

Who is the impressive to? 12 year old boys and Elon Musk?

No way this is road legal in any country lmao

I'd buy one for the police chases. Hell yes. Not that I'm in the billionaire invite-only inner circle, and not that they'll ever ship it.

"Jumping the shark" is now officially shamed by "jumping the Tesla"!

An innovative way to make some whoop-de-dooping billionaires with extra cash to spare land upside down on their rooves.

When I first saw this I was convinced it was AI slop. Nope! This is absolutely incredible. I've also never really resonated with Tesla aesthetic in the past but they really nailed it here imo. This car looks phenomenal - I hope this style trickles down to other models.

Jaw-dropping stunts aside, I am really disappointed with where all modern car design is going. What is that ugly low poly shit? The previous Roadster concept had a style, it had sex and taste. How did we get from there to here?

Can you imagine being behind this thing and the air blowing rocks and shit all over your car?

Absolutely incredible demo. Jesus Christ, I don't know what I was expecting. Didn't know this was planned and skipped forward to see what they were showing off and thought it was CGI for how outlandish it is. My god, man. This is amazing.

FSD doesn't even work properly TEN YEARS after it was announced

still tries to murder passengers jumping across traffic at shadows

good luck with anything Musk, you are the beta tester, if you die they'll debug it, eventually

I predict the next James Bond movie will be a Tesla ad.

He literally made good on the long time promise of FLYING CARS and this is not the top post????

this site just toast

Will it even be maintainable? Never mind the rocket fuel...

Will the frame itself hold up?

I wonder if the jets will be able to assist breaking or control of the car in emergency situations.

I'm sure having a bunch of rocket engines, fuel, plumbing, etc, on my car will make it great in the twisties. This is such a stupid compromise.

This is one of those products that offers a thrilling demo but I have no desire to own one. I much prefer the 2020 design that never made it to production.

This reminds me of the time Elon Musk was only known because of the supercool stuff his companies did.

Relevant.

* The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth - YouTube // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

Is this a gas that needs to be refilled with the cold thrust one?

How come this totally cool thing with 397 points is on the third fucking page being #65.

"grok, my flying tesla is dirty and there is a carwash 50 metres away. should i walk, drive or fly?"

All Musk cares about is Mars. The CT is going to be a Mars vehicle, that's why it looks like that by and large.

And this tech is simply part of the Tesla/SpaceX merge, and right in line with flamethrowers, tunnels, and chainsaws. It's going to funnel loads of cash his way, which was the idea.

Really disappointing to see such low quality discussion here. Feasibility aside, we would not be seeing such reactions even 5 years ago. Polarization ruins everything.

It is not a roadster. A roadster is defined as an open-air, two-seat convertible.

This one is a hard-top super-coupe and I recommend calling it the "Cyberwedge"

Musk really is the master of fraud. Twitter gets bought by Space X to conceal the massive loss in valuation, Tesla gets pumped with endless "we'll have self-driving cars next year", for 10+ years... now that the Tesla bubble is finally popping he needs to dump it on the Space X/Twitter shareholders, so we get this demo of a thing that will never hit the road. Bag holders beware, Musk's masterpiece of market manipulation is about to execute with the merger of all his lies.

Are you kidding me? That was real? I laughed that off as AI BS and went about my day.

I cant wait to see what type of batshit crazy motorsport series they invent for these.

Now with more explosions!

I just want to know how they faked it. Because I actually have zero trust that this is a realistic demonstration.

Yay the (almost) 10th anniversary of the 2nd generation Roadster reservations, and now it's got fucking rockets apparently?

How delusional are people? The emperor is not wearing clothes y'all.

I don't understand why they don't recruit an Italian designer...

Technology: spectacular, design: ugly as fuck

I need a cheap car. Sub 25k that I can use to drop my kids and get groceries and is electric so I can get some respite from these war inflated gas prices. Nobody is offering this. I dont need all the fancy gadgets and the flying and the jumping.

Looks like it truly is a K shaped economy. Flying cars for 1% and loans for the rest

Nazi-funding explosive-gas car is still a Nazi-funding car.

Hackernews is full of losers and retards and this thread is a perfect example. Literally fucking flying cars and ppl are complaining that it's not realistic or it's dangerous or might not make a profit. Some of the biggest losers on the planet on this site tbh

Hard pass

Amazing to see Elon making his childhood dreams reality. It's something to behold. I hope we don't lose that spirit. The amount of negativity is very worrying. One of the coolest tech demos in 2026 and it's on the 3rd page of HN morning after because of the downvotes.

As per Telegraph Musk has offered Trump the idea to slow down the Starlink, which resulted in deaths of many civilians.

Whatever you think about these advancements (like you could marvel at Nazi inventions), make no mistake. Musk and his Tesla should get fucked.

If Doc Brown's time machine was real and posted here, HN would be complaining that it's noisy, unimpressive, not street legal, uninsurable, and attacking Brown's personal character because he's a dangerous nutcase.