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gexla • yesterday at 1:52 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

I guess you didn't see the video of a car sitting on a ramp upside down, doing flips in the air, jumping over a semi and other cars...

Odd world we live in when we don't see that as being cool. But, we're seemingly headed there. At some point, it's going to be hard to imagine something that could surprise me.


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iugtmkbdfil834 • yesterday at 1:54 AM

<< I guess you didn't see the video of a car sitting on a ramp upside down, doing flips in the air, jumping over a semi and other cars...

It is weird. I am not fan of Musk, but one has to have some crazy blinders on not to give him credit here.

<< At some point, it's going to be hard to imagine something that could surprise me.

It is hard to believe your eyes -- I assumed it was magnetic or something initially.

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johnnyApplePRNG • yesterday at 6:53 AM

>Odd world we live in when we don't see that as being cool.

What's cool about that?

I think that's extremely reckless, dangerous, etc.

Mawr • yesterday at 5:11 AM

Here you go: it's cool. A cool waste of money. You realize driving upside down and jumping is a) useless, b) illegal on public roads, c) staged? You think there are controls in the car that'll let you do 3D maneuvers? It's all preprogrammed.

The only half-usable feature here is super fast acceleration.

While you were busy getting baited by flashy non-features, you probably missed that this is coming out minimum 8 years late, with half the promised range, seat space, and the acceleration numbers all depending on unspecified consumable gas which you'll have fill up on somehow. If it ever comes out at all, what with Tesla's track record.

BTW, the reason you haven't seen this before is nobody in their right mind would have spent so much money on something this pointless, not because this is some cutting edge tech.

throwayay58373 • yesterday at 1:53 AM

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