They did a demonstration of the new Tesla Roadster tonight, for which you can put down an initial $50,000 deposit so you will be in line when it theoretically comes out in two years.
I mean, the blink-or-you-miss-it loop-and-land thing was a neat staged trick, but … if anyone makes their car buying decisions off that, they deserve the fleecing they’re getting.
Seriously?! Any car that can fly is going to enter a world of complex legalities, and it is supposedly going to fit into a system that is absolutely NOT prepared to accommodate flying cars.
OBVIOUSLY there is not going to be a flying Roadster. The energy required, the volume of compressed air, none of this is remotely feasible while maintaining even the slightest semblance of a passenger vehicle.
Flipping a car like this isn’t even impressive, engineers could have done this with 60’s technology. The only impressive thing is that they had so many off-the-shelf parts and cheap compute that they could throw this together as a joke.
Do we think maybe that this is all a distraction from the fact that the Roadster has been nothing but empty promises for over a decade? That they’ve taken substantial deposits from customers while promising delivery starting in 2020? That they’ve continually teased, delivered nothing, missed deadlines, etc? I mean, every other automaker on the planet has demonstrated the ability to convert an existing passenger vehicle to a sporty 2-seater, usually in less than 2 years. Tesla has spent 12 years and produced nothing.
Quit letting this idiot control the narrative to distract from his pathological lying.
That “flying car” thing was a stupid circus trick that even the Reddit fanboys are largely mocking. It clearly won’t be available on the production model whenever the hell that becomes available. Anyone who puts down a deposit on a future Tesla deserves what they get which is lengthy delays and a final product which is less than what was promised and there is no fucking chance it will go 0-60 in one second.
Harking back to my old comments about the Cybertruck, and that it actually DOES evoke a minor “It’s Cool” moment to those my age who grew up in the 80s…
I saw the clip and immediately thought “Someone in the 80s watched a LOT of Knight Rider, obviously always wanted “Turbo Boost” has no one to tell him NO”
Have some peak 80’s 'Hoff in a stream of unending Turbo boosts. Works better in an indestructible car with complete disregard of the physics for the impact and passenger.
I watched that crazy demo video. Never mind the gas thruster-powered roll and soft landing after the car drives off the ramp, how is it sticking to the underside of the ramp like that when it inverts? It doesn’t look like it’s driving fast enough to generate the centripetal force necessary. I guess they’ve solved the problem of “how are we ever going to be able to drive on a mobius strip?”
Yeah, Tesla’s whole thing is as if you took a 3rd grader from the 80s, gave them almost unlimited money and a team of engineers, and said “make whatever kinds of cars and trucks you want to; don’t worry about practicality”.
Fans to create downforce greater than the car’s weight. Here’s a video about the McMurtry Spéirling, which uses the same technique, but that you can actually drive and buy (for £1,000,000).
