Tesla Flying Roadster

[OgNasty]

My friends on social media were making fun of me for believing this was real...  Nobody owns enough SpaceX stock.  The normies literally can't believe their eyes!

It should be calming to entrepreneurs to see how much hate Elon receives.  He's literally the best case scenario for anyone trying to change the world for the better while becoming incredibly successful and people still call him names, say he is a conman or that the things he's saying isn't true.  Once you realize people are just projecting their own insecurities and it doesn't matter how successful you are, that doesn't change, it gets easier to understand that some people are so absolutely miserable that they spend their lives spreading that misery to others as a way to try and feel better about their own failure in life.  Avoid these types of people at all costs.

[avp2306]

My friends on social media were making fun of me for believing this was real...  Nobody owns enough SpaceX stock.  The normies literally can't believe their eyes!

It should be calming to entrepreneurs to see how much hate Elon receives.  He's literally the best case scenario for anyone trying to change the world for the better while becoming incredibly successful and people still call him names, say he is a conman or that the things he's saying isn't true.  Once you realize people are just projecting their own insecurities and it doesn't matter how successful you are, that doesn't change, it gets easier to understand that some people are so absolutely miserable that they spend their lives spreading that misery to others as a way to try and feel better about their own failure in life.  Avoid these types of people at all costs.

Common reactions by ignorant people. Let them continue to laugh, while missing the great innovation showing by Tesla. For sure same with us they will get amaze to, when Tesla finally released that Roadster 2.0 in public.

No one expect before that we would have battery operated cars, but its happening and we are seeing many of it rolling on streets.

So the current one we have seen is just a start, because I believe in future flying cars will exist and who knows maybe Tesla starts developing this in their labs.

[Noorooo]

Yeah, I also saw the video and did my research on it. It's amazing and has so many cool features like it can drive on a wall and can also fly for a specific time. It also made a world record by going from 0 to 100 in 0.8 seconds which is completely insane. But I don't think guys that this car will be road legal that early. I think it will take a lot of time like 5 to 10 years to become road legal.

[OgNasty]

I had my Grok Bot assistant make me a video and post it to my youtube channel (one of them).  It has instructions to do this any time a cool new technology product comes out or an event happens.  I think some work could be done on the voice still, but overall it is a pretty good video.  I'm looking forward to seeing what it chooses to make a video on next.  It has already told me it finds the iPhone Duo and upcoming Starship launch video worthy events, so I'll have to see what it comes up with next.  Enjoy (and subscribe if you think AI videos are not cringeworthy). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4NriDxzYhg

[NotFuzzyWarm]

It does not fly.
It has short lived compressed gas rocket thrusters and at best, hops.
The climbing wall trick is simple centrifugal force from speed keeping it on the curved wall the same way a rollercoaster keeps you in the seat when going round a loop.

It is a fun experiment but in no way would ever be allowed on roads.

[OgNasty]

It does not fly.
It has short lived compressed gas rocket thrusters and at best, hops.
The climbing wall trick is simple centrifugal force from speed keeping it on the curved wall the same way a rollercoaster keeps you in the seat when going round a loop.

It is a fun experiment but in no way would ever be allowed on roads.

Man, why even comment if you are going to spout such incorrect nonsense?  Seriously...  You think speed is what allowed it to stop and sit there upside down?  Your comment shows that you didn't even watch the event, let alone understand the technology used.  Embarrassing to say the least if you actually believe what you wrote.

I'm shocked people don't understand how the gripping tech works...  Fans have been around a long time...

It did fly.  I saw it.  You seem to call it hopping because it can't fly whatever distance you deem appropriate?  Did the Wright Brothers fly?

This will be allowed on roads.  That isn't even debatable to be honest.  I'm sure it won't be legal to hop over things on the road, but it isn't legal for me to press my foot to the floor in my Cyberbeast either...  

[NotFuzzyWarm]

You mean this one from the guy who designed it? https://youtu.be/22rvpUecLts?is=mejALU9QFPXapfYG
It explains the fan assisted down force system which together with the rear wing is used just to help keep the car on the road at speed. It points out that the version with thrusters will not be street legal. Sure you can buy it and transport it to a track or onto your expansive property for fun but ya can't drive on a public road.

He also points out that the 10,000 psi nitrogen storage used for the thrusters empties in under 5 seconds at full horizontal thrust. Because of the smaller thrusters used my guess is it can do maybe 2 or 3 hops & flips before needing to recharged?
Or
https://youtu.be/eqOfmtTJD1A?is=fUXgjzsPIobj-5cP which is the official Tesla video?
Yes the fans provide over 1g of down force to allow over 2g of turning force and can hold it in place but take note that they then backup down the ramp before doing the leap. Why? Probably because the fans would try to make it a helicopter and screw up the flying leap.

Methinks your AI needs better training...

[BADecker]

If they made flying roads, we wouldn't need flying roadsters.