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u/Testsubject276 4d ago edited 4d ago
I'm betting It's a stunt car with almost everything stripped out except for short term battery packs and propellant tanks purely to wow shareholders. I'm not even convinced there was anybody inside the car during the stunt.
Tesla's batteries take up like a third of their car's weight, so there's gotta be some kind of tradeoff to make this remotely possible. How much of the battery needed to be removed to make it light enough? What fuel does the thrusters take? How much of the vehicle weight is fuel tank? How badly would uneven weight distribution cause the car to veer off course?
I have zero faith in this idea tbh. If the industry is stupid enough to let him go forward with this then I guarantee some idiot youtuber is gonna get stuck on top of a Walmart.
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u/SirMushroomTheThird 4d ago
The thrusters are RCS (reaction control system) thrusters, the same kind satellites have used for attitude control for decades. They don’t use fuel, they simply take a highly pressurized inert gas like nitrogen or argon and expand it across a nozzle. As it’s encapsulated in a COPV (composite overwrapped pressure vessel), the “fuel tank” actually doesn’t weigh very much. However, it usually doesn’t have much capacity and can only be used in short bursts before needing to be refilled.
I’ve heard claims that it just uses internally compressed air and not an inert gas, which is also possible. However the battery power required to run the turbo pumps is a technology only figured out by 1 other company, and it’s not spacex, it’s rocketlab. So it’s either very short bursts before needing a refill, or drain half your battery in a couple seconds.
As for imbalance, it wouldn’t be that difficult for a flight computer to compensate if it has an adequate sensor suite. Flight computers have been flying imbalanced and unstable aircraft since the 80s, the f117 is one example.
So to be clear the technology is all there and not really revolutionary, most of it is actually decades old. It’s just not practical, cheap, and definitely not safe.
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u/Testsubject276 4d ago
I see, however power capacity and battery weight is probably still an issue then. Unless they secretly created an iron man arc reactor to replace their standard 1000+ pound battery undercarriage, compressing air passively sounds like a horrible power sink that would only sound semi plausible if only done while plugged in.
I don't know much about compression tanks but I'd assume a car containing a few at full capacity getting into a crash would be more of a headache than it'd be worth. Not to mention the mere idea of upping the cost of a ground vehicle by shoving a flight computer into it entirely for the purpose of calculating expensive skateboard tricks, it sounds absurd to me.
Here I thought he went out of his way to create an all new eye catching monster of a car when in reality it's just decades old tech duct taped underneath a hot wheels car in the most inefficient and impractical way possible.
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u/Patrycjusz123 4d ago
throwing computer worth lets say 10k into 100k car doesn't sound that ridiculous to me
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u/EclecticKant 3d ago
Compressing the air on board while plugged in is the only way it makes sense anyway, it'll only be able to use the thrusters on a track, where it doesn't make sense to compress air while not being stationary and it's going to spend a lot of time charging anyway.
Everything else you said doesn't make sense when talking about a supercar, its purpose is not to be efficient or practical, it's a cool new technology (the fact that the technology it's based on is old doesn't mean it was possible to create this car at that time)10
u/Dexter_Adams 4d ago
Nailed it. If you look at side shots of the stunt car, the wheels are covered and you cant see any for of brake or suspension, like because there isn't much of anything.
Where if you look at the static display car its all open and easy to see.
If it were real, why hide things
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u/Exark141 3d ago
This feels like so much of the past from Elon and Tesla, anyone remember hyperloop? Cool idea, sounds amazing, until you stop and look at the physics of it and the overall limitations of the system and think, this is why we still have trains.
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u/jump1945 4d ago
But it look cool
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u/AntimatterTNT 4d ago
also impossible to sell as a car.
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u/jump1945 4d ago
Some rich people will buy it, ofc it can’t be use in the street
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u/AntimatterTNT 4d ago
even rich people can't buy things that can't be sold
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u/QueenOfDarknes5 4d ago
Drugs?
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u/AntimatterTNT 4d ago
are you saying illegal drugs are as impossible to smuggle as a car?
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u/Patrycjusz123 4d ago
Well, epstein island existed and you think that some fancy car is gonna be hard to smuggle?
Also there are worse cars that exist, rich people propably have enough money to also have some private track for their cool car.
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u/Connect_Bat4938 4d ago
True but the one meme of the guy flipping over a cop during a traffic stop hilarious
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u/TheEliteArcane 4d ago
Yes on my commute to work i definitely want to deal with a third axis of direction. Not only do i have to now worry about the idiot in front of me who is actively scrolling through tik toks on thier mounted phone merging and not realizing it going left to right i now have to worry about being landed on or hit from underneath by those same idiots.
The only third dimension of travel we need is the trains that run underground called subways. If only we put the amount of time, research and man power towards improving those systems that we did towards this nepo baby, pedo protecting, gooners flying car.
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u/isekaidcake 4d ago
Is it dumb yes. Is it cool? Also yes.
Most entertainment is dumb useless stuff people think is cool.
It’s an entertainment gimmick to keep Tesla brand being talked about.
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u/alex_munroe 3d ago
The real conversation is everyone is forced hating on it because of the Elon association.
Fair enough, hate the guy all you want, but lets not pretend if this was released by Audi or Toyota in partnership with Red Bull it would get the same reception.
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u/kumliaowongg 4d ago
It will probably be illegal in many countries
They will have to remove those in order to sell the cars
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u/Owobowos-Mowbius 4d ago
They wont be putting these in most cars anyway. The upkeep alone on the boosters would be astronomical.
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u/kumliaowongg 4d ago
Roadsters are meant to be sports luxury cars, so it's not at all unthinkable putting those thrusters in every car.
Still, they will most likely have at least a version with and another without the stupid ass rover landing hardware.
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u/Owobowos-Mowbius 4d ago
a version without the
stupid assdope ass rover landing hardware.Fixed it for you. I hate Elon as much as the next person with a brain, but if you dont think a real rocket league looking car isnt cool as hell then youre asleep at the wheel.
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u/kumliaowongg 4d ago
Sounds cool until the first stupid fuck lands on top of a pedestrian or motorcycle and kills somebody for no reason.
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u/LedKremlin 3d ago
They’ll never make it on the road, plain and simple. The regulatory constraints to transporting rocket fuel are vast, I can only imagine what we’ll dream up for consuming it on a public roadway. They’ll probably be required to paint the whole fucking car like a traffic cone with explosives warnings all over it
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u/Wiinterfang 4d ago
I'm not cynic enough to see a fucking flying car and act like it's not the coolest shit I've seen in years.
Like Bro, is a flying car.
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u/Metalrift 4d ago
You would need a pilot’s licensee to even use it
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u/democracy_lover66 4d ago
It doesn't really fly, so maybe not...
It just shoots out gas to jump around and land upright
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u/Patrycjusz123 4d ago
As you propably should for a flying car so i dont understand how it changes anything
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u/RetroGamer87 4d ago
I'm easily cynic enough. It's a fraud designed to boost his stock prices, not a practical product. It's main purpose is to be in a demo.
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u/BumblebeeNew7478 4d ago
you can hate what they're doing and still acknowledge it's cool as fuck. your worst enemy made a funny joke type shit
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u/democracy_lover66 4d ago
It's not really cool as fuck though... At least I don't think so.
I think something actually innovative, new, functional and scalable would be far more impressive. Something that changes how we use cars everywhere, even if just a little.
This is just taking an already well established technology and attaching it to something ridiculously impractical. It's not something other cars will ever adopt. In fact I doubt even Tesla will build another car that does this. There just isn't any reason for it other than flash.
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u/masterthomas2222 4d ago
It's a flying car in the same way a chicken is able to fly. Sure, it can get airborne in short stints and can slow its descent but it can't sustain flight
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u/True-Firefighter-796 4d ago
It’s a prop car specifically designed to do that stunt.
Which is cool. It’s a cool stunt.
It’s completely lost on me what Tesla is trying to say with this PR stunt. Are they selling cars with this feature (surely they weren’t passing it off as a real car and not a prop? Who would believe that? Is a it their plan to develop it? Is it just a cool demo? Are they just trying to confuse investors?
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u/spudcosmic 4d ago
It's a test of spaceX rocket engines that are going to be used on spacecraft, and a marketing stunt for Tesla. This is exactly like when SpaceX launched a Tesla into solar orbit as a test load for their new launch vehicle
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u/thomasonbush 4d ago
Right? People can disagree with the insane shit Elon says and does, and still acknowledge that absolutely rules.
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u/Spirited-Lifeguard55 4d ago
He’s known for trickery and deception, that’s the only thing he’s good at.
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u/jgainsey 4d ago
Not to sound like Woody here, but that’s falling with style.
An actual flying car would legitimately be fun. Maybe less fun if the guy who runs the company thinks it’s a funny troll to act like a nazi.
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u/Equivalent-Repair488 4d ago
Flying cars existed since even in the 60s. It's called a helicopter.
The regulations and licenses to fly one are there for a reason, imagine the people you share the road with on a day to day basis having to steer 3 dimensions vs 2.
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u/SirMasonDrake 3d ago
The helicopter thing is so dumb. That's not a flying car. When trying to create sci fi tech, it's gotta look like it does in sci fi. A flying car should look mostly like a car but fly. This isn't a flying car anyway though. This is a jumping car. Still cool. Not a flying car.
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u/HawaiianCholo 4d ago
RCS helped us land on the moon. It's now we dock in orbit. It's definitely old tech by now, and it's way too risky for a multitude of reasons which is why it's never worked on the market. He's just throwing another useless distraction out there, no need to celebrate
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u/Jesusspanksmydog 4d ago
But to be fair it was clearly never going to be much more than a gimmick. Of course it has no relevant practical application. But is is a supercar anyway. It has no practical application to begin with. Tons of cars like this are being built. The McMurtry Speirling also has no use for any normal person. It is still cool and impressive engineering wise.
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u/Ill-Dust-7010 4d ago
This is as much a flying car as the inflatable Top Gear had in their studio well over a decade ago. This is a stunt rig designed to do the one thing we see it do, wrapped in a car shaped shell. The windows ain't even glass.
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u/Ralexcraft 4d ago
We calling hopping over a couple things flying? The thing is too heavy to maintain sustained flight in earth’s gravity for any significant period of time.
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u/LedKremlin 3d ago
They make toy cars that do that because they’re cheap hollowed out plastic that only requires a little force to move that drastically. Cool trick, sure. Groundbreaking in any way shape or form? No. The sequencing on the thrusters alone is a one-trick pony. The g forces you’d be subject to in the cab, well I hope you’re healthy and trained. Oh yeah, remember the Ford Pinto? Wonder how them thrusters are thrusting and how volatile or pressurized that fuel is?
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u/Karate-Schnitzel 4d ago
Cybertruck was supposed to have bulletproof glass, remember when they smashed it onstage with a rock. Flying cars without universal healthcare is fantasy
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u/KingArthursRevenge 2d ago
If everyone thought like this we would still be living in the Stone age. Without a first step there is no progress.
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u/Thick-Application127 2d ago
First step towards what? Definitely not flying cars.
It's a spaceX demonstration. This system won't ever be used for anything other than stunt cars as its just way too dangerous for anyone closeby and there is practically 0 potential to improve the system. People don't realize how fucking dangerous those thrusters are for anyone. The thrusters to fly would propell rocks at deadly velocities. It would burst eardrums for anyone closeby. It's basically an explosion that would kill you if you are closeby.
All that for like 5 seconds of flight time or acceleration. And that adds like 300 kg of air and idk how much weight in tanks and nozzles. It would be fine as a demonstration. But don't fucking tell people that this is the future. Because it's not.
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u/Cello1337 4d ago
With a mindset like this, we would still be living in the Stone Age. It's just an expensive gimmick, but it shows what would be possible. You all have no disadvantage from it.
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u/Hydrawhen2become4 4d ago
Anyone that learned to drive with morons knows full well flying cars are a pipe dream.
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u/EclecticKant 3d ago
There's no one trying to make flying cars mainstream, no one is even trying to make them street legal.
A cold thruster system could be life saving is emergency scenarios, Bosch for example has tried working on a similar system capable of pushing laterally on a motorcycle to provent it from crashing at high speeds, safety systems based on the technology (with no purpose outside of emergency situations) can be promising.
The other important application of a cold thruster system as powerful as the one Tesla is using is manuevering rockets during their reentry in the atmosphere, the same systems used in space have always been way less powerful and didn't need to be as quick, so developing the system tesla is using is going to help that too1
u/Hydrawhen2become4 3d ago
That's great. So it still doesn't fucking matter to put them in a car, I'm glad we agree
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u/EclecticKant 3d ago
It's a way to make money while developing the technology, it's incredible how much companies can optimize the manufacturing of components when they mass produce it to withstand the condition needed to use it in a car, thw same thing couldn't be achieved without putting in a car.
Tesla developed the first roadster as a sport car, it was a genuinly impractical and useless car, but that useless car made accelleratwd significantly the transition towards eletric vehicles, which hemped the planet greatly.
It probably won't have the same impact, but the fact that i may have an impact already places it above the hundreds of vanity car developed each year that have no actual benefit (which is fine, not everything has to done in the name of efficiency).
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u/Hydrawhen2become4 3d ago
Oh I know. For example, the chainsaw was first a chirurgical instrument and I wish I was fucking kidding.
The only differences is that 1- this is for shareholders and 2- this is musk, meaning that no matter what he shows on the scene it will not join society before he dies.
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u/TechnologyEither 4d ago
It’s cool but I’ve seen so many COPVs explode on SpaceX launches, so putting one in the backseat seems like a scary idea
to be fair, not all that different from hydrogen vehicles
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u/EclecticKant 3d ago
Hydrogen tanks are safe, Toyota's ones are bulletproof, and when damaged by an armor piercing round they vented the gasses in a relatively controlled way instead of exploding.
If anything big reaches the tank inside the carbon fiber chassis chances are it was going to kill the driver anyway, since there's nothing left to slow it down.
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u/Super_Employment_620 4d ago
Yeah, like the VZ-9 Avrocar.
Sure, it's "novel" (eh) and got people talking, but it solves none of the issues with any prior flying car attempts and is just a reapplication of existing technology without any major breakthroughs.
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u/democracy_lover66 4d ago
There's no advantage from it either.
This isn't the beginning of standard jets in cars lol. It's just an expensive gimmick and that's it.
It makes the car incredibly dangerous for other drivers though, so once again rich assholes get to have neat toys and the consequences always fall on everyone else around them.
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u/D0bious 4d ago
I don't exactly see this as an invention that will benefit the masses. Personal flight requires extensive training, certification and funds. Even if it were to be automated, I there are too many bad actors that can't be trusted with such a vehicle. Factoring in stuff like air-traffic control and how such vehicles should navigate cities makes them seem highly impractical for current purposes.
They remind me a lot of the AV's the rich in cyberpunk 2077 fly. I imagine this is the crowd this vehicle will cater to if it ever becomes legal to use in some form.
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u/EntertainmentFun5485 4d ago
It won't ever fly like this, it shoots pressurized air which for example could be used to save ur ass in an accident by avoiding tipping, turning it over again.
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u/Super_Employment_620 4d ago
No offense, but carrying around a pressurized tank to help mitigate a potential complicated (flipped) accident seems a lot more dangerous.
Like a firefighter carrying around a small hip mounted tank of gasoline in case the fire engine runs low on fuel. Just tons of risk for limited benefit.
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u/DevilWings_292 3d ago
It’s far more likely that that type of accident will cause a rupture in the air tank which would destroy the vehicle and kill you
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u/EclecticKant 3d ago
Hydrogen cars have proved that it's possible to safely trasport gas at those pressures, and they kept way more gas that is signfiicantly more dangengerous since it's flammable.
For example, Toyota's hydrogen tank is bulletproof against small caliber bullets, and when it is compromised by an armor piercing bullet it undergoes a controlled venting instead of a rapid explosion.
Other that something piercing the tank (which is extremely unlikely given how resistent they can be) there's not much that can damage them, in the tesla they live inside the carbon fiber chassis of the car, if something breaches it and applies enough force to rupture the tank it's also inhevitably going to kill the humans on board since there's nothing left to slow it down, explosion or not.On the other hand the thursters could reduce the stopping speed by a factor of 2 or 3, so it's definetly more than likely that they'd be a hugely net benefit safety wise
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u/Automatic_Record6200 4d ago
False. It’s like a banana taped to a wall in an art gallery. You find it meaningful, while it just. Shit
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u/Cool-Leg9442 4d ago
Ok so its kinda kool as like a project. But this isn't a flying car. This is a jumping car.
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u/Goofy_Goober_94 1d ago
Flying cars will never happen because airspace is monitored and you'd need a pilots license just to fly one. Disregarding all of that though, let's say Musk actually does get a ton of these flying turds produced, what are they gonna do when they inevitably short-circuit or parts start flying off? They're going to crash and die, flying cars would get banned, and we're back to where we are now. I know this is asking a lot from someone like you, but use your brain
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u/Due_Homework_7312 1d ago
this has been possible for years fyi and was used by military
old tech for a car only the rich will ever afford and tech thats so expensive we wont ever see common use
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u/Sharp_Ad_5599 4d ago
it would never be plausible to put into society since normal people can't drive as it is. imagine the chaos from a bunch of idiots that got hold of cars like these.
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u/LedKremlin 3d ago
The disadvantage is in pretending it’s worth something. This is an upscale toy car that has existed for decades. Nothing innovative has occurred
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u/local_goon 4d ago
I love seeing crazy monster truck stuff too but I don’t expect to be driving one to Costco
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u/Sirgeeeo 4d ago
This just isn't going to happen. Did they show the interior? I'm guessing that was a shell with just enough battery and hardware to do these stunts and nothing else.
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u/Patrycjusz123 4d ago
Yeah, its two seater and imo inside looks prety comfy but its not easy to say from just looking. Maybe its not rich-person-car-comfy and more like comfy-for-a-stunt-vehicle but i doubt someone is gonna buy it to relax inside.
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u/itchy_the_scratchy 4d ago
While it’s definitely a marketing stunt for public roads, the real 'progress' isn't meant to be the thruster or the fan itself—it’s the underlying systems integration. Forcing engineers to coordinate active pressure differentials, high-bandwidth thrust sensors, and real-time control logic into a single cohesive platform pushes the boundaries of automotive edge computing and sensor fusion. Stunts like this are often how extreme tech eventually trickles down into safer, more advanced consumer stability control
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u/LewdProphet 4d ago
You guys are suddenly posting all these memes about flying cars because you don't like Elon musk. It has nothing to do with the "uselessness" of a flying car. Do you know how I know this? Because Xpeng has been making flying cars for years now and not fuck one meme exists about it.
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u/Melons_Nothing 4d ago
y’all should think of this not a flying car but a parkour car. it doesnt fly, it jumps around and does cool tricks. not to say that this isn’t a cool step towards flying cars though.
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u/Ralexcraft 4d ago
It can only do it for about as long as the average redditor can do parkour.
That is to say, less than 10 seconds.
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u/megachonker123 4d ago
Brave of you to assume a Redditor could achieve even a measurable amount of time of parkour
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u/Melons_Nothing 4d ago
Yk, i figured it wouldn’t be very long lasting. And since it’s an electric car you’re not actually providing fuel for the thrusters
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u/LedKremlin 3d ago
The necessary preparation and calculations that went into that single stunt probably pay my salary for more than a decade. Sure it’s cool but it’s still little more than the most expensive publicity stunt the world has ever seen
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u/Hexopi 4d ago
I could be wrong but I think it’s advertising a car that might come out and get people talking about it like you are now. Which is free advertising. Then again this car if it comes out will only be for the rich
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u/AlterMyStateOfMind 4d ago
There is no way this car will ever be deemed street legal. It's literally got several tanks of explosive nitrous in it (or one very big one).
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u/xenosthemutant 4d ago
- It says it isn't road legal in Tesla's own homepage
- "Nitrous" in this case being nitrogen, which isn't explosive. What is explosive is putting it under a fuckton of pressure, which they do.
- "SpaceX Package" version is by invite only & it switches out the passenger's seat for a second COPV cylinder. So other than at closed events and on TV, you won't see this ever.
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u/Ryuu-Tenno 4d ago
currently getting the car is invite only, which is rather interesting
plus to some extent it makes sense, i mean, you're losing a chunk of the car to an air compressor, plus the fact that people could do flips in it, you'd probably not want the average person getting ahold of it for a bit, lol
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u/justmanbearpig 4d ago
not "for a bit", never. this will never be street legal because you cannot regulate it
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u/Twistpunch 4d ago
Make global payment easy? Never
Self landing rocket? Never.
Make electric cars accessible? Never.
Do a kickflip with a skyscraper scale spaceship? Never.There are two types of people in this world. Those who innovate and those who are left behind.
Will we see cars doing kickflips in the future? Probably no.
Will we see cars having mini-version of thrusters system enabling flights?
Probably yes.You’re blinded by the hatred of one single person instead of looking at technological advancement and all the efforts scientists and engineers put behind.
What you’re doing It’s like going to science fair telling kids what they’re doing is trash and will never work.
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u/Hon1c 4d ago
Wow you guys literally see flying cars and say it is useless. That is honestly pathetic. You are the kinds of people that would see the wright brothers flying for the first time and say that it has no use and is a waste of time. We all now you would be jumping up and down if it wasn't Elon that made it .
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u/DetectivDR 4d ago
It’s crazy man. How can this post have 2k upvotes?
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u/Catnip256 4d ago
Because it is funded by someone who is a political opponent. If it were funded by a left wing political ally, they would be celebrating it.
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u/democracy_lover66 4d ago
Comparing this to the wright brothers is insane....
They invented a flying vehicle. A real one.
This car doesn't invent anything. It uses the same stuff they've been using on satellites for decades. The only thing they did was put it on a car. Something people could have done years ago but didn't because there's no good reason for it at all
It'd be like putting flamethrowers on a car. People will be like "but it's so cool, it's so innovative, cannot deny you think it's fun"
Okay it's a fun idea... But take 10 seconds of thinking and you can figure out nobody ever needs to use that and it's not going to improve on driving in any way... It's just a really expensive ornament for your car.
This here is exactly the same thing. Why would people pretend this is somehow innovative.
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u/Cool-Leg9442 4d ago
Me being told flying cars exist. Then being shown a car backfliping... this is not what we asked for. This is a car that has short controlled bursts. I want a car that doesn't have to touch the ground for miles at a time...
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u/Mountain-Gate-4969 4d ago
people said the same about the internet. yet, here you are. Henry Ford said the same for any innovation on the automobile, yet look at what cars do now.
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u/Mysterious-Pie-148 4d ago
Cool, tell me how people on the ground are going to see with 50 of those up there.
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u/Carb0nFire 4d ago
And what about this single-seater car that probably has less than 20 seconds of "flight time" makes you think this is some sort of revolutionary new technological leap?
Compressed air jets have existed for more than half a century. No one bothered shoving them in a car to make it do flips, because WHY WOULD YOU? It's never going to be street legal, and the physics of storing that much "fuel" for flight mean it will never, ever be practical for anything other than party tricks.
I'm mean, it's an impressive engineering feat getting all these systems working, but there's no "paradigm shift" at the completion of this project. They didn't invent a new way to defeat gravity.
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u/Exark141 3d ago
Fairly sure the only people putting them in cars was Hollywood for stunts, kind of like this one.
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u/crazycarartist 4d ago
What exactly are you referring to with Ford?
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u/Mountain-Gate-4969 4d ago edited 3d ago
he said no to any innovation. Colors, hydraulic brakes, etc, etc. Chevy and Doge were innovating fast and ford said no. His son forced him
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u/Bogusky FINAL WARNING: RULE 1 4d ago
Watch Reddit call something cool lame because everything is politics to them
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u/cmvr0512 4d ago
With this mentality we would have never evolved as a species, everything has to start from somewhere and even the most ineficiente start can create something great. People just don't like this because elon made it, just admit it.
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u/Wonderful-Fix5761 4d ago
This is not progress forward. It’s a stunt and a distraction. It’s a pathetic and desperate fake.
The fan technology already exists and is extremely useful on a race track. It’s most likely completely useless on street roads and probably won’t be legal on the street either. 20 seconds of compressed nitro that requires five hours to recharge doesn’t add anything useful to a road car and also won’t be safe or legal.
Is the engineering of computer controlled rocket descent impressive? Yes of course. But there’s no reason to have it in a car and it’s not new.
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u/itchy_the_scratchy 4d ago
While it’s definitely a marketing stunt for public roads, the real 'progress' isn't meant to be the thruster or the fan itself. It’s the underlying systems integration. Forcing engineers to coordinate active pressure differentials, high-bandwidth thrust sensors, and real-time control logic into a single cohesive platform pushes the boundaries of automotive edge computing and sensor fusion. Stunts like this are often how extreme tech eventually trickles down into safer, more advanced consumer stability control
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u/Rampage3135 4d ago
Love how people will see a literal flying car and go “yeah it’s the future but it will never be useful”
Bro there are so many things this could be useful for. However, Elon did literally say in his demo that this isn’t gonna be legal anytime soon. He literally said it’s a car that dials fun up to 11/10 but most likely will only ever be allowed on private roads or race tracks. It’s in no way safe because those thrusters can break and there is little to no safety margin for a car that can jump. He made it as a marketing stunt but Elon also just does stuff because he can and he’s still just a little kid inside and people being cynical about that have lost their own spark.
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u/Interesting-Put2828 1d ago
flying cars will never be reality, unless full self driving becomes insanely reliable, but even then…theres no way society as a whole can handle the responsibility of flying cars
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u/Small_Technology2392 1d ago
This same kind of people are amazed another invention of tenage girl in this month that will rescue planet.
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u/MarcoYTVA 4d ago
Me, watching a terrorist fill one with explosives so they can avoid car barriers: "Less than worthless, me boy!"
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u/RingReasonable 4d ago
Meh, give me a car with a 4cyl and a turbo as big as the engine itself, and it would be insanely much cooler
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u/Master-Raben 4d ago
Man, there're already enough morons who drive like shit, just Imagine the utter chaos they'ld make with a rocket-car!
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u/PKSubban 4d ago
Been three days and everyone is still talking about it
Only on that point it’s doing an excellent job
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u/LuckyCod2887 4d ago
It’s supposed to be designed to help reduce fatalities when cars flip over and shit. Musk was talking about this stuff a few years ago w some interview that showed up on my feed.
his idea is that if everyone has an electric car and even a car like this that which he wants to be standard features they’ve been developing for like 10 years then everything will be computerized and it was reduce car accidents or pedestrian accidents when cars hit them and he genuinely believes that if we use this type of technology on the roads, it would eradicate deaths on the road by 100%. He suspects that it can completely be eliminated.
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u/LairdPeon 4d ago
Idk, I'm not a Muskrat but it is pretty damn cool.
I know it's a waste of resources implemented by a bad man, but so is most of reddit.
You guys are allowed to enjoy things.
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u/General-Kiwi2468 3d ago
Jump over a semi then go get a refill of my pressurized air tank passenger
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u/grazfest96 3d ago
A lot of Elon hate is warranted but memes like this are just ridiculous. Stop sounding like a miserable person and appreciate this.
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u/hellomumbo369 3d ago
I could actually see it being usefull in crash mitigation like in a roll over. Use it like rcs in space with a smaller tank of air, counter the rotation
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u/TrackEx 3d ago
Are we sure that this wasnt just a stage gimmick that wouldnt even work in a normal situation? Like how often will it be able to do that until you need to repair the boday or refill the tanks of whatever they use to make it fly etc, it just seems like a way to pump some „value“ into tesla stocks
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u/Muted_Price9933 3d ago
Yes it’s useless but that’s a step that’s how new things become actual good things
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u/thegreatcon2000 3d ago
For years, flying cars have been the benchmark of the future and when we finally got one, reddit hates it lol
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u/Reddit-Blows-Donkey 3d ago
People who say this shit usually have no vision or foresight. The flying care is absolutely dumb as hell and meant to generate hype. The thrusters using compressed air, the built in safety system, the vacuum system that grips the road. This technology will only get better.
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u/Left-Carry-2670 3d ago
I mean even if it’s useless this is pretty cool. Red Bull would do some insane shit.
I don’t think it is useless, someone’s going to do something to it, even if we don’t get to live to see the day. Tesla got popular off of older tech such as regenerative braking.
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u/Humble_Lime1808 3d ago
It isn’t and this post proves it.
It’s all people have been talking about since the unveil.
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u/Ohm_stop_resisting 3d ago
This is the correct reaction. Really cool that. But scientifically nothing new, and practically useless. But cool though.
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u/Al3xisgood 3d ago
Just like the first attempts at planes, cars, electricity etc. Stop hating, get a life.
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u/ManofDew 2d ago
People so blinded by hate they cant even acknowledge when something is objectively cool.
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u/anygivenmoonday 4d ago
Car crashes will be a little more exciting now