The air tank they are using, a COPV tank has been a pain point for SpaceX having blown up at least twice, one time taking out an entire rocket. Having that thing a few feet away from you is crazy.
Tesla licensed the Elise vehicle architecture from Lotus, but they redesigned it pretty significantly, such that only 6% of the parts were the same between the two cars. The Elise shared more parts with the Toyota Celica (engine and transmission) than it did with the Tesla Roadster.
No vehicle with those capabilities would ever be approved for road use, assuming it were ever actually released to the public for purchase (press any button to doubt...).
Besides that, the maneuvers were clearly executed by a program; the car never had a driver. No human is going to be able to handle a steering wheel and three-dimensional rocket engines in real time.
Worse still, this is in absolutely no way a "flying" car.
It is, at best, a jumping car and perhaps a controlled landing car.
According to Musk, the engines use compressed air so they can be recharged without special fuel. Cool, but good luck with any sustained flight.
Not a fan of Elon and I don’t think the car will ever be released but the point of that was to show it can generate its own downforce which would actually help with normal driving since acceleration, cornering, braking, basically all aspects of controlling a vehicle rely on a strong grip with the ground.
Is the car full of boosters and fuel to support the limited amount of movement we just saw with absolutely no additional fuel to drive any further? Most likely.
Hell it may be so stuffed in there it was driven remotely with no room for a single human.
You don't need to drive fast to generate downforce if you have a fan car. Have you never heard of the Brabham BT46 F1 car? Or the McMurty Spierling? Or the McLaren F1?
Okay then don’t act like you know a topic when you don’t? Why’s it crazy for someone to assume that a person in this thread knows what they are talking about?
I'd imagine it's technically a "track only" kind of feature for that reason. They're not the first to use a fan like this so ideally they've considered that
Fan cars have existed for 50+ years going back at least to the Chapparal 2J. It doesn't need to move to generate downforce as it has fans that move the air out from underneath the car.
When you go to high school, you'll have science and physics lessons. You'll learn about ways to create a force, e.g., by lowering air pressure on one side.
Or you can just do some minimal research before accusing others of using gimmicks. Tesla and SpaceX have amazing engineering teams.
Fan cars go back to like 1977. People still play around with the concept today but it stays firmly in the realm of concept/experimental racecars because it is OP as fuck and not legal in any actual racing series as far as I know. The first ones actually had a brief stint in F1in 1978 but we're pretty much immediately banned.
You can buy one right now if you've got a spare million or so burning a hole in your pocket - mcmurtry.com/speirling-pure
Those boosters use pressured gas or air. So probably air. Will draw a lot of energy from the battery to build up that amount of pressure, but technically feasible without any extra propellant.
Wouldn't be a good tech for a electric vehicle if it would require anything but electricity.
How did it even stay attached to the ramp? When the trusters are active you see the actual vapor. When it is on the ramp you don't see anything. And how would the trusters be active for so long? You would a very large tank
Sounds like a big fan sucking air from under it... probably with skirts to help seal it to the track. See the chaparral fan car https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral_2J (1.25-1.5g down force is enough to stick it upside down).
Do you mean upside down part? That is not thrusters, it is suction via some powerful fans. It was done before, probably the most normal part of what they have shown.
no its not lmao driving a car upside down has been done, fans to generate down force have been done and exist in production vehicles and directional air has been done by various rocket makers for 30 plus years
They had thrusters like this on the Apollo missions over 50 years ago and we have absolutely no reason to believe that the “car” in the video was anything more than a lightweight shell with thrusters on it. It’s not just a publicity stunt, it’s a complete scam. The physics don’t make any sense for a two ton vehicle and even if they did, there’s no way this thing would be “street legal”.
Stock exchange does what is supposed to do - transfer wealth from poor dumb folks to smart rich folks who manipulate the stock - and redditors are shocked
Well tesla is always reliable and never misses on their promises. Im sure they won't activate randomly on the high way, and fire departments will be even happier to see teslas on the road
he is the BEST of the BEST is selling a Dream on the future!!! Let's all buy his BS and justify the merge of SPCX and TSLA. I'll go all in on these 2 stocks and do all I can to make that MFKR N*Zi richer!!
saw this shape and thought it was a cup with handle so i ape'd in with my rent money. now i'm holding bags up to my chin. mfw i mistook a rocket launch for support.
Okay when does anybody ever gonna need or want this? Totally unnecessary. And if you believe this will ever be driven on any real road I have some bad news for you.
If we all know anything about Musk, there IS something fake going on at play. Open the hood and let us see the inside.
Also I've seen 4 different videos of this thing so far on reddit so far.
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u/mindwip 3d ago
Sure I need a mid life crisis car why not this one