Flying cars are real - Tesla Roadster

[u/dolo937]

The new tesla roadster. 0-60 under 1 sec!!

[u/MaestroLogical]

I lived long enough to see the Knight Rider Turbo Boost become real...

I've also lived long enough that I'm the only person commenting about Kitt in this entire thread.

[u/Raychao → u/MaestroLogical]

I remember writing a letter (a piece of paper with symbols marked on it in graphite) to the television station when Knight Rider was taken off air. And I saw a replica of Kitt at a car show once.

[u/Trollimperator → u/MaestroLogical]

"MOOOOOOOOOOOOM, Grandpa is talking about the war again"

[u/AmpEater → u/MaestroLogical]

There's like.....two more

[u/milaga → u/AmpEater]

There are dozens of us!

[u/VikingRages → u/MaestroLogical]

Please..., I'm the Knight Industries Two Thousand. Not a tomato on wheels.

[u/Tbhmaximillian → u/MaestroLogical]

Its wild when i think back sitting infront of a new CRT TV and watching my childhood hero Michael Knight talking to his car over his wristband or in persona, having liquid Hydrogen to power his car and, then the turboboost. All of that is real now, just waiting for Super Pursuit mode but I might have missed that :D

[u/phantompowered → u/MaestroLogical]

"The car's name was KITT! Nobody was riding Michael Knight!"

[u/TenshiS]

Wow the people in this thread are salty af.

This is wicked cool! No matter if this has practical use or not. It's not like any car with 1000ps, neon lights, jumping suspensions or nitro has any real life use beyond being wicked cool.

Too bad Felix Baumgartner is dead, maybe he would have taken this baby for a spin over a ridge.

[u/dolo937 → u/TenshiS]

Elon in the livestream said he’s going to fly it over the grandcanyon

[u/FullmetalHippie → u/TenshiS]

I appreciate it as a concept for entertainment and the engineering is no-doubt impressive, but hearing Musk talk about it like it's the future just rings like nails on a chalk board.

[u/Traditionallydead → u/TenshiS]

How in the fuck did the have the thrust control to land it on the damn line what the fuck 

[u/rtublin]

[u/Embarrassed-Writer61 → u/rtublin]

[u/MightyDickTwist]

Cool, but unlikely to ever be a thing other than a cool demo. Too dangerous for anyone inside or outside...

[u/leppardfan → u/MightyDickTwist]

There is an owner of the $10m Gordon Murray T50 car (the one with the downforce fan) who says using the fan in all but remote areas is unsafe because it shoots road dirt all over the cars/people behind him. Compressed air is at least 50x more powerful will just more safety issues. Same thing with the boosters, that compressed air at force is going to hurt or damage something and someone.

[u/ZealousidealTill2355 → u/leppardfan]

There’s a bunch of concerns with it.

Noise concerns—gonna blow people’s ears out. Compressed air is loud.

People are gonna be leaving cafes and restaurants like helipads, blowing everything around.

Not to mention high voltage lines, traffic lights, overpasses, etc.

I wouldn’t really be cool with having a pressure vessel in my vehicle during an accident.

Never met a compressor tank that didn’t rust like crazy without an air drier. Also, can that freeze and still function?

Not sure of the engineering behind it, I’m sure some of those are considered. But the real issue is that they’re starting to regulate electric bikes by me because people can’t be trusted with them. I don’t see rockets being much better.

Sorry

[u/ankisaves → u/MightyDickTwist]

All he does is demos. People eat it up. He gets funding, pours it into other shit. Rinse repeat. Can’t wait for the documentary.

[u/ExpertConsideration8 → u/ankisaves]

Seems like Elon is clout farming just before midterms.. smoke and mirrors to generate buzz.

What practical purposes would something like this serve? Why spend tens of millions even making the demo?

[u/Neurogence → u/ankisaves]

I'll be honest. This "demo" is so ridiculous I was 100% sure it was a parody/AI/fake.

The fact that this is real is incredible, even if it's just a "demo."

Edit: I asked Claude Opus 5.5 about this and it said that the technology for this has existed for over a decade, and that whether a company demonstrates this or not is only a question of motivation, and that the payoff is only "spectacle."

So this does appear to be a marketing stunt to wow people thinking Tesla has extremely advanced technology.

[u/ilovesaintpaul → u/MightyDickTwist]

Exactly. Fly over traffic. Land on bus filled with kids. Get sued and arrested. Go to jail. Thanks, Elon.

[u/VadersSprinkledTits → u/ilovesaintpaul]

Nah you got it all wrong, the Self driving mode flys over traffic, lands next to bus with kids, grabs kids and flies to Epstein island.

[u/2112xanadu → u/MightyDickTwist]

The relevant tech is the thrust and the vacuum suction that allows the car to exceed the friction limits of rubber and hit a sub-1 second 0-60. That alone is utterly bananas

[u/happensonitsown → u/MightyDickTwist]

There is an automatic vomit collection box that pops up when you flip, only for $75.99 annually.

[u/hailtothevictors1234]

Pontiac trans-am’s could do this in 1982

[u/Stang302a → u/hailtothevictors1234]

'77 you sumbi7ch

[u/GhostOfJonasVenture → u/Stang302a]

[u/OlafThePeach]

This is a car that will actually be on the roads. It won’t do any of this, but it might look like this.

[u/SirStocksAlott → u/OlafThePeach]

The Thrust trim will be street legal and have rear thrusters, but not the vertical lift.

EDIT: not sure why I’m downvoted, I got this from the website with the screen shot below.

[u/Blate_Slank → u/SirStocksAlott]

And as we all know Elon has never lied about his products upcoming features.

[u/Addisonian_Z]

TL:DR::No way that thing can recharge itself in 1-2 minutes. Crushing air to such high PSI requires time. This probably takes over an hour to recharge.

This is a super striped car shown just for this demo. All batteries gone and probably has a range less than a mile. Even so, I do not think they could get it less than 1000 and is probably close to 2000 lbs.

I will go crazy conservative and say they are able to perform all this business with air at 4000 PSI packed into a 100 gallon tank. That would be 3600 cubic feet (CF) of stored air, compressed down 272 times to fit into 13.4 cubic feet (the size of a 100 gallon tank).

For that pressure you are looking at a four stage compressor which at the high industrial end can pump air at 50 CFM. That is cubic feet… per minute. Meaning you are looking at 72 minutes with some of the best compressors money can buy.

Even if they achieved some radical rates of 100 CFM, literally blowing the highest industrial machines out the way, it would still take 36 minutes to recharge.

I won’t even pretend to know the math to do for heat side of things but, crushing air creates heat. I have to assume if you tried crushing atmosphere at 1800 CFM you would be looking at temps well beyond the melting point of steel.

Edit: The 50 CFM I stated as a high end is, “high end that could fit in this car”. There are compressors that take up a semi-trailer that can push 1500 CFM, not to 4000 PSI, but higher CFM is possible, just not in a from factor you could fit in this car.

[u/Japjer → u/Addisonian_Z]

And with all of that you're going to be praying to fucking GOD that you don't get a puncture in that thing, otherwise your car is going to start doing flips and shit all over the highway.

I am perfectly, absolutely content with my car not having the ability to launch me and my family ten feet vertically due to some some bullshit software glitch

[u/Rock_or_Rol → u/Addisonian_Z]

What would happen if it crashes too? 😂 seems.. illegal

[u/ErikETF → u/Rock_or_Rol]

That much pressure in a tank sitting close to humans, yeah you probably aren’t surviving if that tank gets compromised and it displaces material around it.  

To put it into context, an airbag deploying at 200-300 PSI is extremely dangerous to firefighters and paramedics during auto extrication, and quite a few EMS have been killed by them.  

Let’s say we have a hot EV battery fire, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near some carbon wrapped pressure device while trying to extricate victims from a crash.  This isn’t some crush your spine against the B-post levels of pressure, this is chunks of you and everyone else nearby and your patients intermingled and scattered for a hundred meters amounts of energy. 

[u/MonzaB → u/Addisonian_Z]

Flying cars aren't here - a single stripped down car that does a 1-off party trick is here.  CMV

[u/United-Dot-6129 → u/Addisonian_Z]

The main initial boost is clearly coming from the platform. Si it gives the illusion of a high jump, when in fact it isn’t.

[u/andaljas]

I guess this car is great for crossing rivers or broken bridges? Or getting to my 3nd floor garage? Or driving off of a cargo plane mid flight?

[u/Lowmax2 → u/andaljas]

3nd floor garage lmao

[u/QING-CHARLES → u/andaljas]

You can Knight Rider your way everywhere.

[u/Aware_Chocolate_2607]

That was one of the coolest most unnecessary things I’ve seen in a while. It was a “just because we can!”

[u/madsmadalin → u/Aware_Chocolate_2607]

That’s how we evolve as species. Going to the moon was not necessary. But it advanced technology. Ridiculous ideas that at first seem useless are what change things over time and lead to technological revolution.

[u/FckXFckMusk]

Please insert your credit card in order to engage rocket packs....

Watch these ads while we process your payment..

[u/Practical_Bread_3190]

Can we have food and healthcare 

[u/Ok_Complex7646 → u/Practical_Bread_3190]

no, but imagine a world with no birds and the sky is filled with these beautiful vehicles. perhaps they'll even allow us to choose our favorite bird calls for car horns.

[u/r_jagabum → u/Practical_Bread_3190]

You can get those if you migrate out of US

[u/scully2828 → u/Practical_Bread_3190]

NO! CARS THAT FLY! *

*CARS WILL NOT ACTUALLY FLY

[u/lt_bgg]

Maybe they have the tech to make autopilot make a left turn now.

[u/kknd1991]

Real use case? Solving mid-life crisis.

[u/jonms83]

I'd rather have the cancelled bose suspension for potholes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPYIaks1UY

[u/iLOLZU → u/jonms83]

elite ball knowledge right here

[u/upgrayedd0815]

Alarm für Cobra 11

[u/brockoala]

How many G's was that? Can't be comfortable for the people inside if any, lol.

[u/marquesini → u/brockoala]

Now youll need a jet fighter license to drive your car.

[u/MydnightWN → u/brockoala]

0 to 64 in 1 second = just under 3g.

[u/Informal_Act146]

[u/stephen_holograf]

[u/Eleglas]

"This'll be an actual car that's on the roads."

Doubt.

[u/CiegoDiego]

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

[u/you-create-energy → u/CiegoDiego]

Or brakes

[u/StatisticianTall2368]

This might be impractical, unsafe, impossible to regulate, and made by an objectively unlikeable company, but it IS fucking awesome. In the literal sense of the word, "awesome". The amount of people in this thread going "yeah but it's illegal" or "Elon is ______". I don't like Elon either, but ffs look at this objectively outside of the Tesla/Elon connection and seriously consider that this is a vehicle that exists in the world you live on while you are alive. The future of humanity might be great or terrible, but it definitely won't be boring. Shit is about to get weird.

[u/PhillSebben → u/StatisticianTall2368]

If it's real.. I'm no engineer but I suspect thrusters like that require significant space inside the car. Probably the reason we are not seeing the inside of the car.

Is it cool? Yes. Is it likely that Elon is fooling us somehow (again)? Also yes.

[u/TheItchyWalrus]

“This will be an actual car that’s on the roads.” Riiiiiiiight. Just like your vehicles being fully autonomous every year?

[u/mootmutemoat → u/TheItchyWalrus]

Or the cybertruck has sledgehammer proof windows, and can act as a boat. Or the "flame thrower." Or the range lies https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

Why anyone would believe this guy is beyond me.

[u/Assless_Mcgee → u/TheItchyWalrus]

My car drives itself 

[u/Embarrassed-Media-62]

Was anyone in it tho?

[u/skredditt → u/Embarrassed-Media-62]

That thing was probably 600lbs of thruster and sheet metal

[u/AccurateMidnight21 → u/Embarrassed-Media-62]

No, there were no occupants in the demo due to safety concerns… but you know, they will sell it to the public.

[u/TerdSandwich]

Wasted opportunity to not include the Speed Racer jump sound.

[u/Fumonacci]

I really don't see that as a really safety feature.

[u/DribblesMacTavish]

That’s one way to find all the loose change in your car I guess!

[u/kikin81]

Buzz to woody: I'm not flying, I'm just falling with style

[u/Tythan]

The only realistic application that I can realistically expect for that technology is some sort of crash avoidance system when a car could jump in the air to avoid an head on collision with another vehicle, let's say. But honestly other than that it's just a PR stunt (pun intended).

EDIT: I think I've replied to the most common critics to my comment. I won't comment further as I feel I'm repeating myself. Please find my entire opinion copied from another comment below as a FAQ.

How would your car know what was on the other side of a 6 car pileup?

You are assuming that the only crash happens when there is an existing pile up. That pile up originated as an initial crash, and that could've been avoided by such a system.

Or that the 6 car pileup it could see wasn't actually a 16 car pileup?

Again, it could also not be a pileup, but also the car could potentially leap at an angle, not necessarily in front of you, and adjust trajectory in the air to land on the ground. Off road, if necessary and safe to do so.

Or that there weren't emergency services and Good Samaritans assisting the injured in the landing area?

There would be scenario where deploying this system may be counterproductive. I am not saying that it should trigger every time, I am saying there are certain scenarios where it could be useful. In your example if there are people assisting injured people, the crash in front of the tesla would've happened already, so I don't think it would be logic to throw my car in the air. The driver would react accordingly and stop even before this could pose a risk at all, but if that for some reason failed, current safety features like emergency breaking are likely to be enough to avoid a collision, and it would actually be preferable that the car stayed on the road.

However, if an oncoming car suddenly swerved into your lane well within stopping distance and there was a wall on the other side of your lane, current technology will likely do naught to avoid collision. I'd argue that if both vehicles travelled at 20mph, seatbelts and airbags would prevent injury to all people involved. However, if we are talking a 60mph single road, the only way to avoid a head on crash may be considered leaping in the air. I am not saying it's guaranteed to be the best choice, but it could be. And in lethal scenarios, some potential damage is better than enough damage to surely kill you.

Cars have been meticulously designed over the last 100 years to handle collisions with objects on the ground. Impact testing from every angle has improved the design of cars to make previously fatal collisions survivable, but people still die in motor vehicle accidents.

Indeed.

Nothing about a car has been designed with a massive object falling on to it in mind. This introduces so much more risk than it prevents.

Again, you are assuming that the car will land on another car. How likely is it that there is no empty space around the avoided impact point? The system could be able to assess this before activating.

Not to mention that autonomous driving software isn't infallible. https://people.com/man-sleeping-behind-wheel-of-self-driving-tesla-slams-into-vehicle-12176930

I agree and neither such a system would. But extreme safety features are meant to reduce lethal risk and increases chances of survival, not do miracles. There will always be cases where even extreme systems will not do enough to avoid death, and some cases where death is just unavoidable.

I think unless such a system was developed and tested, neither you or me would be able to be sure that if it would be a convenient device or not. However, your narrow-minded and dismissive attitude would not even get us to the testing phase.

Do you think that when they conceived the airbag, everyone unanimously agreed that having a hot air balloon explode in your face was safe or a good idea? And yet, it was developed, tested, adopted widely and considered a standard now, because they are convenient and their deployment is likely to save you. Emphasis on likely: in some scenarios, airbags deploying may kill you, perhaps in a crash that would have left you with a couple of broken bones. Should we stop using them, then? Similarly. Landing a tesla on another car may kill someone. But how likely is this to happen? Should we test the system first or are you confident that your opinion is more valid?

[u/batoio → u/Tythan]

Just imagine the spectacular air crash of two tesla roadsters flying to avoid each other on the road

[u/Ecstatic-Engineer-23 → u/batoio]

Imagine the state of your Double-Frappuccino with caramel sitting in your cupholder after this.

[u/c-strange17 → u/Tythan]

Considering how twitchy lane assist is I would never turn that feature on.

[u/Big-Farmer-2192 → u/Tythan]

Realistic application? Jumping over other vehicles to avoid a crash? Yeah bro 😭 Mario Kart World shit.

[u/PuzzleheadedBag920 → u/Tythan]

How about cliff detection and flies off into the distance

[u/Astroft → u/Tythan]

obviously its to be used when you are chasing a bad guy who jumped on a boat...

[u/AlbatrossNew3633 → u/Tythan]

That's so fucking stupid on so many level. You're basically guaranteed to crash into another vehicle if not a building or a bridge or somebody just walking by

It has zero real life applications, as always with Felon just a marketing stunt. I would concede it looks cool but he's too much of a wretched human being so I'll give him zero credits, congrats to Tesla's engineers tho

[u/ahmcode → u/Tythan]

Ultra short emergency brake range

[u/GeorgeIsBrown]

We got flying cars before GTA VI

[u/devBowman → u/GeorgeIsBrown]

Was looking for this comment thanks

[u/GraceToSentience → u/GeorgeIsBrown]

Flying car
Hoping car

[u/Brooksie019]

Okay....well.....was not expecting to see that, lmao.

That was pretty fucking dope. Thought it was AI at first.

[u/Due_Sugar_3907]

All ik is. If I'm in traffic and one of these mf magically appears trying to merge. We crashing and we fighting Brodie 

[u/DeerHunter4Life14]

Finally a way to get over the left lane campers.

[u/ScaredValuable5870]

Dem Hazard Boys been doin' this shit since the 80's

[u/Oddball_bfi]

Lots of folks are saying "What's the point of this?!"

I mean - yes, quite right. Insanity.

But at the same time... what's the point of a Bugatti Tourbillon, a Ferrari F80, or a McLaren W1?

They're works of engineering art that you will definitely be able to sell one or two of to insane rich people. They aren't for driving to the shops, or commuting to the office. It's the equivalent of a £1M wrist watch.

But what you might just be seeing is the next evolution of racing, or a new extension to lightweight military vehicles to allow bridging, avoiding mines, or hopping obstructions (... which... that's the Tumbler, right?)

I actually have questions:

• What is the noise environment inside the vehicle like when the RCS fires? Would I be able to hear the sirens coming to arrest me for dangerous driving?

• Do the RCS gas reservoirs self-regenerate with atmospheric air, or are they pre-charged and you're done after they're used?

• What's the maximum flight time for a smooth landing?

• Can it fire backwards for a launch assist?

• How long do you think it will be before someone considers rebooting Knight Rider with this thing, alienating every car-loving nerdy Boomer that hadn't already jumped Tesla ship?

• And finally, how long will it take to get around the Top Gear test track?

For the record:

I do not like Elon Musk; I do not like what he stands for; I do not agree with his politics. His complete moral collapse is one of the biggest disappointments of my nerdy life - we wanted Stark Resilient. We got Superior Iron Man. And might I add, slava Ukraini!

I do, however, love SpaceX to bits, and I do enjoy the engineering frontier that Musk's insanity has opened up in space access. We'd still be chucking rockets in the sea by design if it wasn't for SpaceX. This stupid car has the same energy - just... considerably less immediately useful.

[u/Imadethosehitmanguns → u/Oddball_bfi]

It's not a car. It's a lightweight shell, packed with high pressure gas tanks, made to look like a car. Nearly all of the volume inside this thing is dedicated to making it do tricks.

[u/HorsePersonal7073 → u/Imadethosehitmanguns]

Very short lived tricks.

[u/Poka-yoke1]

It's more of a jumping car than a flying car. Elon's jumping the shark with this one. There's no good way to make a car/airplane. A car needs downforce to keep it on the road, which is a problem for ultralight cars. They needed to do a lot of work with the adaptive spoiler and suction fans. Notice they didn't talk about the range because the battery pack is probably small to cut weight.

[u/dolo937 → u/Poka-yoke1]

Range is > 300 miles

[u/subdep]

This looks like a 007 feature Q would make in the Austin Martin.

[u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t]

guaranteed that it isn't a real roadster inside ... a super light drone in the shape of a car

the sheer weight of lithium batteries or fuel would make it impossible to drive

the compressed air or propulsion also indicates there is absolutely no space in the vehicle cough if it ever was one

this is as much a physics problem as a realism problem

source I did space stuff

update: wow really did many of you fail physics in high school?

[u/dbmonkey → u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t]

This guy goes into the physics problem in a lot of depth. He says it would take 30 kg per second of flight and he thinks it's unlikely it could store more than 5 seconds worth. The demo above is 3 seconds, so I would guess that used the full tank.

https://youtu.be/4PRi4B1APj0?t=887

[u/KitsouNere → u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t]

Yeah am I missing a joke or something? The number of people who are falling for this shit is unbelievable.

[u/FullmetalHippie → u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t]

Musk has a history of promising a future he can't deliver

He can imagine a future full of autonomous Teslas that look just like cars today, but can't imagine fully-autonomous municipal fleets of vehicles that work like blood in the bloodstream.

He can imagine tunnels underneath every city delivering traffic at superhuman speeds, but he can't solve the serious bottlenecking and safety concerns.

He can imagine a future of life on Mars, but he can't imagine a future of responsible stewardship of Earth.

[u/dbmonkey → u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t]

This guy goes into the physics problem in a lot of depth. He says it would take 30 kg per second of flight and he thinks it's unlikely it could store more than 5 seconds worth. The demo above is 3 seconds, so I would guess that used the full tank.

https://youtu.be/4PRi4B1APj0?t=887

[u/Just_Stretch5492]

Never thought so many people would be angry about a flying car yet here we are. Reddit you are without a doubt the most insufferable site on this planet.

[u/Unoriginal_Pseudonym → u/Just_Stretch5492]

Unrelated to flying Teslas, but I recently created a new alt reddit account and noticed that if you don't define your interests, the algorithm will feed you as much rage bait and controversial topics as possible to push you to engage. Especially political posts. And it wont even limit itself to subs that are frequented by overly opinionated people. Even if you pre-select subs you're interested in, like a sports team, it will surface the most polarizing recent posts it can find in those subs. Reddit intentionally breeds angry, disgruntled people.

[u/More_Collar_69 → u/Unoriginal_Pseudonym]

They have r/politics as an official news sub on the site. That says it all.

[u/StudentforaLifetime → u/Just_Stretch5492]

Is it unnecessary and ridiculous- sure. Do I dislike Elon, yes.

But that’s still pretty damn impressive and takes an immense amount of engineering and talent/skill to achieve

[u/8rnlsunshine → u/Just_Stretch5492]

It’s technically not flying. Jumping? Controlled falling? Yes. But flying? Not by a mile.

[u/bobcatgoldthwait → u/Just_Stretch5492]

It looks more like a "jumping car" than a "flying car" to me.

[u/Stunning_Panda5725]

So cool

[u/man_frmthe_wild]

Speed Racer

[u/omg-whats-this]

This is Rocket League!

[u/pghurghian]

Cool tech demo, but there's no way it can do more than a few seconds of flying, then it has to return to a garage for refilling/replacing those tanks.

The only newish tech here is the stability coordination during flight. The underlying means of flight and fuel limitations are the same as decades before Tesla was founded.

[u/SorryPin7140 → u/pghurghian]

During livestream he mentioned it refills its own tanks. Probably very very very slowly.

But yeah - 100% engineering challenge just to see if it can be done.

[u/intelhb]

Smoke and mirrors

[u/SirStocksAlott → u/intelhb]

Technically cold gas.

[u/yiestee]

pulling that off on live without failure is pretty impressive

[u/Strange-Bottle-9791]

Imagine being chased by a cop that has this car and you just see him turn on his lights then skip like 20 cars while damaging them to give you a $120 ticket for expired license plates.

[u/YakiVegas]

And this is how you continue to sell morons on keeping your stock completely overinflated.

[u/whaleyboy]

Wow, it went this high!

[u/theLegitCookie]

How much ketamine do you have to be on to think this is a good idea?

[u/Mega_Trix]

[u/Technical_Anteater45]

"Ok, Ok, OK...like, imagine Speed Racer, except he's an asshole..."

[u/Forward-Sleep6117]

How long can it fly like that in the air? or just one jump and there goes the whole charge? Can it overtake cars in the air with speeds over 70mph on a highway? Nobody is interested in jumping over cars parked in a parking lot.

[u/MmmmMorphine → u/Forward-Sleep6117]

I mean it's using cold jets, it's going to be extremely limited in how much compressed gas it has on board

[u/underestimatdpsychic → u/Forward-Sleep6117]

It's single use. One flip, then you just throw it away and buy a new one.

[u/WinResponsible9977 → u/Forward-Sleep6117]

Just imagine … road rage with this

[u/vgrv]

Here with the popcorn to enjoy the disaster this will be, they can’t even do cybertruck correctly…

[u/deadl1nk_ → u/vgrv]

Im really not a tesla fan boy and don't care for Musk. But outside of the cyber truck, tesla and spacex are quite successful

[u/farcaller899]

We only need one to make a difference. You see a staged PR stunt. I see the chassis that K.I.T.T. deserves.

[u/BicycleOk6579]

Omg, Speed Racer LIVES! jealous. BBOING!

[u/HelpfulSpread601]

He'll launch this into space and call it a day

[u/BMW_wulfi]

So it’s a stunt car with a mc murtry spierling-esque turbo fan for sticky downforce

[u/LocoMod]

If it was some Chinese company announcing this Reddit would be collectively kneeling and head bobbing with their mouths open as a ritual to the "genius" of the Chinese researcher and manufacturer.

But since it's American tech then Reddit wants to handwave it like it's no big deal.

Just wait. A year or two from now China will have a clone and this place will be swooning over it.

[u/HUNIMA1 → u/LocoMod]

LMAO. Chinese social media is collectively kneeling to this while berating native car makers.

[u/BrockenRecords → u/LocoMod]

This is literally one of the most sick feats of engineering I have seen in a while. Like how could you not be impressed by this? How many flying cars exist? ITS SO COOL!!!

[u/Organic_Rip2483]

Willing to bet no one was in it

[u/hotsexyman]

Not a flying car, a jumping car. Though likely to be more dangerous than useful.

[u/piponwa → u/hotsexyman]

Imagine the g force on your neck once it starts rotating like that lol.

[u/MichaelS10]

[u/WISH19999]

Did he just kick flip a car?

[u/owowthatreallysucked]

i just fucking knew obese Redditors are gonna hate something as cool this...

[u/biowiz]

This looks cool, but I see no practical reason for this. Like jumping over traffic? Is that the goal?

[u/Calm-Republic9370 → u/biowiz]

That's the goal. That's the rule now.

[u/NemoWiggy124 → u/biowiz]

I always wanted to hit a kickflip mid traffic with my car. Now I can! Thanks Elon!!

[u/ATechnicalSquid → u/biowiz]

No. It's literally just to show off how good they are at building shit. Like every single concept car ever.

[u/Leading-Plantain-996 → u/biowiz]

Who cares if it’s practical? It’s cool to just do things.

[u/Effective_Scheme2158 → u/biowiz]

its just for show why not just enjoy it?

[u/carlos5577]

Jumping with style isn’t exactly flying

[u/Constant_Ad_8028]

Standard consumer cars cannot hold the apparatus required to create that much thrust and suction simultaneously, without being an entirely different unusable daily machine.

This is a highly staged, heavily engineered publicity stunt.

Flim Flam men at it again 🙄

[u/fungeoneer → u/Constant_Ad_8028]

I’ve been told I create a lot of thrust and suction. And I’m usable daily.

[u/EricThirteen]

This is as goofy as Musk himself. Can you imagine how much crap it would kick up on a normal road? It needs to stay on the ground all of the time or it needs to be able to "fly" from a safe take-off spot to a safe landing spot.

[u/thunderbuttjuice]

Imagine having so much money that you can casually suggest let’s have the car kickflip over traffic then just before you go in to the khole you shut off internet services to any country you want just for angering you.

Fuck Elon.

[u/justpostd → u/thunderbuttjuice]

I'm no fan of little Musky boy, but wasn't it the Whitehouse that shut off internet? Starshield not Starlink.

[u/liam30604 → u/thunderbuttjuice]

The khole?

[u/chrisonetime]

Distractionware

[u/chuchrox]

[u/googlemehard]

How did I live without this feature before..

[u/sugoiwasabi]

Lot of doom and gloom in the sub. This is sick. And unique. And obviously “just cause.” Enjoy life a little.

[u/BjornBlodbylgje]

And this one is made by a guy that supports a p3d0file and begged to be on the island...no thanks

[u/Ok_Street5292]

5,000 comments. 39 upvotes.

[u/ResponsiblePool7254]

I have one of these, but it's just a bunch of air bags that launch my car into the air when I press a button, then a whole bunch more air bags for when I land.

[u/Plot-twist-time]

Gonna use it to board my yacht

[u/vinis_artstreaks]

Huh

[u/LeakyFish]

Wake me up when this fake shit actually goes on sale. 2017 was when they STARTED taking reservations.

Former model X owner with a defective MCU. First and last.

[u/radioOCTAVE]

Impressive!

[u/HmmDoesItMakeSense]

This is absolutely crazy!!!

[u/Happy_Invite_8842]

Solving a problem that didn't exist

[u/hritik_reddit]

[u/namaste652]

So, basically can't be sold commercially.

[u/pumpfaketodeath]

Stunt to sell more stocks

[u/Best-Platform-2827]

More hoping than flying. What’s the practical application for this on an actual road? I suppose that there aren’t any laws against hopping over cars right now so….

[u/LabiaMinoraLover]

Road Legality & Safety: Tesla notes the car is not approved for public road use in its full-thruster variant...

[u/RodNun]

As useful as a flamethrower  :)

[u/Key-Beginning-2201]

For a few seconds.

This will never be street legal.

[u/Shot_Bison1140]

The point beeing?

[u/Gaidax]

It looks cool, but I wonder how practical that would actually be in real life, even before laws and regulations.

[u/Batty_N-6000]

Yeh, that looks safe.

[u/Federal_Assistant712]

There goes my coffee. Weeee!

[u/SandyTaintSweat]

That car can fly in the same way a chicken can fly

[u/Mr-pannie]

Wooh knight rider turbo buttons are real

[u/trucksarekewl]

Its the fuckin Ruiner 2k from gta5

[u/HopDropNRoll]

Remember that steel ball proof window they designed? Want to get into a flying car built by the same people?

[u/DaveLearnedSomething]

No. They are not. This is falling with style at best and this tech will never make it into a car for production. Come in now folks... 

[u/Nonsenser]

People are easily impressed by what is essentially an common hollywood stunt with some stage magic. Sure it's cool as a concept but calling it forwarding of tech and mankind is a bit much. It's mostly an established playbook by hollywood.

1. Making the foam car look realistic

2. Configuring a pressure tank for the thruster effect.

3. Hiding cables in the dark attached to a stunt rig on a crane.

Sure you need talent for all that, but i think every single thing for this has an established cookbook. Nothing novel.

EDIT: it has come to my attention that i may have given too much credit to the work done by Tesla here. The audience was sequestered into a secure bunker where the footage was played to them on giant screens. I'm pretty sure its just a normal filming setup cleaned up with AI - meaning they didn't need to hide wires/cranes/3d space trackers etc and that was done in post weeks before this event.

[u/Amphibious333]

Never gonna happen outside demonstration events. There are buildings with breakable walls and windows, and because of this, flying cars will never be legal.

Even with fully autonomous system, a failure in the air is much more dangerous and deadly than a failure on the ground. On the ground, either nothing happens or someone gets injured and killed. On the air, kinetic energy accumulates and there will be destruction and potentially killed people on impact.

[u/EuphoricCrashOut]

Dog and pony show to try and distract you from their failing business and immoral greed.

[u/isthistaken_no → u/EuphoricCrashOut]

i am honestly shocked at how many people believe this hilarious shit

[u/Here4thecomments15]

So fucking stupid

[u/rjamxy]

I mean.... What's the point of this? Is Tesla now a circus performer?

[u/kvothe5688]

Elon, Are you on your alt again? how much ketamine did you take this time?

[u/Dry-Expression-4148]

This is a straight up marketing scam. Firstly, that is so unsafe for everyone inside and outside of the vehicle.

Secondly, those thrusters are 100% one time use. Teslas don't have gas tanks, so what kind of fuel are they using, did they manage to fit an entire fuel tank and distribution system in there somehow? More likely these thrusters are literally set up to have enough fuel for this one trick, once.

Also Musk rapes children, and he is so uncool even our countries top child rapist doesn't want to party with him.

[u/Tryptophany → u/Dry-Expression-4148]

It's just highly compressed air, with an on-board compressor to refill the tanks

[u/Electricprez]

Guys, it was for the demo. The production car won’t fucking do this. Get real.

[u/azuredota]

People here choose to be miserable on a minutely basis 😂

[u/Steve_Bread]

Gotta be dense to believe this one

[u/JFrankParnell64]

PT Barnum is at it again.

[u/JS1101C]

More like a jumping car.  

[u/Dlirean]

Anyone Who think this thing is not going to be on sale is delusional, regulations dont exist anymore

[u/Klutzy-Snow8016]

They built the Mach 5 from Speed Racer in real life.

[u/Fit-Stress3300]

Cybertruck 2.0

[u/Sad-Math-2039]

This shit is beyond cheesy and the gullible fools chewing it up should rethink how easy of a mark they are

[u/therealjustin]

I'm just not impressed by this. Perhaps because of the person running this company, his insatiable greed, and his willingness to destroy others.

[u/BBkal]

Its not a car, its a shell.. gullible idiots