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Alexfan_collector163 125 points * (edited 2h ago) (3 children)
Hilariously that didn't disprove our point though. Elon took the credit instead of the engineers behind it. The company should've been named Edison instead of Tesla.
Burt_Macklin___ 37 points (3 children)
I mean, it's not even really a great feet of engineering. The car isn't drivable. It's an empty shell. A reinforced steel grid with a cheap car skin on top. It's not and never will be a product, it's just an investment scam
Emotional_Shower_938 16 points (1 child)
To be fair, its also a distraction from the doc that i believe comes out this weekend.
Alternative-Crew-880 ā¢ points
And that technology has been around for a while now. Darpa was prototyping gyroscopically balanced drones with thrusters decades ago with their MKV platform.
Electrical_Ad115 11 points (1 child)
The only argument one needs is to point out his Edison complex, but at least Edison played a hand in SOME of whay he claimed fame for
C7rl_Al7_1337 8 points
Bro has such an Edison complex that he bit Tesla's damn name.
krazytekn0 107 points (5 children)
The people that think Elon actively designs anything are some of the biggest idiots in the world
RevolutionCrazy7045 29 points (1 child)
tbf he had a great deal of influence in the cybertruck's design and ... it didn't turn out so well
KavilusS 10 points (1 child)
This... Also this isn't fully functional car but more like shell of it with rockets.
RememberTheMaine1996 7 points (1 child)
Seriously. He literally pays people to figure it out and his company takes all the credit
NuTFuCk69 4 points
Elon's part in the design process is "you know what would be cool guys a car that could do a back flip okay im gone ill be back in 15yrs please get it done"
tradesman46 337 points (3 children)
Elon doesn't create anything. The liberals working in his companies do.
catwhowalksbyhimself 94 points (2 children)
Also, there's nothing that impressive about a jumping stunt car. There is no practical use of it, and if it's not already illegal for road use, it should be. It's goof for promotional stunts and professional daredevils only.
Thatsockmonkey 37 points (2 children)
I mean, isnāt that just a shell that he jumped? It was pretty much just a stunt drone, correct? Thereās nothing about it except for the shape.
lothartheunkind 23 points (1 child)
Absolutely a shell RC. Probably had most of its batteries removed as well. If this was anything more than a publicity stunt, they would have shown the interior and given a tour of the build. We would have seen a driver get out of the car, too. And this will never see a roadway with a dozen high pressure canisters stashed away in all the crash impact zones.
gchypedchick 8 points
I told my husband it was basically a magic show. Itās all an illusion.
Gorillasofgallifrey 14 points (5 children)
Do liberals still work in his companies? I would have thought a lot of them would have quit. (Not saying this to defend Elon. He sucks).
gr1mmcr33p3r 19 points (1 child)
Yes, and they hate itā¦ā¦ but even his idiocy canāt hinder their love of innovation. I tend to think of it as a Werner Von Braun situation, take the $ to try and better the world no matter whoās handing it out. While itās morally questionable, I canāt argue with that attitude.
Source: two personal liberal acquaintances who are engineers for the company lol.
Also, even teslas engineers hate the cyber truck and apparently itās the only project Elon demanded he be in on the engineering/design and completely wrote off every issue they brought up
Born-Enthusiasm-8147 6 points
Good call on the Werner Von Braun comp. Agree
Competitive_Tune6401 11 points
Republicans are too busy diddling children to be engineers
ducs4rs 8 points
A friend of mine's daughter is a MIT graduate rocket scientist and interviewed with SpaceX. She declined the offer to work there. She said the working conditions were awful and everyone she met was miserable. She stayed at JPL. .
mcslootypants 6 points (1 child)
I would guess a lot of people enjoy the project work and stay for that.
benspags94 205 points (3 children)
They still believe Elonās an inventor when heās more like a professional parasite.
Reasonable-Plate2982 36 points (3 children)
Plus, while that's pretty cool and all, isnt he supposed to have fixed and delivered on promises made for more practical applications?
Vyntarus 32 points (1 child)
He makes his money by defrauding investors, not delivering the products he claims will totally exist "some time next year".
Prize-Choice2185 8 points
Yup
DW171 20 points
Approx 1.5 million Tesla customers paid for autonomous self-driving mode, and are still waiting for it. It was promised back in 2014. That say's it all.
Interesting and possibly related: These kind of claims influenced the whole car industry to "catch up." I drove my father's mint 2015 Japanese luxury sedan on a road trip last week, and the automated "safety" features are far from safe. Think unexpectedly hammering on the brakes at 85 mph because someone passed me. My theory is they were trying to launch features that were far from market-ready, because of Tesla's claims.
Mrfrundles86 12 points (2 children)
Same people think Steve Jobs invented the iPod. Rich guys tell the staff what to do then go hey look what I did when its done.
Grape_Pedialyte 10 points
Jobs was a massive dick and terrible person but he was a transcendent hype man (as in actually good at it, not a mumbling unsocialized man child like Elon) and was actually in on the ground floor as a co-founder of Apple.
As awful as he was, Musk still doesn't stack up to him at all.
Any_Specialist3714 99 points (4 children)
Why would anyone have any reason to buy that car?
Livinsfloridalife 72 points (2 children)
Small peen.
Infamous_7001 35 points (1 child)
Same mentality in getting a Cybertruck then.
5141121 7 points (2 children)
There are still a lot of people out there, like OOP, that think Elon is actually smart.
Future_Armadillo6410 12 points (1 child)
OOP is almost certainly a propaganda machine.
5141121 5 points
Must be the Nigerian offices, since the Russian farms are down.
Expert-Ad3874 11 points (1 child)
I have seen more of them with wraps promoting businesses than I have just out and about in my area. Not sure if it's the stupid design that makes it a good billboard or people simply abusing business expenses, but it is helpful in telling me places to avoid.
factoid_ 9 points (1 child)
None ever, but itās also never going to be broadly sold. Ā Itās an āinvite onlyā vehicle for the flying version
Theyāll be millions of dollars and theyāll only ever make a handful. Ā Probably for collectors and maybe a movie studio if they promise to make it a James Bond car or somethingĀ
klako8196 134 points (8 children)
Elon is unintelligent enough to think that flying cars are a good idea when most people either suck at driving normally or can barely afford gas for a regular car, let alone a flying car that would need way more energy to work.
Murky-Course6648 78 points (5 children)
This is not a flying car, this is advertisement trick. This is purely about the attention, that all these post about it gathers. This is marketing.
Why do people think this is an actual flying car?
Suspicious_Dingo_426 52 points (2 children)
Because your average Musk fanboy is as big an idiot as he is.
Dull-Culture-1523 14 points (2 children)
Go on any of the tesla subreddits and you'll see people applauding him for making a flying car for "only $250k" and saying they'll order one immediately.
While I wouldn't be surprised most are bots, it's likely there are real people among them as well.
They actually believe this is a product they're already producing.
drmojo90210 8 points (1 child)
Of course the same idiots who can't find a buyer for the piece of shit Cybertruck they spent $120k on are going to line up to spend double that on a "flying car" LOL
penisweinerballs 10 points (1 child)
Even if it was real why do people think Elon Musk designed it himself like he's Tony Stark
Diligent-Bowler-1898 4 points (1 child)
It's marketing precisely because some people think this is a fully working telsa car. Because it looks like it and has tinted glass so you can't see the mass of pipes and condenced gas cannisters inside.
Holiday_Box1571 4 points
This isnāt flying, itās falling with style.
7evenate9ine 18 points (1 child)
That 5 seconds of "flying" you saw is about all it can do. A vehicle that size is burning through propellant very fast. Nobody is going to be air-commuting to work in one of these.
PeacenotWardude 15 points (2 children)
Donāt forget all the alcoholics flying those cars too.
Cultural-Lab78 15 points (2 children)
All of a sudden DUI is an act of terrorism
PeacenotWardude 5 points (1 child)
Gonna be a lot of drunk 9-11s that for sure.
Ok_Independence_9917 3 points (1 child)
It's ok because Reno 911 is here to book the people flying into towers
Ryaniseplin 11 points
9/11s would be happening on a daily basis
Potential_Salt_5780 11 points
Itās not even flying. Itās boosted for a few seconds and then falls. Thereās no way these things ever come to market.
LorenzoSparky 5 points
Ah yes, a flying car wouldnāt possibly be dangerous on a real road with over cabling, pedestrians, traffic lights etc
cleatsurfer 4 points
Imagine the noise flying cars would create.
Vandal_A 84 points (4 children)
Musk spent a shit ton of spaceX funds and labor hours to pull off a 15 second stunt for Tesla which absolutely does NOT showcase any tech that will be put into the cars. If you think that means anything more than he has money to burn on publicity stunts then you're an idiot
Grouchy_Big3195 38 points (3 children)
And not just that, itās his engineers that did this. Not him.
Upstairs_Fig_3551 13 points (1 child)
I was going to say: itās not like he engineered or built it
justfortherofls 7 points
I mean how could he possibly have time to do this when he is so busy also being the worlds top path of exile and quake player?
Petrochromis722 4 points
Elon probably found out his drooling sycophants were losing interest and he had to get them back on his dick.
mitchENM 4 points
And itās not like he is the engineer behind it. Just the money
Due-Environment-9774 36 points (2 children)
Japan creates a drug that regrows teeth and could revolutionize dentistry. Elon made a flying garbage dumpster that most people with an ounce of knowledge about cars avoids like the plague.
fc3s05 12 points
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According_Concert_17 34 points (4 children)
I donāt know a single useful use of this car if itās even gonna happen at all. Imagine how much good he can be doing with all that money.
cobra-de-aco 13 points (2 children)
If Iām honest, Iād rather him fritter away his money on stupid shit like this than on ads to get rubes to vote against their own best interest.
Somedude_6 8 points
He's doing both. He's already pumped over 100 million into midterms.
Easy_Employment_1595 6 points (1 child)
Itās ridiculous. A jumping car? Yeah man, ahhhhhh, neatā¦ā¦A MAGA person was telling me that this is the precursor to flying cars. I drove 12 hrs yesterday from Destin, FL and I donāt WANT these mafuckers to have wings, people are completely ate up with the dumbass here on the ground as it is.
Hammer_the_Red2 5 points
It's usefulness is being a distraction. "Look at what this car can do!" Ignore the other stuff going on over there.
FaithlessnessEast445 39 points (2 children)
MAGA NEWS FLASH! Elon didn't make the car; he directed intelligent people to make it.
Beavis and Butthead could have come up with the idea over a joint on their cartoon couch, starting with "If I were a billionaire, I'd make a flying car, hehehe, hehehe, yeah, that would be cool..."
Public_Steak_6933 ā¢ points (1 child)
fElon got one of those toy RC geckos that stick to the wall and said "let's make that life size and put boosters on it so when it falls it won't crash!"
The billionaire intelligence of a five year old.
KendrickBlack502 55 points (3 children)
Itās hard explaining things to stupid people.
A) Elon had no hand in inventing that
B) Making cars fly wasnāt the hard part. Flying vehicles have been a thing for a long time. The hard part is integrating them into a society that struggles enough with land and sea vehicles.
Casio1337 5 points (2 children)
He did have a hand in it. Someone had to green light all those wasted dollars for the project.
Consistent-Whole1662 5 points (1 child)
is it really wasted dollars if the idiots and investors pour attention and money in, respectively. This whole thing was a stupid marketing stunt, but the average dumbass believes it was real, and the average Tesla investor isn't too much higher up the intelligence totem pole.
Disastrous-Fault8129 5 points (1 child)
Plus... If you have a billion dollars do you think it would be hard to find engineers to hire ?
AwekenSummer 26 points (2 children)
her statement is still correct. only an actual dumbass would think a "flying" car would be cool or even functional. put wheels on a helicopter and you got a flying car.
ArchieTheKatt 7 points
They already got wheels lol. I just had to sit through an hour of faux news just straight glazing Elon and his stupid car. Barf.
Dry_Adhesiveness9202 27 points (2 children)
Elon has never invented anything. He invests in other people's companies.
Dry_Rent_8646 22 points (1 child)
It's not even close to functional, it will never be street legal, it won't have use in war.... Who fking cares?
korpiz 19 points (1 child)
Elon Musk didnāt have a hand in actually designing any functional part of any of his vehicles. He didnāt create Tesla, he bought it. He didnāt create SpaceX, he bought it. Heās a con man with a good marketing department. At best, heās Lex Luthor without the charisma and strength.
Car_is_mi 17 points (2 children)
LeOn sO SmAt. Him invent flycar
No you dumb shit, he built up a bunch of hype around a car he's delayed for 6 years and rather than come out and show off the car which was promised he showed some random ass remote controlled shell that he had some spacex employees slap some test boosters on so he could do his little dance and impress people who can't afford anything more than to lick his boots.
It went over so well that it sent Tesla stock into a nose dive.
RoyalMaidsForLife 4 points
I'll agree it was a cool stunt. Now do it in broad daylight without lighting tricks and forced perspectives, bunkie.
my-armor-is-contempt ā¢ points (1 child)
Do these people understand that, even if this is 100% safe and effective, Elon Musk did not design or build it? He buys others peopleās work. He pays people.
Muhardom 14 points (1 child)
Russian bot factories must be back up and running
PaladinHan 28 points (1 child)
Screenshots show that thing is hollow inside. Itās not a āflying car,ā itās a bunch of rockets strapped to a frame.
Muskās only brilliance is in getting government to bail out his companies.
Protoman 7 points (2 children)
Even if it were real, what's the use case here?
It can't possibly carry enough fuel for sustained flight, so why?
PaladinHan 6 points
To be clear, Iām perfectly fine with engineers in general playing around with concepts like this. It might be impractical now but be a test bed for future applications.
My issue is with Musk taking credit for it and pretending like the future is now, when the future is very clearly in the future.
FailCapone 29 points (5 children)
They know this isnāt a car for them right? Iām guessing starting price would be in the millions if they ever produce it.
How much rocket fuel did it take for that single jump?
Would any insurance company touch it? Iād say youād never get it made legal on the roads, but heās got a president in his pocket so maybe.
How messed up will the average non-astronaut feel after a maneuver like that? Too nauseous to carry on driving right away Iām sure.
blizzard7788 18 points (2 children)
Zero rocket fuel. It uses compressed air. So, 10 seconds of flying, and hours of continuous running of compressors to fill up the tanks again for another 10 seconds.
Fuuucked_AD 5 points (1 child)
Not even 10 seconds. Less than 5 more like it.
Complete gimmick to boost stock price. Will never see production.
finalattack123 4 points
The announcement made it clear that this would not be available for purchase.
No_Hana 9 points
Its literally a stunt. A dressed up drone. Kids play things can do this. Just without the theatrics.
Pubby_Tubbin 14 points (2 children)
Not just even that, Elon musk didnāt pull this invention out of his ass, actually engineers and intelligent individuals had to come together and make this, Elon just threw money at.
apocketstarkly83 13 points (1 child)
Threw money at it and put his name on it. Itās what he does. Dude never had an original good idea in his life. Just buys other peoplesā and takes credit for it.
Blunter11 5 points
It's a compressed air tank with some body panels artfully attached to it.
Blabbit39 13 points (3 children)
Imagine being a trillionaire with s failing car company and your huge development is a flying car that people will not be able to afford or legally drive.
I mean the smart part is he will leverage this into a merger with the SpaceX ip and save the car company from bankruptcy. The shitty part is the American tax payer actually has to dump billions ibto the real welfare queen.
Cultural-Lab78 4 points
Jumping car*
EgoTripWire 5 points (1 child)
Meanwhile in China: let's figure out how to make these batteries charge in 10 minutes and reduce the cost of the same car to 1/3 the price of American companies are selling about.
mattz910 13 points (2 children)
People really think Musk built this lol his engineers are brilliant.
Agreeable_Past9674 5 points
...and underpaid
AdviceGlass3400 12 points
Ah yes, the jumping car. Let me know when they announce the Tesla brand green shell nextš„±
the_main_entrance 11 points (1 child)
Joe Rogan literally refers to him as a super geniusššš Shows how dumb Joe is.
CuetheCurtain 9 points (2 children)
For anyone who has ever driven in the U.S., Iām asking this seriously. Could you imagine these being unleashed to the general public? The amount of deaths and property damage would be extreme. People here canāt even handle a four-way fucking stop sign or roundabout properly.
They canāt even get full autonomous driving perfected yet. Iām sure the safety rails on these would be as equally lackluster. Just what the average person wants, getting crushed to death while waiting in line for a bagel when one of these barrels through the storefront.
Is it cool from an engineering standpoint? Of course. Does it actually solve anything to make the current world a better or more efficient place? Fuck no. All that money being sunk into increasingly useless shit.
Ok-Maintenance-9538 6 points (1 child)
These things actually hit production I'm investing my entire portfolio in auto insurance companies because them premiums gonna skyrocket faster than the cars.
TheTinyMaus 8 points
The engineering feat is relatively impressive, so credit to engineers who designed it. But the decision to design a solution to the problem of, "what happens if our cars go up a Looney Tunes style ramp" is the kind of thing an idiot CEO high on ketamine asks their engineers to solve.
kermitthorson 20 points (1 child)
elon had nothing to do with creating that thing
goddess_peepee 9 points (2 children)
False. he snapped a bunch of lines and went to engineering like " WERE GONNA MAKE A FLYING VACUUM CAR THAT GOES UPSIDEDOWN. YOU HAVE A WEEK. GOGOGOGOGO!!!!"
No_Island_8061 4 points
Also make sure if it catches fire it locks the people inside!
pokethrowaway4 10 points (1 child)
Anybody who thinks they can magically add thrusters to a Tesla and simultaneously keep its current driving function and range, is a fucking idiot.
I guarantee you if this Tesla wasnāt just on wires, it was stripped down and didnāt have 3000 pounds of batteries.
Aubrey-Grey 9 points (1 child)
I do find it entertaining that they think heās the one actually doing the science behind this shit.
ElectronicTap1109 8 points
They also still use that picture of that upset lady from 10 years ago. They have no new material and they think it'll gain them votes
Imaginary_Unit5109 8 points
This is a scam that he repeating again. People are still waiting for the roadster for a decade already. It a scam to trick people to drop 5k on a waitlist spot and 250k 10 days later. To wait to get a car that have no real release date.
This is the dumbest thing in the world for a car you want to drive on the road. It a gimmick to trip people to try to buy it and make a down payment on something they will not see in years. It a scam that tesla been doing for years.
Chemical_Home6123 8 points (1 child)
Elon is an investor not an engineer man these people really think hes tony Stark or something such child like minds. Not to mention this is all bells and whistles its not practical and energy and food cost are still sky high. Why would I care about some goofy ass barrel rolling car when everything is so expensive.
ProgramBackground813 6 points
Musk had nothing to do with this 1960s technology. Yes - it's that old.
phonefellin_lakeerie 5 points
Elon should be tried for the death penalty for astronomical treason and fraud.
Elon is a fucking selfish idiot. Heās not smart, and neither is anyone who worships this slimy shitbag
jaylotw 6 points
Do people actually think that Elon is designing this shit?
BarnabasShrexx 6 points (1 child)
Jfc people still think elon sits down and does engineer stuff?
Dude has a bachelors degree, fuck all the way off
Damaging_Thrust_219 6 points * (edited 3h ago) (1 child)
- He absolutely wasn't involved in any of the hard engineering
- He definitely was involved in planning that demonstration
- The demonstration is rather pointless - that version of the car will never be up for purchase
If anything that show proves her point.
frenchfreer 6 points
Has anyone that Elon musk is not paying ever said heās intelligent? It seems like the only people who call him smart rely on Musk for a paycheck, while every legitimate scientist and engineer not on his payroll think heās a complete moron.
IssueEmbarrassed8103 6 points
I paid $800 for my phone so that means I invented my phone.
WritersChopBlock 19 points * (edited 51m ago) (3 children)
CONSIDER THE SCIENCE BEHIND THIS.
If you have taken physics or you are science-oriented, you'll realize that this is very likely a sham. I'm not 100% certain, but if you think about the physics, what is being suggested is impossible.
Think about the enormous amount of energy required to keep this car afloat if it's based on propellant. Consider how Harrier Jump jets spend so much fuel to do something similar for a few seconds.
The only way to accomplish this practically would be to rely on a technology that counteracts gravitational forces without expending energy. The aliens that have been spotted sporadically likely use such a technology. But we are nowhere near that level of technology yet. [Edit - deleted: Our scientists still don't know where gravity comes from.]
CourseEcstatic6202 ā¢ points (2 children)
100%. I am confident that the car that did a 0-60 test is not the same car that flew. That car Iām certain was just a shell with thrusters - A tiny motor and a tiny battery. It is all smoke and mirrors.
But even if it is 100% real, we will never see a single car on the road do any of this. The only thing you might see is the thrust 0-60 on a track. And if we see that, you will only see it once or twice a day. It would take way too much time and electrons to pressurize the car to consistently do this during a full lap on a track. Back to physicsā¦it just isnāt practical.
The show was cute but not grounded in anything real.
With all this said, he tricked us in 2017 about the roadster. Odds are, he is just tricking us again. Plus, the new car does not look nearly as good as the 2017 roadster.
As fun as this was to watch, it is all meh. I guarantee that the Mission S will be a far superior driverās car.
WritersChopBlock ā¢ points (2 children)
I am confident that the car that did a 0-60 test is not the same car that flew. That car Iām certain was just a shell with thrusters - A tiny motor and a tiny battery. It is all smoke and mirrors.
If what you said above is true, I think it's outright fraud. I don't know if there is a law against this type of fraud. It's kinda' similar to how game shows were once rigged but are now illegal. It gives a false impression that deceives the public. Nobody directly gets hurt but I think it does long-term damage as people start believing in nonsense. In this case, people would invest in Tesla stock based on the false assumptions.
With all this said, he tricked us in 2017 about the roadster.
If what you said is true, I'm wondering why the SEC didn't get involved as it would affect investors' belief about the company.
Woodlurkermimic ā¢ points (1 child)
Laws? In the US? For a political doner??
ConsiderationTrue477 ā¢ points (1 child)
It's a Mythbusters build. Like seriously it's exactly like something Mythbusters would do to prove that a car could technically fly in a Back of the Future II themed episode. There is zero practical value in this.
Skotticus 5 points (2 children)
The Japanese have a word for Elon's middle-school style thinking.
flonky_guy 3 points
They also have a word for people who set something up but don't deliver.
twilight-actual 4 points
Elon, like a little kid: "CAN WE PUT THE COLD JETS WE'VE USED IN SPACEX ON A TESLA AND MAKE IT FLY? I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT NOW!
Engineers: Well... Shit. Fine.
factoid_ 4 points (1 child)
They actually think HE built the thing?
This thing that theyāll probably make about 5 of ever? Ā Itās a production stunt. Ā A fun one, Iāll admit. Ā But just a stunt.
funkymunkPDX 5 points (1 child)
You probably don't want to see wanna see what NASA was doing with landers in the 70's.
That's how rovers landed on Mars.
LoganWanderingWolf00 6 points (1 child)
Elon is a moron, he doesn't invent ANYTHING, he just buys shit and claims all the credit, this car is a deathtrap...
FoxMan1Dva3 4 points (1 child)
If you had a billion, you could also do what he does. He grabs the best scientists in this area and they do it.
You think Elon did this?
IronSavage3 5 points
Acting like Elon is literally in the lab inventing all this shit is a mental illness.
MaxAdolphus 5 points (1 child)
Musk paid a bunch of engineers to do this as a publicity stunt. Musk did not build that car, and couldnāt build that car if locked in a room for 10 years.
MyBurnerAccount1977 3 points (1 child)
How about in a cave with a box full of scraps? Yeah, probably not that either.
justified_egg 5 points
There is no way that roadster wasn't a hollowed out prototype that barely cut on for this demo. I wouldn't hold your breath on this ever hitting production.
And that's without mentioning that Elon didn't design this shit, either way. Like always, he's eager to take credit for what his engineers came up with.
QueenRotidder 5 points
LMAOOOO as if he had fuck all to do with actually developing the tech that went into this š these people probably also think he invented the Tesla
Jayce86 5 points * (edited 2h ago)
Elonās entire contribution to this vehicle; āPut rockets on that car!ā
Thatās it, nothing else.
Indicus124 6 points
I feel sorry for the engineers that are forever ignored as people pretend that Elon designed the car and when they are mentioned people go "But who hired the engineers dumb liberal knowing who to hire is just as important."
TheW00ly 4 points (1 child)
Because Elon Musk definitely invented all of the things he put his name on.Ever heard of Tom Mueller? No? Me neither before I looked up who actually designed the Falcon rocket.
Brummer65 6 points
Flying cars are stupid. They are rich person's fantasy
Bendlerp 10 points (1 child)
Elon Musk, the modern Thomas Edison.
Before anyone downvotes, read about the actual inventors of the lightbulb and pretty much everything else he "invented" tldr he bought out patents.
Curious_Front_1100 3 points
This one car that does too much.
Like, where would this car be allowed to do this? Out in the middle of nowhere?
Future_Armadillo6410 4 points
How much do these bots cost? That car thing is so lame even if a bunch of bot posts say it's not.
Background-Bee1271 4 points
He can't even play video games for himself and we are supposed to believe he could create a flying car. The only thing he has is money and an embarrassment kink.
Skwaasher 4 points (1 child)
"Financing" a project is not the same as "creating" a project. Elon is the "money man"; there are dozens of other much more intelligent individuals that are doing the inventing/creating of these projects. He just "buys" their silence.
Competitive-Bee-3250 4 points (1 child)
Its truly remarkable that he managed to single-handedly design and build a fully functional rocket car while also being a top10 path of exile player and also coding X all by himself and also looking after all 13 of his kids and also personally designing and building all the rockets made by SpaceX
spicygumball 5 points
Anyone can strap 12 strong fire extinguishers to a car and do the same thing.
It's not the same as flying nor will it be practical to use.
Vanity project wasting money.
Shinagami091 5 points (1 child)
Do people think he designed and engineered it himself?
TarheelFr06 3 points (1 child)
This doesnāt make Elon smart. It makes him able to pay people who are. Also, this car canāt fly, it can land safely from falling. Itās an interesting curiosity but not overly useful.
FantasyFactoryX 4 points (1 child)
The solution no one asked for to the problem no one has
DrunkyMcStumbles 4 points
They are impressed by a 5th grade science fair project.
Drahkir9 3 points
That ādemoā is proving AOCās point but itās probably gonna be a few years, if ever, for some people to realize that
sambucuscanadensis 5 points
Also people are confusing investing with developing. Guy buys shit, he doesnāt develop anything himself
Ill-Dependent2976 4 points
The only people stupider than Elon Musk are his nazi fanboys impressed by the drone with the fire extinguishers.
No-Algae-7437 3 points
Elon didn't design it, build it, or program it, he just approves payment for other people to make an expensive toy to juice Tesla stock so it doesn't lose value because he's overleveraged against the stock collateral. This little trick will never see the light of day in production.
irascible_Clown 4 points
Elon Musk ā Thomas Edison
erinato 5 points
Just because he's got money to fund his random ideas doesn't make you a genius... The people he's paying are. There's a BIG difference.
Wasp4631 4 points
First Elon didn't do anything, his engineers did
Second we have had flying cars for decades, they're called helocopters and there's a reson we don't let random people use those
Familiar-Throat-670 4 points
Musk has NEVER DESIGNED anything, only funded or cashed in early
-neverknowsbest_ ā¢ points
Yeah people feel so smart about saying this, but it's not like he's the one who sat there and designed it
Old-Natural-852 7 points (1 child)
More proof of the "everyone is 12" theory. Ā Who...finds this impressive? Ā What adult asked for this? Ā Real world has become a plot if a Dexter's Lab episode.
Ok-Development5523 5 points (1 child)
Tfw you buy into billionaires propaganda...
1: Elon didnt build it
2: There was NO DRIVER, and therefore, this is NOT A REAL CAR, he's a con man selling yet ANOTHER PIPE DREAM!!!
ataraxia_777 5 points (1 child)
That makes me trust him even less, somehow.
China is wrecking shop and they're doing it by building mostly cheap, practical, boring cars. And they don't need their products barrel rolling to prove it.
If you need a stunt to distract your audience, then it just shows how much of a conman you are.
NEKORANDOMDOTCOM 918 points (9 children)
They sure love using that picture while side commenting they'd bang her
And Elon didn't invent that š©
Okrumbles 355 points (6 children)
I'm gonna be real I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a car that can jump in the current American driving climate anyways.
AnybodyWannaPeanus 175 points (7 children)
There is zero chance that āfeatureā will ever see public roads. The amount of compressed are needed for that would probably vaporize everyone within 50 feet in a minor accident.
I would actually be more comfortable if it did use propellant.
This was a publicity stunt and the only to only noteworthy thing is the vacuum downforce which also seems dumb when you consider itāll be sucking up squirrels and random shit on public roads.
Itāll be a regular car with regular features. This stuff will be ā2 years outā for the next 20z
beardeddragon0113 84 points (4 children)
"You know how our electric cars have giant batteries that sometimes burst into an unquenchable fireball that burns hot enough to melt metal? What if we add a bunch of highly compressed gas in cannisters around the frame!"
Real_Time_Mike 35 points (1 child)
Makes the destruction of evidence more complete that way.
That Elon... always thinking, that one.
camel_case_user 5 points
Maybe he really is the real life Tony Stark
/s
NaughtAught 7 points
Remember, in a cybertruck, you are the Crumple Zone
LurkerFromTheVoid ā¢ points
Also, can 1-3 seconds in the air even be considered as "Flying" vs other machines?
For example:
The Kiity Hawk vs Tesla Roadster, what flyes more?
Kitty Hawk wins by a wide margin in actual sustained atmospheric flightāwhether comparing the 1903 Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk or the modern Kitty Hawk eVTOL aircraft against the newly demonstrated Tesla Roadster.
āThe only scenario where a Tesla Roadster "flies" farther is if you count Starmanās 2008 Roadster launched atop a Falcon Heavy in 2018, which is in a ballistic heliocentric orbit rather than achieving self-powered aerodynamic flight...so not exactly flying, more like falling forever.
Fragrant_Major_9553 19 points
It was a concept car, and idiots are just lapping up the bullshit. Every single generation of Corvette from the C3 to the C7 had a concept car alongside it that was mid-rear.
This is nothing more than a thought experiment, and will never see the roads.
SonofSniglet 15 points
Tesla is the "Free beer tomorrow!" of automotive companies.
Nyysjan 13 points
We've had rocket packs since the 60s.
The one used in that James Bond film? Not a special effect, actual thing.
Nobody uses them for a reason.
Same for this car.
fat_fingerz 25 points (2 children)
There isn't a zero chance, Elon was proud to admit how he was able to get road safety measures cut so that the cybertruck could get onto American streets, pretty much nowhere else, and with the current US we've got the cyberpunk without the cool robots and implants.
themostrealandtrue 18 points (1 child)
Road safety measures aren't what will stop this thing from going to market. Literally no insurance company in the country will insure this this, and that's what will stop this from going to market.
AnybodyWannaPeanus 17 points (1 child)
Cars that can jump traffic like that could never be safe enough to do that on a public road. They donāt even have FSD down. So regulators will either say this simply canāt operate on public roads or has so be disabled and air tank empty. There isnāt really anything comparable on CT from a public safety perspective. Not even close.
AnonymousLampoon 8 points (1 child)
Unfortunately, from what I understand, they already have commercial pricing and branding. It's called the "SpaceX Thruster Upgrade Package" and it's $690,000 USD
I can also, guarantee that this will not see any sort of preventative regulatory oversight to keep this jumping car off the road until this administration is gone. Hopefully the midterms euthanize their mandate and we can finally go back go a little bit of normalcy around here.
AnybodyWannaPeanus 7 points
Yeah, because any time Elon uses ā69ā or ā420ā, heās being completely serious. 690k for what amounts to a parlor trick will cement this into the hall of automotive oddities. There wonāt be more than a handful produced if any are actually sold. That will only make it harder to make them street legal.
States can also exercise discretion, just like they have with those little Kei pickup trucks.
All this amounts to is a PT Barnum style marketing stunt to get people talking about Tesla. And as you can see, it worked. Whatever they invested to do this, is dwarfed by the amount of discussion/attention this got. The usefulness of the feature ends there.
Also, calling this a āflying carā makes about as much sense as calling the General Lee a flying car.
Those of us who have worked in computer networking have heard of RFC 1925, which sums this up nicely:
āWith sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.ā
Itās just the most literal example Iāve ever seen to decribe this dumb assed stunt.
ALTH0X 68 points (1 child)
Especially the kind of people who buy cybertrucks
DragApprehensive336 25 points (1 child)
They're called Klanborghinis now.
ScienceGuy6 17 points (2 children)
This is it. Firstly, the average American will never be able to afford this. The people that could afford this will be able to afford any damage they inflict with it. Are they going to try and jump over traffic? What reason is really behind the building of this? It would be a great getaway car after a crime. But it has no place on American highways.
Now, it wouldnāt be out of place on a less populated planet, say Mars? Or even the moon? I donāt think the rich asshole ever stated what the use of this car would be. All I know is that it can āsuck the chrome off of a bumperā, or āsuck a bowling ball through a garden hoseā, because his humor never developed past the fifth grade.
MAGAHATESTHEUSA 5 points (1 child)
Tbf more rich people will die using this car.
Tsar-A-Lago 12 points
However, it wouldn't be a problem for long because the SpaceX components it's made of will cause it to spontaneously explode in your driveway.
Hdjbbdjfjjsl 4 points (1 child)
Cars flinging around on the ground with ridiculously compressed gases, what could possibly go wrong?
Acceptable_Aside_568 40 points (6 children)
Also - this one of the dumbest inventions of this century. Alongside Cybertruck.
They could have spent the time making better batteries or improving build quality. Instead they went full speed into useless gimmicks.
squirrelems 7 points (1 child)
I don't understand why they made it look so dumb. Pretty much any futuristic car from...anything...looks cooler than the cybertruck.
Acceptable_Aside_568 9 points (1 child)
I think AOC migh have explained that one quite well.
LesbeGoddess 4 points
Donāt worry. Itās a concept car that will never be released for production and is purely cheesy advertisement to pump that shit stock that is overvalued by 10x
Careless-Concert-ape 4 points (1 child)
Cyber-stuck.. get the cars name right please
tired_fella 5 points (1 child)
there's not really an invention here. RCS has been in use long before SpaceX was found, in rockets, missiles and interceptor vehicles.
daGroundhog 4 points (1 child)
Dumbest inventions? Hyperloop wants in on the chat....
burninmedia 30 points (1 child)
SpaceX and Tesla engineers built that shit while this guy runs around trying to figure out how to rig elections. People are so stupid, which is why they want to defund education, I mean have.
witsnuitneusbeer 7 points
And a lot of those engineers are immigrants. Elon has famously shown no interest in educating for Americans when you can just hire from abroad.
No_Grand7184 20 points
Elon has never invented anything
Free_Device6838 17 points (1 child)
He didnt invent anything, ever
Heavensward 8 points * (edited 4h ago)
Oh, I thought it was proof of his idiocy!
With all the things that need solving, he helped fund a device nobody asked for!
DracosKasu 6 points (1 child)
It is still a useless invention which isnt legal on street and dumb people will activate it at random location which will result to more stupid accident on the road.
AltruisticRoutine220 4 points
Elon didn't invent anything. Not even idiocracy.