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Elon Musk reveals ‘world’s first flying car’ at Tesla event (www.theguardian.com)
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So this article just popped up on my guardian feed…wild stuff. I’m not a fan of Musk but you gotta admit this is pretty interesting.

“I’m not sure it’s necessarily legal in all jurisdictions,” Musk said, adding that the prototype was “not necessarily a safety optimised car but it takes the fun meter to 11”.

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[–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

If this were any other company in the world, you would think it is mildly interesting at least.

Explain to me what I should find interesting? Its not the first 'flying car' we've seen. There's nothing technologically or scientifically 'new' going on. Its not even interesting from a design perspective - it looks like every other roadster and borrows heavily from Lambo.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    How many cars have you seen driving upside down? I would venture to say it has been zero. It's not new from a technology or scientific view, just the first time someone has taken an existing tech, turned it to 11, then put it in a real demonstration. Ignore who made this or what the car looks like. This is something we have seen in unrealistic and silly racing games since the 90s, but now it's a real thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    turned it to 11

    Oof someone's been drinking the coolaid.

    I dunno why you're so upset tbh.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'm not drinking anything. Like I said, I hate Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX more than nearly anyone, since I have been personally involved with them as part of my job. I'm upset because all of you are acting just like the far right when they don't like about something. Yes, you have a valid reason to hate Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter. Yes, you don't have to care about this and can think it is unnecessary and stupid and dangerous. But saying "turned it to 11" is not some praise of something. It is just a fact. Like saying "adding a specialized housing to turn a 10 megaton nuke into a 100 megaton nuke is turning it to 11" is not praising the people creating a nuke. It is a statement of fact.

    This isn't new tech. F1 cars have been doing stuff like this to keep their cars on the track. This is just taking it to an extreme and demonstrating what they knew was possible but didn't have any reason to do so.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    The extreme is what's so annoying about this. This is a dude who already spent more money on the midterms than the previous Trump election, where he paid people if they said they'd vote for Trump.

    I don't think it is 'cool' that a car has rocket features, unless it is the batmobile. That gets apass. Because it is in a fictional universe and isn't making the real world worse.

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