The ludicrously stupid claim that this is the "first" flying car is trivially disprovable by a two second internet search. Elmo missed it by nearly a century, although it really shouldn't surprise anyone at this point to learn that he's lying through his teeth basically every time he opens his mouth. Apparently there are still a couple of people in the world who have learned nothing from the results of his other product announcements including but not limited to "self driving by next year" for the last decade, "bulletproof" glass that can't stop a baseball, and "you'll be able to use your Tesla as a robo-taxi and have it make money for you on the side." These few credulous individuals must exist, because otherwise we wouldn't keep giving him press.

Forgive me if I start sounding like Thunderfoot, here, but where's everybody's 2nd gen Roadster, asshole? Have you refunded those preorders yet? You can't even manufacture the cars you promised everybody that would only go along on the ground.

I suspect the real reason that there was nobody in that car is because it was a prop, stripped out barely functional shell to save weight.

It’s not actually interesting if you’re actually interested in progress that’s useful to mankind and not just masturbatory and ridiculous novelty accessible only by chuds that just exist to show off their ill gotten wealth.

It doesn't fly, it jumps. Those are not rockets, it's compressed air.

I am excited, however, to see people having their day in court due to this machine. "Technically, your honor, I went over the red light, not through it."

You couldn't pay me enough to get into that thing.

FYI if anyone was curious this "collaboration" is actually just his way for muddying the waters between Tesla (who is hemorrhaging money) and SpaceX (who is propped up by Gov Contracts thanks to his political connections) and Xhitter (a way to avoid political campaign contributions tracking).

The dude knows Trump is losing power and his money can only keep him out of trouble so much and he fucked up mixing money/resources between companies.

Literally going to be another Elizabeth Holmes.

It's so comically stupid that I don't even have anything else to add other than I hope Elon personally tests every single one of these coming off the production line.

So what much needed public infrastructure project is he trying to torpedo now? Amtrak is doing well. People are biking more. Better try to distract some people with this moronic thing.

Buzz lightyearmobile. This is not flying, it's falling with style.

Far from the first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car

you gotta admit this is pretty interesting

Well compared to yawning, mold and the movement of sand dunes I suppose it is.

Meh, if you want to jack around with aviation and live on the edge, get a paraglider, gyrocopter, or another ultralight.

It's not the first by far. There are plenty of small series flying cars. All in the range from 100k to milliions of $.

A EV called the McMurtry Spéirling can do that “drive upside down” trick:

A fan under the body + adaptive curtains suck it to the ground like a vacuum cleaner, for extra grip on tracks. IIRC they have patents on the curtains, so Tesla isn’t doing that.

Doing it with compressed air or whatever is… actually kinda impressive. But it seems like it wouldn’t work for very long, and like a significant safety hazard in a crash.

There have been more than 1 working flying car prototypes in the past so it's actually not the first one. The problem with a flying car isn't even getting a car to fly; it's how you're going to regulate it for safety when everyone has one.

... but will it go to the Titanic?

Does ali-baba sell manpads?

Whats interesting about it? The possibility to become the worlds first airplane-car-accident victim? Or the excitement of waiting things to malfunction and blow you up?