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[–] 76 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Not to mention the "flight" capable model is purchasable by invitation only.

Just like the previous Roadster, this will never see the light of day.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    The previous Roadster was at least a good looking car that never existed on the market, unlike the new abomination that may also never exist on the market.

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

    The first generation Roadster wasn’t designed by Tesla, it was a Lotus Elise with the combustion drivetrain removed.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I popped onto Reddit to see what the Tesla sub thought of this. The amount of fools who actually seem to think this flying car will ever be made is comical.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago

    Distraction from the musk documentary

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    You deserve more upvotes than you have

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Lemmy generally doesn't like Seinfeld, on account of the whole dating-a-schoolgirl thing and the being-kind-of-a-dick thing

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  • [–] 60 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)
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    Elon claimed he never meet Ghislaine Maxwell or Jeffrey Epstein, then this photo came out proving he had at least meet Ghislaine and his ex-wife confirmed they'd stayed at Epsteins mansion in New York so he obviously knew him.

    And we know Elon's brother and investor Kimbal Musk not only knew Epstein but dated some girls he set him up with and they talked about Kimbal introducing him to Elon.

    Then this email allegedly between Jeffrey Epstein and Elon Musk discussing an apparent kung fu practice with Ghislaine Maxwell was introduced as evidence at a trial. Elon claims its fake but he's been caught lying so often it's hard to trust his word anymore.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago

    "Your order & payment do not guarantee you a product. --The Management"

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

    Let's say they actually did release this and it worked safely. What's the use case for being able to jump 100 feet? I can't think of anything other than to skip in front of the car in front of you in heavy traffic, or in other words, to be a colossal jackass to other road users.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    None of the rocket versions (and probably also the "suction" version neither) will be road legal. The cold gas thrusters they use are incredibly loud (and unsafe for anyone standing around) and the fan system spits out any debris on the road towards the cars behind it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    FDA has decided it is okay to poison food and EPA has decided it's okay to poison the water..What makes you think automotive safety laws.will.be upheld?

    The car is ridiculously expensive. So it's not like a poor will.be driving it causing problems for.the rich.

    Pretty sure society has decided rich people.can.cause problems at the expense of others and commit crimes as much as they want.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    wait. they said the actual car will have them? I assumed it was only for the show

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Well the one shown was only for show, but they announced they plan on selling it as an actual car. (It has to be said, that they already had announced a new roadster car 10 years ago and haven't produced even one production ready car.. so better not take their plans seriously at all)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    If it ever gets produced, it will never be road legal. Its a meme to drive stock up, this is the use case.

    Of course, I am thinking of a future where Trump & co. isn't president who can allow something like this on the streets.

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

    It was a dumb stunt and one that doesn't show of the models unique abilitys or features. Supposedly if you are a stunt driver you can get it for stunts but I can't see many being sold as drivers like to use old cars because it's not a big lose when they make a mistake and crash.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Somehow even as a stunt car it's less impressive for the fact that the amount of precision required means that the whole thing is computer-controlled anyway. If I go to see a stunt car show I want to see stunt drivers performing with their cars, not just sitting in them while an AI does everything.

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

    Tesla don't give a shit, there's no money in these kinds of cars, this is just to goose the stock price.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    They only need to dupe very few to rake in lots more cash for elon. Can you imagine the huge amounts of energy required to flip, flop and fly that car? You'd probably get about minutes per charge or per tank.

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

    TSLA got a bump in price during the presentation but it closed the day even lower than it opened. :)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    The presentation was in the evening, even after regular after-hours trading. (Livestream was scheduled at 8:55 p.m. Eastern Time.)

    But you're not too far off, the first prices recorded in pre-market trading the next morning reflected a bump, and then that day closed lower than the previous day.

    A graphic showing the Tesla stock price from 2026-10-13 to 2026-10-16

    (the vertical bit is the jump from last after-hours price to first pre-market price)

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    Shouldn’t he focus on fixing his junk trucks that blow up and lock everyone inside in a fiery tomb?

    Rather than introduce some other super unsafe shit that’s not going to work correctly. It will be comical if they actual get this thing on the road, to see the videos of people trying to pass other cars with this flying bullshit and launch themselves directly into a freeway wall.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago

    We are going to build something. We dont exactly know what it will be, what specs will be, or what it will look like or if it will be built at all

    Give us more money.

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

    lol that’s not going to stop them

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (15 children)

    I am so dubious about the roadster demonstration. Was the car being operated by a human? If not, I wouldn't be surprised if the car was magnetized to the ramp and made super lightweight for the "booster jets" to work.

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

    I mean it is possible, as was shown in a demonstration McMurtry did. In fact, I would think it’s more difficult to use magnets to do that. I’d believe this is just a giant fan car.

    There’s no way that it gets more than like 3 minutes of runtime from a full charge with that downforce mode on, especially the flight model with all the extra weight of the thrusters and compressed gas tanks.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Tanks are probably carbon fiber, and the other parts are likely super light too.

    They did likely add a special secondary tank and gut most of the rest of the cars that 'flew'.... I did read somewhere that they only had 1 seat.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    so they say that the planned model you could theoretically buy “by invite only” with all the flying features would be a one seater. The model that did the demo was probably much much lighter than you could make a salable car. I do not think that it will be possible to kickflip a car that is gonna weigh around 3500 lbs. my guess is that enough battery and copv tank to perform the demos was probably less than 1000 lbs of car.

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

    I can’t find the article but…

    They never claimed there was a person. Musk even explicitly said it was remote controlled because they didn’t want to kill anyone.

    The ramp was supposedly suction. That seems feasible for a carbon fiber body.

    It’s all just a show, anyway. Probably an ego project ordered by Musk. He desperately wants to be seen as genius but has the most juvenile ideas about what that entails. Also, the demonstration to distract from the movie about Musk and his political machinations.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Even though i have no evidence Im pretty certain there was no human in it also what was used in the show was likely a machine specifically designed for the purpose of the show nothing close to a practical car outside of looks.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Remember, this is the man that sold his first company Zip2 by doing this

    "Ever marketing savvy, the Musk brothers tried to make their Web service seem more important by giving it an imposing physical body. Musk built a huge case around a standard PC and lugged the unit onto a base with wheels. When prospective investors would come by, Musk would put on a show and roll this massive machine out so that it appeared like Zip2 ran inside of a mini-supercomputer. "The investors thought that was impressive," Kimbal said."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Or that it weighed like 75 kilos, a gocart with a plastic shell.

    Anyways, from an engineering viewpoint it's utter trash except for a one off stunt like this, and even then it was super janky IMO. I sure wasn't impressed, I didn't really get what was supposed to be cool about it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    It's not even a roadster

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    PT Barnum'd them

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Noooo, you don't say?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Sometimes fascists need to learn expensive lessons.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Why are they still calling it the Roadster? It's a fucking coupé.

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    [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

    We need a new Henry Ford and instead we get PT Barnum

    Edit: ok Henry Ford sucks.

    What I mean is we need a new model t. An everyman electric. Instead we got hot wheels stunt tracks. Better?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

    So basically like the last Roadster they announced

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    Like the Trump phone 🤣

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    Read the fine print before giving a billionaire money

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

    I'm not sure they understand how reservations work.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=4T2GmGSNvaM

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago*

    just like the cybertruck was a fever dream until musk made it happen to offeset the cost of buying twitter.

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