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[–] 64 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Who the fuck believes anything that comes out of Elon Musk's mouth?

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

    The "flying" tesla exists, though - there was a demo recently.

    Now, it only has 1 seat, isn't street legal, is being sold on an invitation only basis for an undisclosed price, and uses compressed air to "fly" so it can't do so for any sustained period - so you won't see what the meme describes.

    Also the versions that are legal and actually would be sold at best have some jets of air on the back to make them go faster, but that costs like 250k USD.

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

    Flying and jumping are different. That car landed and rolled but didn't fly. The Wright brothers flew further than Tesla ever could.

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

    Right after they finish the self driving.

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

    me watching a tesla roadster blow up because they hit a pothole

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

    "Pothole" being the codename for a homemade antitank mine that only goes off when it detects the Bluetooth MAC address of a Tesla roadster driving over

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

    It's probably never getting sold, it's definitely not going to be road legal if it is.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    Lmao. Single use boosters for that trick wont get us flying cars in 100 years lol

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

    Even if they can fly, don't think they could go over other vehicles without killing people. That downward force has to go somewhere.

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

    Because everybody knows to dive out of the path of overhead helicopters lest they be crushed.

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

    There's a reason helicopters lift off from heli pads and not traffic jamed streets in the inner city...

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

    Apples to oranges comparison. Look into how helicopters generate lift, you seem to be misunderstanding the physics of the situation.

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

    Or maybe I misunderstood your comment. To me, it sounded like you were responding to the objection that the Tesla’s cold thrust nozzles exert downward force by pointing out that helicopters do the same thing and nobody gets hurt. My response was based on the fact that helicopters also generate downward force/thrust, which is why people keep their distance from a helicopter taking off... which is also why a Tesla taking off in a busy street is a terrible idea.

    So either you’re contradicting yourself now, or there’s a misunderstanding here.

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

    Definitely lots of misunderstanding going around. The meme makes no mention of thrust nozzles, that's just crazy dumb for any kind of flying car that would be landing anywhere with people and a clear indication this is all just vaporware at best or fraud. Regardless the person I was replying to was specifically referring to helicopters only, and so was my comment and people are in no danger of getting squished by an overhead helicopter (unless it lands on them).

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    Watch, the EU is gonna make it functionally, if not actually, illegal, if it isn't already, to have a car that can jump^[1]^ like that.

    ^[1]^: read: accelerate downwards at less than 9.81 m/s^2^ if unsupported by a solid thing beneath

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

    When they first come out, there will probably be stories of people trying to do that but then crashing when they run out of compressed air but the traffic they are trying to avoid is still there and not leaving them room to land. Assuming they even maintain enough control for that to be relevant.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Is this some future pov bs

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

    Adam Something did a video about this 3 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fcWOivJ6bs

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    *Watching it crash into you.

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