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Imagine if that guy who stuck a quadcopter inside a taxidermied cat said "we have invented flying cats!" and investors handed him a trillion dollars

it's cool in the same way that they have a real web-slinging spiderman automaton at Disney World, i.e., a stunt fake

he finally solved the problem of tesla autopilot driving off a cliff, just not in the way anyone expected or asked for

watching it several times I'm fairly convinced that it is a "real" demo of a car-shaped rocket drone

Wow. The overdue Tesla KLANborghini has arrived. Time to trade in your “coal roller” Dodge Rams

Twitchy groupies upon seeing his car fly:

Dear, God, Your clean children don’t ask you for much, but could you please convince your child Elon to make this compressed air thingy standard in all future Tesla EVs, Cyberpenises and all of his shitty robots and robo-taxis? Amen.

yeah like as a practical special effect? genuinely pretty cool. what does any of it have to do with any product that will be available now or ever? why even ask

It wasn’t flying though, it was cushioned falling on a not real car. Flying implies, you know, flying.

I think it shows that they understand the "product" that they are selling to their actual "customers". i.e spectacle/hope/dreams/coolness to investors.

*Elon’s engineers produced it

Incredible that the press fall for this. Yahoo ".. the Nine of Diamonds appeared inside a piece of fruit on Harrison Ford's countertop."

If it was something they let their engineers do as play this would be very cool. As a thing actually pushed from the top? No, businessmen are supposed to be serious.

They said the “rocket” version of the car will be available to order “by invite only.” I doubt you’ll see one unless you’re friends with an Emirati sheik. At best, it’s going to be an amusement ride for test tracks and not actually drivable without an engineering crew on hand.

this would be my guess as well. a car shaped remote control rocket...thing bsky.app/profile/jack...

I floored my i4 from a stop and felt nauseous for the next 30 minutes. Probably says more about me than the i4, however.

what is supposed to happen to the person behind you at the red light when you set the rockets off

It's not that impressive tbh. This would be a homework problem for a mechanical engineering student. The only impressive part is that he had the money to blow in order to he able to do it irl.

yeah the aerial package is not street legal, apparently takes up much of the cabin, and probably won’t ever be actually for sale. and the speed thrusters might not really be, either bsky.app/profile/tysc...

My reaction is why did they waste resources on this? And then I remember he’s just a conman who never delivers on anything that matters and then it makes sense.

I can assure you it is not a car, and it is not doing that

I already got too loud mufflers goin down my street ..dont need this

I'm looking forward to Musk bros launching themselves down the highway at 380mph. May help clean up the gene pool.

youtu.be/ei7XcUXphJk The Duke boys didn’t need rockets and thrusters…

Yeah, I can see people jumping over traffic in a US city. Who the hell needs this? Stocks raising on this shows investors are crazy.

I would be surprised if they actually start production in 2028.

What version of the flux capacitor is it running? 🙄

He should have made it able to transform into a fire breathing robot dinosaur that can eat cars...

and yeah like you suggest, of course who knows, but it would make a lot of sense if nearly every spare gram of mass and interior volume were stripped out to lighten the angular momentum and make room for tanks, etc.

Quarter million? That's on you for buying a used one. You never know how they've been maintained.

parents’ rights

It only works as a boat if you have Bioweapon Defense Mode enabled, duh!

Once again, no one is asking for this shit. It's Homer's dream car all the way down.

Oopsie 🫣

Also - LOL, LMAO

This is exactly the kind of wildly impractical thing that I’d expect Elon to produce.

Maybe not fake as in it actually happened, but as a product launch for Tesla it was about as relevant as shooting a circus performer out of a cannon.

finally a car for those of us commuting through the Emerald Hill Zone