r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Al2t0rr3 • 21h ago
The new Tesla Roadster just took flight, performing a barrel roll over a Tesla Semi
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u/E_D_K_2 21h ago
"this will be an actual car that's on the roads"
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u/matroosoft 17h ago
They actually said this:
Someone asked: will it be street legal?
They said: depends on the street
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u/Disastrous_Minute_56 14h ago edited 11h ago
Oh yeah, that 0-60 time totally checks out. You can just jet-wash every car, pedestrian, whatever is behind you into oblivion, those are just poor people that don't really matter. NHTSA is totally cool with compressed air gimmick cars loaded with 3,000+ PSI pressure tanks blasting their way around the public highway system. This is totally plausible and not at all another one of Elon's stupid public stunts meant to generate investor-hype from dimwitted cuk-simp investors. It's a real thing, and those windows weren't overly tinted to stop you from seeing the interior of the car, which not completely full of tanks for a one-time BS demo. Not at all. It's all real, and Elon is a genius.
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u/Tiyath 19h ago
Like that self driving car that has been one year away for 14 years?
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u/DistinctMatch1433 18h ago
But there's plenty of self-drive cars and cabs on the road?
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u/juniorjaw 17h ago
Plenty of them, but not from Tesla and not following the actual statement : Full Self Driving, not just self drive.
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u/8JHF8 20h ago
This is a cool trick for a car in a movie, but it would never be safe to allow on the road. I don't understand why Tesla stopped developing new models that would sell and be profitable. A Sprinter type transport/delivery van. A mid size traditional pickup. Motorcycles. I think they abandoned their core business to play games and burn money.
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u/Prior-Flamingo-1378 19h ago
Teslas product is their stock
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u/Bluegrass6 16h ago
I work for a not sexy publicly traded company ans our stock is also our product. In large companies there's a stratification of the customer base. My customers are the people buying, selling and using our products. My bosses boss and above have a different customer.....shareholders. If you ever question decisions made by large corporations and believe them to be bad business decisions, remember it is being done for shareholders not for the actual customer
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u/tankerkiller125real 14h ago
The funny part is that long term doing right by the customers that use the product tends to result in better results for the shareholder.
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u/Wonderful-Process792 15h ago
Ideally managers' and customers incentives align. I know reddit does not believe that at all, but Ford lasted the previous 123 years by selling cars and trucks people chose to buy and that is a fact. This stunt is amazing but yeah the gulf between it and why somebody would buy a car is massive.
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u/Bankerag 14h ago
When the idea of Shareholder Value as a guiding corporate principle took over, the goals of the two groups diverged.
Maximizing short term profits, which is the effect of adopting shareholder value as a goal, means that you no longer care about the customer experience or quality of the product.
You care about hitting a revenue and profit target for next quarter and that’s all you focus on.
The decline in service and quality products across the spectrum can almost universally be traced back to this idea.
Boeing killed people chasing profits. And they are not alone.
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u/LostEnd 15h ago
The thing is nobody cares about lasting 123 years. It's all about getting your stocks higher and then jump to something else.
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u/ijbh2o 12h ago
This stunt was just that, a stunt. The car basically achieved instant lift with just gas thrusters. Since that is the case I highly doubt it was an actual "Telsa" with a battery. It was a stripped down shell of a car not a nearly 2 ton EV.
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u/Stone-Throwing-Devil 18h ago
If you interact with any publicly traded company you are not the customer. The shareholders are the customers, you are part of the production line.
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u/DonArgueWithMe 17h ago
No other company is as wildly over valued and untethered from their actual sales figures as tesla.
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u/Antique_Lifeguard_26 18h ago
They "just" used the tech from a moon rover, amped it up, pressed it into their concept car and made it do this trick for the presentation, this is not going to be in the car, it is just marketing and synergy when you have both a car and a space company. Not shitting on the engineers, still pretty impressive but it has nothing to do with the actual production vehicle. Also Elon is a cunt regardless of course.
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u/Wonderful-Process792 15h ago
Just like that!
Same as all the other cars that did it before.It's not amazing this "could be done." No physical laws were broken. It's amazing they did it. It shows that some cylinders are firing in and between these companies.
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u/LittleKittenR 15h ago
EVERY single car company that sells in America and Europe stopped making "cheap" cars because they cost basically the same to make as expensive luxury cars... (the infotainment system is not that expensive to invest for a 5x-10x sale price)... and they all cartel decided that they were going to make only luxury cars now.
Specially because the infotainment system has a "becomes shit date" that bluetooth players without lcd screens doesn't have.
They literally had the worst year yet because the market, instead of going in and accepting it another year in a row just decided they can't AFFORD tu buy new LUXURY cars with an expiration date.
It's so weird. I own a 2004 Toyota that does everything just fine that I used for about 20 years.
The new one is fine but a light went out and it's 300 dollars to change because it's a "led" but... 300 dollars??? Come on.
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u/MeatyMcWagon 13h ago edited 12h ago
yeeeeah NGL those infotainment centers annoy the shit out of me.
Example: Rented a 2026 Mazda CX-5 for a trip. Had a lot of bells and whistles. The "Infotainment center" takes up the entirety of the middle console. The only analogue button is the damn hazard lights. Everything else is incorporated into that bigass screen. And I'm sorry but I can't take my eyes off the road long enough to adjust the environmental controls. I should be able to reach my hand down and change the temp without needing to take my eyes off the road. And don't get me started about the frickin' sun glare off the screen.
People are distracted enough with phones. Now they're building distraction devices into the car. It's ridiculous.
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u/paulcjones 11h ago
As a happy 2016 Mazda CX-5 owner, that giant screen is why we now have a 2026 Subaru Forester on the driveway instead of a new CX-5.
Although, the eye sight stuff in Subaru yells at me any time I try and find stuff on it's giant screen, although it does at least have a few useful buttons and dials.
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u/Lord_Montague 14h ago
Every year this song becomes more applicable to my 2012 Mazda and I wouldn't trade it for a car from the last five years:
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u/Interesting_Fee5012 15h ago
Dacia would like to have a word with you on that. Citroen and Renault are also still making cheap cars
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u/GfunkWarrior28 13h ago
Good to hear. They just aren't well known in America.
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u/jawshoeaw 13h ago
I bought a Tesla 4 years ago and it’s been a great car. Definitely not a luxury car but it tows my boat, has good sound system. It cost me quite a bit less thanks to government incentives. I would not buy one now.
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u/AStuckner 9h ago
I have a 2003 f150 that I bought 15 years ago with 135000 miles on it for $5000. 6 years ago the motor went out and I paid $5000 for a brand new one installed. It now has 300000 miles on it and no issues except a couple squeaks from the suspension. That truck will drive my daughter to college in 10 years
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u/DudeManMusic 4h ago
Dude for real. I'm driving a Crown Vic Police Interceptor now, and it's so gloriously simple. I love it
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u/Superseaslug 8h ago
My personal fleet is a 2003 Prius and a 2002 Subaru Forester. 9500 total for both and have been quite good to me
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u/tendimensions 8h ago
Except, by the rules of "free market capitalism", that should leave a market void a competitor can swoop in and fill. China has entered the chat.
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u/pallentx 14h ago
It’s all stock manipulation and maybe justification for merging Tesla with SpaceX.
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u/BRICH999 19h ago
Or even like idk the roadster they showed off in 2017 when they started taking deposits
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u/Batbuckleyourpants 19h ago
Musk doesn't actually care about making money except as a way to fund his goal of colonizing mars.
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u/The_Doctor_Bear 15h ago
If that’s even remotely true it would only be because he could turn mars into some kind of whites only club house for his new breed of nazism.
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u/Wonderful-Process792 15h ago
Or something. He places his ego above making money sometimes. He could easily be wealthier if he wanted to stifle certain impulses a little. I think Tesla would be worth more without him at this point. As to Tesla, FSD advances are more relevant than this aerospace stunt.
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u/Occult_Asteroid7 16h ago
It's a meme company for owning the libs. A guy with infinite money making a car do a kickflip. I am amazed. I am soy facing right now.
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u/zeroconflicthere 17h ago edited 15h ago
The cyber truck is an example that Musk just treats Tesla as a playground. That and this are only about keeping the share price of Tesla unrelated to profitability
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u/LowAffectionate8660 19h ago
Just look at any Tesla product which came after the model x. Clearly there is a brain trust thing going on at Tesla HQ. They've exhausted everything eberhand, tarpenning and gang envisioned but have failed to iterate on them. And evidently, they are very content with their situation as year after year, despite losing almost every inch of ground to competitors, their share value and payouts have appreciated. People are not buying TSLA because they'll be mad profitable or revolutionize anything, but because they expect to sell their shares at even more inflated prices
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u/Reasonable-Fail5348 15h ago
Because they know they can't compete against big auto once the continental shift to electric has been completed
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u/disruptioncoin 12h ago
I do kinda hope they at least put the rearward thrusters on a track model. Neck braking acceleration, as if it didn't already have that. No traction? No problem. Of course even if people kept it off the roads it's be a matter of time before someone walked behind during a launch and got their skin blown off by 10kpsi air. Or at least caught a pebbble in the eye 100yds back.
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u/SnooMaps7370 16h ago
> I don't understand why Tesla stopped developing new models that would sell and be profitable.
because Elon is desperate for people to view him as a super hero instead of a child fucker.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Day_895 18h ago
In any case, anyone buying a Tesla (especially in European countries like mine in 2026 is deeply looked down upon after knowing who it is you're supporting.
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u/The_Perfect_Fart 16h ago
Thats why I only drive cars with no ties to racism, like Volkswagon and Ford.
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u/Timely_Paramedic_268 15h ago
while wearing my hugo boss and holding my chinese phone
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u/MeatyMcWagon 13h ago
That's why I don't drive cars, with ties to dinosaur genocide.
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u/GaiaIsaHarshMistress 18h ago
They are common here (NorthEastern US) and don't get much commentary.
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u/Gratuityspine_1779 14h ago
Lol hate to break it to you but definitely not a real thing outside of Reddit.
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u/bimbammla 16h ago
Most common vehicle on the road in Norway is tesla, no one really cares
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u/WwertyPolk 16h ago
Not true. Certain privilaged vocal sectors of European countries so. Most of us just want a good car. And i dont see most car companies having great pasts. I mean the CCP run ones are morally superior in your eyes?
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u/Glockamoli 16h ago
Did people forget about the ones who were founded by or supported literal Nazi's?
Those didn't really seem to bother them
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u/UpbeatPhilosophySJ 15h ago
Instead they but Chinese cars. I think they’d be horrified about what they are actually supporting if they thought about it.
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u/clarkcox3 14h ago
By "The new Tesla Roadster", you mean "a largely empty frame that only exists for this demonstration and isn't actually a real car".
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u/AtticHelicopter 11h ago
There's video showing them assembling it. The interior is just air tanks.
Physics continues to exist. There's no way this can be a car AND do what it does in the video.
Y'all are getting monorailed.
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u/WillfullyWrong92 20h ago
I wanna see it during the day
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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 19h ago
There was good reason this display was under the cover of darkness
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u/LunaNymphOtaku 17h ago
Me when it detects a pebble on the highway as a dog and launches me straight into the side of a bridge
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u/I_Love_Peen 20h ago
Reminds me of the scene in Ironman 2 when Hammer Industries exo suit twists the pilot in half.
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u/Allie_Lane 18h ago
I bet they did everything they could to make this car as light as possible. Like just one motor, just enough battery to get it rolling, no interior or safety items, and I doubt those thrusters could do that for any real amount of time. If Tesla's "unveiling" history is anything to draw a conclusion from, nothing here is what it seems.
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u/Material-Home-5839 17h ago
My thoughts too.
- This is just one of Tesla's 'Keep Elon busy' projects, the same thing all his companies do to keep him out of their hair. (remember launching a roadster into space, anyone?)
- Just imagine the liability if it did work. The car launches itself over an accident into a tree, a building, an overpass. And this is to say nothing of any items inside flying around causing injury. Tesla could generate enough power to feed the entire tesla fleet just based on the spinning of heads from every lawyer who take a look at this.
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u/thedaveness 15h ago
Hitting this button to avoid an accident right after picking up fast food for the whole family 🤣
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u/yobishthatsmonica 13h ago
Now imagine 5 or more people doing the same, thinking this is how to get out. Going to be more accidents with air collisions at some early point
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u/rlf1301 16h ago
Made of balsa wood.
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u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 13h ago
That car is so light it makes it look like Ai, in fact I still don’t fully believe this is real based on how utterly fake the weight of the car looks. It would be really cool if it didn’t look so fake.
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u/pineapplesarepeoplet 15h ago
Exactly! I bet its even worse than that. I would be surprised if it was even a car inside. I am imagining just a shell over a drone/rocket frame. I wouldn't be surprised if yhe wheels can't even turn.
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u/maringue 18h ago edited 10h ago
Apparently this is why we can't allow China to import EVs that cost 8 grand. So Elon can show off the most useless, probably staged bullshit I've ever seen on a car.
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u/yaboyACbreezy 17h ago
It's staged. No probably about it. It's on stage lol
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u/cheesesprite 14h ago
No, they just happened to be filming when the car went crazy.
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u/ershki420 12h ago
My old Volvo does this sometimes as well, I just haven't caught it on camera yet
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u/Mnawab 14h ago
A lot of those Chinese EV‘s are subsidized by the Chinese government. Those cars don’t cost 8K if they were made in the states or ship to the states.
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u/Most_Wishbone_8725 11h ago
Think you meant "can't" allow, not "can," right? It's a good comment but should fix that typo.
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u/TheDamned1333 21h ago
what a load of hollywood bollocks
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u/ReturnoftheSpack 20h ago
Its to distract from his promise of self driving cars 10 years ago
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u/Great-Gas-6631 17h ago
Whoa, its interesting how many people still fall for their staged stunts.
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u/seweso 20h ago
How stupid are Tesla investors / fans? How much over promise and underdeliver can they handle before they get a clue?
Sigh
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u/poppolis 15h ago
Remember when Reddit was a pro-science and tech website and not a bunch of Luddite whingers.
Crazy how different reactions to this compared to back say in 2010. Normie invasion.
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u/Low-Razzmatazz0302 14h ago
Nah Elon just pushing dumb shit now. This universal studios ass demonstration was only meant to entertain room temp IQ individuals.
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u/babyjesus8lb60z 18h ago
So a shell of a car filled with gas canisters great got it
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u/amarathin 16h ago
NASA budget redirected to Tesla commercials. This is what we have instead of maintaining civilizational wonders like the ISS
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u/moramajama 17h ago
Why do these videos look like AI? I’m not just talking about if it’s possible for a car to do this (I’m sure SpaceX could make this happen), but the lighting, frame rate, and the precision of movement all look fake to me.
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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek 16h ago
Thats why they had a live audience there to testify that it actually is real
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u/Drug_fueled_sarcasm 14h ago
Like when David copperfield made the statue of liberty dissappear. No way to fool a live paid audience.
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u/ThereInAFortnight 13h ago
There clearly was a way to fool a live paid audience.
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u/Master_Bayters 20h ago
Here it is. Elmo's lattest distraction from "I shut down the Starshield because I'm a POS". Stop giving attention to that trash
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u/TheOmegoner 17h ago
They still haven’t put LiDAR in their self driving cars, it’s all a show
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u/Zirkulaerkubus 20h ago
But why.gif
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u/Ambitious-Career-445 18h ago
NGL this would go hard during a car chase in a James Bond movie.
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u/chrrrollo 17h ago
Let’s just say this does become road legal, imagine coke fuelled spoilt rich kids doing this to get out of traffic and thinking they can make it out but then end up landing on a suv of a family.
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u/Fabulous_Log89 16h ago
Hilarious to see a bunch of narrow minded idiots justify why something that is objectively amazing is actually political.
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u/Feline_Couple 15h ago
Also pointing out how it’s not safe for the roads! Everyone is very concerned here… this is amazing space engineering on a car, just watch and admire.
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u/poilk91 15h ago
It's a super cool demo, it's not a real feature though. They are using RCS thrusters from spaceX they aren't going to be on the actual car
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u/Polygamonopoly 15h ago
You think this is a real product? Holy fuck we are cooked as a society.
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u/International_Box193 15h ago
Nobody said it’s a real product. When did we reach a point where shit can’t just be cool? You just watched a car fly and do a barrel roll and you’re mad someone thought it was a cool spectacle.
We been making things that are cool for the sake of it since humans could mold clay.
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u/Future_Geologist5925 12h ago
Its pointless trying to point it out to them. People no longer have a sense of whimsy, wonder, and will just let something cool exist in a vacuum. They think that if you aren't "talking about the political and economical state of the world" at all times, you must not care about it. Lol
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u/AquaNoot 19h ago
Say what you will about Elon, but the scientists that align with that kind of guy are always good at their job.
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u/crappydeli 16h ago
Was there a human driving the car and what is the condition of the driver’s spine following the take-off and landing?
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u/Objective-Pick8240 16h ago
Don't let this distract you from the fact that thousands of owners have paid for yet to be delivered features for their rolling fire bombs.
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u/joetothemo 15h ago
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that the Tesla semi is a bigger threat to truck driver jobs (and safety) than immigrant drivers.
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u/Suspicious-Can-7079 15h ago
That is kind of funny to think about, imagine putting in a deposit years ago and all you get is a 10 sec clip of them doing a barrel roll with it.
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u/Remarkable-Diet-7732 19h ago
The plebs will sure be impressed. The day Musk does something I can't do better, I'll be impressed.
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u/wtyl 19h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZQMVKzoTLdNBu
What’s on the screen when you hit the jump button.
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u/tinklemute 19h ago
These should be used exclusively for real life rocket league demolition derby matches
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u/BackgroundCream274 18h ago
We are so fucked as a society. Now we’re gonna have idiots flipping cars in the air killing women and children. This isn’t something that should be released to society for our own safety. Why don’t they add a flame thrower for an add on I’m sure that’s a great idea.
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u/saraswatraavi 18h ago
if the same would have been done by porsche everyone will be like '' yes go deep in me, this is the end feel the earth moving then''. This is one of the most beautiful method to get motion sickness and tesla did what world never ever be able to do.
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u/Technical_Fix_4835 18h ago edited 9h ago
Wait why are we patting Elon on the back for this. Literally in the 1980s F1 teams knew you could put a fan on a car and it would create insane downforce. Furthermore, compressed air is hardly earth shattering.
So let's recap Elon scaled up the golf car, stuck a fan on there based on what F1 did, and then fired compressed air shots tied to an accelerometer/gyro. This is not impressive this is just pointless. Let us stop treating this moron like some visionary and more like just a moron.
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u/SerozshaB 17h ago
Man! They're getting creative at distracting people from releasing the Epstein Files
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u/bugabooandtwo 17h ago
I've seen better special effects in the 1950s.
I hope no one believes that actually happened....
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u/handsome_uruk 17h ago
Yall gullible AF its wild! I'm sure some of yall having been sending sending you paycheck to Nigerian princes.
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u/LifeIsProbablyMadeUp 16h ago
Y'all remember when musk was showing off how durable the glass was jn the cyber truck and he broke it?
How fucking funny would it have been if that car was just a wee bit too low lol
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u/imnojezus 16h ago
Remember when Elon said he’d pay to solve world hunger if there was a plan, so a plan was made to feed 42 million people? Now people are still starving but we have a car that does barrel rolls.
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u/OGablogian 16h ago
So I just got back from Lego World, where they currently display this amazing 1:1 sized Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear. It actually drives up to 110 kmh. That's more of a car than whatever this is. And we're not gonna get Lego cars on the road either.
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u/JakeCheap 16h ago
Like is it cool? Sure. Well it make it to production? No. Tesla cannot meet deadlines if their lives depended on it.
Also Elon stays one of the worst public speakers I’ve ever heard. Truly incapable of speaking confidently. Also he’s a Nazi.
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u/n1keym1key 16h ago
All Teslas have that "Look at me, Please!!! I am a massive CUNT!!!" look about them. Its in their DNA at this point.
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u/Chewsdayiddinit 15h ago
Still waiting on all the autonomous, safe, cats and those Mars bases that nazi douche has promised for years.
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u/HandofFate88 15h ago
Musk, n.
- A greasy secretion with a strong odor, produced in the glandular sac of an otter or civet and formerly used in the manufacture of cosmetics.
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u/its_Zuramaru 15h ago
I can imagine Elon going to the engineers and asking them to add that, giggling thinking it's the coolest shit ever.
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u/Bifferer 13h ago
Musk has poured $158 million into Ken Paxtons election in Texas. Both are POS and anyone that buys a Tesla (new- not pre DOGE) is an ass.
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u/Comprehensive-Eye500 20h ago
He says it will be in production in 2028.
https://giphy.com/gifs/jH6s9HMMi53dSdI73r