Comment by gexla
2 days ago
I guess you didn't see the video of a car sitting on a ramp upside down, doing flips in the air, jumping over a semi and other cars...
Odd world we live in when we don't see that as being cool. But, we're seemingly headed there. At some point, it's going to be hard to imagine something that could surprise me.
<< I guess you didn't see the video of a car sitting on a ramp upside down, doing flips in the air, jumping over a semi and other cars...
It is weird. I am not fan of Musk, but one has to have some crazy blinders on not to give him credit here.
<< At some point, it's going to be hard to imagine something that could surprise me.
It is hard to believe your eyes -- I assumed it was magnetic or something initially.
Other demos, like the humanoid robot one, were entirely fake so wouldn’t be surprised.
Also wouldn't be that crazy for them to put together a demo that'll never actually be a production vehicle. Dunno why anyone thinks this will ever ship like this. One thing to market a car, another to just show off features that just wont be real.
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> I am not fan of Musk, but one has to have some crazy blinders on not to give him credit here.
Tesla does have ~700k other employees.
What exactly is your point here? That credit is not his to taken? That credit should be distributed between 700k employees? You gave me little to go on.
>> It is weird. I am not fan of Musk, but one has to have some crazy blinders on not to give him credit here.
For what? For an unpractical vehicle that now has the ability to launch and crush another car? If said to be true. As if driving wasn't already dangerous and stupid enough.
If he would show maturity for a change rather than his childhood antics then I would give him credit.
<< If he would show some and maturity for a change rather than his childhood antics then I would give him credit.
Man only manages to coordinate an engineering feat and your response is "why can he not offer something responsible like a lightly breaded toast"?
Beyond the obvious part where I say that his antics are part of the product demonstration ( roadster is space moment being another notable moment ), is your objection truly that he didn't come to the podium with a clipboard and say:
" Begin communication - it jumps - it go up upside down - it can go 0-60 in 1 sec End of communication."
Fuck man. Where has your wonder gone?
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>Odd world we live in when we don't see that as being cool.
What's cool about that?
I think that's extremely reckless, dangerous, etc.
Here you go: it's cool. A cool waste of money. You realize driving upside down and jumping is a) useless, b) illegal on public roads, c) staged? You think there are controls in the car that'll let you do 3D maneuvers? It's all preprogrammed.
The only half-usable feature here is super fast acceleration.
While you were busy getting baited by flashy non-features, you probably missed that this is coming out minimum 8 years late, with half the promised range, seat space, and the acceleration numbers all depending on unspecified consumable gas which you'll have fill up on somehow. If it ever comes out at all, what with Tesla's track record.
BTW, the reason you haven't seen this before is nobody in their right mind would have spent so much money on something this pointless, not because this is some cutting edge tech.
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I know you’re using a throwaway account but in case you come back to read this: we’re all tired of being scammed. Virtually every hot tech company now routinely overpromises and underdelivers. Some products are scams; some products kind of work but at great personal risk to oneself and others. The future we are excited about is one where technology SOLVES ACTUAL PROBLEMS.
Btw, I'm using throwaways because I want to keep a nice firewall between the new surge of doomer trolls on HN and my life.
Im happy to discuss and debate views
How is this scamming you or anyone?
It's an engineering demo. It obviously showcases impressive tech from several fields like automotive design, material science, etc.
Whether this turns into vaporware is something that will shake out in the future. Calling this a scam is jumping the gun.
> SOLVES ACTUAL PROBLEMS
Can you elaborate how the Mother of All demos suggested guis and networks and a mouse would solve actual problems?
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Politics comes first. If you are on the naughty list you will be bullied until you submit to the allowed thoughts.
> Technology
Panem et circenses
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