Comment by grey-area
2 days ago
Yes, confident none of this belongs in a budget car. It’s not even useful in the roadster, it’s a gimmick, not flying but falling in a controlled way.
Nice pedantry on the thrusters in air, but I imagine the software here to orient the car quickly using thrusters was borrowed from spacex, the thrusters certainly were.
Again, none of this has a practical application - it’s like the flamethrowers- Elon thought it would be cool, so they made it.
> Yes, confident none of this belongs in a budget car.
Your confidence is empty.
Many "trivial" problems had to be solved to make this prototype. How many "smaller" ideas will end up in a budget car is something completely unknowable to you.
But none of the problems solved to do this are actually useful in cars.