Comment by chis
1 day ago
How about the part when it drove upside down on a ramp, launched into midair and then used controlled thrusters to land with near-0 vertical speed
1 day ago
How about the part when it drove upside down on a ramp, launched into midair and then used controlled thrusters to land with near-0 vertical speed
Its pretty cool but its not like its a flying car in the sense of a production car/aircraft. And even then it's like temporary flight.
Edit: another user in this comment section said "This is not a flying car. It's a falling car. It's good at falling though."
I think the downforce fans themselves are notable and pretty impressive however. It's like a McMurty
It would be interesting if they could add the RCS to the production model and have it solely as a "safety" feature if you fall off a cliff or need to break or something. I have a hard time imagining how you would integrate the flight control systems without designing the whole vehicle around it, so maybe it could have some "automatic landing" program.
What about it?
I want to live in an alternate reality where this question can be answered.
Elon has been working on this for ~8 years
How long would it take another company to do the same?
Just the engineering alone is impressive regardless of beliefs but this posting has so many Eore replies that makes me wonder if I am one of the few not miserable people on the planet.
There’s at least two of us!
From one non-miserable person to another: the trick to a happy life is to not engage with people whose minds cannot be changed. Tesla haters and Apple haters are on that list, and you’re replying to someone who is both.
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Depending on the money and team 1-5 years?
But what does that matter how much expertise went into this car? We don't know how expensive it was for them to build it, we don't know how long it took them to build it.
And just because someone builds something fancy, it has to also deliver any value.
If i would have gotten millions and billions of dollar 20 years ago to build a charging network, a handfull of car factories and an EV, i would have achieved that too.
I would love to see an alternatie reality of this.
Musk is not a genuios he is not stupid either for sure, his biggest asset is the money from his dady, his ignorance, his unconventinal thinking and luck.
He is also responsible for plenty of tesla drivers to die, apparently there were enough excuses that he never had to go to jail for that while other old companies would never risk this.
He is also responsible for humans and kids dying through DOGE and USAID. He also doesn't has to go to jail for this.
And now he might poisen our atmosphere with his massive amounts of rocket starts and the ones he is planning.
Again, no one stops him. Why? Because he bought everyone he needed.
But hey, he moved money from random people into a show clap clap
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