Comment by gf000
19 hours ago
What does it prevent? At most it makes you fall in the water in the correct orientation.
At the price of your passenger seats being occupied by gas tanks, that surely are safe in a collision that's far more likely occurrence.
It's PR stunt, nothing more.
> At most it makes you fall in the water in the correct orientation.
They showed a still of the submarine car from James Bond as inspiration for this.
That's the roadster they should have built. This compressed air jumping thing is impractical and dangerous and will never be road legal. But a submersible car would have actual practical uses, increase survivability in several accident situations and not face the same regulatory hurdles.
If they were actually trying to build something cool I think that would be the play, but everything Elon does now is to bump stock price
What's the supposed practical use of the submersible?
I imagine that if you were to crash your car into a body of water, the damage could allow water to enter the normally sealed vehicle anyway.
That does not really sound cooler than a car that can drive up walls and jump.
Well, maybe not submersible, but if it could even float and move in water it essentially becomes a boat which I don't need to explain is a practical mode of transport.
How many times have you been in traffic waiting to cross a bridge or driving around a body of water wishing you could just go over it?