I just want Tesla to deliver the Model 3 Premium that I ordered in July.

Tesla is frikin’ amazing.

Given how the Cybertruck looks, I could see this being near production ready in how the white car looks.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Have you ever seen an automobile do those things?

Different, but smimilar.
Car uses a fan to suck itself to the surface.
Also a single seater & $1.3M

I kinda hope you have to be a fighter pilot or an F-1 driver to own one. I wouldn’t want to be on the highway with Gates or Phil Knight driving one.

The demo itself? Maybe the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen.

ETA: Most incredible thing since Space X recovered a rocket booster by having it land back on a gantry.

Thoughts:

Will the Chinese take this as a challenge? What will be the results?

How much $ (if you have to ask)?

Will we ever be allowed to "fly" one in the US?

Who will be the first to die?

Tesla's new Roadster hung almost upside down 65 feet off the ground, let go, and caught itself before it landed. The only thing it used to stop the fall was air.

Without the thrusters, that's a bad two seconds. From 65 feet, about six stories, a car hits the pavement doing roughly 44 mph. Nobody was inside. Elon said the car drove itself for the demo "to make sure we don't kill anyone."

Watch the readout in the bottom left as it drops. It jumps to 3.1 G at 31 feet as the thrusters fire, which is about how hard you get pressed into your seat at the bottom of a big roller coaster drop. While that's happening, attitude thrusters roll the car right side up and thrusters at the corners fire straight down to set it on its wheels.

The tanks hold about 250 kg of ordinary air, crammed into two carbon-wrapped pressure vessels totaling 600 liters, the same kind of tank SpaceX flies on its rockets. That works out to air roughly 340 times denser than what you're breathing, stored at several hundred atmospheres. Tesla says it leaves the nozzles faster than the speed of sound and the system puts out more than 80 kN, enough force to hold up over 8,000 kg.

The white cloud it lands in comes from the air too. Gas expanding that violently gets cold enough to turn the moisture in the night air into fog on the spot. Nothing on the car is burning.

And the tanks refill themselves. Elon says the Roadster can pump them back up on its own, which means the propellant for that six-story catch was the same air you're breathing right now.

https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2110938030479638892

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Originally posted by konata88:
I find it both stunningly amazing in technical achievement and stupefyingly horrific in the hands of immature assholes on the road.

I highly doubt that will all be available on the production model.

One can only hope. I could see a big draw for it in movies and TV shows.

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Originally posted by HRK:
The tanks hold about 250 kg of ordinary air, crammed into two carbon-wrapped pressure vessels totaling 600 liters, the same kind of tank SpaceX flies on its rockets. That works out to air roughly 340 times denser than what you're breathing, stored at several hundred atmospheres. Tesla says it leaves the nozzles faster than the speed of sound and the system puts out more than 80 kN, enough force to hold up over 8,000 kg.

What happens to those compressed air tanks in a bad crash?

Li battery fire + highly compressed air = ??

All my childhood Hot Wheels playing has become reality. Wow!

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
What happens to those compressed air tanks in a bad crash?

Pretty sure they won't make final production, flying Teslas, just not a thing... Yet..... give Musk some time... Hope he names it the Jetson Mode...


https://x.com/TeslaKing420/status/2111046792640897173

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Originally posted by konata88:
...stupefyingly horrific in the hands of immature assholes on the road.

"Can you make it backfire repeatedly every time I slow down?"

If you're one of the people who put the $50k deposit down, for paid the $250k up front, you've got to be a little pissed at this video. "THIS is what you've been spending time any money on?" Where's my F'ing car!?

Truly Amazing!
Speed Racer made reality! I remember watching how the Mark 5 could drive on walls as well as jump over things. I'm waiting for the cutting laser beams instead of saw blades...

The 8 year old in me is downright giddy. This is AMAZING!!!

The 52 year in me see’s nothing to flaming death from above on a biblical scale.


Either or Musk is absolutely the real world embodiment of a Bond Villain and I support this. Somebody lease this man a volcano to build a lair……errr factory in.

Very amazing. Cannot believe we are at this level of technology.

George Jetson would approve.

There's a bug though. At 15:28 in the second video of the first post, a bug walks across the rear wing.

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Either or Musk is absolutely the real world embodiment of a Bond Villain and I support this.

Or Q.

Lordy! I like the looks of that Roadster in Orguss’s post at the bottom of page 1.

No external rear view mirrors, but with that big center touchscreen they’re not needed.

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Originally posted by architect:
Thoughts:Will the Chinese take this as a challenge? What will be the results?

They will make it for half price.

^^^^
And 15% as good.