Truly the technology capabilities of Tesla are amazing. Most of what you saw you will never see on the road. D.O.T. and .gov will stop it.

Nevertheless, the combination of a car company and a rocket company was briefly amazing.

RMD

Musk is truely the greatest industrialist of all time.
He makes things happen in real time that are just dreams in everybody elses heads.
I hope he stays on our side, and has a very long life. He will develop many things in the future that will hugely enhance our lives.

If I were an investor I would would lay money on it.
If I were a young person I would scramble to find employment in one of his company's.

On a side note, back in the 1970's Jim Hall who owned Chaparral racing in Midland TX developed "The Fan" road racing car that had a large fan underneath that sucked it to the track. It of course was quickly banned because it worked.

I was fortunate enough to go to his shop complex in Midland years ago to take pictures of his Indy 500 race car that Unser drove to victory. It was a Ad for Gabriel Shocks who were one of the cars sponsors. While there I asked Jim Hall about the Fan car, his face lite with a smile and he said to me, "you want to see it" I said YA!
He walked me over to a shed and slide the shed door back, there it was just sitting there full of dust. I wonder to this day what that car would be worth now.

You are sitting at a redlight and a car is closing on you from behind. Your Tesla leap frogs into the air and other car slides underneath you and misses you. Great safety feature. DOT approval +1

Regardless of its utility, and regardless of what some may think of Musk, this is an engineering feat you won't see repeated by anyone else for a long, long time. And maybe some spin-offs (no pun). Credit where it's due, Musk is a new order genius - maybe a mad genius, but a genius. Renaissance style.

Nice!

They have come a long way from an electric Lotus, but I wouldn't mind a stripped version of the McMurtry for the rest of us.

A light weight single seat short wheelbase car would be loads of fun**

**(Yeah, I know that I'd still be stuck behind the same friggen Toyota minivan in the morning, but can't we dream?)

Uh huh

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2111182348087947323

Starman in a Tesla Roadster:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...er_(40110304192).jpg

No one has ever accused Elon of being short on imagination or showmanship.

Fuck. Wow.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

Fuck. Wow.

Changing your mind about that BMW?

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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.

They are already selling them for delivery in 2028. The base car is $250,000 and the invite only car with thrusters and flying is $500,000......

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Uh huh

"..late stage capitalism..."

Anyone using this trope is disqualified from the conversation.

This is proof of concept that Tesla's landers will work on stellar vehicles.

No other country has an extraterra lander.

Always told my kids that I would find something extravagant to spend their inheritance on just before I kick the bucket. This is perfect!

Who would you rather listen to and admire? The guy about to stroke out because he saw something amazing or the guy who builds companies that accomplish amazing things?

Rolling lithium ion battery fire vaporware.

Law enforcement will have to change in 2028!

https://x.com/Mc_Gareth_911/st.../2111157722179641481

Ugh, the septum ring rule is in play once again.
That car is a proof of concept for interplanetary landers.
And SpaceX/Tesla is killing it.

Landing on the moon is closer to now than when the Wright brothers achieved controlled self powered flight.

So Elon has another nine years to really wow us. Kinda funny they called it a roadster when it really doesn't need a road.

Just a matter of time before some dude launches it off of the back of his yacht and lands it on the pier in Monaco or Dubai.

You know how many "poor people" could have been fed with what it took to produce that?

Way too goddammed many because they would just reproduce like roaches and make more "poor people".

Keep making cool sci fi shit, Elon!!!!!!