I genuinely don't even know who that demonstration was for other than 12-year-olds. None of these cars have any practical or road applications. Where are you going to need to flip your cap off of a ramp or over some cars? It's so fucking stupid.
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Okay, I know I could look this up indvidually, but for those of us who missed it, what happened today?
They did a demo of the new roadster model; they've strapped a suction fan and HPA thrusters to it so it can do 0 to 60mph in under a second, drive up walls, perform a running jump over a semi-truck without a ramp, spin and do a standing flip.
They demoed a car that was loaded with a shit load of compressed gas, then they had it do a kick flip over a line of cars and a semi truck. They also drove it up a massive inverted ramp and then had it flip over and land smoothly.
Looked cool as hell, but has absolutely no practical purpose other than allowing Nazi Musk to get headlines saying they have a flying car.
Tesla released a ‘flying car’ video, I think.
There might be some niche situation where it's helpful but that's not even relevant because there's no way it would be legal on public roads in most places. I also strongly doubt that it would be able to do it safely and compensate for different weight distribution of the vehicle with different passengers and such.
Was today's event designed to cause the drop for someone's benefit?
Wouldn't be surprising!
Fully self driving stock
Fully self diving
Did Tesla jump the shark today?
That's quite the y-axis zoom.
Apparently their Q3 earnings report comes out next week, so I guess they tried wheeling out the vaporware car to make number go up before whatever's in that earnings report hits?
I was wondering why they're announcing something for 2028 production.
it was originally supposed to come out in 2020. But they've been taking $50,000 reservations for it since 2017. So who knows if it'll exist in 2028
Glad I sold all that shiz when Elon went crazy
Time to buy.
Bravo. True LOL over here. xD
A good reminder to buy the rumor and not after the big thing.
Buy the dip. Some retards will make it go back up