Tesla Roadster

Will this car ever ship?

I absolutely detest the leadership and what he is actively doing to this country... but holy fucking shit. I want to reserve one, but when you're broke as a joke... ooph.

Did anyone else feel like Elon and the execs just didn’t really even bother trying with the presentation? The car is a unique and incredible achievement so on the one hand, they’ve earned the right to embarrassing-divorced-dad gas-station-flowers it during the reveal presentation. Maybe they could have been even sloppier, and literally just a-whooped and a-hollered and shouted “this is cool as fuck!” and it would’ve been just as fine.

Part of me though wonders what this would have been like if it had been a slick sciencey presentation that paid real tribute to the talent below the smug denim C-suite. A bit more Engelbart or Feynman or Sagan and a bit less Balmer, Bezos, and Bozo the clown.

Showing the world your flying car is a moment to shine as a serious person. These men seem to be actively trying to not do that!

Ok, it's cool. Now, why Musk betrayed Ukraine?

Incredible.

We are a nation of dullards, entertained away from our real problems by billionaires jingling keys in our faces.

They combined all of the things that Formula 1 should never have restricted in one car. Damn impressive.

When I first saw the car slowly invert and stay inverted on the ramp...."what the heck am I looking at exactly?"

Amazing suction power. Waiting to see a video of its crazy turning power.

If it allows me to fly over a traffic jam, I'll buy it

I have to be honest, I am a bit dismayed and sad to see so many negative, hostile, demeaning, and minimizing comments about this announcement. It really makes me sad, because without big dreams a society will cease to grow. It seems that either thick ideological lenses or righteous "this won't be mass produced" optics won't let some of us here appreciate the incredible anymore. I found the flying car awe inspiring and it made me dream and appreciate the incredible feats of progress our civilisation is capable of. I for one welcome our God of demos of awesome tech and honestly fuck everyone else.

Who is the impressive to? 12 year old boys and Elon Musk?

I'd buy one for the police chases. Hell yes. Not that I'm in the billionaire invite-only inner circle, and not that they'll ever ship it.

"grok, my flying tesla is dirty and there is a carwash 50 metres away. should i walk, drive or fly?"

Just don't press the button where you have wires over the road... or anything hanging over the road... like signs...Don't press the button when you are about to go into a tunnel... or inside the tunnel... Also, check your passengers have finished their shakes, coffee, and other liquids...

Elon should read Anti-Grav Unlimited. It's a good book, actually a very good book. We want that tech. Time to invent the antigravity rods. AI is here, sorry, SuperIntelligence is here, AGI is on the doorstep, just ask the SOTA models to figure it out.

cool asf

This is pure marketing fluff. No way in hell this would ever make it into a street legal car.

How come this totally cool thing with 397 points is on the third fucking page being #65.

Anyone really wanting to give more money to Musk?

He recently shut down Starlink, weakening Ukrainians.

I really don't think people should feed that billionaire any more, no matter the reason.

It's a cool demo and all but I can't help but feel like it's not that impressive considering these companies control such an absurd amount of capital and this is all they can do with it. A stunt for a launch showing off features that obviously won't be in any real product.

A lot of public funds go into these companies and it just feels like they are playing around with toys instead advancing humanity. I sometimes wonder if we are not allocating resources very efficiently.

The homies have had flying cars for years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJDQURYkSvc

So, almost 10 years after the reservation for this version of the Roadster.

Jaw-dropping stunts aside, I am really disappointed with where all modern car design is going. What is that ugly low poly shit? The previous Roadster concept had a style, it had sex and taste. How did we get from there to here?

This thread is insane. I'm seeing people actually acting like the world's biggest conman is going to deliver a car with thrusters on it. They have given it 2800 comments worth of attention and counting. It is the most commented thread on HN in a year, and I only went back a year in my search. No, it's not lost on me that I just increased that count by one.

My guys. Talking about how it's going to work and the merits of cold gas thrusters on cars is moot. I assure you that you will never, ever see one of these sold to the public or on the road.

Oh look, not street legal.

Fun demo, never will see the road. There's a billion ways this can kill scores of people instantly.

Pretty big nothingburger. Production starts 2028 and honestly, the taunted feature... it's not a flying car, it's a jumping car. Do people actually want this for themselves? I'd wager the valuation would go down after this presentation.

> Our multi-mode fan and ground sealing system acts as a downforce generator, pulling air out from beneath the vehicle. This provides enough suction to hold the vehicle upside down, even when stationary.

Bullshit, no it can't.

> Advanced cold-gas thrusters use all-electric actuators to offer precise thrust, completing micro adjustments within a fraction of a second. This helps stabilize the vehicle in flight.

In flight? What? Did I miss the joke, or what? It's a fucking car... The image even shows it hovering off the ground. How is this not blatant false advertising?

ETA: okay, skimmed some of the livestream. These is absolutely no way that any of these features will ever be part of a production model. People get serious whiplash injuries just from being rear-ended at low speed. What do they think is going to happen to the occupant when they tell their car to jump over a semi and do a fucking barrel roll? Seriously, what are we doing here?

"Tony Hawk would be called, we call that the kickflip."

Uh what? Rodney Mullen invented the kickflip

Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/LC97wdQOmfI

Stupid fucking shit I've ever seen. Meanwhile civilians are dying in Ukraine from Elon dropping starlink/starshield from them

I predict the next James Bond movie will be a Tesla ad.

Will it even be maintainable? Never mind the rocket fuel...

Will the frame itself hold up?

I wonder if the jets will be able to assist breaking or control of the car in emergency situations.

I'm sure having a bunch of rocket engines, fuel, plumbing, etc, on my car will make it great in the twisties. This is such a stupid compromise.

turbo boost

Can you imagine being behind this thing and the air blowing rocks and shit all over your car?

Now put six of them in a field and throw in a huge soccer ball.

oh man, this is so ugly.

Nobody needs that kind of acceleration on a car designed for use on public roads, and anyone who uses that capability in the vicinity of other people or vehicles deserves to be arrested. Its just criminally dangerous.

Like the Cybertruck, this is just the Musk "fuck you, get out of my way" worldview realised as metal and plastic.

What a wonderful illustration of the technofeudalism that many seem eager to push our world into. That doesn't diminish the engineering feat it embodies, in fact it rhymes pretty well.

Clearly, the coolest car demo of all time… and once again: hacker news, trying and failing to shit on it. It’s gonna be a road legal in Dubai.

Idiotic all around. Truly american.

> An invite-only "Rocket" variant is a single-seat model with a "full flight system."

Tesla should be sued into oblivion over "full self driving", but after that, if you believe this nonsense and buy one that's on you.

"Jumping the shark" is now officially shamed by "jumping the Tesla"!

An innovative way to make some whoop-de-dooping billionaires with extra cash to spare land upside down on their rooves.

I cant wait to see what type of batshit crazy motorsport series they invent for these.

This is probably going to be banned in EU, like the cyber truck. But, yeah.. kund of meh looking design and obviously i will have nothing to do with anything elon related.

DHH post incoming

SpaceX have great inertial measurement units and cold gas thrusters. We get it. Musk remains a fascist and can keep his cars.