Tesla Roadster

Really disappointing to see such low quality discussion here. Feasibility aside, we would not be seeing such reactions even 5 years ago. Polarization ruins everything.

It is not a roadster. A roadster is defined as an open-air, two-seat convertible.

This one is a hard-top super-coupe and I recommend calling it the "Cyberwedge"

This reminds me of the time Elon Musk was only known because of the supercool stuff his companies did.

Yay the (almost) 10th anniversary of the 2nd generation Roadster reservations, and now it's got fucking rockets apparently?

How delusional are people? The emperor is not wearing clothes y'all.

That the supposedly smart ppl here get their knickers in a twist over this theatre piece is telling.

Literally no proof of this working in real world conditions.

I call bull.

Technology: spectacular, design: ugly as fuck

FSD doesn't even work properly TEN YEARS after it was announced

still tries to murder passengers jumping across traffic at shadows

good luck with anything Musk, you are the beta tester, if you die they'll debug it, eventually

I don't understand why they don't recruit an Italian designer...

Are you kidding me? That was real? I laughed that off as AI BS and went about my day.

Now that I have seen the new Roadster I want flying cars. Great work by Elon and Team!

Oh cool they released the roadster

Oh no, they are letting people “reserve” their roadster

How is anyone still falling for this grift?

Reminder: anyone reserving one of these then has 30 days to send paper mail to Tesla to opt out of binding arbitration, which is heavily anti-plaintiff biased.

fuck this retard

Nazi-funding explosive-gas car is still a Nazi-funding car.

All Musk cares about is Mars. The CT is going to be a Mars vehicle, that's why it looks like that by and large.

And this tech is simply part of the Tesla/SpaceX merge, and right in line with flamethrowers, tunnels, and chainsaws. It's going to funnel loads of cash his way, which was the idea.

We are truly in the dumbest timeline

Musk really is the master of fraud. Twitter gets bought by Space X to conceal the massive loss in valuation, Tesla gets pumped with endless "we'll have self-driving cars next year", for 10+ years... now that the Tesla bubble is finally popping he needs to dump it on the Space X/Twitter shareholders, so we get this demo of a thing that will never hit the road. Bag holders beware, Musk's masterpiece of market manipulation is about to execute with the merger of all his lies.

I need a cheap car. Sub 25k that I can use to drop my kids and get groceries and is electric so I can get some respite from these war inflated gas prices. Nobody is offering this. I dont need all the fancy gadgets and the flying and the jumping.

Looks like it truly is a K shaped economy. Flying cars for 1% and loans for the rest

Why the hell is anyone taking this seriously?

Hard pass

Now if he could just focus on such stuff and stop undermining democracy and working with fascists, he would be quite a cool guy.

> Ok, so it actually flies.

LOL. Enron Musk collect 1000x 250k pre-orders 10 years ago for a car that doesn't exist.

Now he made a stunt (doesn't fly) and the fanbois go "ooo it flies". And he'll collect 1000x 250k more. Great return on investment, truly genius businessman.

Amazing to see Elon making his childhood dreams reality. It's something to behold. I hope we don't lose that spirit. The amount of negativity is very worrying. One of the coolest tech demos in 2026 and it's on the 3rd page of HN morning after because of the downvotes.

Hackernews is full of losers and retards and this thread is a perfect example. Literally fucking flying cars and ppl are complaining that it's not realistic or it's dangerous or might not make a profit. Some of the biggest losers on the planet on this site tbh

If Doc Brown's time machine was real and posted here, HN would be complaining that it's noisy, unimpressive, not street legal, uninsurable, and attacking Brown's personal character because he's a dangerous nutcase.

As per Telegraph Musk has offered Trump the idea to slow down the Starlink, which resulted in deaths of many civilians.

Whatever you think about these advancements (like you could marvel at Nazi inventions), make no mistake. Musk and his Tesla should get fucked.

Having been raised watching the Dukes of Hazzard, I'm not impressed.

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I've never been so convinced by dead internet theory than I am today with this huge wave of bots advertising for Tesla today.

This demo took place roughly 30 hours after Starlink betrayed the Ukraine by dropping support for Ukrainian high speed intercepts and drones [1].

I don't see how we can discuss this demo without acknowledging that fact as well.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-burn...

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Wouldn't drive a Tesla if it was given to me.

European or Japanese cars all day.

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