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trencedamp • yesterday at 9:02 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> At most it makes you fall in the water in the correct orientation.

They showed a still of the submarine car from James Bond as inspiration for this.

That's the roadster they should have built. This compressed air jumping thing is impractical and dangerous and will never be road legal. But a submersible car would have actual practical uses, increase survivability in several accident situations and not face the same regulatory hurdles.

If they were actually trying to build something cool I think that would be the play, but everything Elon does now is to bump stock price


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user43928 • yesterday at 10:56 AM

What's the supposed practical use of the submersible?

I imagine that if you were to crash your car into a body of water, the damage could allow water to enter the normally sealed vehicle anyway.

That does not really sound cooler than a car that can drive up walls and jump.

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