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can’t build a car that drives itself because it crashes and kills people and wants to amaze us with this dog and pony show of a car that can fly out of control and REALLY kill a lot of people. Fucking excellent job heir musk. Is this what you’ve been wasting billions of our tax dollars on? This bullshit? Hey, while we’re on the subject, did you finally stop killing monkeys and (later on) the unfortunate Mexican immigrant who came across your Texas property? That brain chip thing. You killed a LOT of critters with that one. And Mars. Fuck’s sake. Idiot talk from start to finish - and yet, MORE of our tax dollars for that dog and pony show.
and you want us to believe this tripe too?
Oh, and before you go sulk - what’s the ‘gas mileage’ like? Five minutes? Two?
OUR goddam tax dollars for THIS shit.
heir musk
You mean herr musk, heir musk is whatever little crotchspawn he picks to take over his shitheel legacy
Is anyone else mortified by how such an obvious and blatant attention grab can so easily captivate the attention of literally every circle of the internet?
I actually didn’t see any news on this except for some coworkers asking if I saw it. First time I saw it was yesterday… on lemmy. So maybe we should do better here and not talk about it, like at all? Delete this post and move on?
Everything I’ve seen has just been about how stupid this thing is.
You should look outside of lemmy. In my circle people are genuinely impressed.
Folks on YouTube seem unimpressed as well
Not really. They made an actual flying car, and that’s just plain awesome.
We know it’s an attention grab, that’s the entire point of doing a product demonstration. You’re not special for noticing that, in fact it’s so obvious most people don’t feel the need to comment on it.
10 seconds of hovering ain’t exactly flying. It would have been impressive if they framed it as these are the thrusters we’ve been working on to help land on Mars, heres what we can do with them on a car.
Instead Musk just goes we can kick flip a car!!! The same presentation goes from interesting tech to eyerollingly cringe. Absolutely a cool tech but has no business being sold in a car road legal or not. It should stay a prototype tech demo.
but it made like five flips over the video! It makes for almost a minute of flying! /s-for-god’s-sake
There have been other flying cars
They made an actual flying car
“flying” is doing a lot of those heavy lifting, like 2000kg lifting. It’s like saying Buzz Lightyear from Toys Story can fly.
That space convertible shows that it was an actually car with seats and everything. All the clips I’ve seen showed a sealed cockpit and tinted windows. So it could have esially been an empty frame with is lighter to do those stunts with
Yeah, I think it was basically the RCS unit from a Space-X rocket stuffed into a car-shaped frame with some parts from an electric golf cart glued in there to move it around on the wheels.
And smaller battery pack to compensate for the pressurised tank and a compliment for Melon Husk small dick.
You have to be in the air longer than Kitty Hawk to call it flying. I don’t make the rules…
“an actual flying car” “product demonstration” lmao
It’s neither a flying car nor a product that will ever be sold on the market. Crazy how gullible the average person is.
I bet you’re one of those people who insisted FSD was right around the corner 10 years ago.
This is a Flying Car. Musk has built a Fast and Furious jumping stunt car.
not really, they also launched a tesla to mars awhile back
yea, they were discussing in a game im playing the other day, they actually believe it. if it wasnt an obvious distraction from MUSK TURNING OF STARSHIELD/LINK BY TELLING TRUMP TO DO IT.
They believe what? That there was a car using RCS thrusters to quasi-fly made by Tesla?
If you don’t believe that, then you’re detached from reality.
It’s a cool demo, but if I were holding Tesla stock I’d be kinda peeved
And you should be! Stock got a solid bump from this idiot demo and then dropped below opening price. :)
Yeah, because they’re obviously dumping a lot of engineering money into it, but it’s something that will never be practical, will probably never be legal to use on actual roads, and will never sell in any significant numbers.
Meanwhile the Chinese elites are flying around in personal drones. Actual flying vehicles.
In comparison the Tesla demo is like tying a horse to the front of a locomotive to show off the fastest horse in the world.
It’s quite sad how much him being involved in everything USA is holding us back.
Most Tesla investors are the kind to be impressed by such a stunt.
Musk made his fortune showing shiny things and making false promises to investors.
This comic has been posted in every single fucking community that’s even remotely relevant, and many that aren’t. We get it.
Also, it uses cold gas thrusters with compressed air as the propellant, so the carbon footprint is similar to driving any other EV.
so you are telling me that the energy to keep a car in the air is equivalent to move a car on wheels? hmmm interesting…
No carbon footprint if it uses solar, wind or nuclear energy.
That’s just straight up not true, you need to build the dammed things and that leaves s big footprint.
Okay so what do you want to do? Go back to the stone age? Get of your phone and follow the ways of Ted Kaczynski.
How about just acknowledge the obvious downside and not making stuff up, dolt.
So it’s either out-of-control consumer production or back to stone age? No in between?
The in-between was disregarded over a nitpick for it not being “perfectly” carbon neutral.
That person would complain because the carbon footprint of my fart is too big.
no but I think the point was that the gas wasn’t compressed in the car, the same way the electricity wasn’t produced in the car, there’s no direct carbon emissions just indirect ones primarily from however that country is generating its electricity (as the air compressor that was used to charge it probably runs on mains electric)
The plan is for the vehicle to have an air compressor on board, I don’t know if the vehicle in the demo has it though.
But yes, compressed air is typically electricity with extra steps.
I don’t get the point of this comic tbh. I’m no Tesla apologist, but it’s compressed air. Besides we all know this is in no way really going to be widely available.
I’m also pretty sure the demo car doesn’t have a heavy battery with the full range. Probably stripped down to the absolute minimum weight to pull off these stunts
This is the E3 demo of car demos 😂
You can see the underside of the vehicle during the demo. It’s hollow with a metal lattice.
To be fair that’s probably by design. The demo roadster uses McMurty fan style or “active downforce”. How it works is that it sucks the air out from under the car creating a low pressure chamber under the car which makes the outside pressure force the car closer to the ground creating a lot of downforce and traction.
The fan design also made an appearance in F1 where it won a race and got instantly banned.
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All of the energy used to create a stupid car kickflip is for something completely useless and waste of resources that are most likely polluting. That is being contrasted with the attached cap that is forced on people to reduce pollution while the rich fucks do whatever they want.
The caps are not attached to reduce our carbon footprint but to reduce overall pollution. I don’t like when people paint over such issues with a too-broad brush.
Also what idiocy did Me-me-me-lon come up with now?
Car that breaks your spine when you drive it
I like the caps being attached because it means you can’t lose the cap. It didn’t even occur to me that it might have to do with littering
Never in my life have I actually lost a cap, but I have been splashed in the face multiple times by those idiotic attached caps.
Me neither.
That said, up until they changed it, those metal flaps for opening beverage cans were a serious problem, and I could imagine that many consumers are less considerate than me wrt plastic caps as well.
It’s just a small part of the ongoing enshittification of real life products.
those metal flaps for opening beverage cans were a serious problem
wait what do you mean? are they changing those as well?
No. I’m just old enough to remember that they did change for very similar reasons.
Yeah same with environmental protection and climate friendly. Of course they are connected but nuclear energy for example is climate friendly but still bad for the environment.
And the people who aren’t precise enough about it are usually out to ridicule people who do care about the ecosphere.
ever wanted to drive on the ceiling, doing sick somersaults and corkscrews?
He built a wannabe K.I.T.T., I mean the jumping, no talking luckily. Also as fake as K.I.T.T. Its only purpose was to push the stock, like always and to do anything but a compact, cost efficient EV for the masses.
No talking? All the new cars have Grok built in unfortunately. They do, in fact, talk.
Now I seriously wonder what voice it talks in. Just the standard, bland stuff?
Or like Hal 9000 maybe? I’m not sure the K.I.T.T.s voice was all that memorable.
I hate to admit it, but I think I would actually like some very Elony choices. Unless he’s removed all vestiges of being a hapless nerd and only thinks in ragebait nazi anymore.Not that I ever wanted one of his, or in fact any talking car.
“Set the cabin temperature to 72 degrees.”
Car: “The holocaust didn’t happen”
I doubt that flying thing had much inside other than what was strictly required for that stunt.
It is, in fact, not a car. It’s a stunt vehicle that was disguised as a car.
Have you looked at the price of a model 3 lately? They’re about the price of a moderately equipped Civic… You’re not wrong about the stock thing though
In Europe the model 3 costs double if what an entry level EVs cost. Sure, they have less range and stuff but that’s what I was talking about, some affordable entry level car that delivers the basics and not more.
Some bored telsa engineers got drunk with space x engineers, then Elon found out
That’s not flying. That’s falling in style.
Why is this car being called a Roadster? It doesn’t even appear to have a removable top. That would make it a coupé.
I am beyond sick of auto manufacturers removing the convertible option. Stop taking all the fun out of cars!
I pity my EMS brothers who will roll up on a car crash, that now has a massive pipe bomb to spray bits of flaming lithium in a half mile radius.
Well done Tesla. The Mother of All Car Bombs will be ready to roll off the lot next year you say?
Billionaires have no fucks to give about anything except mean tweets. They weirdly seem to care a hell of a lot about those.
The point is that there are tons of consumer products being made annoying so we can all feel like we’re doing our part. Meanwhile, the people generating the most pollution continue to do so.
Sure, it was compressed air. But the power required to compress the ~3 seconds of air thrusters could have driven an electric car for over a hundred miles.
Musk has perfected the art of bedazzling people with precision controlled compressed gaslighting.
The anti-EU narratives have been pushed so widely, also by Musk himself, that even comics like the one above are spreading them uncritically. The tethered caps are not about reducing xarbon footprint but about reducing waste in our environment and high costs of cleaning effort. Yet another EU myth, especially popular among tech bros btw.
Yeah - they did a survey on european beaches and checked which plastic items they were finding. And then they tried to find a way to solve the issue by regulating the production. They did find a lot of bottle caps and plastic q-tips and then they did something against that. That is a really good way of doing things.
The attached cap is also really convenient. Never have to worry about dropping, losing, or dirtying the cap
anti-EU narratives
A bit rich from someone who loudly proclaims Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is Ukraine’s fault.
That said, anti-EU memes using the tethered caps myth are commonly found on right populist sites, so no, it is not a conspiracy.
It’s the US fault actually, they’re nothing but body bags as Soros explained
So you think the US is at fault for Russia deciding to invade Ukraine?
And you feel the EU is destroying an unspecified “us”?
Who do you blame for the US attacking Iran? What about Israel’s genocide on Palestinians?
Maybe I’m trying to make sense of the nonsensical, but I can’t say I’m following the reasoning of your worldview
anti-EU narratives
I believe this one is anti musk
Maybe so, but why is it spreading BS about the tethered caps then? The same way anti-EU memes from tech bros?
I think littering and contributing more plastic waste into the environment can definitely be considered part of a person’s carbon footprint. More indirectly than burning gasoline, but it reduces recycling and requires more manufacturing and natural resources than if the plastic wasn’t wasted/littered.
In any case, it’s a pretty big stretch to label this content as “Anti-EU”, at worst they used poor word choice to make their point.
If they had said “to protect the environment” instead of “to reduce my carbon footprint” it’s the exact same comic. Tesla/capitalism is the butt of the joke here
Because ignorance? I guess when I weigh these two in my head, ignorance wins but idk
is that bottle thing a real thing? I noticed that on some of my recent water bottles and I’ve got to say, I’m absolutely livid about it.
It’s certainly an irritating change. If it actually makes a big a difference as the granolas say, whatever I guess. But I have doubts about it’s effectiveness. Use a nalgene or something reusable.
You get used to it
For around a year now it’s been mandatory in the EU
