The suction can only work on a cleaned track. On a standard public road, they have to deal with capturing and disposing debris.

Thankfully this will never hit the road, it's just market manipulation.

When you get into an accident with another car, the explosion of that 10 kPSI tank behind your seat. will make sure you are the coffee. You know...Engineering...

Not spilling coffee during a roll is a solved problem: https://youtu.be/V9pvG_ZSnCc

The one with the actual rocket engine is not being sold to the public and Tesla website explicitly states it's not legal to drive it on public roads. It's mostly just a cool demo/prototype and I'm sure there will be privately run tracks that let people drive one.

The generally available car will have cold-gas thrusters which boost acceleration but is nothing like what was demo'd.

Teslas already have very strict (annoyingly strict) gating keeping specific functionality off of public roads (Summon). The drag mode thruster-assisted boost will probably leverage that. I also imagine that cameras on the car would stop it from being engaged if it detects humans in its firing area even when not on public roads.

The flying trim will never be sold to general consumers. Even the rear-thruster trim is currently listed at a $250,000 pre-order fee, which is a deposit for a fraction of the full cost of the car. Final cost will be over $1M. Any of the thruster variants will be extremely rare; like, the one guy in your city that has one will show it off at car shows twice a year, McLaren P1, level of rare.

And it's sure going to increase the blast radius when these get into a collision. Even if you can't fire the thrusters, that pressurized tank can't be safe.

I’m no Musk fan but I found it cool and try to balance my negativity towards the person with what I’m seeing.

Plenty of ways to maim/kill people in traditional cars already and I doubt this will be the most common one in roadsters.

This thing is covered in cold gas thrusters, I'm betting it can go around a corner faster than almost any other car. The limitation might be G forces on the driver. Maximum performance may only be achievable in self driving mode.

> when it weighs 1.5 tons.

Are you referring to the Tesla Roadster? Because, if not, I am pretty sure that most EVs, except for maybe small compact EV cars, usually weights 2 tons or more.

yes, you can, if you think like an engineer. they have suction mechanism, low center of gravity that helps you to beat any ICE counterparts.

You can't call this beauty of engineering a muscle car.

There is a video where it is flying over some other Teslas. Actually taking off, barrel roll and landing

It flies the same as a chicken. Cushion and long jumps but not flying as in flying car or plane.

"It's not flying, it's falling with style!"

I think this is pretty unique demonstration for something that theoretically may be street legal one day.

yes it cushioned the fall, but not sure if it was overly modified beyond realistic car weight for production / public.

Yes, you missed the middle of the video.

> other companies are catching up

Catching up? BYD has already surpassed Tesla and looks like the gap is going to continue to grow.

Absolutely, but an even more likely explanation is that he's going to "acquire" Tesla with Space X and pay a premium (on top of the 330 P/E!). The SEC in this country is completely useless. Sure you can't invest in private companies if you're not an "accredited investor" but Musk is free to scam trillions of dollars.

> One explanation is he is a trillionaire and the 14 year old in him

At this point it's not clear that there's anything other than a 14 year old in him. A greedy, sociopathic 14 year old.

More like they've strapped us to the chair, and now are dangling the keys trying to convince us it's our moral failing that the keys are in our face.

That’s if it doesn’t kill you

If you still believe FSD doesn't work, you're operating on outdated intelligence. Frankly, like a boomer saying that email doesn't work.

Twitter wasn’t bought to conceal the loss in valuation. It was bought so Elon can influence the populace with his narrative.