The wildest part? It’ll (probably) kick flip over and into an accident; it’s not like the speed direction is going to change with those thrusters.

You know, like games where you go left to avoid something and right into another object or pit.

“Set the cabin temperature to 72 degrees.”

Car: “The holocaust didn’t happen”

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?

So this Tesla rocket flying car thing I'm hearing about is actually taken seriously?

Like, actual human beings with brains actually believe this shit will happen? I mean, come on now... You have a brain, evolution given, please, use it?

This is another musk thing. Elmo tells obvious lies, his groupies will repeat it as fact ad nauseum, the news sites will obviously publish said nonsense as fact because of course, and three weeks later people will have forgotten about the next bullshit lie from Elmo. Rinse and repeat, he has pulled this bullshit off dozens of times now and he keeps getting away with it. Other people would have been sued into the ground but Elmo? Nope. I guess the guy has charisma or something (the something doing all the lifting because claiming that musk has charisma is just idiotic)

Mine does.

So, you suck? 🤔

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.

What's obvious to some is a revelation to others, let them have their moment.

It's a supercar, being practical isn't the point.

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.

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.

No, you blow to compress air, you suck to decompress air.

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.

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

Caps do not appear to be larger or heavier than before but what do I know.

You could have spent 10 seconds googling this before typing all that. They literally do.

Your comment on CO2 makes no sense

You do know manufacturing is a major contributor to CO2, right? ....right?

https://www.politico.eu/sponsored-content/more-plastic-more-carbon-more-cost-why-attached-bottle-caps-are-not-the-way-to-fix-waste/

And even provides is own reaction mass

And smaller battery pack to compensate for the pressurised tank and a compliment for Melon Husk small dick.

I usually stick to water/tea/coffee, so when I buy something, I'm probably treating myself to a milkshake. I say this because it's only a problem with thicker liquids and drinks that are shaken, but no matter what, that shit is dripping from the lid on my face or shirt, unless I drink in the most awkward angle or enact some uncouth acts with the lid first.

I don't think posting a link to a sponsored article does help your argument.

It uses an electric compressor.

You have to be in the air longer than Kitty Hawk to call it flying. I don't make the rules...

Sponsored by..UNESDA. Literally the same association that fought for this in the first place. This helps my argument immensely.

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.

That's not flying. That's falling in style.

"sponosored content"
Do you have a source for your claims or only an ad?

Of course the beverage industry did not like it. It was new regulation while the only one benefitting being the environment, with less hard to ckean waste. That does nothing to raise their profits.

The comment made no sense not because it is unknown that production causes CO2 emmissions but because you threw in a single weight number without any reference and then drew from that a conclusion about increased CO2 emissions. The ad and its delivered to order contract study actually writes it more cohesively, interestingly. What I find fascinating is that you went for the max value instead if quoting the range in that ad. Apperently you considered the numbers in the ad not convincing enough.

I doubt that flying thing had much inside other than what was strictly required for that stunt.

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.

There have been other flying cars

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?

Im not putting it past America

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.

"It" does nothing of the sort.

But yes, it's likely that an electric cryo pump would be used to fill a feed tank at the fuelling station, I wasn't expecting it to be fuelled by unicorn farts.

Now, since apparently we have to walk this step by step for you, how do you think the electric compressor is powered? The clue is in the name "electric", if that helps.

And for your gold star - try to work out where "electricity" comes from. In the US. You know, "clean coal" country.

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, and this one's well-intentioned at least.

It is, in fact, not a car. It's a stunt vehicle that was disguised as a car.

They're like pirates

but it made like five flips over the video! It makes for almost a minute of flying! ~/s-for-god's-sake~

yes, I would doubt about the brain part, but overall, yes

Sponsored by UNESDA, the same association that fought for this in the first place. I picked the max value because it's 9 months old data. Surely by now it's even higher than the max.

Why are European associations and organizations writing such articles "an ad"? What exactly are they even advertising? That they themselves were wrong?

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.

I was on vacation in a country without attached bottle caps. I put my cap down somewhere and spent a few minutes trying to find it. It was irritating, but I guess you get used to it.

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....

those metal flaps for opening beverage cans were a serious problem

wait what do you mean? are they changing those as well?

There's this stupid incentive in the Netherlands now where people with an EV charger can get ERE certificates for every kWh they charge, which they can sell for money to the government (I believe). Oil companies then buy these certificates so they can pretend to be green.

And of course everyone with a charger wants this now (you do need a charger with certified meter), because for them it's free money.

To be fair, the caps do piss me off when they mess up me pouring a drink for the 100th time. But yeah, I just pull them off. I never threw them out separately anyway (who tf would do that???).

What's the banana myth?

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)

If they fought for this in the first place then why did they sponsor an article discrediting themselves?