• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      The “flying” tesla exists, though - there was a demo recently.

      Now, it only has 1 seat, isn’t street legal, is being sold on an invitation only basis for an undisclosed price, and uses compressed air to “fly” so it can’t do so for any sustained period - so you won’t see what the meme describes.

      Also the versions that are legal and actually would be sold at best have some jets of air on the back to make them go faster, but that costs like 250k USD.

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      4 days ago

      “Pothole” being the codename for a homemade antitank mine that only goes off when it detects the Bluetooth MAC address of a Tesla roadster driving over

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    When they first come out, there will probably be stories of people trying to do that but then crashing when they run out of compressed air but the traffic they are trying to avoid is still there and not leaving them room to land. Assuming they even maintain enough control for that to be relevant.

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      3 days ago

      I’m imagining one trying to bypass traffic on a bridge and going sideways, crashing into a river.

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    5 days ago

    Watch, the EU is gonna make it functionally, if not actually, illegal, if it isn’t already, to have a car that can jump[1] like that.

    [1]: read: accelerate downwards at less than 9.81 m/s2 if unsupported by a solid thing beneath

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    5 days ago

    Even if they can fly, don’t think they could go over other vehicles without killing people. That downward force has to go somewhere.