Elon Musk set his Xverse all a twitter on Saturday by reiterating his aerial aspirations for his car company. “The new Tesla Roadster can fly,” he said in a post in what seems like a response to another X post on the social platform that he also owns. Musk first teased the concept in the ill-fated interview with former X contributor Don Lemon when he described the new Tesla as “something that’s never existed before” with “Jetsons vibes.”
As always, Musk is tight-lipped about details of the new whatever-it-is and his reaction to his seemingly straightforward post invoked skepticism and derision. Musk announced the new model electric car in 2017 and there is still no time line on its unveiling. Musk did reiterate that the new Tesla will accelerate from zero to 60 mph in less than a second and that it is a collaboration with SpaceX.
I’m all for progress and innovation. Go for it Leon! If SpaceX were building your Tesla flying roadster I be a bit more optimistic about its chances though. Leading edge entrepreneurship continues to keep life interesting. I’m sounding like a broken record I know, but meanwhile I just went out and hugged my 1946 Cessna 120, my 2011 Chevy Silverado, rusting fender wells and all, as well as our 2016 Subaru Outback. Again.
I suspect he was speaking figuratively.
He has suggested in the past equipping the Roadster optionally with cold-gas thrusters as used on their Falcon9 rockets for extra acceleration and even cornering. Presumably not for public road, use..!
As long as it clears the pad, he’ll say it’s a success. When will his slurpers finally open their eyes and see what a fraud and fascist Elmo really is? “But he’s building space rockets” is not justification for suspending basic standards of humanity or excusing outrageous and unacceptable behavior. Remember when he was “willing” to put the fate of Ukraine and every one of its citizens on the line based solely on the outcome of a wrestling match with Putin? Or when he cut off Ukraine’s access to his space-based internet because he somehow knows better what they should target to defend themselves? Why is the U.S. government still dealing with this dangerous megalomaniac? Why does he have so many bootlickers and slurpers who think he can walk on water and do no wrong? He’s despicable. Building spaceships or, more accurately, just being a part-funder of building them, is not a free pass.
Fascist “I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
The vast majority of the 6500 people Elon fired at Twitter were engaged in censorship. The Twitter files show that this was being done in direct communication with the Feds, and consequently unconstitutional. Censorship is a characteristic of fascism, so Elon is actually anti-fascist. He is also a marketer. When people say that a car can fly, the majority mean that it is fast. 0-60 in under a second is astonishingly fast. I would be very surprised if the roadster can leave the surface of the Earth under its own power, at least for more than the ballistic trajectory off a ramp.
People in favor of censorship are usually adamant that they are also right, ironically ignoring that when you give politicians the authority to restrict what people can say you also give them the authority to restrict what you hear. So you hear what they want you to hear, you think what they want you to think, and you believe what they want you to believe. You wind up with no logical argument that anything you believe is true. It is all propaganda, maybe.
The purpose of propaganda is to divide a population and engender hate. This keeps the population busy fighting amongst themselves while the purveyors pursue their nefarious goals. If you find yourself arguing black is white and engaged in emotional name calling, you might ask yourself if you are being manipulated and to what end.
Agree 100%. Well said.
Well said!
+1 Well Said.
+2 – Excellent reply
+3 Well said
And it not just politicians and the government. Savvy marketers and entrepreneurs are skilled at it too.
I think a lot of it is business people getting into politics and then wanting to use the same tactics with the public under the guise of government rules.
If you make a list of politicians who gave him public funds, I’ll be happy to not vote for them ever again unless I have to read more of your disgusting fetish language on this site.
We finally get a report worthy comment, and the report comment button is gone.
Is there somebody forcing you to log on every day and read the comments?
Musk doesn’t just talk the talk. He walk’s the walk. The guy is a hands down genius in just about every way. No other corporation, or, individual has come close to accomplishing what he has essentially done by himself. Everyone tried to copy him and they haven’t even come close.
Good luck to Tesla ‘n all that; go for it. But I drive around in a beat-to-crap 2001 Honda Accord that does everything I need, like driving many hundreds of km non-stop and refueling in 10 minutes flat, and I am extremely happy with it. If Tesla eliminated all the nonsense in their cars that I don’t need nor want and certainly don’t want to pay for, increased the range to that of my loyal Accord, and sold their vehicle for about the same as a cheap used car, I might bite. Until then, I’ll be buying cheap used cars.
I know that I’m just one data point, and the number of Teslas that I see makes it obvious that not everyone thinks as I do, but my data point is the only one that concerns me.
Agreed that driving a used car is probably the most economical way to do things, but I can tell you that my wife and I love driving our Teslas. I know they are expensive but they are so much fun to drive. I love never having to go to a gas station. Freshly charged car every morning. And with 406 mile range on my Model S, I can drive until my rear end is worn out before charging. And a stop at Buccees, well by the time I walk in to hit the head, grab a sandwich and get back to my car it has an additional 200 miles of charge on it. Just to be clear I didn’t buy the car to save the planet either. I still do plenty of gas guzzling in our company King Air 350i. Cheers
May I ask a couple of questions?
* That 406 mile range, is that typical or the advertised number?
* What’s a typical driving speed to get that range?
There’s a run that I do overnight, several times a year. Circa 900 miles, stopping only for two (sometimes one) 15-minute refueling breaks, and a one-hour break for a ferry. Average speed while moving is about 70 mph I guess, some stretches at about 90 mph. If or when an EV would let me do the run in the same time, then I might at least visit the showroom…
Elon has a new space vehicle in the works which will carry the “Tesla” name, with numbers which will easily meet the pre-release hype. Just a guess.
There already is a Tesla flying… in space.
He already went that route – remember Starman in Musk’s original roadster, crossing the earth in profile? I got an official Tesla T with that lovely shot…
…which can be found here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster_(40143096241).jpg
Edison wasn’t as public, but he cranked out a lot of cool ideas still in use daily.
I really liked that Musk moved Tesla’s headquarters and opened a large manufacturing plant in Texas, the most anti-EV and pro oil and gas state, in the country. And now he is calling for a red wave in November and wants to be an advisor to Trump, who ridicules EVs every chance he gets. Meanwhile Musk constantly puts down California, the state where he sells more Teslas than all other states combined. I just don’t get the guy.
Maybe it’s because California is an anti-business state.
I don’t think the humanity can ever pay Elon for what he has done for it. The least we can do is to increase his pay to at least $100.00 Billion…..
Why again does a car built for energy efficiency/low carbon footprint (etc) have to go from 0-60 “in less than a second”? (Also wondering what the insurance premiums would be.) Just curious, Elan …
I’m not sure I would trust a Tesla to drive, much less fly. Nichola must be rolling over in his grave at the cooption of his name.