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Tom
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Tesla's Flying Roadster thread I guess

Tom@moll.dev

another clip of it "flying" over a bunch of other Tesla vehicles

Tom
@moll.dev

close up of the suction fan thing, apparently it's using an EDF to pull enough downforce to hold it to the wall

Tom
@moll.dev

longer video of the R&D, basically you have a composite, insanely high pressure gas vessel sitting in the mid rear of the car

Tom
@moll.dev

to be clear, they'll probably make like <10 of these demonstrators, they even say that the thrust version isn't street legal on their website. it'll be a track toy for billionaires and a marketing ploy to sell the base model to lesser millionaires

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Tom
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the infrastructure to make enough propellant to charge a cold air thruster is like 80-100k by itself and would be the size of a three car garage

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It's a pretty impressive stunt, but HOLY shit look at the huge tank they had to put into the passenger side to pull it off. Note there's a pipe that goes right across where the door would be. The driver is basically sitting next to a massive compressed air bomb 😐