@willfrancis24: Tesla just released a flying car! Here's what you need to know about last night's launch event at SpaceX in Texas, USA. So, the new Tesla Roadster, the latest version of their sports car, can only fly for very short periods of time, thanks to cold gas thrusters, which is an example of taking what they've learned at SpaceX and applying it at Tesla. It’s not combustible rocket fuel or anything like that. It uses tanks of compressed gas that is squirted out through nozzles in a controlled way to make the car be able to somersault, hover, or drop from a height and land softly. The rear thrusters also allow it to go from 0 to 60 mph in well under a second. They did it in 0.81 seconds in last night's demo at SpaceX’s test facility in Texas. The car also has a suction system to keep it stuck to the road, even when upside down. I did see a lot of comments like, "The douchiest car just got even douchier," because what kind of person would actually flip their car out of a traffic jam into a different lane? But that's the interesting thing about this launch event: it's kind of like applying the Mr. Beast content strategy to a product launch, where it's just great content. It's impossible not to watch. But that's kind of Tesla's thing. In 2018, they sent a first-generation Roadster into space, and it's currently orbiting the sun. It's about 60 million miles away from Earth. But people are rightly sceptical. The second-generation Roadster released in 2017 never made it to production, so I'd be surprised if this actually does come out in 2028 or ever. But if it does, there's going to be three versions: Performance, which is just the Tesla Roadster sports car and you can reserve one for just $50,000 deposit, the thrust version, which has rear cold gas thrusters and gets that 0 to 60 under a second which you can reserve for just a $250,000 deposit, and then the rocket variant, which has all the thrusters for lift and rotation and a top speed of over 230 mph. They do say that is not approved for public roads, for obvious reasons!! #ev #electriccar #tesla #teslaroadster #elonmusk #ai #technology #Tech

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Friday 16 October 2026 11:53:42 GMT