Tesla Roadster

delichon

The livestream has the stunts: https://x.com/Tesla/status/2110788059008819215

moralestapia

Wow, this might be the most phenomenal tech demo I've ever watched. This is just amazing, congrats to everyone who worked on this. From an engineering pov, it must be the highlight of someone's life and a massive amount of fun to be able to work on a product like this.

ThalesX

Pretty big nothingburger. Production starts 2028 and honestly, the taunted feature... it's not a flying car, it's a jumping car. Do people actually want this for themselves? I'd wager the valuation would go down after this presentation.

zbrozek

Can this be scaled down to a Roomba? Then it would both be more useful at picking stuff up off the floor, and able to recover from falling down the stairs.

still-learning

Genuinely impressed, incredible demo

dmix

Other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112380

Aeolun

At least this one doesn't look horrible. I can't see myself buying it, but I don't feel like I want to gag either.

okdood64

Okay that's one of the coolest things I've seen in a while since the rockets landing. Car looks half decent too.

vladdoster

aka a $245,000 loan to tesla with no interest for 10 years

Rebelgecko

Is the copy grok's writing style? It feels inhuman but still more readable than Opus

combobyte

> Our multi-mode fan and ground sealing system acts as a downforce generator, pulling air out from beneath the vehicle. This provides enough suction to hold the vehicle upside down, even when stationary. Bullshit, no it can't. > Advanced cold-gas thrusters use all-electric actuators to offer precise thrust, completing micro adjustments within a fraction of a second. This helps stabilize the vehicle in flight. In flight ? What? Did I miss the joke, or what? It's a fucking car... The image even shows it hovering off the ground. How is this not blatant false advertising? ETA: okay, skimmed some of the livestream. These is absolutely no way that any of these features will ever be part of a production model. People get serious whiplash injuries just from being rear-ended at low speed. What do they think is going to happen to the occupant when they tell their car to jump over a semi and do a fucking barrel roll? Seriously, what are we doing here?

iugtmkbdfil834

Been a while since I was impressed with a tech presentation. I was waiting for a clear case of AI assisted movement ( though I personally expected to see it for the first time in a military chopper ). ** Side note, as I was looking for the right stream, youtube gave me a link to a different deep fake 'Musk' stream where he extolled virtues of sending him money ( https://roadster-tesla.com/#participate ). Everything has changed man. I am sure the scammer actually got some people.

afavour

Looks like a sensible turning down of the Cybertruck aesthetic into something that looks good. That said, the production issues with the Cybertruck mean you’d be a fool to reserve one of these. Let others do it, find out how late it arrives, what glued panels fall off at speed and wait for the inevitable recalls. Tesla has torched their engineering reputation lately and this page is making a lot of promises about revolutionary things.

dataking

Rocket-inspired design hints at desire to merge Tesla and SpaceX?

aresant

This was 100% precursor to the absorption of Tesla into SpaceX and I’m here for it https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/tesla-spac...

t1234s

I cant wait to see what type of batshit crazy motorsport series they invent for these.

zhangchioulin

Very COOL, I like this Roadster retro style

gtirloni

> It challenges the limits of design, engineering and physics to deliver an expertly crafted extra-terrestrial vehicle. closed tab. thanks.

johnnyApplePRNG

Still with the deadly door-handles that first responders can't open, I see. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-tesla-dangerous-door...

phyzix5761

It can fly? Wow! What a time to be alive!