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posted by martyb on Saturday January 12 2019, @09:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-is-Moller's-Skycar-doing? dept.

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

Elon Musk has a knack for tweeting out some real eyebrow-raisers. On Wednesday afternoon, he delivered, once again:

The new Roadster will actually do something like this https://t.co/fIsTAYa4x8

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2019

So, is Musk just joking around?

“I’m not,” Musk replied on Twitter TWTR, -0.66% to the delight of his fan base. “Will use SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultrahigh pressure air in a composite over-wrapped pressure vessel in place of the 2 rear seats.”

Can't help but think Musk is full of crap here - even with the "removal of the rear seats" idea, I doubt that a tank of that size using cold gas only could hover a car for more than a handful of seconds.

Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-new-tesla-roadster-will-use-thrusters-to-float-above-the-ground-2019-01-10


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:59PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:59PM (#785575) Journal

    He *is* an egomaniac. Not sure about the "nutcase" part. Some of his ideas, however, work out. Some even make money. But I bet he's got *LOTS* of ideas that never get off the drawing board...and this is likely to be one of them. A few years ago nobody would have heard if he'd come out with one of these "what if we try..." ideas. Now everyone seems to think he's serious about them. *SOME* of them he is, or becomes, serious about. But not all of them. And I suspect he's got a wicked sense of humor, and is occasionally annoyed by reporters.

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