If you can’t safely take the Cybertruck to a car wash, I wonder how it will fare as a boat?

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    … Elon said he was gonna put monopropellant / cold gas thrusters from the Dragon capsule into the Roadster, at one point.

    https://www.maxim.com/rides/elon-musk-says-new-tesla-roadster-will-actually-fly-and-hit-60-mph-in-under-1-second/

    Musk said the production version will be revealed later this year ahead of the start of production in 2025 and that it will have the previously announced SpaceX package, which will use cold gas thrusters to help the car accelerate and also “fly”— or hover for short distances.

    “I think it has a shot at being the most mind-blowing product demo of all time,” Musk said.

    Its almost like this guy just fucking says shit, snd idiots believe him, for some reason, even though he’s got a well established track record of lying about things that make basically no sense to lie about…

    “I’m a world class Diablo player.”

    … as well as an entire solid decade of making grandiose business / product promises, and then delivering basically 1% of what he promised.

    AutoPilot/Full Self Drive is totally real guys, it’ll be perfect in a year or two… for a fucking decade.

    Dude’s blown up or otherwise destroyed about half as many heavy lift launch vehicles as the entire Apollo program, and so far hasn’t even achieved orbit, much less with a payload, muchless tested the orbital refueling that his entire Starship system totally fails without.

    Remember how we were gonna have rockets replace private jets?

    Remember how the Boring company was gonna pay for itself by selling the dirt it dug up as bricks?

    How’s Hyperloop doing these days?

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      The rockets exploding is differen than the rest. It’s literally rocket science and blowing up a bunch of test vehicles is kinda par for the course, and SpaceX has actually been pretty sucessful overall.

      But that has zero to do with Musk.

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        But that has zero to do with Musk.

        Exactly. SpaceX has been successful despite Musk

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      Aside from every other stupid aspect of such a stupid idea, I’m curious where he thought people were going to be able to get hydrazine to refuel the thruster.

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        From your friendly neighbourhood hydrazine dealer of course. What, you don’t have a hydrazine station next door? Are you some kind of a Poor or something?

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        Oh god that hadn’t even occured to me.

        Yeah… yeah.

        I dunno, send it back to the dealer, have them do it lol?

        I’m sure car mechanics will just be a-ok with handling hydrazine, rofl!

        I can’t even find barely any independent mechanic that’ll touch a gas-electric hybrid, they’re too ‘complicated’, apparently.

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        Wheres’s that China vs US/California mass transit system map, change over last last two decades, map/meme thingy mabob when you need it…