When I saw the video of the Tesla Roadster, I was speechless. My brain said this had to be AI or SI generated video that was not reality, and this didn’t happen. However, just like Elon Musk’s SpaceX catching the booster rocket after use, this Tesla Roadster reveal was very real and incredibly amazing.
I’ve watched the video more than a few times and I understand the concept of using pressurized air as explained by Elon Musk and several engineers in subsequent explanations. However, it remains stunning to think about.
While the rest of the western world is seemingly stuck in a political battle about artificial intelligence, pitting advanced technology against the socialist and heavily unionized interests who will be impacted by it, the U.S. continues to lead the way on innovation and technology at a scale now visibly represented by this stunning Tesla Roadster’s capabilities.
Sure, it’s extreme, and there’s not likely to be a consumer-friendly version of it despite production scheduled for next year, but beyond the over-the-top incredible technology that makes a vehicle do these seemingly science defying stunts, my brain started thinking about how this technology could make vehicles safer.
When we think about collision warning and avoidance systems that are already present in cars, and we think about these specifically new capabilities on display, it doesn’t take long before you wonder if the commercial application of this technology might end up being incorporated into vehicle safety options.
Unintentionally driving off a cliff in a vehicle that can detect, stabilize, optimize a travel vector and land itself is no longer just an out-there mental exercise. We can easily imagine a future where the technology revealed in the Tesla Roadster will be in some form of safety features. Just a few days ago the thought was never even contemplated.
This is remarkable and the engineering teams at Tesla should be commended for pushing the envelope and creating things that go beyond our imagination. Congratulations to Elon Musk, the folks at Tesla and all of the incredible people who put their time, effort and energy into these accomplishments.
This is what unleashed American innovation can deliver. I think it is awesome.
Retired Magistrate here: How cool is that; we finally caught up with the Jetsons.
Question: Why?
Answer: Because it’s cool.
Only in America.
A tip of the hat also to Jim Hall who developed the original Chaparral race car that began to define ground-effects. Also to Formula 1 who by themselves have generated so much “suck” that street circuits around the world have to temporarily tack-weld their manhole covers.
“Here’s George Jetson….” 🙂
🎯 💯 And lately these guys:
https://mcmurtry.com/
Yea that is a cool car but for an electric it is only rear wheel drive. It could do better with four wheel drive, but they did get the suction working well for a moving vehicle, I believe a first that worked well. And here is the Stig driving it around the top gear track.
I got the chance to see Jim Hall’s Chaparral at Watkins Glen in the ’70s – never forgot how much faster it was in a hard right dropping corner after the long straight…I think it was banned shortly after…
LOL, yeah thru that corner and a similar one at Laguna Seca (you know the one) made everyone sit up and say WTF!?! Banned, yep. As we all know, control is the reaction to fear.
Jeff Childers, of Coffee & Covid fame, also has a great article out today on this. You will enjoy it!
Please check it out. The link didn’t work for some reason.
The Link:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/why-not-saturday-october-17-2026
FILTHY LIBERALS
AMERICA!
This is SO IMPRESSIVE and so American.
Us Canadians would never and could never do this type of thinking to achieve this.
Canadians are Crabs in the WEF Bucket of Doom, Despotism and Decay.
Godless and Spiritless Marxism cannot compete with American Rugged Individualism.
God Bless America.
There are very few Canadians left. I was a member of the Peoples Party of Canada until even their leader critized President Trump and the tariffs. Now, from afar, I only have President Trump. Sundance, thank you for that. Americans are the most fortunate people in the universe.
agree.100%
before there is the practical, there is the experimental.
the application pointed out here is spot on,
and there will be other downstream innovations
which use this tech as the platform.
boggles the mind a bit.😁
congratulaions to Mr. Musk and his team!
Jeff Childers points out it was only 11 years between the Kitty Hawk and the first commercial passenger flight. Less than 66 before men went to the moon.
Liberals would still be fussing about Orvile & Wilber and how they endangered the public 66 years later. Man would be lucky to get to the next state if left up to them.
just finished that article, and yes, nit picking libs ALWAYS stand in the way of real progress –
ironic since they call themselves “progressives”, eh? 😉 😎 😁
but i must say his comments on the 3000 # pumpkin were delightful.
i had posted a link to the R.I. news station WPWR before i got to his substack,
and agree with his assessment – it is very cool!
this is still, after all, America, where as a rule, bigger is better.😂🇺🇸
The Tesla Roadster is very James Bond and very American at the same time.
I’m still trying to wrap my mind around a ground car that can get to places other ground cars can’t.
I want to buy one and build a 10ft wall around my house with no gate.
This is great, but the second most awesome thing is coming up soon. The next flight of Starship is rumoured to have both stages return to the launch site and be captured. Then the most awesome thing of the twenty first century will be the re-use of a Starship. when they start getting re-used, the economics of spaceflight will really change, and America will have a twenty year lead in technology.
Yes!!!
Sundance, if you haven’t read them (or listened to them) I highly recommend the Elon Musk biography by Ashley Vance (oddly, I guess Ashley is a guy’s name in South Africa) and Lift Off by Eric Berger, the “biography” of Space X — you’ll see the struggles Elon fought off with big space and the you can’t do that crowd.
Lift Off, goes more in-depth into some of the same general brief stories about Space X in the Elon Musk biography.
I think you’d enjoy them.
Alas, you must not have seen the great movie Gone With The Wind. Oh Ashley!!
You know, I never have watched it.
If you can free your mind, there is no box… I watched the footage and my first thought was that is not real followed by that is effing awesome.
What a time to be alive.
A couple thoughts. With the speed and distance detectors cars already have that apply the brakes to prevent you bumping the car behind you when you parallel park, adding this should be automatic rear-end collision and T-bone accident prevention. If it detects another vehicle coming at you at a speed and on a vector that intersects yours, it just raises you in the air and the other vehicle passes under you.
Also, never wait for a red light again. Just raise up and fly over the cars in front of you, and the intersection, touch down on the other side, and away you go. Stuck in traffic? Fly to another street.
Oh, and there is always parking available on the roof of your building.
Sing along …. his boy Elroy … daughter Judy … Jane his wife …
Sure, it’s extreme, and there’s not likely to be a consumer-friendly version of it despite production scheduled for next year, but beyond the over-the-top incredible technology that makes a vehicle do these seemingly science defying stunts, my brain started thinking about how this technology could make vehicles safer.
The best thing this did was show every wanna be entrepreneur in the world that they need to come to the US in order to make their dreams come true. Not Canada. Not Europe. Not China.
America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates
52 years ago Evil Knievel jumped the snake river canyon, and they mentioned that they might try that. It would actually be quite simple for them. The speed the car will do can easily make the jump, and the rockets will allow for a nice soft landing on the other side, the question is will they do it with no one in the car, or will there be a dare devil inside for the ride!
Wonder if you could put this on an airplane to use before a crash.
A jet that launches from an aircraft carrier.
Military applications could be enormous for rocketry.
Awesome stuff.
Yesterday I read somewhere, don’t remember,
that maybe some kind of different license might
be required with some kind of pilot training or
certification?
Amazing… this technology is beyond 20,000
Leagues Beneath The Sea, and even that I am sure
is continuing to advance.
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and
all that…
Eyes Right…
When I first saw the video of it jumping the Tesla fleet my first thought went to Speed Racer’s jump jacks on the Mach 5. It looked just like the Mach 5 on take off.😂
My second thought was to wonder how much battery power is depleted every time the flying feature is used.
“Meet George Jetson…………”
Well, it’s a great way to jump over and give a much needed rinse to those street blocking idiots!