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Tesla’s Flying Roadster Launches A New Era Of Driving
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Tesla showed off its cutting-edge Roadster in a demonstration with a surprise twist — the car can fly. It sets off a new vision not just for the company’s vehicle fleet, but for the very concept of driving.
Why It Flies: Over the years, Elon Musk has become less and less interested in Tesla being a consumer car company, shifting his focus toward robotics and robotaxis. But when Musk does turn his attention to something people can drive, he’s aiming for something that feels like it rolled straight out of a sci-fi classic like Blade Runner or Back to the Future. At this point, Musk’s vision for vehicles may be more about pushing the envelope… even if the commercial prospects are dim.
Behind The Reveal: The Tesla Roadster dares to ask the question: “Can a car kickflip?”
The debut event featured an unmanned Roadster using a Space X-made fan-suction system and compressed-air thrusters to impressively backflip off a ramp and perform tricks over other Tesla vehicles.
The Roadster, which doesn’t yet have a price tag, is open for preorders (for the second time in nine years), with a $50,000 payment required to reserve the car. Production is set to begin in 2028.
The car can also be outfitted with packages called “Augments,” such as “Thrust” (which can take the car from 0 to 60 mph in one second) and “Rocket” (which will allegedly give the car “actual flight”).
Last Lap: The big question on everyone’s mind is whether the Roadster is street legal. Tesla doesn’t really have a good answer for that (likely because it’s not), with Musk saying onstage that “it depends on your street, but it’ll be a viable car.”
But what Tesla does confirm is that the Roadster will be the last manually driven car the company makes, positioning the rest of its future fleet as autonomous-first vehicles. Tesla lead engineer Lary Morvay summed up the reasoning behind the shift to the crowd: “You gotta have fun sometimes.”
In other words, fun is now a luxury.
The Future: If — and it’s a big if — the Roadster does become street legal, flying over traffic could become the new way the rich get around. Wild times.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited, polled, and copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.