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Yeah, that's what I meant. The gap between what's presented as ready-to-order and the actual practical feasibility of the product is so big, it wows people because they are still accustomed to presentations of actually consumable products.

And also your point: It is a company presenting a jet-pack to actually sell a premium back-pack under the same name.

They invested in the engineering of 1-10 jet-packs, to sell 200-2000 backpacks...

by nutjob216 hours ago|

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And more to the point: want what?

The demonstrations seems to be very specific, it probably can't do anything more than fall to the ground. The practicality of actual levitating the car may out of reach.

Everyone calls it a "flying car" the idea is planted in people's mind and they let people's imagination or credulity do the rest. Stock price goes up.

by autuni13 hours ago|

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I agree this is more of a "jumping car" than anywhere near an actual "flying car". My main issue with both is that if ground based cars have an issue, for example an engine failure, in most cases you can still get the car to safely stop at the side of the road. If you're flying, that's a very different story.

Even if we would accept the premise that flying cars will be the norm at some point, I'm not sure what people imagine that would do for them. Technically you could solve traffic jams to some degree, but still not entirely because I can't imagine that at any point flying cars would mean that you just fly wherever you want. It would give us multilayered traffic, which is cool to reduce traffic jams, but does it really do anything else?

by rickdeckard13 hours ago|

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That's true.

But prior to any of that, I'm fascinated by how irrational it is to think that this jumping car is even remotely feasible to participate in any kind of traffic.

That's why I assume that the general public expects that Tesla has already solved all these problems, as they otherwise wouldn't announce such a product.

In reality, we apparently have entered times where they could present a teleporting machine and start a 200k USD pre-order with little to no public scrutiny.

by wallst0712 hours ago|

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Who cares, they built a car that can jump or fly or whatever you want to say.

You can clearly see what it does. If nobody buys it or it can't be driven on public roads, so what.