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> it has zero practical value

After Cybertruck and the LARPing as a humanoid-robotics company, I was genuinely unsure if Tesla still had top-tier engineering talent. This shows otherwise. Maybe some of these improvements will trickle down to the Models Y and 3.

(It also looks like a lot of SpaceX engineering. I could see folks there wanting to take a break, particularly if this happened while the pad was busted.)

by grey-area4 hours ago|

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You have not addressed the main point - this has zero practical value. No this will not trickle down to Y or 3, how would it? What possible use would this have? It’s a silly expensive gimmick.

Also, I imagine the cold gas thrusters and control software are all from spacex, this is what starship uses to orient itself in the air.

by JumpCrisscross4 hours ago|

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> this has zero practical value. No this will not trickle down to Y or 3, how would it?

You’re that confident none of the materials or techniques aerospace engineers used to lighten this car are relevant to the rest of the lineup?

> I imagine the cold gas thrusters and control software are all from spacex, this is what starship uses to orient itself in the air

Not really, it uses grid fins and gimbals. The closest cold gas comes to air on Starship is in the upper atmosphere.

by grey-area3 hours ago|

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Yes, confident none of this belongs in a budget car. It’s not even useful in the roadster, it’s a gimmick, not flying but falling in a controlled way.

Nice pedantry on the thrusters in air, but I imagine the software here to orient the car quickly using thrusters was borrowed from spacex, the thrusters certainly were.

Again, none of this has a practical application - it’s like the flamethrowers- Elon thought it would be cool, so they made it.