00:00Ilama says the flying car is finally here, and it uses rocket thrusters to flip mid-air.
00:04I mean, I've seen a lot of things, but I've never seen that before.
00:08At SpaceX's testing facility in Texas, Tesla demonstrated the Roadster 2.
00:12This will be an actual car that's on the roads.
00:15Controlled remotely, the prototype used suction to drive upside down on a curved ramp.
00:26Fire thrusters to leap over a Tesla fleet.
00:28I think we could have cleared more than our whole fleet.
00:30And accelerated to 0-60 in under a second.
00:33Like, this goes fast.
00:35Elon took the X to stage. Turns out the future does have flying cars.
00:39It can do rolls, it can do, like, crazy gymnastics.
00:43But of course, the internet immediately split into two camps.
00:46Tesla fans point out the Roadster literally flew meters into the air live on stage.
00:51But critics argue that leap jumping with thrusters on an off-road track isn't really a flying car.
00:55And over in China, companies like Xiaoping have taken a totally different approach.
01:00They're building modular EV toll flying carriers with mass deliveries planned for 2027.
01:05Meanwhile, Tesla's Roadster 2 starts over $200,000, won't hit production until 2028,
01:10and flying it on public roads is explicitly forbidden.
01:13Now, I should, you know, say that this is not necessarily a safety-optimized car.
01:18So is Elon's new flying car revolutionary tech or a hype-building flex?
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