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Comment by Machado117 | Hacker News Reader

This is just Tesla marketing. Usually companies just dump money into marketing campaigns. Musk dumps it into engineering instead.

Remember when they sent one into space? Same thing, everyone in the world is talking about it without spending a single cent in ads.

Doesn’t mean we’re getting flying cars.

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There is a huge canyon between launching a car into space for fun (test, actually, dead weight) and having a web page where you can type in your card details to pay advance on your own purely marketing purpose circus car. You really don't see the difference? Of course, calling an impractical technical circus engineering is revealing.

But you can’t type your card details on the circus car variant. That one is invite only.

Probably not for free either, right? ; ) I am sorry if I made you think that the specific payment technique is the key element here, forgive me for leading you on.

But that it is what it is?

The Gas Tank is big and very dangerious, runs for 1-2 seconds and needs hours to re'charge'.

No one was sitting in it for savty reasons but probably also weight.

Just changing the design and adding more electric power is not a real art. They could just do this without building a complete different car which will never see the market

Its marketing an when i see your comment, it seemed to work.

Calling a hurl level avoidance working is funny. You confuse this with showbiz from the movies.

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