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> There’s no way this will ever directly make back the salaries and time spent on it so far.

It does if it keeps their valuation in the trillions.

I think 'directly' is doing a lot of work in OP's comment. I agree, this is never going to make sales that pay for the engineering effort involved in this machine, but keeping Tesla in the news, having this amazing POC, and the lessons learned that might apply to other parts of Musk's enterprises (SpaceX particularly) are not worth zero.

Plus, whatever you think of Musk, this is really fucking cool.

> Plus, whatever you think of Musk, this is really fucking cool.

Evel Knievel did some cool things at well. In fact he made a rocket car and even flew in it!

He also didn't lie to people and collect deposits promising he'd sell them a rocket car.

> He also didn't lie to people and collect deposits promising he'd sell them a rocket car.

It might be worth reading up on Evel Knievel...

I don’t think much of Musk since the Nazi salutes, but why is this really cool?

It’s taking work done for rockets which are cool IMO (the control systems and software will all be from those) and sticking it on a car to make a circus act out of it.

I do have a problem with the fake spectacle of it and don’t think it’s cool in any way.

I think we've lost the plot a little bit if we don't understand why a car that can stick to the road upside down and kick flip over traffic is cool.

It’s not a real car, you’ll never buy it, and it’ll never be road legal so it won’t be near traffic.

Yeah and if you do a kickflip over traffic your drinks will fall out of your cupholder. If that's your standard for cool I don't know what to tell you.

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