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Musk's Fake Flying Car and 'CEO Said a Thing ' Journalism

karlbode.com

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Gezz so much vitriol.

> Freeze frame photos show what appears to be a lightweight hollowed out car shell prop, likely using magnets, suction, and compressed gas to help the country's richest nazi once again lie to the gullible American public and boost the valuation of a car company that stopped being innovative more than a decade ago.

It's obviously a stunt. But IMO it's a real stunt probably developed by the controls engineers at SpaceX to show off some pretty crazy control capabilities.

This is NASA SkyCrane on steroids.

Musk has earned the vitriol, largely due to his political stunts. When the world's richest person starts dumping his money into elections and interfering in politics across the globe, why are we surprised people are angry and critical? When he takes a golden chainsaw to USAID, how many preventable deaths are directly attributable to these changes? How is it fair that an unelected, private citizen can contribute so much money to one person's political campaign, and then receive carte blanche to change our public services as a reward? How is it that this same person can unilaterally change how our military assets are used by an ally?

Something is deeply wrong with this. This is the heart of people's anger.

The 'CEO Said a Thing' in journalism is pervasive and detrimental when the critical analysis is missing (most cases). This part of the article is very on point, as is the basic analysis of the de jour technical stunt. That being said, I agree with you that this author puts too much click bait and feeding the fans language into this, doing a disservice to their own reputation (imo).

These are just a few of the reasons "oligarchy" is a word seeing increased usage. The politicians, the wealthy, the credentialed elite, the media - by and large are complicit.

Many of us here, myself included - the technocratic elite - are central and complicit in the world we built and pushed. We too have earned the peoples' ire, something I think we should reflect on and course correct. What do we actually want to bring to the world with our skills? What are we going to build and push in the age of Ai?

It doesn't fly, but the 2000 lbs of downforce on the McMurtry Spéirling Electric Hypercar means it can drive upside down. Sort of. A bit. [0] Top Gear took the car for a spin around the track in a very entertaining video, where a jaded car reviewer is in disbelief about the cars performance pretty much the whole time [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6LYcgaQ46c

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZxcfglU2Q

It's also 0.57 slower on 0-60 mph, but we also know that's with a human in it. Hopefully they're trying to build a version with two fans pointed backwards (and slightly up) as well to improve cornering. Though it remains to be seen if the weight penalty from that makes up for the added directional thrust.

What most impressed me was the precision control after the flip. It doesn't visibly wobble. The other flying car does. All systems, even RC EE circuits have a "wobble".

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