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Elon Musk is serious about making Tesla Roadster 'hover' with rocket technology
- ryanmercer 6y agoAnother article quoted 3 tons of thrust coming out of the back bumper. >“At minimum I’m confident we could do a thruster where the license plate flips down, you know, James Bond-style, and then the rocket thruster behind it, and that gives you three tons of thrust,” he said. https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/elon-musk-says-he-wants-new-tesla-roadster-to-hover/ https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/elon-musk-says-he-wants-new-te... That's pretty crazy and, unless it ramps up slowly, is going to be a bit of a beast to control the steering the first second or five.
- handol 6y agoI wonder how fast the debris it kicks up off ( and digs out of ) the asphalt will be moving.