Comment on Doing our part
Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
That’s the worst idea for a car ever, the cibertruck can’t survive a carwash and you are telling me you are going to do Car kickflicks?
Comment on Doing our part
Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
That’s the worst idea for a car ever, the cibertruck can’t survive a carwash and you are telling me you are going to do Car kickflicks?
CheetahHybrid@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
It might be impractical, but I saw this and thought of the safety features. If you’re in an accident and the car is uncontrollably rolling then these thrusters could bring it to an upright stop.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 weeks ago
The extremely dangerous high pressure vessel right behind the driver’s head seems like it’s not worth the trade off there… Better carry a bomb around just in case the car rolls over. /s
CheetahHybrid@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Sure it’s dangerous, but so is that giant tank of fuel that’s in the car. I think we figured out pressure vessels pretty well
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 weeks ago
A fuel tank is not a pressure vessel (apart from being sealed to keep fumes in). If you get a puncture in your gas tank, it doesn’t immediately and violently explode, it just leaks fuel out. Even if it does catch fire, it would not be as violent an explosion as a pressure vessel failure. In most scenarios it would burn, but not explode.
Pratai@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Yeah, fuck everything beneath it, right?
CheetahHybrid@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Everything underneath a rolling car is fucked anyway. If thrusters could make it stop faster that would be way safer than letting it roll however far it wants.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Nascar manages to do that without thrusters.
CheetahHybrid@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen those and would advocate for flaps being added to regular cars. Could they do it better with thrusters though?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Absolutely not. Insanely stupid. A pressure vessel, jetwash, the added complexity of an additional direction of travel, competency of the operator, and that’s before we come to Tesla being shit at making things that work properly.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes you can scare up some possible safety applications for this but you have to take it on the whole and balance the safety risks and benefits. They haven’t even answered how rhey are going to make the underbelly fan street legal when we know it shoots a lot of gravel out backwards at high speed. And understanding from MKBHD is that the model with all directional thrusters is only a high end demo which will never actually be sold. The one that might actually get sold only has thrusters in the back. Does that scream “safety” to you or “excessive speed?”
regdog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or these thrusters could do the complete opposite and kill you. Since the US has no working regulatory agency this car is going to be dangerous as hell. If it will event exist.