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• stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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?”

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• xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • CheetahHybrid@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • CheetahHybrid@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I know the gas tank is not a pressure vessel, I made two separate statements.

        My point is that we already do dangerous things. I don’t think it’s a huge jump to put a pressurized nitrogen tank in a car. Car manufacturers even tried putting hydrogen tanks in cars. It’s possible to make it safe.

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• Pratai@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, fuck everything beneath it, right?

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  • CheetahHybrid@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Nascar manages to do that without thrusters.

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  • CheetahHybrid@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I’ve seen those and would advocate for flaps being added to regular cars. Could they do it better with thrusters though?

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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      • CheetahHybrid@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Killjoy

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