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Tesla reveals SpaceX-powered Roadster that flies and falls with style

Tesla just revealed its redesigned second-generation Roadster with SpaceX thrusters, a vehicle CEO Elon Musk has called ‘the best of the last of the human-driven cars.’

Musk showed off the car at an event outside Waco, Texas, with a demonstration that saw the car use a mixture of high-powered fans and thrusters to drive up an inverted ramp, spin around, and ease itself to a landing on the pavement below. The car also used the thrusters to lift itself over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 while in motion.

“‘This will be the actual car that’s on the roads,’” Musk said of the car, which Tesla showed accelerating 0 to 60 miles per hour in one second. ‘It literally is just going to puff itself up, and uh, and be able to do this, these maneuvers whenever you’d like.’”


The new car used thrusters to leap over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 at a demo in Texas.

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