In a circus-like showcase, Elon Musk showed off his new Roadster.
In a heavily controlled environment, it performed pretty well for the white supremacist trying to buy the midterms.
The new Tesla Roadster can’t quite fly, but it can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in under a second using boosters, drive upside down, and propel itself through corkscrews in the air—at least under the conditions of the prototype’s unveiling at a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas, on Thursday night.
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Tesla showed the prototype Roadster launching upside down off the top of a half-circle ramp before guiding itself through a corkscrew maneuver. Later in the demo video, Musk had the Roadster jump over the entire Tesla vehicle fleet monster-truck-style, again with a corkscrew.
These parlor tricks are useless to actual motorists and will be prohibited on US roadways, even if the model does get off the ground.
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