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0:02Okay,
0:03so... wow.
0:06So last night,
0:08Tesla had one of maybe
0:11maybe the... most...
0:12insane
0:13product demos of all time.
0:16It had a completely redesigned, brand new...
0:18cyber-looking... car,
0:19then it had a car
0:20driving
0:22up a wall, then an
0:23upside-down car,
0:25then a flying car,
0:27then a car that jumps and does a
0:28kickflip, and then a 0.6-second...
0:310 to 60.
0:32And yet realistically, a lot of this stuff
0:34was... a distraction
0:36from
0:37the facts and figures that we got...
0:38the next morning,
0:39today,
0:40on the actual Tesla Roadster itself.
0:43So I guess if part of my job for the last decade has been
0:47watching and attending these tech events
0:49and deciphering... what's
0:50real versus... what you should pay attention to, what is
0:53fluff,
0:54then I
0:55figured
0:56I should
0:57definitely do this one. So RIP to the 2020 Tesla Roadster.
1:00You'll be missed...
1:01even though you never existed.
1:02But yeah, we've got a lot to talk about. Also,
1:05I hope the weather holds up 'cause it looks like it may rain at some point,
1:08but my fingers are crossed.
1:10So anyway, yeah, a lot of people... after last night...
1:12were freaking out
1:13and rightfully so... 'cause it was...
1:15pretty insane. A lot of people were also
1:18very skeptical
1:19and rightfully so, because it was
1:21pretty insane.
1:22But I think
1:23as there is with a lot of this stuff, there was actually...
1:25a bit of nuance to it.
1:26I think a good amount of what we saw last night at the Tesla Roadster event
1:30was, it
1:31was actually really cool.
1:32It was stuff that a lot of car people
1:33are at least interested in from an engineering perspective
1:37and were looking forward to.
1:39And then a lot of other parts of it... were
1:41completely insane... that...
1:43I don't think we will ever see in person.
1:45So at the event itself, they started by just
1:47re-unveiling
1:49the Tesla Roadster... It's completely
1:51redesigned. It looks
1:52nothing like the one that was originally on stage back in 2017.
1:55And this thing looks like some sort of a...
1:58cyberified interpretation
2:00of
2:01a Lamborghini, maybe a Murciélago,
2:02if I'm being
2:03generous. It's very minimal,
2:04very... angular.
2:06It's got these... triangle shapes, these slot headlights.
2:09The doors go up now instead of going out.
2:11There's a headlight bar at the front and a taillight bar
2:14at the back, very
2:15Cybertruck and modern EV.
2:17And then the back just has a lot going on: a huge moving wing,
2:20it has exhaust tips,
2:21which might seem a little crazy on an electric car,
2:24but that will make a lot more sense in a second.
2:26Me personally, I don't really love this new design,
2:28at least my first impression.
2:30I actually think the old car
2:31was quite pretty,
2:32even though it never existed.
2:33I thought that design was really cool and I was looking forward to it.
2:36This one,
2:37eh,
2:38some parts of it yes, some parts of it no. It's gonna take some time
2:40to grow on me, and trust me, it'll have time
2:43to grow on me.
2:44But then there's all the other capabilities...
2:46to talk about. So first thing it does
2:49is start to drive... up a
2:50wall
2:51slowly.
2:52It just approaches it and it starts to get a more and more impossible angle,
2:55and then it just drives straight up a wall
2:58until... it's completely
3:00upside down.
3:01It's
3:02stuck to this ramp like 60 feet in the air
3:04and is producing over 4,000 kilograms of downforce
3:07while
3:08not driving, not moving.
3:09This is basically revealing
3:10that it's
3:11a fan
3:13car,
3:14which
3:15we have seen before, but we'll get to that in a second.
3:16But then it goes back up that ramp again,
3:17and then the second time it goes up, it literally vaults
3:20off the top and does this insane
3:22flip maneuver, spinning around
3:24and then
3:25landing on the ground tires down. So
3:27clearly... there are...
3:28thrusters all around the car pointed in all directions that are powerful
3:31enough to move the entire car
3:34in space,
3:35and then there's enough compressed air somewhere
3:37as a source
3:38to get the car to flip and then land softly
3:41and drive away... This
3:43is
3:44insane, obviously. So first of all,
3:46this was
3:47an... autonomous demo.
3:48This
3:49is a pre-scripted—
3:50there's no
3:51real human in the car,
3:52but it's a pre-scripted sort of robotic demo,
3:53probably for safety purposes.
3:56Think of it kind of like a... Boston Dynamics
3:58robot. It's capable of that,
3:59but this is like your best-case scenario and like the coolest thing
4:02they could possibly make it do. But then yeah,
4:04a lot of the thoughts you're having in your head about like,
4:06is this even
4:07possible?
4:08Is this
4:09legal? Why would I want a car to do this?
4:11All of those are, I think, perfectly reasonable thoughts to have.
4:14It's also a pretty insane,
4:17radical,
4:18never-before-seen
4:20flying... car demo.
4:21that left a lot of questions unanswered.
4:24So... both things can be true.
4:26But really the strange thing to me is that this event,
4:28hosted by Tesla,
4:29doesn't really answer most of these
4:31important questions for people curious about the product...
4:34But then the next morning,
4:35today,
4:36we get
4:37at least 3 different videos from
4:38MotorTrend and Hagerty and Top Gear
4:40that combined with the newly refreshed Tesla website...
4:43have helped us understand a lot more
4:45about what's actually
4:46happening here. So let's just break it down...
4:48What they didn't say at the event
4:50is there are 4
4:51versions
4:52of this Roadster. There's the base,
4:54the Performance,
4:56the Thrust,
4:57and... Rocket
4:58specs.
4:59So the base car just sounds like, you know, the basic
5:01EV
5:02by itself with none of the frills, none of the party tricks.
5:04It's not even mentioned on the website.
5:06This is just what I heard from Franz in the MotorTrend video.
5:09But he said there's a base one
5:11that has none of the extra stuff.
5:12Then the Performance version of the Roadster...
5:15is this car
5:16with
5:17a fan system... for downforce...
5:19So no cold gas thrusters yet,
5:21but the fan car
5:22is
5:23already... an
5:25absolutely insane idea.
5:25If you've been in the car world for a little bit,
5:27you've probably already heard about this little project,
5:29this little car called... the McMurtry Spéirling.
5:31And that thing... is...
5:32a single-seater,
5:33fully electric car
5:35with this whole fan system underneath and behind it.
5:38And it is
5:39absolutely
5:40insane.
5:41Obviously,
5:42the amount of grip you have while driving is super important to how
5:44well the car can handle, right?
5:46So for many years,
5:47we've seen this steady improvement... in sports cars,
5:50just improving aerodynamically because
5:52as the car reaches higher speeds, you have tons of air
5:55passing over the car
5:56and it can
5:57redirect that air
5:58up or down
5:59to push
6:00the car
6:01down into the ground. This is all about getting more grip.
6:02So instead of losing traction,
6:04pushing the car down in the ground helps keep it stuck so you can actually turn
6:08more aggressively... and not lose grip...
6:09You ever put your hand out the window on the highway like this and the
6:12air moves your hand up and down? Same idea...
6:15The car
6:16has different shaped pieces that help push
6:18the car down, but
6:19that only works
6:20at higher speeds, right?
6:22So if you want that same
6:23level of downforce at lower speeds,
6:25the idea of a fan
6:26car or the fan system
6:27is to put a fan
6:29that's connected... to some
6:30low-pressure area underneath the car
6:32that sucks the air out from under the car,
6:34creates a low-pressure zone so that the air above the car
6:38pushes it down. So that
6:39is what the McMurtry Spéirling is doing.
6:41It literally drops down a skirt underneath the car to create
6:44a little vacuum-sealed area,
6:46and it spins a fan
6:48at the back of the car...
6:49at a ridiculously high RPM.
6:51And that
6:52duct system basically keeps the car
6:54firmly planted to the ground...
6:55It generates more downforce... than the actual
6:58weight of the car,
6:59which is why,
7:00yes,
7:01they've
7:02already done
7:03the driving
7:04upside down stunt. Maybe it didn't get as much PR, but...
7:06that's how much force
7:08this system generates. So it's...
7:10unbelievably capable on a track.
7:11There's a bunch of videos of it smoking the fastest
7:14high-downforce track cars in the world...
7:16around low-speed corners,
7:18literally
7:19driving
7:20around a GT3 RS, just absolutely nuts.
7:22That extra downforce makes the biggest difference at the lowest speeds.
7:26So from a launch from 0 to 60,
7:28it can put... all of its power down
7:30immediately,
7:31which is over 1,000 horsepower.
7:34And the McMurtry does
7:350 to 60 miles an hour
7:37in 1.4 seconds. Just shoots out in 1.4 seconds.
7:40It's crazy...
7:41And so there's videos of this thing going to different tracks and
7:45basically demolishing every lap record...
7:47everywhere they go because this thing finds
7:49grip... in places that other cars
7:51don't.
7:52It is genuinely one of the coolest
7:53science fair
7:54project cars
7:55that the world has ever seen.
7:57I kind of still want to get to drive one at one point.
7:59That'd be awesome.
8:01And so
8:02the Tesla Roadster
8:03inherits
8:04this
8:05fan
8:06system, and so it also inherits
8:07a 1.6-second... 0 to 60, which is nuts.
8:09And I'm
8:11I'm on the fence
8:13about whether or not... this
8:14could be street legal.
8:15I mean, I guess the law is the law.
8:17It's either legal or it isn't.
8:18But like there are lots of
8:19roads...
8:20where you probably would not want to use this system...
8:22because... there are potholes...
8:23and bumps and imperfections and things like that.
8:26So the skirts on the Spéirling... and the Roadster
8:28are made from like
8:29rubber and they're flexible and they're easily replaceable when
8:32they inevitably get worn out from
8:33dragging along the ground.
8:34But still, like the car has
8:36fans at the back, it literally hoovers up
8:37anything that's on the road under the car.
8:39And so it needs filters down there so
8:41large items don't get caught up in the fans.
8:43And the smaller pieces like little bits of gravel
8:45actually do make it through the fan system and shoot out the back.
8:48So if
8:49you are driving behind a fan
8:50car... while the fan is spinning,
8:52lots of air
8:53and lots of little debris
8:54is
8:55literally shooting out the back of it. So the McMurtry,
8:57I don't think is street legal with the fans running,
9:00but they also have said they're working on a street legal version.
9:02So
9:03very curious about that. It also depends on
9:05where the laws are, where you're driving.
9:07Tesla is calling this Performance trim... "road ready"
9:10in their language.
9:11So it seems like they're ready to have this car or this version,
9:14this trim of the car
9:15be street legal...
9:16If it's not, you can expect to see it like GPS
9:18locked to just
9:19tracks
9:20or... drag strips and stuff like that.
9:22But
9:23then there's the next version of the trim,
9:25which is called
9:26"Thrust." That version of the car
9:29will have
9:30a fan system... already.
9:31And then it will also add
9:33thrusters
9:35to the back
9:36of the car. So at the back of the Roadster, you see
9:38these 4 fans... at the bottom.
9:40That's the suction system. Then the 4
9:43bigger exhaust pipes at the top,
9:45that is the thrust system.
9:47And that's where it starts to get crazy
9:49because... those pipes...
9:51are attached to... a...
9:52200-liter
9:53carbon-overlaid pressure vessel.
9:56When it's full,
9:57it's carrying
9:58100+... kilograms of pressurized nitrogen...
10:00at
10:0110,000 PSI
10:02right behind the driver's head,
10:04this little ball. And
10:05and that is insane...
10:07It's just objectively...
10:09completely insane.
10:11But that is how
10:12they
10:13combined with the fan system
10:15are able to achieve a sub-1-second
10:170 to 60
10:19in that car. 'Cause you're
10:20you're past the limit of traction on tires at this point.
10:22You're just,
10:23you're strapping yourself to a little mini rocket and just,
10:26just, just gone. They showed demo videos of this
10:28at the event...
10:29Tons of compressed nitrogen coming out the back.
10:31It's pulling
10:32a couple of Gs
10:33and yeah,
10:34literally hits 60 miles an hour before it goes the length of a driveway.
10:37Some quick back-of-the-napkin math: that's like
10:403 Gs,
10:413 lateral Gs, which is
10:44crazy
10:45to experience in a car. Most cars,
10:47the limit of grip on tires is typically like 1.2,
10:50maybe 1.3 Gs. So that's nuts.
10:53And
10:54you know, roller coasters do 3 Gs. It's not like...
10:55dangerous to your body, but it's just
10:57holding your
10:58arms
10:59up to the steering wheel
11:00will be
11:013 times harder
11:02than it normally would be. This one, again,
11:05not sure about... street legalness...
11:07You know, at the event they did this demo...
11:09hundreds of feet away from people
11:12and gave them hearing protection
11:14because
11:15those thrusters
11:16are
11:17incredibly
11:18loud on top of the already loud fans.
11:19There are definitely laws about how loud cars are allowed to
11:21be in certain places to pass
11:23regulations and actually be shipped...
11:24And so that will come into factor here.
11:27There's also like, there's lots of cars that
11:30like if you stand right behind a,
11:32you know, a
11:33quad exhaust, like a C8 Corvette
11:34and they rev it, like it'll burn your legs.
11:37So there's lots of
11:38crazy stuff happening in the sports car world already.
11:41But actually what I'm most concerned about
11:43is crash test... safety.
11:46Like cold gas thrusters
11:48and massive,
11:49carbon-overlaid compressed air canisters.
11:51It's great with rockets, I understand that,
11:54but rockets don't get crash safety tested like cars because if a rocket crashes,
11:58it's kind of—... that's kind of it, right?
12:00Um,
12:01but
12:02what happens
12:03in the event of a safety incident
12:05when you have a massive
12:07balloon of
12:0810,000 PSI compressed air next to your head?
12:09I just, I don't know
12:11what
12:12the plan is there. But anyway, the last spec,
12:14the last... promised spec
12:16is
12:17the... "Rocket"
12:19spec. And so this
12:20levels up again. So...
12:21it still has the fans at the bottom,
12:23it still has the thrusters at the back,
12:26but it adds... 6 more thrusters
12:28around the car facing
12:29various directions.
12:31And it also adds
12:33one... massive
12:34400-liter
12:36compressed air tank
12:37in... like the passenger seat area.
12:40So it becomes a one-seater. But anyway,
12:43all this extra compressed gas and all this extra thrusting
12:46will allow
12:47the party trick that we saw
12:49from the event,
12:50like jumping
12:51or
12:52doing a...
12:53massive kickflip over a 40-foot section of road for some reason,
12:56all of that stuff.
12:57Oh, and it'll do a 0 to 60... in
13:000.6 seconds,
13:01which sounds painful.
13:05This
13:06is
13:07pretty clearly... never going to be street legal.
13:08And I mean,
13:09that much is already clear on their website.
13:11They've already said it's not approved for public road use.
13:14But you can also
13:15only get... this car
13:16via... invite,
13:17which is a perfect little segmentation on their website to avoid...
13:19the liability of ever having to sell this
13:23to... a group outside of a very, very, very
13:25limited number of people. And I think...
13:27that that's
13:28why
13:29this event felt so weird to me because they
13:31basically went all in... on this
13:34insane
13:35demo,
13:36which to their credit, it was an insane demo.
13:37And there was a ton
13:38of engineering that went behind it, probably many, many months...
13:42and months
13:43of trial
13:44and
13:45error... I mean,
13:46imagine being told by your boss you need to make
13:48a fan... car
13:49that can drive up the side of a building, but also...
13:53upside down and then
13:54fly off a wall
13:55and land on its wheels. Like,
13:57that's just a stupid amount of work that essentially amounts to a party trick.
14:02Like
14:03a really,
14:04really
14:05crazy,
14:06futuristic, insane
14:07engineering party trick... But is it even a party trick?
14:09Like, can you do this in your driveway? Are you allowed
14:11to... have your car take off and fly 40 feet?
14:14Like, where... are you...
14:15even... able to do this?
14:16There's some talk about whether or not it was a real full-weight
14:19car
14:20that did the demo...
14:21And I mean, I don't know, if I was in charge,
14:23I'd be pulling some strings,
14:24like using a smaller battery and just doing anything I can to make sure
14:27it doesn't go horribly wrong. But
14:29that almost doesn't even matter. I think
14:31the... craziness of
14:32how
14:33extreme... that this event...
14:34was
14:35and how all
14:36in they went on this... crazy party trick was
14:38both
14:39figuratively... and literally
14:40smoke
14:41and mirrors
14:42in front of
14:43abandoning the old Roadster that spent some
14:45unknown amount of time in development and is now
14:48just
14:49never coming out.
14:50Now,
14:51this one is
14:52supposed to be
14:532028.
14:54That's the new promise. That's what they said on stage.
14:57But then it kind of just... ended.
14:58Like, there wasn't really much more information
15:00after the crazy demos.
15:02And if you didn't watch anything else, then you'd miss
15:05a lot of other interesting engineering about the Roadster that started
15:08to show up in the videos
15:09this morning
15:10on
15:11things like Top Gear and the MotorTrend video that I talked about.
15:14Like,
15:14did you know this new Roadster's supposed to be...
15:17all... carbon fiber body panels
15:19and
15:20weigh... under 1,700 kilograms?
15:21Like that,
15:22that's... 1,700 kilograms is less than this car!
15:24This car is a gas car,
15:26has a gas tank.
15:27Batteries are typically incredibly heavy and EVs
15:29are typically incredibly heavy...
15:31This car weighs more
15:33somehow... than their promised Roadster.
15:35Did you know that the new Roadster is supposed to have...
15:38just... rear-wheel drive?
15:41Usually these cars are incredibly fast because they're
15:44all-wheel drive. And
15:45the Roadster is
15:47just rear-wheel drive for the driving engagement...
15:49And so
15:50all
15:52of the 1,300 horsepower and 1,400 Newton-meters of torque...
15:54come from the new
15:55dual motors
15:56at the rear, which are also now smaller
15:59and more power-dense than even what we saw in Plaid.
16:02The range... went...
16:03way down... from 600 miles to just...
16:05a promised 300+,
16:07but they also talked about 500-kilowatt supercharging,
16:10which would be the fastest we've seen in the US
16:12at the new V4 Superchargers,
16:1415... to
16:1580%... charge
16:16in 10 minutes.
16:17Did you know what they're promising with this Roadster?
16:1925 to 30 minutes of full-on... maximum
16:22power, max attack track
16:23mode driving... That's also pretty rare...
16:25for an EV. Typically, thermals
16:27and thermal management get in the way of that,
16:31but you could do legitimately multiple laps
16:33before you have to
16:34recharge, but then recharge quickly.
16:35It's a little more reasonable to expect this to be a car that
16:38actually sees a track someday.
16:39There's a whole bunch of active aero bits.
16:41There's a charging port behind the rear
16:43wing.
16:44There is a movable pedal box...
16:46There's a double wishbone suspension,
16:49brake-by-wire, steer
16:50by
16:51wire.
16:52The windows are tinted with a gold accent color to mimic a spacesuit visor.
16:55Like,
16:56there's just so much going on with this car.
16:58So like, if you're gonna do
17:00a new
17:01unveiling
17:02for a car that you've apparently spent a bunch of development time
17:05and... resources
17:06and
17:07hours on, I would've
17:09personally preferred if you showed that
17:12instead of spending... so much time...
17:14on... just the party trick and then...
17:16no extra information.
17:17But instead, here we are...
17:18all now distracted by the, like, rocket thruster stuff
17:21and the,
17:22like,
17:23at one point they said it was gonna go half the speed of sound,
17:25which come on, like
17:28it's,
17:29I'm pretty sure it's not gonna do that.
17:30The thrust mode is
17:31over in
17:323
17:34to 5 seconds and then the tank is empty.
17:35So
17:36it's basically one-time use
17:37before you have to refill it,
17:38which
17:40in the Hagerty video they said would take 6 to 7
17:42hours to refill. And the rocket thing, you know, doing a
17:45kickflip,
17:46incredible demo, you gotta admit.
17:48If literally any other company did that demo,
17:50we'd
17:51all be shocked. But...
17:52aside from being a really cool engineering demo,
17:54that
17:55to me doesn't have any other connection to,
17:57like, real-world performance benefit... The fan stuff,
18:00it does.
18:01Obviously, more downforce and more grip equals...
18:04better cornering and handling and faster lap times.
18:06It makes perfect sense.
18:07That's why we've been seeing this on other cars.
18:09Even the thrusters at the back, you could say, okay,
18:12that's like a cool
18:13straight-line... drag race...
18:14gimmick, one-time thing. Fine.
18:18You
18:19could make an argument
18:20for... safety...
18:21in extreme braking events for, like,
18:23putting
18:24the thrusters on other parts of the car,
18:27but the kickflip over something... and the...
18:29jumping down off of the... ramp,
18:31I mean, that, it's just distracting.
18:33And let's be real, do you really want the...
18:35people that you see on the highway every day when you commute
18:38with cars that are able to
18:40jump when they don't have a pilot's license?
18:43So... yeah, I guess
18:44marketing is marketing, and
18:46they have, in fact, abandoned the car... that
18:49they initially
18:50had spent some number of years out of the past 9 years
18:53developing.
18:54I don't know how I would feel... if I had been...
18:56in
18:58for some amount of money
18:59this entire time... and just saw the car
19:00completely change like that.
19:02But hey, to their credit, the referral reward free Roadster
19:06is still in my account...
19:08and with the updated picture. So...
19:10I guess maybe... that is still happening.
19:12Maybe I'm still getting it. I don't know.
19:14Get subscribed to see that...
19:15I will keep you guys... posted.
19:17But I guess that actually brings us to the last question,
19:19which is just,
19:21will they actually—this is the big question they ended with...
19:23They're gonna ship in 2028 is what they,
19:25of course they promised it on stage.
19:27Will they actually
19:29ship
19:30this
19:31thing by
19:322028? Starting to sound familiar.
19:32So... the flying one...
19:33with the rocket one,
19:35no.
19:36That there's just no way... you
19:37or
19:38I... will ever be able to buy this car.
19:40Of course, it's conveniently invite-only.
19:42We might as well ignore this ever
19:43becoming a real product.
19:45The base one, the fan car one even,
19:49I
19:50can see that actually, yes,
19:51being possible. But at this point,
19:54I actually
19:55don't even think it matters... because...
19:57Tesla has
19:58proven to us by now... that
20:00the Roadster
20:01is by far their least important product. Like, McMurtry...
20:04has been putting in
20:05a
20:06ton of public development work for this
20:07fan car idea. It doesn't surprise me one bit that...
20:09Tesla can come in and
20:10sort of big-brother them and all the other fan car concepts
20:13that came before them
20:15and use their
20:16bigger bankroll
20:17to try to bring it to life.
20:18But we shouldn't ignore that there's a reason
20:21that
20:22this... 2020 Roadster went...
20:239
20:24years and never actually came...
20:25out, never actually existed.
20:27It's because it doesn't make a difference to the company if it comes out or not.
20:30It makes
20:31no difference to their bottom line. It's so low volume.
20:33Matter of fact, they actually recently
20:36killed Model S...
20:37and Model X, which are very well-known cars,
20:39because they also weren't selling enough to make a difference to the bottom line.
20:43They have priorities...
20:44like Model 3 and Model Y
20:46and the humanoid robot stuff they plan on in the future.
20:48You think they care about Roadster? Fool me once,
20:51shame on you.
20:52Fool me twice, Yeah, shame on me.
20:54I'm not
20:56gonna be holding my breath
20:57for this to suddenly become a priority... for them to...
20:59start picking things up and shipping this thing
21:01right on time. But this event,
21:03given how much
21:04everyone is talking about it,
21:06was
21:07clearly
21:08a successful... engineering exercise...
21:09and marketing stunt.
21:10It's really what it is.
21:11A few months of incredible engineering,
21:14a
21:15demo that
21:16no one has... ever seen before.
21:17That's enough material to talk about Tesla for another few years.
21:20I was actually just digging into my account to see...
21:22what was going on with the Roadster...
21:24There's a Tesla Roadster reservation agreement.
21:27There's a nice little bullet point, number four,
21:30that reads
21:31that you understand that the Roadster is still
21:34under development at the time you enter into this agreement,
21:36so we cannot
21:37guarantee
21:38when your vehicle
21:39will actually be
21:40delivered
21:41or if... it will be delivered.
21:45Very interesting. You know, I think the take from
21:47Henry Catchpole at the end of the...
21:49Hagerty video is actually really... fair, which is,
21:52you know, it seems like Tesla's realized that just
21:55a really, really fast electric car doesn't really
21:57do it for people... anymore.
21:59Like, it's old news.
22:00We've seen that by now,
22:02and
22:03they already make Plaid, so—... or made Plaid.
22:05So they abandoned it and swapped it out for something that
22:09kind of does do it for some people anyway,
22:11which
22:12is
22:13the dream
22:15of a flying car... It's this
22:16fun idea,
22:17and it makes way more headlines.
22:19And even if they never ship the thing,
22:21then that successful engineering exercise is at least a spectacle that we can
22:24talk about as a marketing success.
22:26So yeah,
22:27thanks for watching.
22:28And for more car-focused videos and thoughts on cars,
22:31get subscribed to the Auto Focus channel.
22:33And if you do end up seeing a Tesla Roadster review,
22:35that's where it'll be.
22:36Catch you guys in the next one.
22:38Peace.

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