Musk talks flying Teslas on Joe Rogan’s present

Elon Musk informed Joe Rogan on his podcast he hopes to “earlier than the tip of the 12 months.” It was an attention-grabbing announcement to make, as Rogan additionally requested Musk in regards to the long-delayed second-gen Tesla Roadster. Tesla unveiled a brand new Roadster in 2017 and had plans to start out deliveries in 2020, however manufacturing was delayed a number of instances.

Avoiding that dialog, the Tesla CEO instantly began speaking about wanting the automobile to fly. After obscure solutions and musing, he finally mentioned: “My buddy Peter Thiel as soon as mirrored that the long run was presupposed to have flying automobiles, however we don’t have flying automobiles.”

He claimed the automobile Tesla is supposedly engaged on incorporates “loopy, loopy expertise.” Musk mentioned he wasn’t positive it’s technically a automobile however that “it appears to be like like a automobile.”

Musk has been speaking about flying automobiles since 2014. Given his optimistic tackle improvement timelines, that’s a very good 10 years of discuss to this point. Give it maybe one other 10?

— Mat Smith

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