It might be impractical, but I saw this and thought of the safety features. If you’re in an accident and the car is uncontrollably rolling then these thrusters could bring it to an upright stop.
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
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.
Sorry, but as someone who has seen at LEAST 3 movies in his lifetime, I can say with absolute certainty that just about anything will cause a car to explode.
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.
Fuel is necessary to the function of the engine. If cars didn’t need it, they wouldn’t have it. We’ve figured out C4 pretty well, but we don’t stuff the doors full of it.
These thrusters could maybe help you if you fell down a particularly short cliff. Otherwise, if you get in an accident severe enough to send you rolling, you do not want high pressure nitrogen tanks right next to your head.
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.
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.
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?”
It might be impractical, but I saw this and thought of the safety features. If you’re in an accident and the car is uncontrollably rolling then these thrusters could bring it to an upright stop.
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
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
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.
Sorry, but as someone who has seen at LEAST 3 movies in his lifetime, I can say with absolute certainty that just about anything will cause a car to explode.
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.
Sure, but Tesla is the last company I’d trust to do it
I’m just happy someone is trying something new. Let someone else do it better
We already do dangerous things therefore all dangerous things are A-OK come on bro we’ll figure it out.
Oh my god just stop talking.
Fuel is necessary to the function of the engine. If cars didn’t need it, they wouldn’t have it. We’ve figured out C4 pretty well, but we don’t stuff the doors full of it.
These thrusters could maybe help you if you fell down a particularly short cliff. Otherwise, if you get in an accident severe enough to send you rolling, you do not want high pressure nitrogen tanks right next to your head.
Bumpers are there for if maybe you get in an accident. We don’t build safety systems for maybe
Bumpers also don’t explode in exactly the type of situation where they would ostensibly be useful
Airbags do
Yep, and that explosion is core to the functionality of the device. Do you think these nitrogen tanks exploding would make anyone safer?
Yeah, fuck everything beneath it, right?
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.
Nascar manages to do that without thrusters.
I’ve seen those and would advocate for flaps being added to regular cars. Could they do it better with thrusters though?
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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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?”