“It's probably likely we'll never see the rocket version as a rocket. I think the more important thing is that there are a lot of concept cars that lead to some technologies that do end up exciting.”
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After her co-host walked through Tesla's new Roadster demo and its three variants and said she wanted one, Sant offers a more sober take on what the rocket-assisted car is really for.
Yeah.
…to see. First, it was those rocket boosters that will come down and land people and get caught. Like, I thought my mind couldn't understand that to start with. And now seeing this car that can levitate and has rocket boosters and all of that. Oh, yeah. Sign me up. Sign me up. There you go. I think,
yeah, it's probably likely we'll never see the rocket version as a rocket. I know. Yeah, I think the More important thing is that, like, there are a lot of concept cars that lead to some technologies that do end up exciting. Because my understanding is that this, from just from the brief reading I've done, that this car, like the compressed air, like you don't need to go somewhere and get it refilled. Like, it actually, yeah, because that was the first question I had. Like, do you have to go like
a gas station? Gas station, your trusters.
Yeah, so my understanding is that it actually does refill itself. So, I, yeah, I, you know, I don't know how that works, but if that's renewable technology, that's amazing. So, I'm wondering if in the future, could this lead to like an air-powered car, you know, like now, obviously, again, you see…
it in a heartbeat. Like, there are a lot of people who could afford to get one of these cars. And like, they would be setting, you know, how it is. First, electric cars were super expensive, and then they're kind of coming down in price and lots of models. So, I reckon the more development of…