Flying cars?

35:31Next question. All right, Guy Cochran in Seattle, Washington is asking, flying cars? Yeah, what is this flying car thing? If only we had someone here who knew about flying cars and could play clips of flying cars and cars that can do kickflips in Texas by a gentleman wearing a belt buckle and a T-shirt. Oh, look, it's Chris Fenwick. Chris? Here it is.

36:02So this is using suction? Yeah, it has suction. the downforce created by the fans is 2 Gs, which is greater than the weight of the car, so it will stick to a roof. And there's other high-performance cars that do this already. If I go for every time I need to stick to the roof. Well, it'll also make you handle curves really, handle corners better, yeah.

36:29Corners really well. But there's certainly problems with it on the open road, because it's sucking up everything on the road and it's gotta eject it somewhere. So somebody's going to get hit by it. But it also does this. Everybody's seen this by now, except CJ hadn't seen it this morning. I hear Alan Silvestri when I see the big smoke plumes like that.

36:54That's as good as the first iPhone demo. If just one of those rocket jets fail, well, you know what's going to happen. There's ten of them. If just one fails, you go. spinning like a top into the asphalt below. I mean, it's not practical, but I will say it's an amazing bit of hype and demo. And Courtney said it this morning really well.

37:19He said, you know, it was like six, seven years ago that they first announced the next generation Roadster. And those people spent money for one kind of car, and now it's a totally different car. and somebody said online this morning, they said, it's like going to a restaurant, ordering from a menu, ordering a steak, and then coming out later and saying, I'm sorry, which one of these cheese sandwiches

37:45would you like to eat? So, I mean, it's a total, I mean, you could call it a bait and switch. There is another trick it does here. And this is, I mean, what's great about this, this is useful, by the way. I drive in a lot of traffic, like tonight, night getting out to the house in Sacramento will take some time. But if we had this, it'd be pretty cool.

38:08Oh, traffic. No, not for me. Oh, my God. I reject your traffic on the basis of this premise. The watertight lids are going to be sales are up for that little. In L.A., they call it the 405 feature. Yeah. Yeah. So, what this demonstrates to me though is, if you put, even if it is an impractical, kind of fantastical, fanciful, whatever full you want to call it, if you put a lot of production

38:43value behind the release and like give it a little showmanship and a little bit of drama, people are going to talk about it. And really, I mean, if you think about it, the business that you're in as a creator and and a communicator is how do I get to catch on and to amplify? And so even if you think the car is silly,

39:01you've got to respect the buzz that it's able to create and the way in which it is presented. And you can only look at that car when it lands with all the smoke, and you can only think of two words, great Scott. Next question. Well, it's also a good demo for all of the proposed Artemis astronauts that are going to go to the moon and Mars one day,

39:26it shows you that Elon knows how to land something. Well, I mean, we saw the chopsticks. Well, yeah, but there's not going to be any chopsticks on the moon when they go and land on the moon. But if they want to go to the moon in a Roadster, we know how to land it. Next question. I wouldn't mind having one of those for my community to work