The International stage Reacts to Elon Musk’s Flying Automobile

Angel investor Jason Calacanis mentioned in an X submit that the movies of the flying automotive seemed like “science fiction,” and so they’re actual, though they aren’t.

He appeared enthused by the demonstration, asking that whereas the automotive was solely airborne for a few seconds, “what if it may preserve you within the air for 5 minutes? Or ten? Or 30?”

Gene Munster, the managing companion at Deepwater Asset Management and a longtime tech analyst, wrote his two takeaways from the Roadster occasion on X.

First, that “it was an engineering flex with no industrial worth past embarrassing conventional automotive makers.”

And the second, that it signaled Musk’s ambition to merge his two publicly traded corporations, SpaceX and Tesla.

John Carmack, the previous CTO of Meta’s digital actuality division, politely rejected the flying automotive.

“That demo concerned a non trivial likelihood of embarrassing failure!” he wrote on X.

He added, “I’m solely going for the baseline mannequin. At this level in my life, rocket bunny hops are out of my consolation zone.”