Elon Musk Teases A Flying Car On Joe Rogan's Show

Elon Musk has told Joe Rogan that he hopes to unveil a flying car "before nan extremity of nan year." As Gizmodo has reported, Rogan asked Musk astir about nan long-delayed second-gen Tesla Roadster successful his show, erstwhile nan Tesla CEO abruptly started talking astir wanting nan conveyance to fly. If you'll recall, Tesla unveiled a caller Roadster successful 2017 and had plans to commencement deliveries successful 2020, but its accumulation sewage delayed again and again. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman precocious tweeted that he'd been having difficulties getting a refund connected nan $50,000 deposit he made for 1 measurement backmost successful 2018. But alternatively of talking successful extent astir Roadster's status, Musk talked astir getting adjacent to an "unforgettable" merchandise demo of a prototype instead.

He was giving Rogan vague answers successful nan interview, but he yet said: "Well, you know, my friend Peter Thiel, erstwhile reflected that nan early was expected to person flying cars, but we don’t person flying cars. I mean, I deliberation if Peter wants a flying car, we should beryllium capable to bargain one" He didn't want to divulge each nan specifications successful nan show, but he claimed that nan conveyance Tesla is supposedly moving connected contains "crazy, crazy technology." Musk said he wasn't judge it's a car but that "it loos for illustration a car." He didn't reply erstwhile Rogan asked if it had "retractable wings" aliases mentioned if nan conveyance would beryllium VTOL, aliases a Vertical Take-off and Landing, aircraft.

Musk has been talking astir processing flying cars arsenic early arsenic 2014, arsenic Gizmodo notes. However, return statement that nan CEO is alternatively infamous for being overly optimistic and eager pinch his timelines, not conscionable for nan automaker but besides for his different companies for illustration SpaceX. Take for example, nan aforementioned Roadster, which is yet to spell into production, and nan SpaceX Falcon Heavy whose first motorboat didn't hap until 5 years later than he predicted. That said, it's besides imaginable for Tesla to unveil a prototype that would still person to spell done monolithic changes and improvements if and erstwhile it becomes fresh for production.