The Morning After: Musk Talks Flying Teslas On Joe Rogan’s Show

Elon Musk told Joe Rogan connected his podcast he hopes to unveil a flying car “before nan extremity of nan year.” It was an absorbing announcement to make, arsenic Rogan besides asked Musk astir nan long-delayed second-gen Tesla Roadster. Tesla unveiled a caller Roadster successful 2017 and had plans to commencement deliveries successful 2020, but accumulation was delayed respective times.

Avoiding that conversation, nan Tesla CEO abruptly started talking astir wanting nan conveyance to fly. After vague answers and musing, he yet said: “My friend Peter Thiel erstwhile reflected that nan early was expected to person flying cars, but we don’t person flying cars.”

He claimed nan conveyance Tesla is supposedly moving connected contains “crazy, crazy technology.” Musk said he wasn’t judge it’s technically a car but that “it looks for illustration a car.”

Musk has been talking astir flying cars since 2014. Given his optimistic return connected improvement timelines, that’s a bully 10 years of talk truthful far. Give it possibly different 10?

— Mat Smith

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