I visited a friend in australia who can finally afford a brand new car on a funeral assistant's wage because of how cheap chinese EVs are. Even has in-seat massagers.
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Don't ever by a brand new car that is fresh of the production line. That is the biggest decrease of value you could do with your money.
If you absolutely have to own a shiny new thing then buy yourself a car that is 6-12 months old. You will get the same "new car feeling" but you will save a lot of money.
Boomer advice. You’ll save $3000 and not have the original factory warranty and you’ll still have to pay for cpo.
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The new EVs in Australia are priced so aggressively with discounts that they are often cheaper than both EVs and ICEs 6-12 months old.
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Was anyone driving that car or was it just a remote controlled shell with compressed air thrusters?
If someone had been in that car, and they were not in a full on stunt driver safety suit and harness, pretty good chance they'd be seriously injured, possibly paralyzed, possibly having an induced heart attack, possibly passed out / unconscious.
Sure you can make the car itself do that... but a human meatbag inside a car doing that? Much less a typically overweight/obese average American driver?
Thats a lot of extreme g forces in violently rapidly changing axes and directions.
I wonder if Elon will provide the g suit and pilot g force conditioning regimen...
(obviously he will not)
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I would have loved this in 2018ish when I still thought Musk was cool and flying cars were a good idea.
This is still cool tech, I just hope to never see one flying around outside of very specific controlled situations with professional pilots.
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