00:00Elon Musk has shown what is essentially a flying car.
00:03I want to get into something a little bit nerdier, that 0 to 60 in one second,
00:08because what's happening there is something called ground effect.
00:12Now, when you think about your standard car, the main thing that stops it from going fast
00:16is just the sheer force of the air pushing against it and making it lift.
00:21The Tesla Roadster instead has fans on the bottom that literally sucks it to the ground
00:26so that you get that insane level of acceleration.
00:30So alongside that fan, you've got some big-ass rocket blasters on the back that propel it forward.
00:36But don't expect this to come to market as you've seen it in all these demos.
00:41Because you need 80 kilonewtons of those cold gas thrusters,
00:45the force of that could blast your eardrums to smithereens at the least
00:49and potentially kill you at the worst.
00:52So unless there's some kind of safety mechanism,
00:55I can't see these cold gas thrusters getting anywhere near a road car.
