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On October 15, 2026, Tesla unveiled the next-generation Roadster and livestreamed a demonstration of aerial maneuvers at SpaceX's rocket test site in Texas. According to a Huxiu report, the demonstration was driven by an Optimus robot, which completed an inverted adhesion, a kickflip, and a hover; an on-site timer showed a 0-100 km/h acceleration of 0.81 seconds. The underbody fan suction system generates up to about 2 g of suction force, while 10 nozzles at the rear and around the body and two COPV air tanks with a combined capacity of about 600 liters provide more than 80 kilonewtons of thrust. The report said that among the three trim levels, the Rocket version can perform aerial maneuvers but has not been approved for road use, with production scheduled for 2028. On October 17, Guillermo Rauch said he had rebuilt the Roadster demonstration as a playable, highly accurate simulation. On October 18, Musk posted a joke that it was inevitable that the "Roadster" would become a flying car, and previewed that future demonstrations would include flying over the Snake River or the Grand Canyon, landing on its wheels, and exceeding half the speed of sound.
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Tesla Roadster Launch Event: A 7-Minute-45-Second Pitch Textbook
The blogger broke down the three expectation-management moves in Tesla's 7-minute-45-second reveal video for the all-new Roadster: first, set the tone of realism with "it's not AI and it's not CGI"; then pre-emptively desensitize the audience to failure with "success is not guaranteed, and if it blows up we're far enough away"; and finally announce that the Roadster will be Tesla's only manually driven car, while that night's extreme debut was completed entirely on autonomous driving. The blogger also cautioned that the inverted shot with the HUD downforce readout cannot be treated as real-world test evidence, that the single-seat Rocket version with 10 thrusters is not street-legal, and that production is not scheduled until 2028.
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