{"id":62915,"date":"2026-10-17T05:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-did-tesla-really-just-unveil-a-flying-car\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T05:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:55:45","slug":"watch-did-tesla-really-just-unveil-a-flying-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-did-tesla-really-just-unveil-a-flying-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Did Tesla really just unveil a flying car?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new version of Tesla&#8217;s Roadster electric sports car, equipped with thrusters which apparently allow it to hover and turn in mid-air, has been unveiled in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re going to see some crazy stuff tonight,&#8221; the car firm&#8217;s CEO Elon Musk said as he presented the vehicle at a facility owned by his SpaceX company, which helped develop the model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Musk said an audience was needed to prove the car &#8220;is not AI&#8221;, before showing a demonstration of the Roadster driving up and off a steep ramp, spinning in the air, and landing using air jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there are several reasons we&#8217;re unlikely to see a flying car on our roads anytime soon, as the BBC&#8217;s technology editor Zoe Kleinman explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i>Video editor: Serene Khalifeh <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/ckly4mj1g3n9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new version of Tesla&#8217;s Roadster electric sports car, equipped with thrusters which apparently allow it to hover and turn in mid-air, has been unveiled in Texas. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to see some crazy stuff tonight,&#8221; the car firm&#8217;s CEO Elon Musk said as he presented the vehicle at a facility owned by his SpaceX company, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[558,2544,1219,5997,1509],"class_list":["post-62915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-car","tag-flying","tag-tesla","tag-unveil","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62917,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62915\/revisions\/62917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}