On: Tesla Roadster

[rickdeckard]

Not to disagree that this Tesla event took place, but there was also a "Nikola World" event in 2019 where Nikola presented its product to an audience of 1000+ people.

It's surely not AI, but so far it is little more than all these Jetpack demonstrations of the past decade...

[rbanffy → rickdeckard]

> all these Jetpack demonstrations of the past decade...

They've been promising those since the 1970s...

[klaff → rbanffy]

Even longer, Thunderball (Bond film featuring the Bell Rocket Belt) was released in 1965.

[rbanffy → klaff]

I wasn’t alive then, so I started being promised it on my children’s books.

They promised we all would be vacationing in Mars by now.

[rickdeckard → rbanffy]

True (the autocorrect stole my 's' of 'decades'...)