Like I'll see people be like "Shakespeare made a mistake about X historical thing in Y play" and it's like, no, he didn't. That was not a goal of the enterprise.

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I think the thing about the El-Sayed clip is it’s the first time in awhile I’ve heard anyone with any level of authority tell someone that they shouldn’t be a bigot and they’re wrong for doing it

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And it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. All so that the car can... drive through a Matchbox loop? Jump over an obstacle? The Bose suspension was a million times more economically feasible than this is, and that never came close to market.

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In order to be able to "jump" more than once, you have to have large, heavy air compressors on board to refill those jet bottles. So what you're left with is a "car" that's had almost all of its usable space taken away by either fans...

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Think about all the packaging nightmares Lockheed had to deal with from having the VTOL fan in the F-35(B) carrier aircraft, and then imagine any kind of consumer accepting that in a passenger car. It's simply something nobody would buy; the tradeoffs are too huge.

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