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← Back to all storiesTesla's, or should we say Elon Musk's, "flying car" Roadster is a jump on compressed air, and the 2017 deposits are still waiting
Tesla's new Roadster went up a curling ramp, hopped over five parked Teslas on compressed air and came back down. Musk called it a flying car. The FAA says it isn't an aircraft, the stunt version isn't approved for public roads, and nine years after Tesla took the first $50,000 deposits, not one Roadster has been delivered.