Joe Rogan wonders how a flying Roadster becomes street-legal

The JRE Clips excerpt moves from Tesla's airborne ambitions to suction fans and Rogan's preference for how a car feels.

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Reacting to Tesla's Flying Roadster

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0:03Rogan says a friend witnessed the Roadster, then questions how flying over traffic could be legal.
0:36He raises Tesla's delivery delays, referencing Roadster preorders made in 2017.
1:20The McMurtry Spéirling provides an example of suction-fan downforce; demonstration footage follows.
3:40Rogan argues that lighter cars offer an engaging driving feel compared with heavy performance vehicles.
4:50Roadster images prompt styling comparisons, with Rogan preferring the original model.
6:36The conversation gives way to a sports-betting advertisement.

"It's 100% real. My friend was there," Joe Rogan tells Bill Thompson, before turning to the practical problem: what happens when a driver can fly over the traffic ahead?

In "Reacting to Tesla's Flying Roadster," posted by JRE Clips from The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan's confidence comes with questions about legality and delivery dates. He points to the long wait since Roadster preorders opened, then asks how an airborne car could fit into ordinary road rules. The excerpt is a conversation about the vehicle, not Rogan taking it for a test flight.

The most concrete engineering detour arrives with the McMurtry Spéirling. Rogan brings up its suction-fan technology, and they watch demonstration footage of the lightweight electric car testing extreme downforce. Fans pulling a car toward the ground offer a different kind of spectacle from thrusters lifting one away from it.

When Roadster images appear, the conversation becomes less about what is possible and more about what is appealing. Rogan prefers the original model's looks. Thompson sees a Lamborghini-Cybertruck resemblance, while Rogan returns to the appeal of lighter cars and an engaging drive: "What I really like is the feeling of a car."

The excerpt has drawn about 1.2 million views in five days. Among the comments, viewers ask Rogan to arrange a test with Elon Musk and discuss whether ambitious engineering has value beyond the people who might buy it. The clip ends with a sports-betting advertisement.

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What viewers say

Does not matter one bit if people cant buy it. The fact that we have engineers building this stuff just for fun will inspire kids today to do better. That's the real value of it.
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Invite Elon and test it joe !
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I wish i could have seen rogans initial reaction when he first seen the roadster fly
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