Video taking off 32x its usual first day

Elon Musk has a suction joke for Tesla's Roadster

PCMag's unveiling supercut pairs an upside-down car with the engineering explanation, while viewers imagine some very unconventional commutes.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 359,155 views a day, 32 times a normal first day on this channel (11,062).

Tesla Rolls Out a Flying Roadster: See All the Highlights

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0:35The Roadster climbs a curved upright ramp and pauses upside down.
1:52Rocket thrusters lift the car off the ramp before it descends to the runway.
2:48Presenters explain how underbody fan suction and cold-gas thrusters enable the demonstrations.
4:40A demonstration video shows a vehicle-clearing jump and a kickflip maneuver.
5:57An onstage prototype reveals the interior, steering yoke and rear wing with thruster ports.
9:47Musk announces a planned production start in 2028, followed by a final airborne demonstration.

PCMag's Roadster highlights include a car hanging upside down, rocket-assisted leaps and an explanation that hands Elon Musk an obvious punchline. An underbody fan creates suction to help the vehicle cling to the track. "I mean, this car really sucks, okay?" he says.

The supercut, "Tesla Rolls Out a Flying Roadster: See All the Highlights," drew roughly 360,000 views in its first day, more than thirty times PCMag's usual start for regular videos. It is a departure from the channel's recent hands-on examinations of tablets, laptops and smart-home devices: here, the hardware demonstration involves leaving the ground.

The footage moves from a curved upright ramp to a thruster-assisted landing. Presenters explain the fan system and cold-gas thrusters, then a demonstration video shows the Roadster jumping over vehicles and performing what they call a kickflip. A physical prototype also gets its turn onstage, with a steering yoke and thruster ports around the rear wing.

Viewers supply their own uses for all this motion. Some imagine driving straight to an upper-floor office; others spot echoes of Knight Rider, James Bond and Back to the Future. The final maneuver even earns a joke about parallel parking.

For anyone watching as a prospective driver rather than a movie fan, the practical announcement comes near the end: Musk says production is scheduled to begin in 2028.

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