Topic

Cold gas thrusters and street legality

4 mentions in 1 episode

Technical and legal concerns about whether Tesla will restrict thruster functionality to controlled environments or implement geofencing on public roads.

Mentions

Introducing Telsa Roadster... Again

  • 1:04:06

    They're connected to a 200 liter carbon overwrapped pressure vessel that's sitting right behind the driver's head.

  • 1:11:43

    Are they going to have to geofence like these features? Because that's not something you can just be like, oh, it's illegal to use on the street.

  • 1:13:03

    So they gate that to race mode and then they gate race mode to GPS locations of tracks and drag strips only.

  • 1:13:49

    For a 10,000 PSI cold gas container behind the driver to expel a bunch of gas, I feel like they should really restrict that.