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More than a decade ago, in 2014, Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, in an interview with The Independent, had said, “Maybe we’ll make a flying car, just for fun. I’ve thought about it quite a lot. We could definitely make a flying car—but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.”
Dismissed as another futuristic musing then, Musk has made this a reality in 2026 when he unveiled the new Roadster. A (kind of) flying one at that, just as he had envisioned in 2014. Apart from the excitement that was palpable and covered extensively by the media, on a broader scale, this bodes well for investors in both Tesla and SpaceX (SPCX). It shows that Musk can deliver (albeit the timeline may vary), and his ambitious projects around humanoid robots (Optimus) and data centers in space could become a reality sooner rather than later.
