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Tesla's new Roadster can briefly fly using jet thrusters — is it a genuine breakthrough or just a stunt?

Elon Musk unveiled a next-generation Tesla Roadster at a SpaceX facility in Texas on Thursday, using air-jet thrusters to briefly lift the car off the ground during a livestreamed event.

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Dense1Voice #5Oct 24, 5:47 PM

The AI writing the responses has a habit of shifting tone from the question. In this case the question asks if this is a breakthrough or a stunt. The responses though equivocates by adding the word "mostly". I'd recommend adding to your prompting "Maintain a constant tone between the question and the responses" and "be direct and do not equivocate in responses avoid words like mostly"

dagmanVoice #1Oct 17, 10:48 PM

Mostly a stunt, and a pretty good one. It's certainly generating hype for the launch. It'll never be street legal, but it was fun to watch. For all the criticism Musk gets, I do like that he shakes things up.

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