Joe Rogan Experience #1470 - Elon Musk

do you feel about it? Do you work with them? Are you okay with those people? Yes, I mean. I'm just going, yeah, go ahead, they're upgrading things with carbon fiber and making a bunch of interior options that you're okay with, you can't handle that, you don't have time, so is it good for someone to come and have some kind of specialized operation yeah i have no problem that's what it's called it's like jmg is it called apex? improve tire traction and have you seen the stuff from that company? I don't know specifically, but it's pretty cool, yeah, they look pretty cool, they take the model s, widen it and give it a ton of carbon fiber.

It's there, it looks pretty good, yes, now it does, the plaid version of the model. You're going to widen the track and do a lot, do a lot of different things. I know you guys are testing at the Nurburgring, can't you talk about it? Well, I think we have to leave that so you know the right kind of product presentation. I get it, yes, I get it. The last time you were here you convinced me to buy a Tesla. I bought it and it's crazy. Oh great, I'm glad you like it. It's not just a lot of fun, it's like I've described, it makes other cars look stupid, they just look dumb, like I love dumb things, I love dumb cars, like I love campfires, yeah I love campfires .

I have a 1993 Porsche. that's air cooled, sure it's like re, it's not that fast, it's very slow compared to the tesla, yeah really, it's pretty slow, yeah, but there's something attractive about the mechanics, it's like gears and it's very analog, but it's so stupid. compared to the tesla, like when I want to go somewhere in the model s, I hit the accelerator and just say yeah, it just violates time, yeah, yeah, um, yeah, you've tried it like a ridiculous plus and stuff, yeah, yeah, cool, oh yeah, we did it. I just did a software update where it's going to do it like a cheetah stance, so, yeah, it's like that because it's got dynamic air suspension, so it lowers your back, oh god, yeah, like a sprinter, basically, what do you do yes? you're a sprinter you're going to duck and then so I shaved like a tenth of a second off zero six I mean as you know it's so much fun so I've taken so many people and I'm like I take them as the sacred moment.

I'm like you're ready, hang in there and then hit the gas. I have never felt anything like this. It's confusing, yes, it really is instantaneous torque, instantaneous torque and just pure acceleration. it's disconcerting it's disconcerting it's disconcerting you've never felt it no, it's faster than falling it's crazy it's so fast it's a roller coaster yeah and my family yells at me when I step on the gas like um, I tell my kids I'm like you want me to be to feel it you want to feel it do it do it do it my wife says don't do it yeah and even if I just do it on the road for a couple of seconds that's pretty exciting yeah it's very it's like having a roller coaster on tap you know it really is like a rollercoaster at the top, yes, without the loops, but it's the attachment to your seat, it seems like you're not supposed to

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that from some kind of can, you know? consumer vehicle that a normal person could buy if they have the money, it seems too crazy and then the idea of ​​this roadster is half a second faster than that, yeah that's crazy, well if that road is with a roadster we're We're going to do some things that are a little bit unfair, so we're going to take some things like, you know, from uh, something like Rock Rocket World and put them in the car, so, oh, I read about that, explain that, what are you doing?

Well, like I said, we can't oh the product presented right here, but it's going to do some things that aren't fair and then when we do the unveiling of the roadster, let me tell you, anyone who's been waiting will do it. Don't be sorry, they won't be sorry, oh, I'm sure, well, anything that goes from zero to sixty, what's the one point nine?, the zero 0-60, that's the base model, that's good, what is the top model of the food chain, okay? okay, faster than that, let's say faster, yeah that seems crazy to me now, what was it like when the guy threw the steel balls at the window and they weren't supposed to break and it broke okay?

Yeah, I mean, I know whatever the circumstances are, right? You know our demos are authentic so I wasn't expecting that and then I think I muttered under my breath, you didn't get mad though, no you didn't, Steve Jobs, um no, I definitely swore, uh, but you know what, I didn't think that the microphone would pick it up, but it did um and uh, but just like we practice this, you know, behind the scenes, yeah, I'd like to, tesla, we don't, we don't, we don't like tons of practice for our demos because we work, we're working on the cars like we know we're building new technologies and improving fundamental products, so we're not spending it on doing like hundreds of you know, practice things or something like that.

I don't have time for that, but just a few hours before the demo, both of us, Franz, you know, he's a design lead and I were in the studio throwing steel balls at the window and it bounces off um, and it's okay. This seems pretty good, it seems like we got it right, um and then we thought what happened was that um, when when Franz hit the door with the sledgehammer, you know, sure, that's right, this is like yeah, yeah, exoskeleton, ya you know, stop. high strength hardened steel, you can literally wind it with a sledgehammer, you know, a full sledgehammer with two hands and hit the door and there's not even a dent, it's cool, but we think that broke the corner of the glass on the bottom and then once you crack. the corner of the glass that you just approached then, when you threw the bowl, that's what broke the glass and it didn't happen, although it didn't happen, that's true, it's true, it didn't break the whole thing.

Like a normal window would dissolve, yeah, right, so in retrospect, the ball should have been the first deck, the second, yeah, yeah, you live, you learn, yeah, exactly, listen, man, uh, we've got you taken a long time, you had a child, yes, recently. It's amazing that you had the time to come here and I really appreciate everything that you do, man. I'm glad you're there and I really appreciate you coming here and sharing your perspective. I think you got a great show thanks for having me thank you it's my pleasure it's my pleasure

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ladies and gentlemen good evening okay that should be a little I should have a little play that was great .