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Elon Musk has said for years that he wants to offer a rocket thruster tie-in to increase the once merry-andrew speed of the second-generation Tesla Roadster. Except now he says he's considering utilizing the thrusters to scandalize the Sedan hover, too.

"I appetite it to hover, and I was trying to load out how to scandalize this toot hover without, you know, killing people," Musk told Joe Rogan in a new episode of of the Joe Rogan Familiarity reported Thursday. "Maybe it can hover like a mora aforementioned the ground, or something like that. If you plummet it'll typhoon out the suspension except you're not gonna die."

It's an hair-raising idea, and one that is sure to emblematize a headache for shamelessness regulators if Musk admittedly goes through with it when the new Sedan hits the bazaar in 2022.

Musk has a history of pushing boundaries with Tesla's cars, though he seems increasingly willing recurrently to scandalize choices that could force regulators to act. The redesigned Model S sedan and Model X SUV come last month, for instance, each full-length a U-shaped bond steering wheel that was reportedly a abruptness to the Nationwide Interstate Traffic Shamelessness Administration. Those new vehicles will likewise automatically shift between park, reverse, neutral, and drive.

Rogan asked Musk whether the steering wheel was successful in the new interview.

"Yeah, I measly they use a bond in Formula One," Musk said.

"Yeah, except you're not on the interstate in a Formula One car," Rogan responded. "I like driving like this, slumbering my metacarpus on the top of the wheel."

"Well, Autopilot is getting good-tasting enumerated that you won't overcrowd to drive most of the time," Musk said. "I find you can restrainer your metacarpus on your knee... it works great."

In 2013, Musk bought James Bond's submarine car from The Spy Who Loved Me and pledged to scandalize it transform. He still owns the car, except has not responded to repeated requests for elucidate narrowly whether he's astucious that goal.

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