Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Oct 17, 2026 · 1 hr 45 min · 20 segments
Peter Diamandis sits down with Salim Ismail, Emad Mostaque, and special guest Anousheh Ansari, CEO of XPRIZE, to discuss Tesla’s flying Roadster, the rapidly declining cost of robotic intelligence…
Salim IsmailPanelist
Anousheh AnsariGuestSo last night in Waco, Texas, next to SpaceX's McGregor test site, Tesla finally unveiled their flying Tesla Roadster.
And just to describe, we're gonna show a video in a moment, but just to describe what happened, the Roadster drove up a multi-story curved ramp upside down you know and i was wondering i was watching the video the first time you know i didn't hear the description of how i was doing it i said is it magnetics is it a some kind of a rail system and it was actually a fan suction system that could hold it against two g's so it's levitating there upside down which was which was insane so let's watch the video and then let's talk about it i'm curious which one you guys are going to buy
is not an autonomous car.
It is the last...
Well, it is
technically autonomous for this demo to make sure we don't kill anyone.
Correct.
So, just in case.
But this will actually be long-term the only manually driven car that Tesla makes.
To do that, we have a fan suction system on the bottom of the car that can pull up to two Gs in order to make the car go upside down.
And then we borrowed some technology from SpaceX to do the rest.
Yeah.
Let's try something else.
Yeah.
I mean,
that was just a little flight.
Let's do a longer flight.
I mean, I've seen a lot of things, but I've never seen that before.
I think we could have cleared more than our whole fleet.
Yeah, we can go further.
Like, this will be an actual car that's on the roads.
Yeah, to do that, we have the rockets we borrowed from SpaceX technology.
You talked about the carbon overlay pressure vessels.
There's two of them in the car.
They are a total of 600 liters.
So last night in Waco, Texas, next to SpaceX's McGregor test site, Tesla finally unveiled their flying Tesla Roadster.
And just to describe, we're gonna show a video in a moment, but just to describe what happened, the Roadster drove up a multi-story curved ramp upside down you know and i was wondering i was watching the video the first time you know i didn't hear the description of how i was doing it i said is it magnetics is it a some kind of a rail system and it was actually a fan suction system that could hold it against two g's so it's levitating there upside down which was which was insane so let's watch the video and then let's talk about it i'm curious which one you guys are going to buy
is not an autonomous car.
It is the last...
Well, it is
technically autonomous for this demo to make sure we don't kill anyone.
Correct.
So, just in case.
But this will actually be long-term the only manually driven car that Tesla makes.
To do that, we have a fan suction system on the bottom of the car that can pull up to two Gs in order to make the car go upside down.
And then we borrowed some technology from SpaceX to do the rest.
Yeah.
Let's try something else.
Yeah.
I mean,
that was just a little flight.
Let's do a longer flight.
I mean, I've seen a lot of things, but I've never seen that before.
I think we could have cleared more than our whole fleet.
Yeah, we can go further.
Like, this will be an actual car that's on the roads.
Yeah, to do that, we have the rockets we borrowed from SpaceX technology.
You talked about the carbon overlay pressure vessels.
There's two of them in the car.
They are a total of 600 liters.
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